AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT Originally dated as of May 29, 2015 and amended and restated as of October 3, 2017 among HOLOGIC, INC., and CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES as Borrowers, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing...
Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
Published CUSIP Number: 00000XXX0
CUSIP (USD Revolving Credit Facility): 00000XXX0
CUSIP (Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility) 00000XXX0
CUSIP (Term Facility): 00000XXX0
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT
Originally dated as of May 29, 2015
and amended and restated as of October 3, 2017
among
HOLOGIC, INC.,
and
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES
as Borrowers,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender
and
L/C Issuer,
The Other Lenders Party Hereto,
BANK OF AMERICA XXXXXXX XXXXX,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, INC.,
XXXXXXX SACHS BANK USA,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
and
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.,
as
Co-Syndication Agents
DNB BANK ASA, NEW YORK
HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
XXXXXX XXXXXXX SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
and,
XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A.
as Co-Documentation Agents
BANK OF AMERICA XXXXXXX XXXXX,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, INC.,
XXXXXXX SACHS BANK USA,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
and
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.,
as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 | ||||||
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS | ||||||
Section 1.01. |
Defined Terms |
2 | ||||
Section 1.02. |
Other Interpretive Provisions |
76 | ||||
Section 1.03. |
Accounting Terms |
77 | ||||
Section 1.04. |
Rounding |
78 | ||||
Section 1.05. |
Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents |
78 | ||||
Section 1.06. |
Additional Alternative Currencies |
78 | ||||
Section 1.07. |
Change of Currency |
79 | ||||
Section 1.08. |
Times of Day |
80 | ||||
Section 1.09. |
Letter of Credit Amounts |
80 | ||||
Section 1.10. |
Pro Forma Calculations |
80 | ||||
ARTICLE 2 | ||||||
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS | ||||||
Section 2.01. |
The Loans |
82 | ||||
Section 2.02. |
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans |
83 | ||||
Section 2.03. |
Letters of Credit |
86 | ||||
Section 2.04. |
Swing Line Loans |
99 | ||||
Section 2.05. |
Prepayments/Commitment Reductions |
103 | ||||
Section 2.06. |
Application of Prepayments/Reductions |
108 | ||||
Section 2.07. |
Scheduled Payments/Commitment Reductions |
109 | ||||
Section 2.08. |
Interest |
111 | ||||
Section 2.09. |
Fees |
112 | ||||
Section 2.10. |
Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate |
113 | ||||
Section 2.11. |
Evidence of Debt |
113 | ||||
Section 2.12. |
Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback |
114 | ||||
Section 2.13. |
Sharing of Payments by Lenders |
116 | ||||
Section 2.14. |
Designated Borrowers |
117 | ||||
Section 2.15. |
Extension of Loans |
119 | ||||
Section 2.16. |
Incremental Facilities |
124 | ||||
Section 2.17. |
Cash Collateral |
128 | ||||
Section 2.18. |
Defaulting Lenders |
130 | ||||
Section 2.19. |
Refinancing Amendments |
133 | ||||
Section 2.20. |
Foreign Obligors Not Obligated For U.S. Loan Party Obligations |
135 | ||||
Section 2.21. |
U.S. Loan Parties; U.K. Borrower; Designated Borrowers |
136 |
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ARTICLE 3 | ||||||
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY | ||||||
Section 3.01. |
Taxes |
136 | ||||
Section 3.02. |
Illegality |
143 | ||||
Section 3.03. |
Inability to Determine Rates |
144 | ||||
Section 3.04. |
Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans |
145 | ||||
Section 3.05. |
Compensation for Losses |
147 | ||||
Section 3.06. |
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
148 | ||||
Section 3.07. |
Survival |
148 | ||||
ARTICLE 4 | ||||||
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS | ||||||
Section 4.01. |
Conditions of Initial Credit Extension |
149 | ||||
Section 4.02. |
Conditions to all Credit Extensions |
152 | ||||
Section 4.03. |
Conditions to the Restatement Date |
153 | ||||
ARTICLE 5 | ||||||
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | ||||||
Section 5.01. |
Organization; Requisite Power and Authority; Qualification |
155 | ||||
Section 5.02. |
Equity Interests and Ownership |
155 | ||||
Section 5.03. |
Due Authorization |
156 | ||||
Section 5.04. |
No Conflict |
156 | ||||
Section 5.05. |
Governmental Consents |
156 | ||||
Section 5.06. |
Binding Obligation |
157 | ||||
Section 5.07. |
Reserved |
157 | ||||
Section 5.08. |
Financial Statements |
157 | ||||
Section 5.09. |
No Material Adverse Effect |
157 | ||||
Section 5.10. |
No Restricted Junior Payments |
157 | ||||
Section 5.11. |
Adverse Proceedings, Etc |
157 | ||||
Section 5.12. |
Payment of Taxes |
158 | ||||
Section 5.13. |
Properties |
158 | ||||
Section 5.14. |
Environmental Matters |
159 | ||||
Section 5.15. |
No Defaults |
160 | ||||
Section 5.16. |
Material Contracts |
160 | ||||
Section 5.17. |
Governmental Regulation |
160 | ||||
Section 5.18. |
Margin Stock |
161 | ||||
Section 5.19. |
Employee Matters |
161 | ||||
Section 5.20. |
Employee Benefit Plans |
161 | ||||
Section 5.21. |
[Reserved] |
162 | ||||
Section 5.22. |
Solvency |
162 | ||||
Section 5.23. |
[Reserved] |
162 | ||||
Section 5.24. |
Compliance with Statutes, Etc |
162 | ||||
Section 5.25. |
Disclosure |
163 | ||||
Section 5.26. |
Senior Indebtedness |
163 | ||||
Section 5.27. |
PATRIOT Act; Sanctioned Persons |
163 | ||||
Section 5.28. |
Use of Proceeds |
164 | ||||
Section 5.29. |
Security Documents |
164 | ||||
Section 5.30. |
Representations as to Foreign Obligors |
165 |
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ARTICLE 6 | ||||||
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | ||||||
Section 6.01. |
Financial Statements and Other Reports |
166 | ||||
Section 6.02. |
Existence |
171 | ||||
Section 6.03. |
Payment of Taxes and Claims |
171 | ||||
Section 6.04. |
Maintenance of Properties |
171 | ||||
Section 6.05. |
Insurance |
171 | ||||
Section 6.06. |
Books and Records; Inspections |
172 | ||||
Section 6.07. |
[Reserved] |
172 | ||||
Section 6.08. |
Compliance with Laws |
173 | ||||
Section 6.09. |
Environmental Matters |
173 | ||||
Section 6.10. |
Subsidiaries |
174 | ||||
Section 6.11. |
[Reserved] |
175 | ||||
Section 6.12. |
Further Assurances |
175 | ||||
Section 6.13. |
Maintenance of Ratings |
176 | ||||
Section 6.14. |
Use of Proceeds |
176 | ||||
Section 6.15. |
Senior Notes Repayment |
177 | ||||
ARTICLE 7 | ||||||
NEGATIVE COVENANTS | ||||||
Section 7.01. |
Indebtedness |
177 | ||||
Section 7.02. |
Liens |
182 | ||||
Section 7.03. |
No Further Negative Pledges |
185 | ||||
Section 7.04. |
Restricted Junior Payments |
186 | ||||
Section 7.05. |
Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions |
187 | ||||
Section 7.06. |
Investments |
188 | ||||
Section 7.07. |
Financial Covenants |
191 | ||||
Section 7.08. |
Fundamental Changes; Disposition of Assets; Acquisitions |
192 | ||||
Section 7.09. |
Sales and Leasebacks |
195 | ||||
Section 7.10. |
Transactions with Shareholders and Affiliates |
196 | ||||
Section 7.11. |
Conduct of Business |
197 | ||||
Section 7.12. |
Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents |
197 | ||||
Section 7.13. |
Amendments or Waivers with Respect to Junior Financing |
198 | ||||
Section 7.14. |
Fiscal Year |
198 | ||||
Section 7.15. |
Massachusetts Securities Corporation |
198 | ||||
Section 7.16. |
Sanctions and Anti-Corruption: Use of Proceeds |
198 | ||||
ARTICLE 8 | ||||||
EVENTS OF DEFAULT | ||||||
Section 8.01. |
Events of Default |
199 | ||||
Section 8.02. |
Remedies upon Event of Default |
202 | ||||
Section 8.03. |
Application of Funds |
202 |
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ARTICLE 9 | ||||||
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT | ||||||
Section 9.01. |
Appointment and Authority |
203 | ||||
Section 9.02. |
Rights as a Lender |
204 | ||||
Section 9.03. |
Exculpatory Provisions |
204 | ||||
Section 9.04. |
Reliance by Administrative Agent |
205 | ||||
Section 9.05. |
Delegation of Duties |
206 | ||||
Section 9.06. |
Resignation of Administrative Agent |
206 | ||||
Section 9.07. |
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders |
209 | ||||
Section 9.08. |
No Other Duties, Etc |
209 | ||||
Section 9.09. |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding |
209 | ||||
Section 9.10. |
Collateral and Guaranty Matters |
210 | ||||
Section 9.11. |
Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements |
211 | ||||
ARTICLE 10 | ||||||
MISCELLANEOUS | ||||||
Section 10.01. |
Amendments, Etc |
211 | ||||
Section 10.02. |
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication |
214 | ||||
Section 10.03. |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement |
216 | ||||
Section 10.04. |
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
217 | ||||
Section 10.05. |
Payments Set Aside |
221 | ||||
Section 10.06. |
Successors and Assigns |
221 | ||||
Section 10.07. |
Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality |
227 | ||||
Section 10.08. |
Right of Setoff |
228 | ||||
Section 10.09. |
Interest Rate Limitation |
229 | ||||
Section 10.10. |
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
229 | ||||
Section 10.11. |
Survival of Representations and Warranties |
230 | ||||
Section 10.12. |
Severability |
230 | ||||
Section 10.13. |
Replacement of Lenders |
230 | ||||
Section 10.14. |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc |
231 | ||||
Section 10.15. |
Waiver of Jury Trial |
232 | ||||
Section 10.16. |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
232 | ||||
Section 10.17. |
Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents |
233 | ||||
Section 10.18. |
USA PATRIOT Act |
233 | ||||
Section 10.19. |
Judgment Currency |
234 | ||||
Section 10.20. |
Entire Agreement |
234 | ||||
Section 10.21. |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions |
234 | ||||
Section 10.22. |
Cashless Rollovers |
235 | ||||
Section 10.23. |
Amendment and Restatement; No Novation |
235 |
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ARTICLE 11 | ||||||
GUARANTY | ||||||
Section 11.01. |
Guaranty of the Obligations |
235 | ||||
Section 11.02. |
Contribution by Guarantors |
236 | ||||
Section 11.03. |
Payment by Guarantors |
236 | ||||
Section 11.04. |
Liability of Guarantors Absolute |
237 | ||||
Section 11.05. |
Waivers by Guarantors |
239 | ||||
Section 11.06. |
Guarantors’ Rights of Subrogation, Contribution, Etc |
240 | ||||
Section 11.07. |
Subordination of Other Obligations |
240 | ||||
Section 11.08. |
Continuing Guaranty |
241 | ||||
Section 11.09. |
Authority of Guarantors or Borrowers |
241 | ||||
Section 11.10. |
Financial Condition of Loan Parties |
241 | ||||
Section 11.11. |
Bankruptcy, Etc |
241 | ||||
Section 11.12. |
Discharge of Guaranty Upon Sale of Guarantor |
242 | ||||
Section 11.13. |
Keepwell |
242 |
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SCHEDULES
1.01(A) |
Asset Sales | |
1.01(B) |
Existing Letters of Credit | |
1.01(C) |
[Reserved] | |
1.01(D)(1) |
Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries | |
1.01(D)(2) |
Immaterial Subsidiaries | |
1.01(E) |
[Reserved] | |
2.01 |
Commitments and Applicable Percentages | |
5.01 |
Jurisdictions of Organization | |
5.02 |
Equity Interests and Ownership | |
5.11 |
Adverse Proceedings | |
5.13(b) |
Real Estate Assets | |
5.13(c) |
Intellectual Property Litigation | |
5.16 |
Material Contracts | |
5.24 |
Compliance with Statutes | |
6.12(c) |
Post-Closing Actions | |
7.01 |
Existing Indebtedness | |
7.02 |
Existing Liens | |
7.03 |
Negative Pledges | |
7.04 |
Certain Restricted Payments | |
7.05 |
Certain Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions | |
7.06(k) |
Certain Investments | |
7.09 |
Sale and Leasebacks | |
7.10 |
Certain Affiliate Transactions | |
10.02 |
Administrative Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices |
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EXHIBITS
A |
Form of Committed Loan Notice | |
B |
Form of Swing Line Loan Notice | |
C-1.1 |
Form of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Note (Company) | |
C-1.2 |
Form of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Note (U.K. Borrower) | |
C-1.3 |
Form of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Note (Designated Borrower) | |
C-2.1 |
Form of Swing Line Note (Company) | |
C-2.2 |
Form of Swing Line Note (U.K. Borrower) | |
C-2.3 |
Form of Swing Line Note (Designated Borrower) | |
C-3 |
Form of Term Note | |
C-4.1 |
Form of USD Revolving Credit Note (Company) | |
C-4.2 |
Form of USD Revolving Credit Note (U.K. Borrower) | |
C-4.3 |
Form of USD Revolving Credit Note (Designated Borrower) | |
D |
Form of Compliance Certificate | |
E-1 |
Form of Assignment and Assumption | |
E-2 |
Form of Administrative Questionnaire | |
F |
Form of Notice of Loan Prepayment | |
G |
Counterpart Agreement | |
H |
Form of Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement | |
I |
Form of Designated Borrower Notice | |
J |
Pledge and Security Agreement | |
K |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate | |
L |
Form of Joinder Agreement | |
M |
Form of Solvency Certificate | |
N |
Form of Letter of Credit Report |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) originally dated as of May 29, 2015 and amended and restated as of October 3, 2017 among HOLOGIC, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), HOLOGIC GGO 4 Ltd (the “U.K. Borrower”, and together with the Company, the “Initial Borrowers”), HOLOGIC UK FINANCE LTD and certain other Subsidiaries of the Company party hereto pursuant to Section 2.14 (each a “Designated Borrower” and, together with the Initial Borrowers, the “Borrowers” and, each a “Borrower”), the Guarantors from time to time party hereto, each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, each a “Lender”), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.
WHEREAS, the Company, the U.K. Borrower, the Designated Borrowers, the Guarantors and the Administrative Agent are party to the Original Credit Agreement (such terms and other capitalized terms used in these preliminary statements being defined in Section 1.01 hereof), together with the lenders party thereto, which became effective as of May 29, 2015;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to obtain 2017 Refinancing Term Loans, the proceeds of which will be used on the Restatement Date to prepay in full all of the Existing Term A Loans outstanding immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Company desires to obtain (a) 2017 Incremental Term Loans on the Restatement Date, the proceeds of which will be used to pay Convertible Note Repayment Obligations, purchase, repurchase or redeem Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y), to fund the Convertible Note Repayment Reserve as permitted hereunder, and for working capital and all other general corporate purposes and (b) commitments under the 2017 Revolving Credit Facility;
WHEREAS, the 2017 Refinancing Term Loans and the 2017 Incremental Term Loans will, when taken together, comprise a single Class of Term Loans under this Agreement, having identical terms; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of this Amended and Restated Credit and Guaranty Agreement and upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein, the Original Credit Agreement is being amended and restated in the form of this Agreement, effective as of the Restatement Date.
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In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“2017 Incremental Term Commitment” means, as to any 2017 Incremental Term Lender, its obligation to make 2017 Incremental Term Loans to the Company on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in the amount set forth opposite such 2017 Incremental Term Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01.
“2017 Incremental Term Lender” means any Lender with a 2017 Incremental Term Commitment.
“2017 Incremental Term Loan” means the Incremental Term Loans made to the Company on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“2017 Notes” means unsecured Indebtedness of the Company in the form of notes; provided that such unsecured Indebtedness (1) matures after, and does not require any scheduled amortization or scheduled or mandatory payments of principal prior to, the date which is at least 120 days after the latest maturity date of the Term Loans (it being understood that such Indebtedness may have mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions satisfying the requirement of clause (2) of this definition), (2) has terms and conditions (other than interest rates, fees, funding discounts, redemption premiums or other premiums, optional redemption or prepayment provisions and, to the extent customary, subordination terms), taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable to the Company than the terms and conditions for the existing Senior Notes, as determined in good faith by the Company and (3) shall not be guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors and the terms of such guarantee shall be no more favorable to the secured parties in respect of such Indebtedness than the terms of the Guaranty, taken as a whole, as determined in good faith by the Company.
“2017 Refinancing Term Commitment” means, as to any 2017 Refinancing Term Lender, its obligation to make 2017 Refinancing Term Loans to the Company on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in the amount set forth opposite such 2017 Refinancing Term Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01.
“2017 Refinancing Term Lender” means any Lender with a 2017 Refinancing Term Commitment.
“2017 Refinancing Term Loan” means the Refinancing Term Loans made to the Company on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“2017 Revolving Credit Facility” means the Revolving Credit Facility established on the Restatement Date.
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“2017 Term Facility” means the facility established on the Restatement Date with respect to the 2017 Term Loans.
“2017 Term Loans” means the 2017 Incremental Term Loans and the 2017 Refinancing Term Loans.
“Acquired Non-Investment-Grade Securities” means any and all investment securities (including equity securities listed on a national securities exchange) acquired by the Company and/or any Subsidiary of the Company in any Permitted Acquisition, Prior Acquisition and/or any other acquisition that constitutes a permitted Investment which are not Investment Grade Securities or securities issued by an Affiliate of such Subsidiary, a Subsidiary of Company or the Company, to the extent that such investment securities were owned by such Subsidiary at the time of such Permitted Acquisition, Prior Acquisition and/or any other acquisition that constitutes a permitted Investment, as applicable, and were not acquired in contemplation thereof.
“Additional Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.19.
“Adjusted Consolidated Cash Interest Expense” means for any period, the Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, excluding any amount not payable in Cash, original issue discount and amortization and write-off of deferred financing fees and other imputed non-cash interest charges relating to the Convertible Notes or any other Indebtedness now or hereafter outstanding.
“Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense” means for any period and without duplication, total interest expense in accordance with GAAP (including that portion attributable to Capital Leases in accordance with GAAP, capitalized interest, amortization and write-off of deferred financing fees and amortization in relation to terminated Hedge Agreements) of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, net costs under Interest Rate Agreements, capitalized interest and the interest component of all Attributable Receivables Indebtedness.
“Administrative Agent” means Bank of America in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02 with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Company and the Lenders.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the form of Exhibit E-2 or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
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“Adverse Proceeding” means any action, suit, proceeding, hearing (in each case, whether administrative, judicial or otherwise), governmental investigation or arbitration (whether or not purportedly on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) at law or in equity, or before or by any Governmental Authority, domestic or foreign (including any Environmental Claims), whether pending or, to the knowledge of any Responsible Officer of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
“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.
“Agent” means each of the Administrative Agent, the Co-Syndication Agents, the Collateral Agent, the Arrangers, the Co-Documentation Agents and any other Person appointed under the Loan Documents to serve in an agent or similar capacity.
“Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c).
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Aggregate Multicurrency Revolving Commitments” means the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments of all the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Aggregate Payments” has the meaning specified in Section 11.02.
“Aggregate Revolving Commitments” means, collectively, the Aggregate Multicurrency Revolving Commitments and the Aggregate USD Revolving Commitments.
“Aggregate USD Revolving Commitments” means the USD Revolving Credit Commitments of all the USD Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Agreement” means the Original Credit Agreement as amended and restated by this Amended and Restated Credit and Guaranty Agreement.
“Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.19.
“Alternative Currency” means each of the following currencies: Euro, Sterling and each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.06.
“Alternative Currency Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency as calculated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the then-most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Alternative Currency with Dollars.
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“Alternative Currency Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Multicurrency Revolving Commitments and $300,000,000. The Alternative Currency Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Multicurrency Revolving Commitments.
“Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents” has the meaning specified in Section 5.30.
“Applicable Percentage” means (a) in respect of the Term Facility, with respect to any Term Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Term Facility represented by such Term Lender’s outstanding Term Loans at such time, (b) in respect of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility represented by such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment at such time, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18 and (c) in respect of the USD Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to any USD Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the USD Revolving Credit Facility represented by such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment at such time, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18. If the Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 or if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the applicable Revolving Credit Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender then-most recently in effect, after giving effect to any subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.
“Applicable Rate” means, from time to time, in respect of the Term Facility, the Revolving Credit Facility and the Commitment Fee, (i) from the Restatement Date to the date on which the Administrative Agent receives a Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.01(c) for the Fiscal Quarter ending December 30, 2017, a percentage per annum determined by reference to Pricing Level 3 set forth below and (ii) thereafter, the
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applicable percentage per annum set forth below determined by reference to the Total Net Leverage Ratio as set forth in the then-most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.01(c):
Pricing Level | Total Net Leverage Ratio |
Applicable Rate for Eurocurrency Rate Loans / LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans / Letter of Credit Fees |
Applicable Rate for Base Rate Loans |
Commitment Fee |
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³ 4.00:1.00 | 2.00 | % | 1.00 | % | 0.35 | % | |||||||||
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< 4.00:1.00 ³ 3.50:1.00 |
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1.75 | % | 0.75 | % | 0.30 | % | |||||||
3 |
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< 3.50:1.00 ³ 2.50:1.00 |
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1.50 | % | 0.50 | % | 0.25 | % | |||||||
4 |
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< 2.50:1.00 ³ 2.00:1.00 |
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1.25 | % | 0.25 | % | 0.20 | % | |||||||
5 |
< 2.00:1.00 | 1.00 | % | 0.00 | % | 0.15 | % |
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Total Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then Pricing Level 1 shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and shall remain in effect until the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b).
“Applicable Period” has the meaning specified in the term “Applicable Rate.”
“Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage” means (a) with respect to any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender at any time, such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility at such time and (b) with respect to any USD Revolving Credit Lender at any time, such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the USD Revolving Credit Facility at such time.
“Applicable Time” means, with respect to any borrowings and payments in any Alternative Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternative Currency as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures in the place of payment.
“Applicant Borrower” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to the Term Facility or the Revolving Credit Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Term Loan or a Revolving Credit Loan, respectively, at such time, (b)
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with respect to the Letter of Credit Sublimit, (i) the L/C Issuer, (ii) if any Multicurrency Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03, the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders and (iii) if any USD Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03, the USD Revolving Credit Lenders and (c) with respect to the Swing Line Sublimit, (i) the Swing Line Lender and (ii) if any Swing Line Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the USD Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
“Arrangers” means (i) with respect to the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facilities established on the Closing Date, Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Xxxxxxx Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners and (ii) with respect to the 2017 Term Facility and the 2017 Revolving Credit Facilities, Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated in its capacity as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner.
“Asset Sale” means a sale or lease (as lessor), sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, exclusive license (as licensor), transfer or other Disposition to, or any exchange of property with, any Person (other than the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor), in one transaction or a series of transactions, of all or any part of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ businesses, assets or properties of any kind, whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, created, leased or licensed, including the Equity Interests of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not including the issuance by the Company or any Subsidiary of Equity Interests), other than (i) inventory (or other tangible or intangible assets) sold, assigned, leased or licensed out in the ordinary course of business to the extent not otherwise prohibited hereunder, (ii) any Disposition to effect or in furtherance of the Reorganization, (iii) the transactions listed on Schedule 1.01(A), (iv) Permitted Licenses, (vi) the sale or other Disposition of Investment Grade Securities and Cash Equivalents in exchange for Cash, (vii) the sale, assignment, lease or license of any Discontinued Real Property and (viii) the surrender or waiver of contract rights on the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E-1 or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by use of an electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Receivables Indebtedness” at any time means the principal amount of Indebtedness which (i) if a Qualified Receivables Transaction is structured as a secured lending agreement, constitutes the principal amount of such Indebtedness or (ii) if a Qualified Receivables Transaction is structured as a purchase agreement, would be outstanding at such time under the Qualified Receivables Transaction if the same were structured as a secured lending agreement rather than a purchase agreement.
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“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ended September 24, 2016, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
“Auto-Extension Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b).
“Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b).
“Availability Period” means, in respect of a Class of the Revolving Credit Facility, the period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity Date for such Class of the Revolving Credit Facility, (b) the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class pursuant to Section 2.05, and (c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender of such Class to make Revolving Credit Loans of such Class and of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.
“Available Amount” means, on any date (the “Available Amount Reference Time”), the sum of:
(a) $200,000,000, plus
(b) the Available ECF Amount, plus
(c) the amount of any Net Equity Proceeds from any issuance of Equity Interests received by or made to the Company (or any direct or indirect parent thereof and contributed by such parent to the Company) during the period commencing on the first day of the Fiscal Year ending in September 2018 through and including the Available Amount Reference Time, in each case, to the extent that such Equity Issuance is not prohibited hereunder, plus
(d) to the extent not (i) already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its Subsidiaries or (ii) already reflected as a return of capital, repayment of principal, or deemed reduction in the amount of such Investment pursuant to clause (e) below or any other provision of Section 7.06, the aggregate amount of all cash dividends, profits, returns, repayment of principal, cash distributions, or similar other amounts received by the Company or any Subsidiary from any Investment pursuant to Section 7.06 during the period commencing on the first day of the Fiscal Year ending in September 2018 through and including the Available Amount Reference Time, minus
(e) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Junior Payment made from the Available Amount pursuant to Section 7.04(k), in each case, during the period commencing on the first day of the Fiscal Year ending in September 2018 through and including the Available Amount Reference Time.
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“Available ECF Amount” means, on any date, an amount determined on a cumulative basis equal to Consolidated Excess Cash Flow for each Fiscal Year of the Company commencing with the Fiscal Year ending in September 2018.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Bank of America” means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
“Base Indenture” means that certain Indenture dated as of December 10, 2007 by and between Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and the Company.
“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate,” and (c) the Eurocurrency Rate plus 1.00%; and if the Base Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement. The “prime rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such prime rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate. All Base Rate Loans shall be denominated in Dollars.
“Board of Directors” shall mean, as to any Person, the board of directors or managers, as applicable, or other governing body of such Person, or if such person is managed by a single entity, the board of directors or managers, as applicable, or other governing body of such entity.
“Borrower” and “Borrowers” each has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Term Borrowing and/or a Swing Line Borrowing, as the context may require.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed
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in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office with respect to Loan Document Obligations denominated in Dollars is located and:
(a) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day;
(b) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euro in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means a TARGET Day;
(c) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between banks in the London or other applicable offshore interbank market for such currency; and
(d) if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a currency other than Dollars or Euro in respect of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, or any other dealings in any currency other than Dollars or Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan (other than any interest rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.
“Capital Lease” means, as applied to any Person, any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee that, in conformity with GAAP, is or should be accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Cash” means money, currency or a credit balance in any demand or Deposit Account.
“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of one or more of the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender (as applicable) and the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations, Obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans, or obligations of the Lenders to fund participations in respect thereof, cash or deposit account balances or, at the request of the Company, if the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall agree in their sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender (as applicable). “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.
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“Cash Equivalents” means, as at any date of determination, any of the following: (i) marketable securities (a) issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed as to interest and principal by the United States government, (b) issued by any agency of the United States the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, or (c) issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed as to interest and principal by any country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (the “OECD”), in each case maturing within one year after such date of determination; (ii) marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof, in each case maturing within one year after such date of determination and having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, a rating of at least A 1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Xxxxx’x; (iii) (a) commercial paper maturing no more than one year from such date of determination and having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Xxxxx’x and (b) securities commonly known as “short-term bank notes” issued by any Lender and having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, a rating of at least A-2 from S&P or at least P-2 from Xxxxx’x; (iv) demand deposits, certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances and/or time deposits maturing within one year after such date of determination and issued or accepted by any Lender or by (a) any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or Canada that has total assets of not less than $1,000,000,000 or (b) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country which is a member of the OECD, or a political subdivision of such country, and having total assets of not less than $1,000,000,000, provided that such bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the country in which is organized or another country which is a member of the OECD; (v) taxable or tax-exempt securities which at the time of purchase have been rated and the ratings for which are not less than A 3 if rated by Xxxxx’x, and not less than A- if rated by S&P, (vi) shares of any money market mutual fund or similar fund that is primarily invested in some combination of the types of investments referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above (though such mutual fund shall not be required to maintain investments in each of such types of investments); and (vii) instruments equivalent to those referred to in clauses (i) to (vi) above denominated in Euros, Pounds Sterling, or any other major currency comparable in credit quality and tenor to those referred to above and customarily used by corporations for cash management purposes in any jurisdiction outside the United States to the extent required or advisable in connection with any business conducted by the Company or any Subsidiary organized or operating in such jurisdiction.
“Cash Management Agreements” means those agreements entered into from time to time by the Company or its Subsidiaries with a Cash Management Provider in connection with the obtaining of any Cash Management Services.
“Cash Management Obligations” means all obligations, liabilities, contingent reimbursement obligations, fees and expenses owing by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any Cash Management Provider pursuant to or evidenced by the Cash Management Agreements and irrespective of whether for the payment of money, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising.
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“Cash Management Provider” means any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender which provides Cash Management Services to the Company or its Subsidiaries; provided that each such Affiliate shall appoint the Collateral Agent as its agent and agree to be bound by the Loan Documents as a Secured Party, subject to Section 9.11.
“Cash Management Services” means any cash management, including controlled disbursement, accounts, brokerage services, or related services (including the Automated Clearing House processing of electronic funds transfers through the direct Federal Reserve Fedline system) provided to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by a Cash Management Provider.
“CFC” means a Person that is a controlled foreign corporation under Section 957 of the Code.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Restatement Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith, (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III and (z) the CRD IV and any law or regulation which implements CRD IV in any jurisdiction, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“Change of Control” means, at any time, (i) any Person or “group” (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) (a) shall have acquired beneficial ownership of 35% or more on a fully diluted basis of the total outstanding voting interest in the Equity Interests of the Company or (b) shall have obtained the power (whether or not exercised) to elect a majority of the members of the Board of Directors (or similar governing body) of the Company; or (ii) the occurrence of a “Change of Control” (or any comparable term) under, and as defined in, the documents evidencing any Indebtedness permitted pursuant to one or more of Sections 7.01(h), (j), (k), (o) or (p) in an aggregate principal amount of not less than $100,000,000.
“Class” means (i) with respect to Lenders, each of the following classes of Lenders: (a) Term Lenders, (b) Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, (c) USD Revolving Credit Lenders (including the Swing Line Lender) and (d) New Term Loan Lenders; (ii) with respect to Loans, each of the following classes of Loans: (a) Term Loans, (b) Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans, (c) USD Revolving Credit Loans (including Swing Line Loans) and (d) each Series of New Term Loans; (iii) with respect to Commitments, each of the following classes of Commitments: (a) Term Commitments, (b) Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments, (c) USD Revolving Credit
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Commitments and (d) New Term Loan Commitments and (iv) with respect to Facilities, each of the following classes of Facilities: (a) the Term Facility, (b) the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility and (c) the USD Revolving Credit Facility.
“Closing Date” means May 29, 2015.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Co-Development Agreement” means an agreement between the Company or any Subsidiary and a third party (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any joint venture or Subsidiary) which primarily relates to the co-development or joint development of Intellectual Property, and which does not materially interfere with the conduct of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business as conducted on the Restatement Date (or as permitted by Section 7.11) or materially detract from the value thereof.
“Co-Documentation Agents” means (i) with respect to the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facilities established on the Closing Date, DNB Bank ASA, New York, HSBC Bank USA, National Association and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, in their capacities as documentation agents and (ii) with respect to the 2017 Term Facility and the 2017 Revolving Credit Facilities, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc. and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, N.A.
“Collateral” means all of the “Collateral” or other similar terms referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the other property that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, in its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Collateral Documents.
“Collateral Documents” means the Pledge and Security Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, and all other instruments, documents and agreements delivered by any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in order to grant to, or perfect in favor of, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a Lien on any real, personal or mixed property of that Loan Party as security for the Obligations.
“Commitment” means a Term Commitment or a Revolving Credit Commitment, as the context may require.
“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Term Borrowing, (b) a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing, (c) a USD Revolving Credit Borrowing, (d) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (e) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower.
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“Commitment Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09.
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Commodity Price Protection Agreement” means any forward contract, commodity swap, commodity option or other similar financial agreement or arrangement relating to, or the value of which is dependent upon, fluctuations in commodity prices.
“Company” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Company Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(m).
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
“Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA” means, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period plus, without duplication and to the extent reducing net income (and not excluded in determining Consolidated Net Income) for such period, the sum of:
(a) any expense and provision for taxes, paid or accrued (including any penalties and interest related thereto), including without limitation, the U.S. medical device excise tax and any business license or state or other governmental franchise fees,
(b) Adjusted Consolidated Interest Expense, milestone payments in connection with any investment or series of related investments, losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of gains on such hedging obligations, and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities,
(c) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense,
(d) any non-cash expenses, losses and charges and non-cash revenue loss recorded in respect of purchase accounting (including, but not limited, to revenue not recognized as a result of the write-up of accounts receivable), and non-cash or unrealized exchange, translation or performance expenses, losses and charges relating to any foreign currency hedging transactions or currency fluctuations,
(e) (i) any non-cash exchange, translation or performance losses relating to any foreign currency hedging transactions or currency fluctuations and (ii) any other non-cash expenses, losses and charges (including, without limitation, incurred pursuant to any equity incentive plan or award or arising from any impairment of intangible assets or goodwill, but excluding any such non-cash charge to the extent that it represents an
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accrual or reserve for cash expenses in any future period, an amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period or a write-off, writedown or reserve with respect to current assets),
(f) any unusual expenses, losses or charges, including without limitation, any pre-opening, opening, restructuring, closure, integration, transition and similar expenses, losses or charges accrued during such period, including any charges to establish accruals and reserves or to make payments associated with the reassessment or realignment of the business and operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, the sale, disposal, closing, abandonment or discontinuance of assets (other than in the ordinary course of business), facilities or operations, severance and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans, retention payments in connection therewith, asset write-downs or asset disposals, write-downs for purchase and lease commitments, write-downs of excess, obsolete or unbalanced inventories, relocation costs which are not otherwise capitalized and any related costs of existing products or product lines; provided that the aggregate amount added back pursuant to this paragraph (f), together with the amount of projected synergies and cost savings added back pursuant to Section 1.10(c), shall not exceed 15% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for such period, calculated without giving effect to any adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (f) or Section 1.10(c) as it relates to projected synergies and cost savings,
(g) expenses, losses and charges with respect to casualty events or business interruption,
(h) expenses, losses and charges incurred to the extent covered by indemnification provisions in any agreement in connection with any acquisition or disposition permitted hereunder, so long as such Person has made a determination that a reasonable basis exists for indemnification or reimbursement, but only to the extent that such amount is in fact indemnified or reimbursed within 12 months of such determination (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so indemnified or reimbursed within such 12 months),
(i) any contingent or deferred payment obligations (including, but not limited to, severance, retention, earn-out payments, non-compete payments and consulting payments, together with any interest or similar charge of expense imputed or otherwise accrued in respect of any of the foregoing but excluding ongoing royalty payments) incurred in connection with any Prior Acquisition or any Permitted Acquisition (or any other acquisition constituting a permitted Investment),
(j) non-cash expenses, losses and charges pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158 (codified within Accounting Standards Codifications 715-20, Defined Benefit Plans—General and 715-30, Defined Benefit Plans—Pension); and
(k) all costs or expenses incurred in connection with the payment or accrual of dividend equivalent rights pursuant to any equity incentive plan or award, but only to the extent that equivalent payments are being or have been made with respect to Equity Interests in the Company;
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minus (without duplication), to the extent increasing net income (and not excluded in determining Consolidated Net Income) for such period, (i) any cash payments made during such period on account of non-cash charges added to Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clause (e) above in such period or any prior period, (ii) all non-cash income or gains (but excluding any such amount (x) in respect of which cash or other assets were received in a prior period or will be received or (y) which represents the reversal of an accrual or cash reserve for anticipated cash charges in any prior period) and non-cash exchange, translation or performance gains relating to any foreign currency hedging transactions or currency fluctuations and (iii) any unusual income or gains, all calculated for the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP on a consolidated basis;
provided that, without duplication and to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, any adjustments resulting from the application of Accounting Standards Codification 815 shall be excluded in determining Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA.
“Consolidated Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures of the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period determined on a consolidated basis that, in accordance with GAAP, are or should be included in “purchase of property and equipment,” “construction in-process,” “purchase or capitalized development of intellectual property,” “increase in equipment under customer usage agreements” or similar items reflected in the consolidated statement of cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Current Assets” means, as at any date of determination, the total assets of a Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis that may properly be classified as current assets in conformity with GAAP, excluding Cash and Cash Equivalents.
“Consolidated Current Liabilities” means, as at any date of determination, the total liabilities of a Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis that may properly be classified as current liabilities in conformity with GAAP, excluding the current portion of long-term debt.
“Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means with respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including any amortization of intangibles, including, without limitation, goodwill, of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP.
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“Consolidated Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount (if positive (it being understood and agreed that if actual Consolidated Excess Cash Flow is negative for any period, Consolidated Excess Cash Flow shall be zero for such period)) equal to:
(a) the sum, without duplication (including, without limitation, duplication of the effects of adjustments or exclusions provided for in the definitions of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA and Consolidated Net Income), of (i) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA, (ii) the Consolidated Working Capital Adjustment (which may be a negative amount) and (iii) the amount related to items that were deducted or excluded (with the result that Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA was reduced) hereunder in calculating Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to the extent either (A) such items represent cash received by the Company or any Subsidiary (but excluding, other than for purposes of the definition of Available ECF Amount, cash gains excluded from Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clause (h) of the definition thereof) or (B) such items do not represent cash paid by the Company or any Subsidiary; minus
(b) the sum, without duplication (including, without limitation, duplication of the effects of adjustments or exclusions provided for in the definitions of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA and Consolidated Net Income), of the amounts for such period paid in cash (or, in the case of clause (I) below, held in reserve) from operating cash flow (except, with respect to clauses (B) (solely with respect to scheduled repayments of Indebtedness for borrowed money), (E), (I) and (J) below, to the extent funded with Cash proceeds from Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Revolving Credit Loans) or Cash proceeds from the issuance of any Equity Interests of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) of (A) payments relating to expenses or provision for taxes with respect to such period, (B) Adjusted Consolidated Cash Interest Expense, milestone payments in connection with any investment or series of related investments, costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities and scheduled repayments of Indebtedness for borrowed money and scheduled repayments of obligations under Capital Leases, (C) consideration in respect of any Consolidated Capital Expenditure, (D) consideration in respect of any Prior Acquisition or any Permitted Acquisition (or any other acquisition constituting a permitted Investment), (E) the aggregate amount of principal prepayments of long-term Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries, excluding (v) amounts prepaid pursuant to Section 2.05(c)(ix)(B)(y), (w) all prepayments of Term Loans (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, scheduled payments of Term Loans referred to in clause (b)(B) above and mandatory prepayments pursuant to Sections 2.05(c)(i) and 2.05(c)(ii)), (x) all prepayments of Swing Line Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, (y) all prepayments in respect of any revolving credit facility, except to the extent there is an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder and (z) all prepayments of Junior Financing, (F) the amount related to items that were added back or excluded (with the result that Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA was increased) hereunder in calculating Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA to the extent either (1) such items represent cash payments made by the Company or any Subsidiary (which had not reduced Consolidated Excess Cash Flow upon the accrual thereof in a prior Fiscal Year), (but excluding, other than for purposes of the definition of Available ECF Amount, cash losses excluded from Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clause (h) of the definition thereof) or (2) such items do not represent cash received by the Company or any Subsidiary, (G) to the extent not expensed during such period, the aggregate amount of costs, fees and expenses in connection with the consummation of any Prior Acquisition, Permitted Acquisition, permitted Investment, Asset Sale, issuance or repayment of Indebtedness, issuance of Equity Interests, refinancing transaction or amendment or other modification of any
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Indebtedness (in each case, including any such transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed), (H) payments made with respect to any and all existing and future Adverse Proceedings, (I) amounts used to fund the Convertible Note Repayment Reserve to the extent permitted under the definition thereof and (J) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (b)(I) above in a prior period that were applied to Convertible Note Repayment Obligations or to purchase or repurchase Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y), the aggregate amount applied to (x) Convertible Note Repayment Obligations or (y) purchase or repurchase Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y), in each case in such period; plus
(c) amounts deducted pursuant to clause (b)(I) above in a prior period to the extent not applied to the Convertible Note Repayment Obligations or to purchase or repurchase Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y) within the applicable time period specified in the definition of Convertible Note Repayment Reserve;
provided that, for the purpose of calculating Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA included in the definition of Consolidated Excess Cash Flow in connection with any Pro Forma Transaction, the income (or loss) of any Person or business accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Company shall not be included.
“Consolidated Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, (a) Consolidated Total Debt less (b) the aggregate amount (not to exceed $1,000,000,000) of Qualified Cash as of such date.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that, in calculating the Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period, there shall be excluded (without duplication):
(a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or is merged into or consolidated with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (except as contemplated by Section 1.10);
(b) the income (or deficit) of any Person in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest that is either (x) not a Subsidiary or (y) accounted for by the equity method of accounting, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Company or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions;
(c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary of the Company 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 agreement, instrument, contract or other undertaking to which such Subsidiary is a party or by which any of its property is bound or any law, treaty, rule, regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court of competent jurisdiction or other Governmental Authority, in each case, applicable or binding upon such Subsidiary or any of its property or to which such Subsidiary or any of its property is subject;
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(d) any fees, expenses, charges or losses recognized during such period, or any amortization or write-off thereof for such period, in connection with the consummation of any Prior Acquisition, Permitted Acquisition, Investment, asset disposition, issuance or repayment of Indebtedness, issuance of Equity Interests, recapitalizations, mergers, refinancing transaction or amendment, waiver or other modification of any Indebtedness or similar transactions (in each case, including any such transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed) and any charges or non-recurring or unusual costs, expenses or losses recognized during such period as a result of any such transaction;
(e) any amortization of deferred charges resulting from the application of Accounting Standards Codification 470-20, Debt (but only to the extent of the information therein that was codified from Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff Position No. APB 14-1—Accounting for Convertible Debt Instruments That May Be Settled in Cash upon Conversion (Including Partial Cash Settlement) or related interpretations or guidance) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, as a result of its application to Convertible Notes issued in exchange for other Convertible Notes);
(f) any unusual, non-recurring or extraordinary gain, loss, expense or charge (including, without limitation, any gains, losses, expenses or charges arising out of judgments or the settlement of any Adverse Proceeding listed on Schedule 5.11);
(g) any income, loss, expense or charge for such period attributable to the exchange or early extinguishment of Indebtedness, together with any related provision for taxes on any such income;
(h) any net after-tax gains or losses attributable to (i) asset dispositions (including any Qualified Receivables Transaction) other than in the ordinary course of business and (ii) dispositions of minority investments, in each case, as determined in good faith by the Company;
(i) any non-cash gain, loss, expense or charge attributable to the movement in the xxxx-to-market valuation of Indebtedness; and
(j) (x) any gains or losses resulting from any reappraisal, revaluation or write-up or write-down of assets, and (y) the purchase accounting effects of in process research and development expenses and adjustments to property, inventory, accounts receivable (including revenue not recognized as a result of the write up of accounts receivable) and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue and deferred expenses in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Company and the Subsidiaries), in the case of clause (y), as a result of any acquisition consummated prior to the Closing Date, or any Permitted Acquisition, or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof.
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“Consolidated Senior Secured Debt” means, as of any date of determination, Consolidated Total Debt that is secured by a Lien on the assets of the Loan Parties.
“Consolidated Senior Secured Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, (a) Consolidated Senior Secured Debt less (b) the aggregate amount (not to exceed $1,000,000,000) of Qualified Cash as of such date.
“Consolidated Tangible Assets” means the aggregate amount of assets (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom all goodwill, trade names, patents, unamortized debt discount and expense and any other like intangibles, in each case as set forth on the then-most recent consolidated balance sheet of the Company and computed in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Total Debt” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Working Capital” means, as at any date of determination, the excess of Consolidated Current Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries over Consolidated Current Liabilities of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Working Capital Adjustment” means, for any period on a consolidated basis, the amount (which may be a negative number) by which Consolidated Working Capital as of the beginning of such period exceeds (or is less than) Consolidated Working Capital as of the end of such period. In calculating the Consolidated Working Capital Adjustment, there shall be excluded the effect of reclassification during such period of current assets to long-term assets, long term assets to current assets, current liabilities to long-term liabilities and long term liabilities to current liabilities and the effect of any Permitted Acquisition (and/or any other acquisition that constitutes a permitted Investment) or Asset Sale during such period; provided that there shall be included with respect to any Permitted Acquisition (and/or any other acquisition that constitutes a permitted Investment) or Asset Sale during such period, an amount (which may be a negative number) by which the Consolidated Working Capital acquired in such Permitted Acquisition (and/or any other acquisition that constitutes a permitted Investment) or disposed of in such Asset Sale as at the time of such acquisition or such Asset Sale exceeds (or is less than) Consolidated Working Capital at the end of such period.
“Contractual Obligation” means, as applied to any Person, any provision of any Security issued by that Person or of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, contract, undertaking, agreement or other instrument to which that Person is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound or to which it or any of its properties is subject.
“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.
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“Contributing Guarantors” has the meaning specified in Section 11.02.
“Convertible Note Put Date” means with respect to each series of Convertible Notes, a date on which holders thereof may require the Company to repurchase such Convertible Notes under the terms thereof.
“Convertible Note Repayment Event” means (i) the repurchase of Convertible Notes by the Company upon the exercise of the holder’s right to require the Company to repurchase its Convertible Notes, (ii) the redemption of Convertible Notes by the Company upon the exercise of the Company’s option to call or otherwise redeem such Convertible Notes from the holder thereof, (iii) the election by the Company to make a settlement payment, in whole or in part, in cash (rather than Equity Interests) following the conversion of any Convertible Notes into Equity Interests by the holder thereof or (iv) the exchange of Convertible Notes by the Company in connection with a Permitted Refinancing, in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable Convertible Notes.
“Convertible Note Repayment Obligations” means any cash payment paid by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (i) to a holder of a Convertible Note upon the occurrence of a Convertible Note Repayment Event including without limitation, the purchase price in regards to the Convertible Note being purchased or repurchased and/or all cash payments of principal, premium, interest, accretion, and fees incurred in connection with any redemption, purchase or repurchase in connection with such Convertible Note Repayment Event (other than an event set forth in clause (iv) of the definition thereof), or (ii) on account of any recapture taxes (or any other applicable taxes) due by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in respect thereto, in each case, in connection with the redemption, repayment, repurchase, conversion or exchange thereof upon a Convertible Note Repayment Event.
“Convertible Note Repayment Reserve” means, with respect to each series of Convertible Notes, cash reserves established by the Company, in its discretion, to fund future Convertible Note Repayment Obligations in an amount not to exceed the Convertible Note Repayment Obligation which the Company in its good faith, reasonable judgment believes it will incur in connection with the next scheduled Convertible Note Put Date, which reserve the Company may begin to fund eighteen (18) months immediately preceding the next scheduled Convertible Note Put Date in respect of the applicable series of Convertible Notes (it being understood and agreed that to the extent the amount reserved in any period exceeds the actual Convertible Note Repayment Obligations, the Company shall not be required to apply such excess amount to make an excess cash flow payment (if any) in connection with any Loans) . The Convertible Note Repayment Reserve (x) shall be invested in Cash or Cash Equivalents held in a general (i.e., non-escrow) deposit account of the Company and (y) for the avoidance of doubt may be applied to the purchase or repurchase of Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y) (including pursuant to the purchase or repurchase of such Convertible Notes through negotiated or open market transactions).
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“Convertible Notes” means (i) the 2.00% Convertible Exchange Senior Notes due 2037, issued by the Company pursuant to the Base Indenture and that certain Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 23, 2010, by and between Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and the Company, (ii) the 2.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2042, issued by the Company pursuant to the Base Indenture and that certain Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 5, 2012, by and between Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and the Company, (iii) the 2.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2043 issued by the Company pursuant to the Base Indenture and that certain Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 21, 2013 by and between Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and the Company and (iv) any other series of convertible notes which may be issued in a Permitted Refinancing of such Convertible Notes (including an exchange therefor).
“Cost Shared Intangibles” has the meaning specified in the term “Permitted R&D Cost Sharing Agreement.”
“Co-Syndication Agents” means (i) with respect to the Term Facility and the Revolving Credit Facilities established on the Closing Date, Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Xxxxxxx Sachs Bank USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., in their capacities as syndication agents and (ii) with respect to the 2017 Term Facility and the 2017 Revolving Credit Facilities established on the Restatement Date, October 3, 2017.
“Counterpart Agreement” means a Counterpart Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G delivered by a Loan Party pursuant to Section 6.10.
“CRD IV” means (A) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 and (B) Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC.
“Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in in Section 2.19.
“Credit Date” means the date of a Credit Extension.
“Credit Extension” means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
“CTA” means the Corporation Tax Xxx 0000.
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“Currency Agreement” means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract, synthetic cap or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is for the purpose of hedging the foreign currency risk associated with the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ operations and not for speculative purposes.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, the Insolvency Xxx 0000 of the United Kingdom and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States, the United Kingdom or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.
“Declined Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c)(x).
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means (a) when used with respect to Loan Document Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum, and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Rate plus 2% per annum.
“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.18(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Company, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Company, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Company that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender
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pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Company), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or such Lender or its direct or indirect parent company has taken any action in furtherance of or indicating its consent to or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or become insolvent, or is generally unable to pay its debts as they become due, or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due, or makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.18(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Company, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and each other Lender promptly following such determination. Failure of the Administrative Agent to conclude that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender shall not limit the rights and remedies of the Loan Parties in regards to any Lender that constitutes a Defaulting Lender.
“Deposit Account” means a demand, time, savings, passbook or like account with a bank, savings and loan association, credit union or like organization, other than an account evidenced by a negotiable certificate of deposit.
“Designated Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Designated Borrower Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and $200,000,000. The Designated Borrower Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“Designated Borrower Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
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“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means non-cash consideration (including any purchase price holdbacks) received by the Company or a Subsidiary in connection with an Asset Sale pursuant to Section 7.08(c) that is designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer setting forth the fair market value thereof and the basis of such valuation (which amount will be reduced by the fair market value of the portion of such non-cash consideration converted to Cash within 270 days following the consummation of the applicable Asset Sale).
“Discontinued Real Property” means all or any portion of real property owned or leased by the Company or a Subsidiary which, in the good faith judgment of the Company, is no longer used or useful in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that no Material Real Estate Asset shall constitute Discontinued Real Property.
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not including the issuance by the Company or any Subsidiary of Equity Interests).
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (i) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests which are not otherwise Disqualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, (ii) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Equity Interests which are not otherwise Disqualified Equity Interests), in whole or in part, (iii) requires the scheduled payments or dividends in cash or (iv) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), if as a result of a change of control or asset sale, so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of such a change of control or asset sale event are subject to the prior payment in full of all Obligations, the cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit and the termination of the Commitments.
“Disqualified Institution” means (a) any Person that competes with the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries from time to time, as identified on a list made available to the Administrative Agent from time to time and (b) as to any entity referenced in clause (a) above (a “Primary Disqualified Institution”), any of such Primary Disqualified Institution’s known Affiliates that is readily identifiable as such by name, but excluding any Affiliate that is primarily engaged in, or that advises funds, or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course and with respect to which such Primary Disqualified Institution does not, directly or indirectly, possess the power to direct or cause the direction of such entity; it
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being understood and agreed that the identification of any Person as a Disqualified Institution after the Closing Date shall not apply to retroactively disqualify any Person that has previously acquired an assignment or participation interest in any Loan or Commitment to the extent that that Person still holds such Loan or participation interest at the time that such Person is identified as a Disqualified Institution. The list of Disqualified Institutions shall be posted to the Platform, it being understood that the Company may update such list from time to time with respect to Disqualified Institutions to the extent provided for above, and the Administrative Agent shall, upon request of the Company, post such updated schedule to the Platform promptly following its receipt thereof, with such updates effective solely upon the posting thereof to the Platform.
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as calculated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the then-most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative Currency.
“Domestic Real Estate Asset” means, at any time of determination, any interest (fee, leasehold or otherwise) then owned by any U.S. Loan Party in any real property located in the United States.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.
“Drop-Down Consideration” has the meaning specified in the definition of Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Realignment Transaction.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
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“Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 10.06(b)(iii) and (v) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 10.06(b)(iii)).
“Employee Benefit Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA which is or was sponsored within the prior six (6) years, maintained or contributed to by, or required to be contributed by, the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates.
“Environmental Claim” means any investigation, notice, notice of violation, claim, action, suit, proceeding, demand, abatement order or other order (conditional or otherwise), by any Governmental Authority or any other Person, arising (i) pursuant to or in connection with any actual or alleged violation of, or liability under, any Environmental Law; (ii) in connection with any Hazardous Material or any actual or alleged Hazardous Materials Activity; or (iii) in connection with any actual or alleged damage, injury, threat or harm to health, safety, natural resources or the environment.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all foreign, domestic or transnational, federal or state (or any subdivision of either of them) statutes, common law, ordinances, orders, rules, regulations, judgments, Governmental Authorizations or any other requirements of or agreements with Governmental Authorities as any of the foregoing may be amended relating to (i) environmental matters, including those relating to any Hazardous Materials Activity; (ii) the generation, use, storage, transportation or disposal of Hazardous Materials; or (iii) occupational and human safety and health, industrial hygiene or land use, in any manner applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property Facility.
“Equity Interests” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights in or other equivalents (however designated) of such Person’s capital stock, other equity interests whether now outstanding or issued after the Restatement Date, partnership interests (whether general or limited), limited liability company interests, any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person, including any preferred stock, and any rights (other than debt securities convertible into, or exchangeable for or valued by reference to, Equity Interests until and unless any such debt security is converted into Equity Interests), warrants or options exchangeable for or convertible into such Equity Interest or any other rights to subscribe to or otherwise acquire such Equity Interests.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto.
“ERISA Affiliate” means, as applied to any Person, (i) any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code of which that Person is a member; (ii) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a group of trades or businesses under common control within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code of which that Person is a
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member; and (iii) any member of an affiliated service group within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Code of which that Person, any corporation described in clause (i) above or any trade or business described in clause (ii) above is a member. Any former ERISA Affiliate of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate of the Company or any such Subsidiary within the meaning of this definition with respect to the period such entity was an ERISA Affiliate of the Company or such Subsidiary and with respect to liabilities attributable to such period arising after such period for which the Company or such Subsidiary could be liable under the Code or ERISA.
“ERISA Event” means (i) a “reportable event” within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder with respect to any Pension Plan (excluding those for which the provision for 30-day notice to the PBGC has been waived by regulation); (ii) the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(c) of the Code), or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan, or the failure to make by its due date any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (iii) the provision by the administrator of any Pension Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate such plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan with two (2) or more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension Plan resulting in liability to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates pursuant to Section 4063 or Section 4064 of ERISA; (v) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of any event or condition which would reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or Section 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the withdrawal of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Section 4203 and Section 4205 of ERISA) from any Multiemployer Plan if there is any potential liability therefore, or the receipt by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is insolvent pursuant to Section 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or Section 4042 of ERISA; (viii) the occurrence of an act or omission which would reasonably be expected to give rise to the imposition on the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Code or under Section 409, Section 502(c), (i) or (l) or Section 4071 of ERISA in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan; (ix) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Employee Benefit Plan other than a Multiemployer Plan or the assets thereof, or against the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan; (x) receipt from the Internal Revenue Service of notice of the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code)
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to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Pension Plan to qualify for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Code; (xi) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or ERISA or a violation of Section 436 of the Code; or (xii) the occurrence of a Foreign Benefit Event.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Euro” and “€” mean the single currency of the Participating Member States.
“Eurocurrency Rate” means:
(a) With respect to any Credit Extension:
(i) denominated in a LIBOR Quoted Currency, for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or a successor rate (or, if not available, a comparable rate), which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in the relevant currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period;
(ii) denominated in any Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency, the rate per annum as designated with respect to such Alternative Currency at the time such Alternative Currency is approved by the Administrative Agent, the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders and/or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 1.06(a); and
(b) for any interest rate calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time determined two Business Days prior to such date for U.S. Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day;
provided that to the extent a comparable or successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection with any rate set forth in this definition, the approved rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided, further, that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent; provided, further, that if the Eurocurrency Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate”. Eurocurrency Rate Loans that are Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans may be denominated in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency. Eurocurrency Rate Loans that are Term Loans or USD Revolving Credit Loans shall be denominated in Dollars. All Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency must be Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
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“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Excluded Disregarded Entity” means any Subsidiary of the Company substantially all of the assets of which are Equity Interests in one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (i) any Subsidiary of the Company that is a Massachusetts securities corporation or a Receivables Entity, (ii) any Foreign Subsidiary, (iii) any Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary and (iv) unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, any Domestic Subsidiary that is an Excluded Disregarded Entity or a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary that is a CFC.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) (after giving effect to any keepwell, guaranty or other support agreement) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor or the grant of such security interest becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 10.13) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ii) or (c), amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 3.01(e) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA.
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“Existing Class” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
“Existing Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit and Guaranty Agreement dated as of August 1, 2012 (as amended, modified or otherwise supplemented prior to the Closing Date) among the Company, the subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Bank USA, as Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto.
“Existing L/C Issuer” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as issuer of the Existing Letters of Credit.
“Existing Letters of Credit” means those certain letters of credit issued in connection with and/or outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement and outstanding on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 1.01(B) hereto.
“Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Existing Revolving Credit Commitments” means the Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and/or the Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as the context may require.
“Existing Term A Loan” means all Term Loans outstanding immediately prior to the effectiveness of this Agreement.
“Existing Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Extended Maturity Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
“Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” means the Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and/or the Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as the context may require.
“Extended Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
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“Extension” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
“Extension Amendments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(f).
“Extension Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
“Facility” means the Term Facility or any Revolving Credit Facility, as the context may require.
“Fair Share” has the meaning specified in Section 11.02.
“Fair Share Contribution Amount” has the meaning specified in 11.02.
“FASB ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Restatement Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.
“FCPA” has the meaning specified in Section 5.27(a).
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent and (c) if the Federal Funds Rate is less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for all purposes of this Agreement.
“Fee Letter” means (i) immediately before this Agreement became effective on the Restatement Date, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter dated as of April 17, 2015 among the Company, Bank of America and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated and (ii) upon this Agreement becoming effective on the Restatement Date, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter dated as of August 11, 2017 among the Company, Bank of America and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (“MLPFS”).
“Financial Officer Certification” means, with respect to the financial statements for which such certification is required, the certification of the chief financial officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company that such financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated, subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end adjustments, and, with respect to quarterly financial statements, absence of footnotes.
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“First Priority” means, with respect to any Lien purported to be created in any Collateral pursuant to any Collateral Document, that such Lien is the only Lien to which such Collateral is subject, other than any Permitted Lien.
“First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary” means a Foreign Subsidiary, the Equity Interests of which are directly owned by the Company or a Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary.
“Fiscal Quarter” means a fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year.
“Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company and its Subsidiaries ending on the last Saturday of September of each calendar year.
“Foreign Benefit Event” means, with respect to any Foreign Pension Plan, (a) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable law or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from a governmental authority, (b) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable law, on or before the due date for such contributions or payments, (c) the receipt of a notice by a governmental authority relating to the intention to terminate any such Foreign Pension Plan or to appoint a trustee or similar official to administer any such Foreign Pension Plan, or alleging the insolvency of any such Foreign Pension Plan, or (d) the occurrence of any transaction that is prohibited under any applicable law and that could reasonably be expected to result in the incurrence of any liability by the Company or any Subsidiary, excluding, in each case under clauses (a) through (d) above, any unfunded liabilities, failure to make required contributions or payments, receipt of notice, the occurrence of any transaction, or any such other matters referred to therein (i) that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made or provided in accordance with GAAP or (ii) with respect to which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
“Foreign Disposition” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.05(c)(ix).
“Foreign Jurisdiction” means any jurisdiction other than the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Foreign Pension Plan” means any benefit plan that under applicable law, other than the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, is required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle other than a trust or funding vehicle maintained exclusively by a governmental authority.
“Foreign Lender” means, with respect to any Borrower, (a) if such Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if such Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than
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that in which such Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each state thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“Foreign Obligor” means a Loan Party that is a Foreign Subsidiary.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States, or any successor thereto.
“Fronting Exposure” means (a) at any time there is a Revolving Credit Lender of any Class that is a Defaulting Lender, with respect to the L/C Issuer, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all outstanding L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Credit Lenders of the same Class or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) at any time there is a USD Revolving Credit Lender that is a Defaulting Lender, with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swing Line Loans other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other USD Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural Person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.
“Funding Guarantors” has the meaning Specified in Section 11.02.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.
“Gen-Probe” means Gen-Probe Incorporated, a Delaware corporation.
“Gen-Probe Acquisition” means the acquisition by the Company of 100% of the Equity Interests of Gen-Probe.
“Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, foreign, transnational, national or other government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union), governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision thereof or any entity, officer or examiner exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government, any regulatory authority or any court, in each case
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whether associated with a state of the United States, the United States, the United Kingdom or a foreign entity or government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union).
“Governmental Authorization” means any permit, license, authorization, plan, directive, consent order or consent decree of or from any Governmental Authority.
“Guaranty” means, collectively, (a) the Guaranty made by the Guarantors under Article 11 in favor of the Secured Parties and (b) each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.12.
“Grantor” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 11.01
“Guarantor” means (a) in respect of (i) the Obligations of the U.K. Borrower and any Designated Borrowers and (ii) Cash Management Obligations and Hedge Obligations owing by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party, the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor and (b) in respect of the Obligations of the Company, each Subsidiary Guarantor; provided, however, that no Excluded Subsidiary shall be required to be a Guarantor.
“Hazardous Materials” means any chemical, material, waste or substance, which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any Governmental Authority or Environmental Law or which may or could pose a hazard to the health and safety of any Persons or to the indoor or outdoor environment pursuant to any Governmental Authority or Environmental Law.
“Hazardous Materials Activity” means any past, current, proposed or threatened activity, event or occurrence involving any Hazardous Materials, including the use, manufacture, possession, storage, holding, presence, existence, location, Release, threatened Release, discharge, placement, generation, transportation, processing, construction, treatment, abatement, removal, remediation, disposal, disposition or handling of any Hazardous Materials, and any corrective action or response action with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Hedge Agreement” means an Interest Rate Agreement, Commodity Price Protection Agreement or a Currency Agreement entered into with a Lender Counterparty.
“Hedge Obligations” means all obligations of any Loan Party from time to time owed to any Lender Counterparties, to the extent arising under any Hedge Agreement, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such Loan Party, would have accrued on any Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Loan Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), payments for early termination of Hedge Agreements, fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise.
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“Honor Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c).
“ICC” has the meaning specified in the definition of UCP.
“IFRS” means international accounting standards within the meaning of IAS Regulation 1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements delivered under or referred to herein.
“Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that, together with all other Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries, (i) had consolidated assets comprising in the aggregate less than 5% of Total Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on the last day of the then-most recent Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements are available and (ii) contributed in the aggregate less than 5% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period of four (4) Fiscal Quarters then-most recently ended for which financial statements are available. The Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries as of the Restatement Date are listed on Schedule 1.01(D)(1).
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means at any date of determination, any Domestic Subsidiary or any Foreign Subsidiary (other than the U.K. Borrower or any Designated Borrower) of the Company that, together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries, (i) had consolidated assets comprising in the aggregate less than 5% of Total Assets on the last day of the then-most recent Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements are available and (ii) contributed in the aggregate less than 5% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the period of four (4) Fiscal Quarters then-most recently ended for which financial statements are available. The Immaterial Subsidiaries as of the Restatement Date are listed on Schedule 1.01(D)(2).
“Increased Amount Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“Impacted Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a).
“Incremental Cap” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16
“Incremental Facility” means the facility under which New Term Loans or New Revolving Credit Loans are made available, as applicable.
“Indebtedness” means, as applied to any Person, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness for borrowed money; (ii) that portion of obligations with respect to Capital Leases that is properly classified as a liability on a balance sheet in conformity with GAAP; (iii) notes payable, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments and drafts accepted representing extensions of credit, whether or not representing obligations for borrowed money; (iv) any obligation owed for all or any part of the deferred purchase price of property or services, which purchase price is (a) due more than six (6) months from the date of incurrence of the obligation in respect thereof or (b) evidenced by a note or similar written instrument, and all conditional sale obligations of such Person and all obligations of such Person under a title retention agreement, excluding, in the case of this clause (iv) trade accounts (including intercompany accounts receivable) or accrued
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expenses payable in the ordinary course of business and (B) obligations incurred under ERISA or deferred employee or director compensation and accruals for employee expenses in the ordinary course of business; (v) all obligations of others that constitute Indebtedness (other than pursuant to this clause (v)) of others secured by any Lien on any property or asset owned or held by such Person regardless of whether the Indebtedness secured thereby shall have been assumed by that Person or is nonrecourse to the credit of that Person; (vi) the face amount of any letter of credit issued for the account of that Person or as to which that Person is otherwise liable for reimbursement of drawings; (vii) Disqualified Equity Interests; (viii) the direct or indirect guaranty, endorsement (otherwise than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business), co-making, discounting with recourse or sale with recourse by such Person of the Indebtedness of another; (ix) any obligation of such Person the primary purpose or intent of which is to provide assurance to an obligee that the Indebtedness of the obligor thereof will be paid or discharged, or any agreement relating thereto will be complied with, or the holders thereof will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss in respect thereof; (x) any liability of such Person for Indebtedness of another through any agreement (contingent or otherwise) (a) to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness or any security therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such Indebtedness (whether in the form of loans, advances, stock purchases, capital contributions or otherwise) or (b) to maintain the solvency or any balance sheet item, level of income or financial condition of another if, in the case of any agreement described under subclauses (a) or (b) of this clause (x), the primary purpose or intent thereof is as described in clause (ix) above; (xi) all obligations of such Person in respect of any exchange traded or over-the-counter derivative transaction, including any Interest Rate Agreement, any Commodity Price Protection Agreement and any Currency Agreement, in each case, whether entered into for hedging or speculative purposes; provided, in no event shall obligations under any derivative transaction (including, without limitation, any transaction evidenced by any Interest Rate Agreement, any Commodity Price Protection Agreement and/or any Currency Agreement) be deemed “Indebtedness” for any purpose under Section 7.07; and (xii) all Attributable Receivables Indebtedness. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with the purchase by the Company or any Subsidiary of any business or assets, the term “Indebtedness” will exclude indemnification, purchase price adjustment, earn-outs, holdbacks and contingent payment obligations (including, but not limited to, obligations to make payments or distributions to dissenting stockholders, together with any interest or similar charge of expense imputed or otherwise accrued in respect of any such payments or distributions with respect thereto or any of the foregoing) to which the seller thereof may become entitled; provided that, to the extent such payment is fixed and determinable (and not otherwise contingent), the amount is paid within 90 days after the date such payment becomes fixed and determinable (and not otherwise contingent) (and to the extent not so paid, such amount shall become Indebtedness for all purposes hereunder).
“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.
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“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.
“Initial Borrowers” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Installment” means a Term Loan Installment or a scheduled repayment of principal of New Term Loans, if any, pursuant to the proviso to Section 2.07, as the case may be.
“Institutional Incremental Term Facility” means a term Incremental Facility that is an Institutional Term Facility.
“Institutional Term Facility” means a term loan facility of the type marketed primarily to institutional term loan lenders (as opposed to commercial banks) in the primary syndication thereof.
“Intangible Property” has the meaning specified in the term “Permitted Inter-Company License Transaction.
“Intellectual Property” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Intellectual Property Asset” means, at the time of determination, any interest (fee, license or otherwise) then owned by any U.S. Loan Party in any registrations of, or pending applications for registration of, Intellectual Property in the United States.
“Intellectual Property Security Agreements” means the Trademark Security Agreement, the Copyright Security Agreement and the Patent Security Agreement as such terms are defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Intercompany Note” means that certain Intercompany Subordinated Demand Promissory Note, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Loan Parties and their respective applicable subsidiaries, each as a Payor and as a Payee, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms thereof from time to time.
“Interest Coverage Ratio” means the ratio, as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, of (i) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the prior four (4)-Fiscal Quarter period then ending to (ii) Adjusted Consolidated Cash Interest Expense for such four (4)-Fiscal Quarter period.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates;
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and (b) as to any LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, Base Rate Loan or Swing Line Loan, the last Business Day of each Fiscal Quarter and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made (with Swing Line Loans being deemed made under the Revolving Credit Facility for purposes of this definition).
“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date one week or one, two, three or six months thereafter (in each case, subject to availability), as selected by the applicable Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice, or such other period that is twelve months or less requested by the applicable Borrower and consented to by all the Appropriate Lenders; provided that:
(i) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period (unless such Interest Period is for one week); and
(iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
“Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement, entered into (A) to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Company or any Subsidiary has actual or anticipated exposure, and not for speculative purposes, (B) in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from floating to fixed rates or from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise), and not for speculative purposes, with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Company or any Subsidiary.
“Investment” means (i) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of, or of a beneficial interest in, any of the Securities of any other Person; (ii) any direct or indirect redemption, retirement, purchase or other acquisition for value, by any Subsidiary of the Company from any Person, of any Equity Interests of such Person; (iii) any direct or indirect loan, advance (other than advances to employees, officers, directors or consultants for payroll, fees and other compensation, moving, entertainment and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures, in each case, in the ordinary course of business) or capital contributions by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any other Person, including all indebtedness and accounts receivable from that other Person that are not current assets or did not arise from sales to that other Person in the ordinary course of business (excluding, in the case of the
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Company and its Subsidiaries, (a) intercompany loans, receivables, advances, balances or Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 90 days (inclusive of all rollover or extension of terms) and entered into in the ordinary course of business and (b) intercompany licenses and related support and royalty agreements); (iv) all investments consisting of any exchange-traded or over-the-counter derivative transaction, including any Interest Rate Agreement, Commodity Price Protection Agreement or Currency Agreement, whether entered into for hedging or speculative purposes; and (v) the acquisition whether by purchase, merger or otherwise of all or substantially all of the assets of, or a business line, unit or division of, any Person. For the avoidance of doubt, the formation of a Subsidiary shall not, in and of itself, constitute an Investment (but any capitalization or other initial or subsequent Investment in connection therewith shall constitute an Investment). For purposes of covenant compliance, (i) the amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment of the type described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment, but, giving effect to any returns or distributions of capital or repayment of principal actually received in cash by such Person with respect thereto (but only to the extent that the aggregate amount of all such returns, distributions and repayments with respect to such Investment does not exceed the principal amount of such Investment) and (ii) any modification, replacement, renewal or extension of an Investment (or any other conversion or exchange of one type of an Investment to or for another type of an Investment) shall be permitted (and shall not be deemed to constitute another Investment) so long as the initial Investment was permitted and the amount of such Investment (after giving effect to such modification, replacement, renewal, extension, conversion or exchange) is not increased thereby other than as otherwise permitted by Section 7.06 (including, without limitation, by using the unused portion of any baskets set forth in Section 7.06).
“Investment Grade Securities” means each of the following investment securities (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, securities issued by an Affiliate of the Company) purchased in the ordinary course of the Company’s cash management operations consistent with its past practice:
(i) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents);
(ii) investments in any fund that invests exclusively in investments of the type described in clause (a) of this definition, which fund may also hold immaterial amounts of cash pending investment and/or distribution;
(iii) corresponding instruments in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for high-quality investments and, in each case, with maturities not exceeding two (2) years from the date of acquisition; and
(iv) securities that have a Xxxxx’x rating of Baa3 or better and an S&P rating of BBB- or better and, in each case, with maturities not exceeding one (1) year from the date of acquisition.
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“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“ISP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
“Issuer Documents” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer and the Company (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating to such Letter of Credit.
“ITA” means the Income Tax Xxx 0000.
“Joinder Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit L.
“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.19.
“Junior Financing” means any unsecured indebtedness issued pursuant to and in accordance with Section 7.01(k) or 7.01(x), the Convertible Notes, the Senior Notes, Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt, Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt and any Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt (other than Indebtedness secured as contemplated by clause (i)(A) of the proviso to the definition thereof) and any Permitted Refinancing of any of the foregoing (and any Permitted Refinancing of any such Permitted Refinancing).
“Latest Maturity Date” means, at any date of determination, the latest maturity or expiration date applicable to any Loan or Commitment hereunder at such time, including the latest maturity or expiration date of any New Revolving Credit Commitments, New Term Loan Commitments, New Revolving Credit Loans, or New Term Loans, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.
“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage. All L/C Advances shall be denominated in Dollars.
“L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving Credit Borrowing. All L/C Borrowings shall be denominated in Dollars.
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“L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.
“L/C Issuer” means (a) Bank of America, (b) with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit, the Existing L/C Issuer and (C) any other Lender that becomes an L/C Issuer in accordance with Section 2.03(l) and 10.06(g), in each case in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder.
“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings. For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.
“Legal Reservations” means:
(a) the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court and the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganization and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors;
(b) the time barring of claims under U.K. Limitation Xxx 0000 and the U.K. Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 or similar limitation acts in any other relevant jurisdiction, the possibility that an undertaking to assume liability for or indemnify a person against non-payment of stamp duty may be void and defenses of set-off or counterclaim; and
(c) any other matters which are set out as qualifications or reservations as to matters of law of general application in the legal opinions delivered to the Administrative Agent under Sections 4.01(a)(iv) and 4.03(a)(iii).
“Lender” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and, as the context requires, includes the Swing Line Lender. For the avoidance of doubt, upon this Agreement becoming effective, the 2017 Incremental Term Lenders and the 2017 Refinancing Term Lenders shall constitute “Lenders” for all purposes hereof.
“Lender Counterparty” means each Lender, each Agent and each of their respective Affiliates counterparty to a Hedge Agreement (including any Person who is an Agent or a Lender (and any Affiliate thereof) as of the Closing Date or thereafter (so long as such Person was an Agent, Lender or Affiliate of an Agent or Lender when becoming counterparty to a Hedge Agreement) even if such counterparty to the Hedge Agreement subsequently ceases to be an Agent, a Lender or an Affiliate of an Agent or Lender after becoming counterparty to a Hedge Agreement, as the case may be).
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“Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Company and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Lender or any domestic or foreign branch of such Lender or such Affiliate. Unless the context otherwise requires each reference to a Lender shall include its applicable Lending Office.
“Letter of Credit” means a Multicurrency Letter of Credit or a USD Letter of Credit issued hereunder and each Existing Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit may be a commercial letter of credit or a standby letter of credit.
“Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.
“Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means (a) with respect to any Multicurrency Letter of Credit, the day that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect for the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day) and (b) with respect to any USD Letter of Credit or any Existing Letter of Credit, the day that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect for the USD Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).
“Letter of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(h).
“Letter of Credit Report” means a certificate substantially the form of Exhibit N or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (b) $100,000,000. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of Eurocurrency Rate.
“LIBOR Daily Floating Rate” means a fluctuating rate of interest, which can change on each Business Day, equal to one month LIBOR, or a comparable successor rate, which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion (following consultation with the Borrower), as published on the Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m. London time two Business Days prior to the date in question, for Dollar deposits with a term equivalent to one month beginning on that date; provided that to the extent a comparable or successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion (following consultation with the Borrower) in connection herewith, the approved rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided, further that (a) to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and (b) if the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this agreement.
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“LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate. LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans shall only be available in Dollars.
“LIBOR Quoted Currency” means each of the following currencies: Dollars; Euro and Sterling, in each case as long as there is a published LIBOR rate with respect thereto.
“Lien” means (i) any lien (statutory or other), mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, assignment, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any agreement to give any of the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, and any lease or license in the nature thereof) and any option, trust or other preferential arrangement having the practical effect of any of the foregoing and (ii) in the case of Securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such Securities.
“Limited Condition Acquisition” means any Permitted Acquisition which the Company or one or more of its Subsidiaries has contractually committed to consummate, the terms of which do not condition the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s, as applicable, obligation to close such Permitted Acquisition on the availability of third-party financing.
“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under Article 2 in the form of a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swing Line Loan.
“Loan Document Obligations” means all obligations of any Loan Party from time to time owed to any Agent (including any former Agent), Lenders or any of them, to the extent arising under any Loan Document, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to any Loan Party, would have accrued on any Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Loan Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), reimbursement of amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, each Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement, each Note, each Issuer Document, any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.17, the Collateral Documents, the Fee Letter and all other documents, certificates, instruments or agreements executed and delivered by or on behalf of a Loan Party for the benefit of any Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender in connection herewith on or after the Closing Date.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrowers and the Guarantors.
“London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
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“Material Acquisition” means a Permitted Acquisition (or any other merger or acquisition permitted hereunder) with respect to which the aggregate amount of consideration for such Permitted Acquisition (or such other merger or acquisition) is at least $250,000,000 and the Company has designated such Permitted Acquisition (or such other merger or acquisition) as a “Material Acquisition” by written notice to the Administrative Agent.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on and/or material adverse developments with respect to (i) the business, operations, properties, assets or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to fully and timely perform their Obligations; or (iii) the rights, remedies and benefits available to, or conferred upon, any Agent and any Lender or any Secured Party under any Loan Document.
“Material Contract” means any contract or other arrangement to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party (other than the Loan Documents) for which breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
“Material Real Estate Asset” means any fee-owned Domestic Real Estate Asset having a book value in excess of $25,000,000 as of the date of (x) the acquisition thereof by a U.S. Loan Party or (y) the substantial completion of any improvements thereon by a U.S. Loan Party.
“Maturity Date” means, with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Facility, the Stated Maturity Date; provided that if the Senior Notes have not been refinanced in full to a date that is at least 91 days after the Stated Maturity Date (such refinancing, a “Qualified Refinancing”) or repaid, redeemed or defeased on or prior to the Springing Maturity Date, the Maturity Date with respect to the 2017 Term Facility and the 2017 Revolving Credit Facility shall be the Springing Maturity Date unless (i) as of the Springing Maturity Date, the Borrower has sufficient Qualified Cash and availability under the Revolving Credit Facility (or any other committed credit facility) to redeem the Senior Notes in full on the Senior Notes Maturity Date and (ii) at all times during the period from the Springing Maturity Date until the Senior Notes Maturity Date, the Borrower shall comply with the requirements of Section 6.15; provided, further, that, in each case, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.
“Minimum Collateral Amount” means, at any time, (i) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided to reduce or eliminate Fronting Exposure during the existence of a Defaulting Lender, an amount equal to 101% of the Fronting Exposure of the L/C Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit issued and outstanding at such time, (ii) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.17(a)(i), (a)(ii) or (a)(iii), an amount equal to 101% of the Outstanding Amount of all LC Obligations, and (iii) otherwise, an amount determined by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer in their sole discretion but not exceeding 103% of the Outstanding Amount of the applicable L/C Obligations.
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“MLPFS” means Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Multicurrency Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to (a) make Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b) and (b) (i) from the Closing Date until this Agreement became effective, purchase participations in L/C Obligations with respect to Multicurrency Letters of Credit, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the Dollar Equivalent of the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (in effect immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective) under the caption “Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto (prior to this Agreement becoming effective), as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement and (ii) after this Agreement became effective, purchase participations in L/C Obligations with respect to Multicurrency Letters of Credit, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the Dollar Equivalent of the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (in effect upon this Agreement becoming effective) under the caption “Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto (after this Agreement became effective), as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (i) the Maturity Date in respect of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility, (ii) the date the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments are permanently reduced to zero pursuant to Section 2.05, and (iii) the date of the termination of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 8.02.
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, the aggregate Outstanding Amount at such time of its Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans and the aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations with respect to Multicurrency Letters of Credit.
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders’ Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
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“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment or a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan at such time.
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
“Multicurrency Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit C-1.1, C-1.2 or C-1.3, as applicable, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Multiple Employer Plan” means a Plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including the Company or any ERISA Affiliate) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4064 of ERISA.
“Net Asset Sale Proceeds” means, with respect to any Asset Sale, an amount equal to: (i) Cash payments actually received (including any Cash received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or pursuant to a purchase price adjustment, earn-out or any contingent payment obligation to which the applicable seller is entitled or otherwise, but only as and when such deferred Cash payment is so received or when released from an escrow or holdback) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale, minus (ii) any bona fide direct costs incurred in connection with such Asset Sale, including (a) any applicable transfer taxes or recording charges and any income or gains taxes payable by the seller as a result of any gain recognized in connection with such Asset Sale and, without duplication of any reduction pursuant to Section 2.05(c)(ix), any repatriation costs associated with receipt by the applicable taxpayer of such proceeds, (b) payment of the outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and interest on any Indebtedness (other than the Loans, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt or any Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt to the extent secured) that is secured by a Lien on the stock or assets in question and that is required to be repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such Asset Sale, (c) any professional fees actually incurred in connection therewith, including, without limitation, advisers, brokers, investment bankers, attorneys and accountants fees, (d) a reasonable reserve for any indemnification payments (fixed or contingent) attributable to seller’s indemnities and representations and warranties to purchaser undertaken by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such Asset Sale or any purchase price adjustment, deferred payment obligation, earn-out, contingent payment obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of any such Asset Sale and (e) reasonable reserves under GAAP for any facilities closings, severance or other restructuring expenses in connection with such Asset Sale; provided that the amount of any subsequent release or reduction of the reserves specified in clauses (d) and (e) above (other than in connection with a payment in respect of the applicable obligation or expense) shall be deemed to be Net Asset Sale Proceeds on the date of such release or reduction).
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“Net Equity Proceeds” means an amount equal to any Cash proceeds from a capital contribution to, or the issuance of any Equity Interests of, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in each case net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs and expenses associated therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses and underwriter, arranger and placement agent fees and expenses.
“Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds” means an amount equal to: (i) any Cash payments or proceeds received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (a) under any casualty insurance policy in respect of a covered loss thereunder or (b) as a result of the taking of any assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by any Person pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation or otherwise, or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such power under threat of such a taking, minus (ii) (a) any actual and reasonable costs incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the adjustment or settlement of any claims of the Company or such Subsidiary in respect thereof, (b) any professional fees actually incurred in connection therewith, including, without limitation, advisers, brokers, investment bankers, attorneys and accountants, (c) any bona fide direct costs incurred in connection with any sale of such assets as referred to in clause (i)(b) of this definition, including income taxes payable as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith and (d) reasonable reserves under GAAP for any facilities closings, severance or other restructuring expenses in connection with any such sale or insurance claim; provided that (1) the amount of any subsequent release or reduction of the reserves specified in clause (d) above (other than in connection with a payment in respect of the applicable obligation or expense) shall be deemed to be Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds on the date of such release or reduction and (2) Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds shall not include any payments, proceeds or any other amounts received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from any business interruption insurance policies.
“Net Xxxx-to-Market Exposure” of a Person means, as of any date of determination, the excess (if any) of all unrealized losses over all unrealized profits of such Person arising from Hedge Agreements or other Indebtedness of the type described in clause (xi) of the definition thereof. As used in this definition, “unrealized losses” means the fair market value of the cost to such Person of replacing such Hedge Agreement or such other Indebtedness as of the date of determination (assuming the Hedge Agreement or such other Indebtedness were to be terminated as of that date), and “unrealized profits” means the fair market value of the gain to such Person of replacing such Hedge Agreement or such other Indebtedness as of the date of determination (assuming such Hedge Agreement or such other Indebtedness were to be terminated as of that date).
“Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” means the ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter of (i) Consolidated Senior Secured Net Debt as of such day to (ii) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the four (4)-Fiscal Quarter period ending on such date.
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“New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New Revolving Credit Commitments” means the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment and/or the New USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as the context may require.
“New Revolving Credit Lender” means a New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender and/or a New USD Revolving Credit Lender, as the context may require.
“New Revolving Credit Loan” means a New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan and/or a New USD Revolving Credit Loan, as the context may require.
“New Term Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New Term Loan Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New Term Loan Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of the New Term Loans of such Lender.
“New Term Loan Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New Term Loan Maturity Date” means the date on which New Term Loans of a Series shall become due and payable in full hereunder, as specified in the applicable Joinder Agreement, including by acceleration or otherwise.
“New USD Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New USD Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“New USD Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16.
“Non-Consenting Lender” means any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (i) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (ii) has been approved by the Required Lenders.
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“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
“Non-Extension Notice Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b),
“Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency” means any currency other than a LIBOR Quoted Currency.
“Non-Institutional Incremental Term Facility” means an Incremental Facility other than an Institutional Incremental Term Facility.
“Non-Public Information” means material non-public information (within the meaning of United States federal, state or other applicable securities laws) with respect to the Company or its Affiliates or their respective Securities.
“Non-Reinstatement Deadline” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b).
“Not Otherwise Applied” means, with reference to Consolidated Excess Cash Flow, Available ECF Amount or the Available Amount that is proposed to be applied to a particular use or transaction, that such amount has not previously been (and is not simultaneously being) applied to anything other than such particular use or transaction (including, without limitation, Investments permitted under Section 7.06(h) or Restricted Junior Payments permitted under Section 7.04(k)).
“Note” means a Term Loan Note, a Revolving Credit Note or a Swing Line Note, as the context may require.
“Notes Escrow Account” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Escrow Notes”.
“Notes Escrow Arrangements” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Escrow Notes”.
“Notes Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Escrow Notes”.
“Notice of Loan Prepayment” means a notice of prepayment with respect to a Loan, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit F or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer.
“Obligations” means (i) all Loan Document Obligations, (ii) all Hedge Obligations and (iii) all Cash Management Obligations (excluding, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), the Excluded Swap Obligations).
“Obligee Guarantor” has the meaning specified in Section 11.07.
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“OECD” has the meaning specified in the definition of Cash Equivalents.
“Organizational Documents” means (i) with respect to any corporation or company, its certificate, memorandum or articles of incorporation, organization or association, as amended, and its bylaws, as amended, (ii) with respect to any limited partnership, its certificate or declaration of limited partnership, as amended, and its partnership agreement, as amended, (iii) with respect to any general partnership, its partnership agreement, as amended, (iv) with respect to any limited liability company, its articles of organization, as amended, and its operating agreement, as amended and (v) with respect to any company incorporated in the United Kingdom, its memorandum of association, articles of association, certificate of incorporation, any certificates of change of name and any other constitutional documents, as amended. In the event any term or condition of this Agreement or any other Loan Document requires any Organizational Document to be certified by a secretary of state or similar governmental official, the reference to any such “Organizational Document” shall only be to a document of a type customarily certified by such governmental official.
“Original Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of May 29, 2015, among the Company, the U.K. Borrower, the Designated Borrowers from time to time party thereto, the Guarantors, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent, as in effect immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.06).
“Outstanding Amount” means (i) with respect to Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans occurring on such date; (ii) with respect to USD Revolving Credit Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of such USD Revolving Credit Loans occurring on such date; (iii) with respect to Swing Line Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of such
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Swing Line Loans occurring on such date; (iv) with respect to Term Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of such Term Loans occurring on such date; and (v) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Company of Unreimbursed Amounts.
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer, or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternative Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in the applicable Alternative Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of Bank of America in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank market.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
“Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Union that has the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 10.18
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.
“Pension Plan” means any Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to Sections 412 and 430 of the Code or Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA.
“Perfection Certificate” means that certain Perfection Certificate dated as of the Closing Date by and among the Administrative Agent and Loan Parties.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any acquisition, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries, whether by purchase, merger, purchase followed by merger, or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets of, all of the Equity Interests (except for any Equity Interests in the nature of directors’ qualifying shares required pursuant to applicable law) of, or a business line or unit or a division of, any Person; provided,
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(a) immediately prior to, and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom;
(b) all transactions in connection therewith shall be consummated, in all material respects, in accordance with all applicable laws and in conformity with all applicable Governmental Authorizations;
(c) in the case of the acquisition of Equity Interests, after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, all of the Equity Interests (except for any such Securities in the nature of directors’ qualifying shares required pursuant to applicable law) acquired or otherwise issued, directly or indirectly, by such Person or any newly formed Subsidiary of the Company in connection with such acquisition shall be owned, directly or indirectly, 100% by the Company, and the Company shall have taken, caused to be taken, will take or will cause to be taken, each of the actions set forth in Section 6.10 in accordance with provisions thereof and solely to the extent required by this Agreement; provided that the aggregate Investments made during any Fiscal Year of the Company (commencing with the Company’s Fiscal Year ending in September 2018) by U.S. Loan Parties in Persons that will not be a U.S. Loan Party (or assets that will not be owned by U.S. Loan Parties), in each case, after giving effect to such Permitted Acquisition, together with the aggregate amount of Investments made in such Fiscal Year following the Restatement Date by U.S. Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not U.S. Loan Parties pursuant to Section 7.06(l), shall not exceed the greater of (x) $300,000,000 and (y) 3.5% of the Total Assets as of the date of such Investment (after giving effect to such Investment); provided that such amount shall be unlimited if (I)(A) the Company and the Guarantors comprise at least 80% of the Total Assets and Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of the Company and its Subsidiaries (after giving effect to such acquisition) and (B) the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio does not exceed 4.00:1.00 on a pro forma basis or (II)(A) the Company and the Guarantors comprise less than 80% of the Total Assets and Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of the Company and its Subsidiaries (after giving effect to such acquisition) and (B) the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio does not exceed 3.50:1.00 on a pro forma basis; provided, further, that with respect to the Company’s Fiscal Year ending in September 2018, only such Investments made after the Restatement Date shall be included in the basket in this clause (c) for such Fiscal Year;
(d) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.07 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such acquisition as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter for which financial statements have been delivered;
(e) in the event the purchase price of such Permitted Acquisition is greater than $250,000,000, the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent (i) a Compliance Certificate evidencing compliance with Section 7.07 as required under clause (d) above, (ii)(A) all other relevant financial information with respect to such acquired assets reasonably requested by Administrative Agent, including the aggregate consideration for such acquisition and any other information required to demonstrate compliance with Section 7.07 and (B) promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, to the extent available, quarterly and annual financial statements of the Person
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whose Equity Interests or assets are being acquired for the twelve (12)-month period immediately prior to such proposed Permitted Acquisition, including any audited financial statements that are available and (iii) to the extent filed with the SEC, a copy of the purchase agreement related to the proposed Permitted Acquisition (in which case, the filing of such purchase agreement with the SEC shall be deemed to satisfy such requirement); and
(f) any Person or assets or division as acquired in accordance herewith shall be in a same business or lines of business in which the Company and/or its Subsidiaries are engaged as of the Restatement Date, including, without limitation, any medical pharmaceutical, diagnostic, medical device, medical aesthetics, medical technology or other health or well-being oriented business and any businesses similar, related, ancillary or incidental thereto, or that is an adjunct thereto (provided that the Administrative Agent consents to such adjunct if material), or a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof.
“Permitted Business Realignment Transaction” means (i) a Permitted Inter-Company License Transaction and/or (ii) a Permitted R&D Cost Sharing Agreement.
“Permitted Escrow Notes” means Indebtedness of the Company incurred in connection with a Permitted Refinancing of any Indebtedness permitted hereunder, including without limitation, the Senior Notes, (a) 100% of the net proceeds of the issuance of which (together with any interest earned on such proceeds, the “Notes Proceeds”) either (x) are and remain deposited to an account (the “Notes Escrow Account”) of the Company or the applicable escrow agent (i) into which no other funds (other than interest earned on the Notes Proceeds) are deposited and (ii) that is subject to escrow arrangements (the “Notes Escrow Arrangements”) reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or (y) are deposited as trust funds with the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, lender or other such applicable person in regards to such Indebtedness permitted hereunder, including without limitation, the Senior Notes, in accordance with the satisfaction, discharge and/or defeasance provisions set forth in such Indebtedness (and/or the Indenture, note purchase agreement or other agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness was issued) and (b) that is secured, if at all, solely by Liens on such Notes Escrow Account and the Notes Proceeds held therein permitted under Sections 7.02(z)(i) and 7.02(dd).
“Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt” means any secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Company in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Obligations and under security documents substantially similar to the Collateral Documents and is not secured by any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness satisfies the requirements of clauses (a) through (c) of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness,” (iii) the maturity date of such Indebtedness shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date, (iv) such Indebtedness is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligation (except customary asset sale or change-of-control provisions that provide
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for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (v) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors and the terms of such guarantee shall be no more favorable to the secured parties in respect of such Indebtedness than the terms of the Guaranty provided hereunder, (vi) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their Senior Representative) and the Administrative Agent shall be party to an intercreditor agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (vii) such Indebtedness shall have covenants, default and remedy provisions and other terms and conditions (other than interest, fees, premiums, funding discounts or optional prepayment provisions) that are substantially identical to, or less favorable to the investors providing such Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt than, those set forth in this Agreement.
“Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Realignment Transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions by and among the Company and or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the realignment of the Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries, including without limitation to reduce the number of the Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries, and in particular its First-Tier Foreign Subsidiaries, with the ultimate goal of creating one First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary to serve as a holding company for most if not all of the Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries. In connection therewith:
(a) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may cause the formation of one or more new Foreign Subsidiaries, it being understood that it is currently envisioned that the Company may form a new Foreign Subsidiary to serve as a holding company for some or all of the Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries;
(b) the Company or any other Subsidiary may transfer or otherwise dispose of a First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary and/or any Equity Interest therein to the Company or any another Subsidiary, including without limitation in connection with a sale, merger, consolidation, amalgamation, capital contribution, distribution or dividend, redemption, incurrence or forgiveness of indebtedness, or any similar transaction (a “First-Tier Drop Down”), with any consideration, if any, issued, paid or received in connection with such a transaction referred to herein as “Drop-Down Consideration”, it being understood that there may be multiple transfers of First-Tier Foreign Subsidiaries and/or any Equity Interest therein between and among the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(c) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may transfer or otherwise dispose of Drop-Down Consideration to the Company or any other Subsidiary, including without limitation in connection with a sale, merger, consolidation, amalgamation, capital contribution, distribution or dividend, redemption, incurrence, amendment or forgiveness of indebtedness, or any similar transaction, it being understood that there may be multiple transfers of Drop-Down Consideration between and among the Company and its Subsidiaries;
(d) one or more Foreign Subsidiaries, including First-Tier Foreign Subsidiaries may be liquidated, dissolved or wound down;
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(e) there may be one or more conversions, changes in form of, or tax election by, any Foreign Subsidiary, and the issuance of any new form of Equity Interests in connection with such change in form or election;
(f) a Foreign Subsidiary may transfer, sell, lease, license, distribute or otherwise Dispose of any or all of its assets to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or contribute any or all of its assets to any Subsidiary of such Foreign Subsidiary or merge with any other Foreign Subsidiary; or
(g) any transaction or series of transactions substantially equivalent with any of the foregoing.
“Permitted Gen-Probe Asset Sale” means the sale and/or Sale and Leaseback Transaction involving the Real Estate Assets of Gen-Probe located in San Diego, California with Net Asset Sale Proceeds less than or equal to $250,000,000, and occurring within thirty six (36) months following the date hereof.
“Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt” means any Indebtedness denominated in Dollars incurred by the Company in the form of one or more series of secured or unsecured notes or loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness shall either be (A) in the case of notes only, secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Obligations and shall not be secured by any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary other than Collateral or (B) secured by the Collateral on a junior basis (including with respect to the control of remedies) with the Obligations and shall not be secured by any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary other than Collateral; provided that for the purpose of testing compliance with the Incremental Cap at any time, all Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt shall be deemed at all times to constitute Consolidated Senior Secured Debt, (ii) such Indebtedness shall not be at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors and the terms of such guarantee shall be no more favorable to the secured parties in respect of such Indebtedness than the terms of the Guaranty, (iii) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their Senior Representative) and the Administrative Agent shall be party to an intercreditor agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (iv) such Indebtedness shall have covenants, default and remedy provisions and other terms and conditions (other than interest, fees, premiums, funding discounts or optional prepayment or redemption provisions) that are substantially identical to, or less favorable to the investors providing such Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt than, those set forth in this Agreement (it being understood and agreed that any Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt in the form of notes that are subject to terms comparable to the existing Senior Notes shall be deemed less favorable to the applicable investors providing such Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt than those set forth in this Agreement), (v) there shall be no scheduled amortization of such Indebtedness, and such Indebtedness shall not be subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligation (except customary asset sale or change-of-control provisions that provide for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (vi) the maturity date of such Indebtedness shall be no earlier
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than the Latest Maturity Date and (vii) with respect to any notes or loans secured on a junior basis or any unsecured notes or loans, such Indebtedness shall also satisfy clauses (i), (ii), (iv) and (v) of the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions. For the avoidance of doubt, Loans and Commitments incurred pursuant to Section 2.16 shall not constitute Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt.
“Permitted Inter-Company License Transaction” means one or more agreements providing for the license of rights to Intellectual Property or any other intangible property (collectively, the “Intangible Property”) by the Company or any Domestic Subsidiary to one or more Foreign Subsidiaries and the related obligation, such as royalty or other payment liabilities, that are determined in good faith by the Company to be at an arm’s length rate in exchange for such license, as determined in accordance with applicable Tax Laws; provided that (i) such license is expressly subject to the Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent granted under this Agreement, (ii) (x) in the case of registered Intangible Property, such license does not allocate any Foreign Subsidiary as the record owner of such Intangible Property or any improvements thereto and (y) in the case of unregistered Intangible Property, such license does not allocate any Foreign Subsidiary as the owner of such Intangible Property or any improvements thereto, (iii) in the event that any such Foreign Subsidiary ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company, such license to such Foreign Subsidiary shall no longer constitute a Permitted Inter-Company License Transaction and (iv) such license does not materially interfere with the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as conducted on the Restatement Date (or as permitted by Section 7.11) or materially detract from the value of the Intangible Property of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
“Permitted Junior Debt Conditions” means that such applicable debt (i) is not scheduled to mature prior to the date that is 180 days after the Latest Maturity Date, (ii) does not have scheduled amortization payments of principal or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligation (except customary asset sale or change-of-control provisions that provide for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (iii) is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Subsidiaries that are Guarantors, and the terms of such guarantee shall be no more favorable to the secured parties in respect of such Indebtedness than the terms of the Guaranty, (iv) has no financial maintenance covenants, other than, in the case of any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is junior to the Liens securing the Obligations (in which event the financial maintenance covenants in the documentation governing such Indebtedness shall not be more restrictive than those set forth in this Agreement), (v) does not contain any provisions that cross-default to any Default or Event of Default hereunder, other than a cross-default to an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.01(a) at maturity (it being understood and agreed that such debt may contain cross-acceleration provisions with respect to the Loans and Commitments hereunder) and (vi) has covenants, default and remedy provisions and other terms and conditions (other than interest, fees, premiums and funding discounts or optional prepayment or redemption provisions) that are substantially identical to, or less favorable to the investors providing such debt than, those set forth in this Agreement.
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“Permitted Licenses” means (i) any licenses granted by the Company or a Subsidiary to third parties or by a third party to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; (ii) any licenses granted by the Company or a Subsidiary to third parties in settlement of any dispute or litigation with third parties; (iii) any licenses granted by the Company or a Subsidiary in settlement of any dispute or litigation with governmental regulatory authorities or otherwise necessary to comply with any legal or regulatory requirement; (iv) any licenses entered into with a third party in connection with any strategic collaboration, including, without limitation, in connection with any Co-Development Agreement or any marketing, co-marketing, distribution, manufacturing, outsourcing, supply or joint venture agreement or any similar arrangement; (v) the licensing of any non-core Intellectual Property; (vi) the licensing of any Intellectual Property for an application other than an application for which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries uses such Intellectual Property, which, in the case of each of clauses (i), (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi) above, does not materially interfere with the conduct of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business as conducted on the Restatement Date (or as permitted by Section 7.11) or materially detract from the value thereof, (vii) any license of Intellectual Property to effect or in furtherance of the Reorganization and (viii) any license of Intellectual Property by the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries to the Company and/or any of its Subsidiaries provided that such license is made in the ordinary course of business; provided that, with respect to any such exclusive license to any Foreign Subsidiary, such license qualifies as a Permitted Inter-Company License Transaction.
“Permitted Liens” means each of the Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.02.
“Permitted R&D Cost Sharing Agreement” means one or more agreements between and among the Company and one or more of its Subsidiaries to share in the costs and risks of developing Intangible Property (the “Cost Shared Intangibles”) in consideration of each party’s future benefits of such Intangible Property, as estimated by the Company in good faith, which agreements may allocate to the Foreign Subsidiaries a party thereto the fully paid-up license to use (which may or may not be exclusive) such Cost Shared Intangibles in one or more territories or, in the case of any Cost Shared Intangibles or any improvements thereto not included in the Collateral as of the Restatement Date, allocate to the Foreign Subsidiary as record owner of such Cost Shared Intangibles or any improvements thereto; provided that (i) such license is expressly subject to the Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent granted under this Agreement, (ii) in the event that any such Foreign Subsidiary ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company, such license to such Foreign Subsidiary shall no longer constitute a Permitted R&D Cost Sharing Agreement and (iii) such license does not materially interfere with the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as conducted on the Restatement Date (or as permitted by Section 7.11) or materially detract from the value of the Cost Shared Intangibles of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
“Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, Indebtedness issued, incurred or otherwise obtained in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace or refinance, in whole or part, any Indebtedness of such Person (solely for purposes of this definition, “Refinanced Debt”); provided that (a) such Indebtedness has a later maturity
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than and a weighted average life to maturity equal to or greater than the Refinanced Debt, (b) except as otherwise permitted hereunder (subject to dollar-for-dollar reduction of any applicable basket) such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt plus accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) thereon and reasonable fees and expenses associated with the refinancing (provided that the principal amount of such Indebtedness shall not include any principal constituting interest paid in kind), (c) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, defeased or satisfied and discharged on a dollar-for-dollar basis, and all accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) in connection therewith shall be paid (by way of defeasance, discharge or otherwise), substantially concurrently with the incurrence of such Permitted Refinancing (for the avoidance of doubt, this subsection (c) shall be deemed satisfied if the proceeds of the Permitted Refinancing are deposited in the Notes Escrow Account in accordance with the Notes Escrow Arrangements), (d) such Indebtedness shall not at any time be guaranteed by any Persons other than Persons that are guarantors of the Refinanced Debt, and the terms of such guarantee, taken as a whole, shall be no more favorable to the secured parties in respect of such Indebtedness than the terms of the guarantee of the Refinanced Debt, taken as a whole, (e) if the Refinanced Debt is secured, the terms and conditions relating to collateral for such Indebtedness, taken as a whole, shall be no more favorable to the secured parties in respect of such Indebtedness than the terms and conditions with respect to the collateral for the Refinanced Debt (and the Liens on any Collateral securing such Indebtedness shall have the same (or lesser) priority as the Refinanced Debt relative to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations), (f) if the Refinanced Debt is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such Indebtedness shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as the subordination terms applicable to the Refinanced Debt, (g) the terms and conditions of any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or Indebtedness (other than interest, fees, premiums, funding discounts, optional prepayment/redemption provisions (including any premiums related thereto), guarantees, collateral, subordination and, with respect to the Convertible Notes, conversion rates, conversion prices and, solely to conform to market terms in effect at the time of such Permitted Refinancing, the conditions to conversion) are, either (i) substantially identical to or less favorable to the investors providing such Permitted Refinancing, taken as a whole, than the terms and conditions of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced, exchanged or extended or (ii) when taken as a whole, not more restrictive to the Company and/or its Subsidiaries, as applicable, than those set forth in this Agreement (after giving effect to the addition of the Previously Absent Covenant pursuant to the immediately following proviso in this clause (g)) or are customary for similar Indebtedness in light of the then current market conditions; provided that to the extent the documentation governing such Indebtedness includes a Previously Absent Covenant, the Administrative Agent shall be given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement shall be amended to include such Previously Absent Covenant for the benefit of each Facility; provided further that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company delivered to the Administrative Agent in good faith at least five Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Company has determined
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in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set out in this clause (g), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Company of its objection within five Business Days after receiving such notice (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects) and (h) at the time thereof, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
“Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt” means secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Company in the form of one or more series of second lien (or other junior lien) secured notes or second lien (or other junior lien) secured loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness shall be secured by the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the Liens securing the Obligations and under security documents substantially similar to (or less favorable to the investors providing such Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt than) the Collateral Documents and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt and not secured by any property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness shall satisfy the requirements of clauses (a) through (c) of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness,” (iii) the holders of such Indebtedness (or their Senior Representative) and Administrative Agent shall be party to an intercreditor agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (iv) such Indebtedness shall otherwise meet the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions.
“Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Company in the form of one or more series of senior or subordinated unsecured notes or loans; provided that such Indebtedness (i) satisfies the requirements of clauses (a) through (c) of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness” and (ii) meets the Permitted Junior Debt Conditions.
“Person” means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies, joint ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts, business trusts or other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and Governmental Authorities.
“Personal Property Collateral” means all Collateral other than Real Estate Assets.
“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(m).
“Pledge and Security Agreement” means the Pledge and Security Agreement executed by the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor substantially in the form of Exhibit J, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Pledged Collateral” means any certificates evidencing any Certificated Securities and Pledged Equity Interests, and any Instruments or Tangible Chattel Paper (each as defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement), described in Section 4.01 of the Pledge and Security Agreement.
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“Previously Absent Covenant” shall mean, at any time (x) any negative or financial covenant that is not included in this Agreement at such time and (y) any negative or financial covenant in any other Indebtedness that is included in this Agreement at such time but with covenant levels that are more restrictive to the Company and its Subsidiaries than the covenant levels included in this Agreement at such time.
“Prior Acquisition” means any acquisition, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of, or a business unit, line of business or division of, any Person, which was consummated prior to the Restatement Date (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Gen-Probe Acquisition).
“Priority Debt Cap” means, at any time of determination, an amount equal to the greater of (x) $750,000,000 and (y) 30% of the aggregate value of Consolidated Tangible Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries set forth in the then-most recent financial statements delivered (or required to have been delivered) pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b).
“Priority Incremental Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a) hereof.
“Pro Forma Transaction” means any Investment that results in a Person becoming a Subsidiary, any Permitted Acquisition, any Asset Sale that results in a Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of the Company, any Investment constituting an acquisition of assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of another Person or a Disposition of a business unit, line of business or division of the Company or a Subsidiary, in each case whether by merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise, and any other transaction that by the terms of this Agreement requires a financial ratio test to be determined on a “pro forma basis” or to be given “pro forma effect.”
“Projections” has the meaning specified in Section 5.25.
“Public Lenders” means Lenders that do not wish to receive Non-Public Information with respect to the Company, its Affiliates or its or their respective Securities.
“Qualified Cash” means (i) unrestricted Cash or Cash Equivalents (including Cash or Cash Equivalents representing a Convertible Note Repayment Reserve) of the U.S. Loan Parties which Cash and Cash Equivalents are held in deposit and/or security accounts subject to a control agreement in favor of the Collateral Agent to the extent required by the Pledge and Security Agreement and not subject to any other Lien, claim or interest (other than Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.02(a), 7.02(n)(i) (to the extent such Indebtedness is permitted by Section 7.01(d)), Section 7.02(n)(iii)) or 7.02(z)) and (ii) all Cash or Cash Equivalents held in the Servicer Account and/or the Servicer Lockbox.
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“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligation, each Guarantor that constitutes an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act or any regulations promulgated thereunder and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time by entering into a keepwell, support or other agreement under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Qualified Receivables Transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to: (1) a Receivables Entity (in the case of a transfer by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or (2) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Receivables Entity), or may grant a security interest in any accounts receivable (whether now existing or arising in the future) of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto, including all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset securitization transactions involving accounts receivable; provided that the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms at the time that such transaction is consummated (as determined in good faith by the chief financial officer of the Company); provided further that the grant of a security interest in any accounts receivable of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to secure Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.01(a), (o) or (p) shall not be deemed a Qualified Receivables Transaction.
“Qualifying Lender” means (a) a Lender which is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Loan Document and is a Lender: (1) which is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) making an advance under a Loan Document and is within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance or would be within such charge as respects such payment apart from section 18A of the CTA; or (2) in respect of an advance made under a Loan Document by a person that was a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) at the time that that advance was made and within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance or (b) a Treaty Lender
“Real Estate Asset” means, at any time of determination, any interest (fee, leasehold or otherwise) then owned by any Loan Party in any real property.
“Real Property Facility” means any real property (including all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located thereon) now, hereafter or heretofore owned, leased, operated or used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective predecessors or Affiliates.
“Receivables Entity” means (a) a Subsidiary of the Company that is designated by the board of directors of the Company in resolutions certified by the secretary of the
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Company as a Receivables Entity, with an officers’ certificate certifying that such designation complies with the following conditions or (b) another Person engaging in a Qualified Receivables Transaction with the Company, which Person engages in the business of the financing of accounts receivable, and: (1) in either of clause (a) or (b) above, no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of such entity (A) is guaranteed by the Company or any Subsidiary (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings), (B) is recourse to or obligates the Company or any Subsidiary in any way (other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings) or (C) subjects any property or asset of the Company or any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof (other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings); and (2) in the case of clause (b), (A) the entity is not an Affiliate of the Company or is an entity with which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms that the Company reasonably believes to be no less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Company and (B) is an entity to which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results.
“Receiving Party” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(g).
“Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder.
“Refinancing” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(a)(viii).
“Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Company executed by each of (a) the Company and each other Loan Party, (b) the Administrative Agent and (c) each Additional Lender and Lender that agrees to provide any portion of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness being incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.19.
“Refinancing Indebtedness” means (i) Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, (ii) Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt or (iii) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt, in each case, issued, incurred or otherwise obtained (including by means of the extension or renewal of existing Indebtedness) in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace or refinance, in whole or in part, existing Term Loans, or any then-existing Refinancing Indebtedness (solely for purposes of this definition, “Refinanced Debt”); provided that (a) there shall be no scheduled amortization of such Indebtedness, (b) such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt plus accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) thereon and reasonable fees and expenses associated with the refinancing (provided that the principal amount of such Indebtedness shall not include any principal constituting interest paid in kind) and (c) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, defeased or satisfied and discharged on a
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dollar-for-dollar basis, and all accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) in connection therewith shall be paid, substantially concurrently with the incurrence of such Refinancing Indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.05.
“Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments” means Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments established pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender” means a Lender with a Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment or an outstanding Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan.
“Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans” means the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to the Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments” means the Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and/or the Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as the context may require.
“Refinancing Revolving Credit Lender” means a Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender and/or a Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Lender, as the context may require.
“Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans” means the Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans and/or the Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Loans, as the context may require.
“Refinancing Term Loan Commitment” means the commitment of any Lender to make Refinancing Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.19 to the applicable Borrower.
“Refinancing Term Loan Lender” means a Lender with an outstanding Refinancing Term Loan.
“Refinancing Term Loans” means Term Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments” means USD Revolving Credit Commitments established pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Lender” means a Lender with a Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitment or an outstanding Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Loan.
“Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Loans” means the USD Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to the Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).
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“Registered Equivalent Notes” means, with respect to any notes originally issued in a Rule 144A or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act, substantially identical notes (having the same Guarantees) issued in a dollar-for-dollar exchange therefor pursuant to an exchange offer registered with the SEC.
“Regulation T” means Regulation T of the FRB, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the FRB, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Regulation X” means Regulation X of the FRB, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Rejection Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c)(x).
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives and successors and assigns of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” means any release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping, pouring, injection, escaping, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping, leaching or migration of any Hazardous Material into or through the indoor or outdoor environment (including the abandonment or disposal of any barrels, containers or other receptacles containing any Hazardous Material).
“Relevant Party” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(g).
“Removal Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.06(b).
“Reorganization” means any Permitted Business Realignment Transaction and/or Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Realignment Transaction, so long as, in the case of a Permitted Foreign Subsidiary Realignment Transaction, after giving effect thereto, (A) taken as a whole, the value of the Collateral securing the Obligations and the Guaranty by the Guarantors of the Obligations are not materially reduced and (B) the Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties under the Collateral Documents are not materially impaired (for the avoidance of doubt, the contribution of stock in any First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary to any other Foreign Subsidiary, the contribution of Drop Down Consideration to any Foreign Subsidiary and the forgiveness and/or extinguishment of any Indebtedness constituting Drop Down Consideration, individually or in the aggregate, shall not violate clause (A) or (B) above notwithstanding that the stock of such First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary and/or such Drop Down Consideration shall thereafter not constitute part of the Collateral).
“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
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“Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders” means, at any time, Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Multicurrency Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations being deemed “held” by such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) at such time and (b) aggregate unused portion of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments at such time. The unused portion of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Multicurrency Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders at any time; provided that the amount of any Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the L/C Issuer in making such determination.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Total Credit Exposures representing more than 50% of the Total Credit Exposures of all Lenders. The Total Credit Exposure of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time; provided that, the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in making such determination.
“Required Revolving Credit Lenders” means, at any time, Revolving Credit Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) at such time and (b) aggregate unused portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments at such time. The unused portion of the Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Revolving Credit Lenders at any time; provided that the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in making such determination.
“Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders” means, at any time, USD Revolving Credit Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total USD Revolving Credit Outstandings (with the aggregate amount of each USD Revolving Credit Lender’s risk participation and funded participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such USD Revolving Credit Lender for purposes of this definition) at such time and (b) aggregate unused portion of the USD Revolving Credit Commitments at such time. The unused portion of the USD Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total USD Revolving Credit Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required
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USD Revolving Credit Lenders at any time; provided that the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or L/C Issuer in making such determination.
“Resignation Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.06(a).
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, treasurer, general counsel, deputy general counsel, assistant general counsel, assistant treasurer or corporate controller (or, in each such case, the equivalent position however titled) of a Loan Party, solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01 and 4.03, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party and, solely for purposes of notices given pursuant to Article 2, any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a notice to the Administrative Agent or any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restatement Date” means the first date all of the conditions precedent in Section 4.03 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01 and on which date the 2017 Incremental Term Loans and the 2017 Refinancing Term Loans are funded.
“Restricted Junior Payment” means (i) any dividend or other distribution by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, direct or indirect, on account of any shares of any class of stock, respectively, of the Company or such Subsidiary (or on account of any shares of any class of stock of any direct or indirect parent of the Company), now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend or distribution payable solely in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Company; (ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, of any shares of any class of stock, respectively, of the Company or such Subsidiary (or on account of any shares of any class of stock of any direct or indirect parent thereof) now or hereafter outstanding, except to the extent in exchange for Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Company; (iii) any payment made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock, respectively, of the Company or such Subsidiary (or any direct or indirect parent of the Company) now or hereafter outstanding, except to the extent such payment is made by the delivery of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Company; (iv) any payment or prepayment of principal (other than regularly scheduled principal payments) or redemption, purchase or repurchase, retirement, defeasance (including in substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund, cash settlement or similar payment with respect to Junior Financing prior to the scheduled
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maturity thereof, except to the extent such payment, repayment, redemption, purchase or repurchase is made by the delivery of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Company and (v) payments with respect to restricted stock units.
“Revaluation Date” means (a) with respect to any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan, each of the following: (i) each date of a Borrowing of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of a continuation of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency pursuant to Section 2.02, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably determine or the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders shall require; and (b) with respect to any Multicurrency Letter of Credit, each of the following: (i) each date of issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of an amendment of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof, (iii) each date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, and (iv) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer shall reasonably determine or the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders shall require.
“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing and/or a USD Revolving Credit Borrowing, as the context may require.
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment and/or a USD Revolving Credit Commitment, as the context may require.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means, collectively, the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility and the USD Revolving Credit Facility.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender and/or a USD Revolving Credit Lender, as the context may require.
“Revolving Credit Loan” means a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan and/or a USD Revolving Credit Loan, as the context may require (for the avoidance of doubt, upon this Agreement becoming effective, all Loans under the 2017 Revolving Credit Facility shall constitute Revolving Credit Loans).
“Revolving Credit Note” means a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Note and/or a USD Revolving Credit Note, as the context may require.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” has the meaning specified in Section 7.09.
“Sanctions” has the meaning specified in Section 5.27(b).
“Same Day Funds” means (a) with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available funds, and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments in an Alternative Currency, same day or other funds as may be reasonably
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determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Alternative Currency.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Secured Parties” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Securities” means any stock, shares, partnership interests, voting trust certificates, certificates of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement or arrangement, options, warrants, bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, secured or unsecured, convertible, subordinated or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as “securities” or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in temporary or interim certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Senior Notes” means the $1,000,000,000 5.250% Senior Notes due 2022 issued under the indenture dated as of July 2, 2015 by and among the Company, the Subsidiaries party thereto and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee.
“Senior Notes Maturity Date” means July 15, 2022.
“Senior Representative” means, with respect to any series of Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt or secured Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or other agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
“Series” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“Servicer Account” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Servicer Lockbox” has the meaning assigned to that term in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
“Solvency Certificate” means a Solvency Certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company substantially in the form of Exhibit M.
“Solvent” means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, that as of the date of determination, both (i) (a) the sum of such Person’s debt (including contingent liabilities) does not exceed the present fair saleable
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value of such Parties’ present assets on a consolidated basis; (b) such Person’s capital is not unreasonably small in relation to its business as contemplated on the Restatement Date or with respect to any transaction contemplated to be undertaken after the Restatement Date on a consolidated basis; and (c) such Persons have not incurred and do not intend to incur, or believe (nor should they reasonably believe) that they will incur, debts beyond their ability to pay such debts as they become due (whether at maturity or otherwise) on a consolidated basis; and (ii) such Persons on a consolidated basis are not “insolvent” within the meaning given that term and similar terms under the Bankruptcy Code and other applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that would reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Accounting Standards Codification 450 (previously referred to as Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 5)).
“Special Notice Currency” means at any time an Alternative Currency, other than the currency of a country that is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at such time located in North America or Europe.
“Spot Rate” for a currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer if the Person acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such currency; and provided further that the L/C Issuer may use such spot rate quoted on the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency.
“Spread Overlay Agreements” means one or more bond xxxxxx, warrants or other similar derivative transactions entered into by the Company in connection with its issuance of Convertible Notes.
“Springing Maturity Date” means April 15, 2022.
“Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by the Company or any Subsidiary or another Receivables Entity that, taken as a whole, are customary in an accounts receivable transaction.
“Stated Maturity Date” means October 3, 2022.
“Sterling” and “£” mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.
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“Subordinated Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Domestic Subsidiary of the Company that has in effect an enforceable Guarantee pursuant to Article 11.
“Supplier” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(g).
“Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act (including without limitation any Hedge Agreement).
“SWIFT” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(f).
“Swing Line Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Swing Line Lender” means Bank of America in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.
“Swing Line Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
“Swing Line Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B or such other form as approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower.
“Swing Line Note” means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit C-2.1, C-2.2 or C-2.3, as applicable, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Swing Line Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $50,000,000 and (b) the Aggregate USD Revolving Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate USD Revolving Commitments.
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“TARGET2” means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November 19, 2007.
“TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement in consultation with the Company) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto, including without limitation, the U.S. medical device excise tax.
“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Term Commitment” means, as to each Term Lender, (i) its obligation to make Term Loans to the Company on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) (in effect immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective) in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (in effect immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective) under the caption “Term Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto (prior to this Agreement becoming effective), as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement and (ii) immediately after this Agreement became effective, its obligation to make Term Loans to the Company on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) (in effect immediately after this Agreement became effective) in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (in effect immediately after this Agreement became effective) under the caption “Term Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto (after this Agreement became effective), as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Term Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Term Lenders’ Term Commitments at such time and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall mean the 2017 Term Facility upon this Agreement becoming effective.
“Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term Commitment and/or Term Loan at such time and, upon this Agreement becoming effective, shall include each 2017 Incremental Term Lender and each 2017 Refinancing Term Lender.
“Term Loan” means (i) in regards to the Original Credit Agreement, those “Term Loans” outstanding under the Original Credit Agreement prior to this Agreement becoming effective and (ii) after this Agreement became effective, the 2017 Incremental Term Loans and the 2017 Refinancing Term Loans.
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“Term Note” means a promissory note made by any Borrower in favor of a Term Lender evidencing Term Loans made by such Term Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-3.
“Term Loan Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, the aggregate Outstanding Amount at such time of its Terms Loans; provided that at any time prior to the making of the Term Loans, the Term Loan Exposure of any Lender shall be equal to such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment.
“Term Loan Installment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07.
“Term Loan Maturity Date” means the Maturity Date with regard to the Term Facility or the New Term Loan Maturity Date of any Series of New Term Loans, as applicable.
“Test Period” has the meaning specified in Section 1.10.
“Total Assets” means the total amount of all assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP as shown on the then-most recent balance sheet of the Company.
“Total Credit Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, (a) in respect of the Term Facility, the Term Loan Exposure of such Lender outstanding at such time, (b) in respect of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility, the unused Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and Multicurrency Revolving Credit Exposure of such Lender at such time and (c) in respect of the USD Revolving Credit Facility, the unused USD Revolving Credit Commitments and USD Revolving Credit Exposure of such Lender at such time.
“Total Multicurrency Revolving Credit Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations with respect to Multicurrency Letters of Credit.
“Total Net Leverage Ratio” means the ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter of (i) Consolidated Net Debt as of such day to (ii) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the four (4)-Fiscal Quarter period ending on such date.
“Total Revolving Credit Outstandings” means, collectively, the Total Multicurrency Revolving Credit Outstandings and the Total USD Revolving Credit Outstandings.
“Total USD Revolving Credit Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all USD Revolving Credit Loans. Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations with respect to USD Letters of Credit.
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“Treaty Lender” means a Lender which is treated as a resident of a Treaty State for the purposes of the Treaty and does not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in the Loan is connected.
“Treaty State” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “Treaty”) with the United Kingdom which makes provision for full exemption from Tax imposed by the United Kingdom on interest.
“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code (or any similar or equivalent legislation) as in effect from time to time in any applicable jurisdiction.
“UCP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
“U.K. Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“U.K. Borrower Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (b) $200,000,000. The U.K. Borrower Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“USD Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(a).
“USD Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous USD Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
“USD Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make (a) USD Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations with respect to USD Letters of Credit and (c) (x) from the Closing Date until this Agreement became effective, purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (as in effect immediately before this Agreement became effective) under the caption “USD Revolving Credit Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto (prior to this Agreement becoming effective), as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement and (y) immediately after this Agreement became effective, purchase
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participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 (as in effect immediately after this Agreement became effective) under the caption “USD Revolving Credit Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto (after this Agreement became effective), as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“USD Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (i) the Maturity Date in respect of the USD Revolving Credit Facility, (ii) the date the USD Revolving Credit Commitments are permanently reduced to zero pursuant to Section 2.05, and (iii) the date of the termination of the USD Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 8.02.
“USD Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, the aggregate Outstanding Amount at such time of its USD Revolving Credit Loans and the aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations in respect of USD Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans at such time.
“USD Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders’ USD Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
“USD Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a USD Revolving Credit Commitment or a USD Revolving Credit Loan at such time.
“USD Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).
“USD Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit C-4.1, C-4.2 or C-4.3, as applicable, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
“U.S. Loan Party” means any Loan Party that is not a Foreign Obligor.
“U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(e)(ii)(B)(3).
“VAT” means:
(a) any tax imposed in compliance with the European Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and
(b) any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in paragraph (a) above, or imposed elsewhere.
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“Weighted Average Yield” means with respect to any Indebtedness, on any date of determination, the weighted average yield to maturity, in each case, based on the interest rate applicable to such Indebtedness on such date and giving effect to all upfront or similar fees or original issue discount payable with respect to such Loan, as calculated by the Administrative Agent.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
Section 1.02. Other Interpretive Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) 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, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (iii) the words “hereto,” “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) 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 (but, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include, in respect of a Person, the Equity Interests of, or other securities issued by, the same Person (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be the asset of the holder of such Equity Interests)).
(b) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and including.”
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(c) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(d) If any item is required to be delivered, or any action is required to be taken, on a day other than a Business Day, such item shall be required to be delivered, and such action shall be required to be taken, on the next following Business Day.
(e) For purposes of determining compliance with any of the covenants set forth in Article VII, in the event that any Lien, Investment, Indebtedness, Asset Sale, Restricted Junior Payment, transaction with Affiliates, or prepayment of Indebtedness meets the criteria of one or more of the categories of transactions or exceptions permitted pursuant to the same Section, the Borrower may classify such Lien, Investment, Indebtedness, Asset Sale, Restricted Junior Payment, transaction with Affiliates, or prepayment of Indebtedness (as applicable) (or portion thereof) at the time made or incurred, to one or more of such categories as determined by the Borrower in its sole discretion.
Section 1.03. Accounting Terms. (a) Generally. All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.
(b) Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP (including the adoption of IFRS), from that in effect for preparing the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the Fiscal Year ended September 30, 2017, would affect any covenant or other provision of this Agreement, including without limitation, the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Company or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Company shall negotiate in good faith to amend such covenant or other provision to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, such covenant or other provision shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein. Notwithstanding any other provisions set forth herein, leases shall continue to be classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with that reflected in the Audited Financial Statements for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding any change in GAAP relating thereto, unless the parties hereto shall enter into a mutually acceptable amendment addressing such changes, as provided for above.
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(c) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Company is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB ASC 810 as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.
Section 1.04. Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).
Section 1.05. Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents. (a) The Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts denominated in Alternative Currencies. Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur. Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so calculated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as applicable.
(b) Wherever in this Agreement in connection with a Borrowing, conversion, continuation or prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Borrowing, Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of such Alternative Currency, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward), as calculated by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be.
(c) The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” or with respect to any comparable or successor rate thereto.
Section 1.06. Additional Alternative Currencies. (a) The Borrowers may from time to time after the Closing Date request that Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans be made and/or Multicurrency Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of “Alternative Currency;” provided that such requested currency is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars. In the case of any such request with respect to the making of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such request shall be subject to the
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approval of the Administrative Agent and the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders; and in the case of any such request with respect to the issuance of Multicurrency Letters of Credit, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer.
(b) Any such request referenced in Section 1.06(a) shall be made to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., six (6) Business Days prior to the date of the desired Credit Extension (or such other time or date requested by the Company and as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any such request pertaining to Multicurrency Letters of Credit, the L/C Issuer, in its or their sole discretion). In the case of any such request pertaining to Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender thereof; and in the case of any such request pertaining to Multicurrency Letters of Credit, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the L/C Issuer thereof. Each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender (in the case of any such request pertaining to Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans) or the L/C Issuer (in the case of a request pertaining to Multicurrency Letters of Credit) shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00 a.m., two (2) Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the making of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, or the issuance of Multicurrency Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested currency.
(c) Any failure by a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to respond to such request within the time period specified in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be a refusal by such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to permit Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made or Multicurrency Letters of Credit to be issued in such requested currency. If the Administrative Agent and all the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders consent to making Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowings of Eurocurrency Rate Loans; and if the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer consent to the issuance of Multicurrency Letters of Credit in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit issuances. If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency under this Section 1.06, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Company.
Section 1.07. Change of Currency. (a) Each obligation of the Borrowers to make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the Closing Date shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption. If, in relation to the currency of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this Agreement in
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respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that if any Committed Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Committed Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.
(b) Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect the adoption of the Euro by any member state of the European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the Euro.
(c) Each provision of this Agreement also shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect a change in currency of any other country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the change in currency.
Section 1.08. Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
Section 1.09. Letter of Credit Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.
Section 1.10. Pro Forma Calculations.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, the Total Net Leverage Ratio and the Interest Coverage Ratio shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.10; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, when calculating any such ratio for the purpose of the definition of Applicable Rate, any mandatory prepayment provision hereunder or compliance with Section 7.07, the events set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) below that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period shall not be given pro forma effect.
(b) For purposes of calculating the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, the Total Net Leverage Ratio and the Interest Coverage Ratio, Pro Forma Transactions (and the incurrence or repayment of any Indebtedness in connection therewith) that have been consummated (i) during the applicable period of four (4) consecutive Fiscal Quarters for which such financial ratio is being determined (the “Test Period”) or (ii) subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation
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of any such ratio is made, shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Pro Forma Transactions (and any increase or decrease in Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA and the component financial definitions used therein attributable to any Pro Forma Transaction) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period.
(c) Whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a Pro Forma Transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a financial or accounting Responsible Officer of the Company and may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount of synergies and cost savings projected by the Company from actions taken or expected to be taken during the 12-month period following the date of such Pro Forma Transaction, net of the amount of actual benefits theretofore realized during such period from such actions; provided that (i) such amounts are reasonably identifiable, quantifiable and factually supportable in the good faith judgment of the Company, (ii) no amounts shall be added pursuant to this clause (c) to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, with respect to such period and (iii) the aggregate amount of cost savings and synergies added pursuant to this clause (c) for any such period, together with any addback to Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (f) thereof, during any such period, shall not exceed 15% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for such period, calculated without giving effect to any adjustment pursuant to this clause (c) or paragraph (f) of the definition of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA. Nothing in this clause (c) shall limit any adjustment to Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA permitted pursuant to clause (y) of the proviso to paragraph (f) of the definition of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA.
(d) In the event that the Company or any Subsidiary incurs (including by assumption or guarantees) or repays (including by redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment) any Indebtedness included in the calculations of the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio or the Total Net Leverage Ratio (other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes), subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made, then the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio or the Total Net Leverage Ratio, as applicable, shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, to the extent required, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period.
(e) All ratios and other financial metrics, including, without limitation, “Total Assets”, “Consolidated Tangible Assets”, “Total Net Leverage Ratio”, and “Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio”, shall be calculated based on the then-most recent financial statements delivered (or required to have been delivered) pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b).
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ARTICLE 2
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01. The Loans.
(a) The Term Borrowing. (i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term Lender severally agrees to make a single loan (each such loan, a “Term Loan”) to the Company in Dollars on the Closing Date in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Term Lender’s Term Commitment (in effect prior to this Agreement becoming effective) and (ii) subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (x) each 2017 Incremental Term Lender with a 2017 Incremental Term Commitment severally agrees to make its portion of the 2017 Incremental Term Loan on the Restatement Date in accordance with the provisions set forth herein and (y) each 2017 Refinancing Term Lender with a 2017 Refinancing Term Commitment severally agrees to make its portion of the 2017 Refinancing Term Loan on the Restatement Date in accordance with the provisions set forth herein. For all purposes hereof, the 2017 Term Loans shall constitute Term Loans. The 2017 Refinancing Term Loans shall refinance and repay in full the Existing Terms A Loan outstanding immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective. The Term Borrowing on (i) the Closing Date shall consist of Term Loans made simultaneously by the Term Lenders in accordance with their respective Term Commitments (as in effect on the Closing Date immediately prior to the making of the Term Loans on the Closing Date) and (ii) the Restatement Date shall consist of 2017 Term Loans made simultaneously by the Term Lenders in accordance with their respective Term Commitments (as in effect on the Restatement Date immediately prior to the making of the 2017 Term Loans on the Restatement Date). Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans, LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the 2017 Incremental Term Loan shall not be subject to Section 2.16 of this Agreement or of the Original Credit Agreement (and shall not constitute a New Term Loan for any purpose hereunder or under the Original Credit Agreement) and (ii) the 2017 Refinancing Term Loan shall not be subject to Section 2.19 of this Agreement or of the Original Credit Agreement (and shall not constitute a Refinancing Term Loan for any purpose hereunder or under the Original Credit Agreement).
(b) The Revolving Credit Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (i) each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan”) to the applicable Borrower(s) in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period for the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment and (ii) each USD Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “USD Revolving Credit Loan”) to the applicable Borrower(s) in Dollars from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period for the USD Revolving Credit Facility, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, (i) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (ii) the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Exposure of any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender shall not exceed such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment, (iii) the USD Revolving Credit Exposure of any USD
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Revolving Credit Lender shall not exceed such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment, (iv) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made to the Designated Borrowers shall not exceed the Designated Borrower Sublimit, (v) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies shall not exceed the Alternative Currency Sublimit and (vi) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made to the U.K. Borrower shall not exceed the U.K. Borrower Sublimit. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b). Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Dollars may be Base Rate Loans, LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein. Revolving Credit Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency must be Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
Section 2.02. Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a) Each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Term Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon any Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone or (B) a Committed Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Committed Loan Notice. Each such Committed Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars or of any conversion of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars to Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, (ii) four Business Days (or five Business Days in the case of a Special Notice Currency) prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, and (iii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans; provided, however, that if any Borrower wishes to request Eurocurrency Rate Loans having an Interest Period other than one week or one, two, three or six months in duration as provided in the definition of “Interest Period,” the applicable notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, or (ii) five Business Days (or six Business days in the case of a Special Notice Currency) prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Appropriate Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them. Not later than 11:00 a.m., (i) three Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, or (ii) four Business Days (or five Business days in the case of a Special Notice Currency) prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, the Administrative Agent shall notify the applicable Borrower
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(which notice may be by telephone) whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the Appropriate Lenders. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (i) whether the applicable Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing, a USD Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto, (vi) in the case of a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing, the currency of the Loans to be borrowed, and (vii) in the case of a Revolving Credit Borrowing, the applicable Borrower. If the Company fails to specify a currency in a Committed Loan Notice requesting a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing, then the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans so requested shall be made in Dollars. If the Company fails to specify whether a Revolving Credit Borrowing denominated in Dollars is a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing or a USD Revolving Credit Borrowing, the applicable Revolving Credit Loans shall be allocated first, to the USD Revolving Credit Facility to the full extent of the then unused USD Revolving Credit Commitments and second, to the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility to the full extent of the then unused Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments. If the Company fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Company fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans shall be continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans in their original currency with an Interest Period of one month. Any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency Rate Loans. If any Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (x) a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, (y) no Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan may be converted into or continued as a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan denominated in a different currency, but instead must be prepaid in the original currency of such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan and reborrowed in the other currency and (z) no Term Loan or USD Revolving Credit Loan may be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency.
(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount (and currency) of its Applicable Percentage of the applicable Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, and if
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no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the applicable Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans denominated in a currency other than Dollars, in each case as described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of a Term Borrowing or a Revolving Credit Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office for the applicable currency not later than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension on the Closing Date, Section 4.01 and if such Borrowing is a Credit Extension on the Restatement Date, Section 4.03), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Company or the other applicable Borrowers in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by the date requested in the Committed Loan Notice either by (i) crediting the account of such Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the applicable Borrower; provided, however, that if, on the date a Committed Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit Borrowing denominated in Dollars is given by the applicable Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and, second, shall be made available to the applicable Borrower as provided above.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan. During the existence of a Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans (whether in Dollars or any Alternative Currency) without the consent of the Required Lenders, and the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders may demand that any or all of the then outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency be, as determined by the applicable Borrower, prepaid, or redenominated into Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof, on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall be permitted to set the last day of each Interest Period.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans as the same Type, there
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shall not be more than ten Interest Periods in effect with respect to the Term Facility. After giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than ten Interest Periods in effect with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any Lender may exchange, continue or rollover all of the portion of its Loans in connection with any refinancing, extension, loan modification or similar transaction permitted by the terms of this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Company, the Administrative Agent, and such Lender.
Section 2.03. Letters of Credit.
(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue (a) Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies (each, a “Multicurrency Letter of Credit”) or (b) Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars (each, a “USD Letter of Credit”), in each case for the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; (B) the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Multicurrency Letters of Credit issued for the account any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any drawings thereunder; and (C) the USD Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in USD Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and any drawings thereunder; provided that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (w) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (x) the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Exposure of any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender shall not exceed such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment, (y) the USD Revolving Credit Exposure of any USD Revolving Credit Lender shall not exceed such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Each request by a Borrower for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit (1) shall state whether such Letter of Credit shall constitute a Multicurrency Letter of Credit or a USD Letter of Credit (and, in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit, the currency in which such Letter of Credit is to be denominated) and (2) shall be deemed to be a representation by such Borrower that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers’ ability to
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obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Borrowers may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof. All Letters of Credit outstanding under the Original Credit Agreement immediately prior to the Restatement Date shall remain outstanding upon this Agreement becoming effective and thereafter shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.
(ii) The L/C Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit, if:
(A) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit) or the Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any USD Letter of Credit) have approved such expiry date; or
(B) the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless (x) the Administrative Agent, the applicable L/C Issuer and (1) in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit, all of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders or (2) in the case of any USD Letter of Credit, all of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders, have approved such expiry date or (y) such Letter of Credit is cash collateralized on terms and pursuant to arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer.
(iii) The L/C Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to the L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Restatement Date, or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Restatement Date and which the L/C Issuer in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally;
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(C) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $100,000, in the case of a commercial Letter of Credit, or $100,000, in the case of a standby Letter of Credit;
(D) such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than (x) Dollars or (y) an Alternative Currency;
(E) the L/C Issuer does not, as of the issuance date of such requested Letter of Credit, issue Letters of Credit in the requested currency;
(F) (1) in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit, any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender or (2) in the case of any USD Letter of Credit, any USD Revolving Credit Lender, is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless the L/C Issuer has received Cash Collateral or entered into other arrangements satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (in its sole discretion) with the applicable Borrower or such Revolving Credit Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to any reallocation pursuant to Section 2.18(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which the L/C Issuer has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion; or
(G) such Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder.
(iv) The L/C Issuer shall not, at the request of the applicable Borrower, amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.
(v) The L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to, at the request of the applicable Borrower, amend any Letter of Credit if the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
(vi) The L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Appropriate Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and the L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article 9 with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent” as used in Article 9 included the L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to the L/C Issuer.
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(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of Credit.
(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of any Borrower delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of such Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application may be sent by email, facsimile, by United States mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided by the L/C Issuer, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptable to the L/C Issuer. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount and currency thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature (i.e., standby or commercial) of the requested Letter of Credit; (H) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably require and (I) whether such Letter of Credit is a Multicurrency Letter of Credit or a USD Letter of Credit. In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to the L/C Issuer (A) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (D) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably require. Additionally, the applicable Borrower shall furnish to the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the applicable Borrower and, if not, the L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Appropriate Revolving Credit Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article 4 shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the applicable Borrower (or the
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applicable Subsidiary) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s usual and customary business practices. Immediately upon the issuance of each Multicurrency Letter of Credit, each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit. Immediately upon the issuance of each USD Letter of Credit, each USD Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) If any Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, no Borrower shall be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of a Multicurrency Letter of Credit) and the USD Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of a USD Letter of Credit) shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that the L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit) or the Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any USD Letter of Credit) have elected not to permit such extension or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Appropriate Lender or any Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.
(iv) If any Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that permits the automatic reinstatement of all or a portion of the stated
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amount thereof after any drawing thereunder (each, an “Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit”). Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, no Borrower shall be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer to permit such reinstatement. Once an Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit has been issued, except as provided in the following sentence, the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of a Multicurrency Letter of Credit) and the USD Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of a USD Letter of Credit) shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to reinstate all or a portion of the stated amount thereof in accordance with the provisions of such Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if such Auto-Reinstatement Letter of Credit permits the L/C Issuer to decline to reinstate all or any portion of the stated amount thereof after a drawing thereunder by giving notice of such non-reinstatement within a specified number of days after such drawing (the “Non-Reinstatement Deadline”), the L/C Issuer shall not permit such reinstatement if it has received a notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Reinstatement Deadline (A) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit) or the Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any USD Letter of Credit) have elected not to permit such reinstatement or (B) from the Administrative Agent, any Appropriate Lender or any Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied (treating such reinstatement as an L/C Credit Extension for purposes of this clause) and, in each case, directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such reinstatement.
(v) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the applicable Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c) Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify the applicable Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof. In the case of a Multicurrency Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the applicable Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer in such Alternative Currency, unless (A) the L/C Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in such notice that it will require reimbursement in Dollars, or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the applicable Borrower shall have notified the L/C Issuer promptly following receipt of the notice of drawing that the applicable Borrower will reimburse the L/C Issuer in Dollars. In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing under a Multicurrency Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the L/C Issuer shall notify the applicable Borrower of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the drawing promptly following the determination thereof. Not later than 11:00 a.m. on the
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date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in Dollars, or the Applicable Time on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternative Currency (each such date, an “Honor Date”), the applicable Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing and in the applicable currency. In the event that (A) a drawing denominated in an Alternative Currency is to be reimbursed in Dollars pursuant to the second sentence in this Section 2.03(c)(i) and (B) the Dollar amount paid by the applicable Borrower, whether on or after the Honor Date, shall not be adequate on the date of that payment to purchase in accordance with normal banking procedures a sum denominated in the Alternative Currency equal to the drawing, the applicable Borrower agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, to indemnify the L/C Issuer for the loss resulting from its inability on that date to purchase the Alternative Currency in the full amount of the drawing. If the applicable Borrower fails to timely reimburse the L/C Issuer on the Honor Date, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Multicurrency Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency) (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof. In such event, the applicable Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Borrowing (in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit) or a USD Borrowing (in the case of any USD Letter of Credit) of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the applicable Class of Revolving Credit Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice given by the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender (in the case of a Multicurrency Letter of Credit) and each USD Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of a USD Letter of Credit) shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for this purpose) for the account of the L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agent’s Office for Dollar-denominated payments in an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan that is a Base Rate Loan to the applicable Borrower in such amount and each USD Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to
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have made a USD Revolving Credit Loan that is a Base Rate Loan to the applicable Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the L/C Issuer in Dollars.
(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the applicable Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each applicable Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Revolving Credit Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.
(iv) Until each applicable Revolving Credit Lender funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C Issuer.
(v) Each applicable Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the L/C Issuer, any Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the applicable Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the applicable Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
(vi) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, the L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Revolving Credit Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available
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to the L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing. If such Revolving Credit Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Revolving Credit Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan or USD Revolving Credit Loan, as applicable, included in the relevant Revolving Credit Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be. A certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Nothing in this Section 2.03 shall be deemed to relieve any Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment from its obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans on the terms and conditions set forth herein, and the Borrowers shall retain any and all rights they may have against any such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the failure of such Lender to make such Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c).
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Revolving Credit Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the applicable Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof in Dollars and in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.
(ii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender (in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit) and each USD Revolving Credit Lender (in the case of any USD Letter of Credit) shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Revolving Credit Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Loan Document Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
(e) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the applicable Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly
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in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other Loan Document;
(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that any Borrower or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) waiver by the L/C Issuer of any requirement that exists for the L/C Issuer’s protection and not the protection of the Borrowers or any waiver by the L/C Issuer which does not in fact materially prejudice the Borrowers;
(v) honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such Letter of Credit requires that demand be in the form of a draft;
(vi) any payment made by the L/C Issuer in respect of an otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by which documents must be received under, such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the UCC or the ISP, as applicable;
(vii) any payment by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;
(viii) any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the relevant Alternative Currency to the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally; or
(ix) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Borrower or any of its respective Subsidiaries.
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The applicable Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with any of the applicable Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, the applicable Borrower will promptly notify the L/C Issuer. The Borrowers shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
(f) Role of L/C Issuer. Each Lender and each Borrower agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by such Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of all of the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders, Revolving Credit Lenders or the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document. The applicable Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude any applicable Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (ix) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the applicable Borrower or its Subsidiaries may have a claim against the L/C Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the applicable Borrower or its Subsidiaries, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the applicable Borrower or its Subsidiaries which such Borrower or such Subsidiaries proves were caused by the L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct or gross negligence or the L/C Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason. The L/C Issuer may send a Letter of Credit or conduct any communication to or from the beneficiary via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (“SWIFT”) message or overnight courier, or any other commercially reasonable means of communicating with a beneficiary.
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(g) Applicability of ISP and UCP; Limitation of Liability. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and the applicable Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit and (ii) the rules of UCP shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the L/C Issuer shall not be responsible to the applicable Borrower for, and the L/C Issuer’s rights and remedies against the applicable Borrower shall not be impaired by, any action or inaction of the L/C Issuer required or permitted under any law, order, or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where the L/C Issuer or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP, or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements, or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade - International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such law or practice.
(h) Letter of Credit Fees. The applicable Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent (A) for the account of each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender in accordance, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18, with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, in Dollars, a Letter of Credit fee (the “Multicurrency Letter of Credit Fee”) for each Multicurrency Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans times the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Multicurrency Letter of Credit and (B) for the account of each USD Revolving Credit Lender in accordance, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18, with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, in Dollars, a Letter of Credit fee (the “USD Letter of Credit Fee”, and together with the Multicurrency Letter of Credit Fee, the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each USD Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans times the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such USD Letter of Credit. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09. Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) due and payable on the fifth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and (ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears on the last day of such quarter. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (1) upon the request of the Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Multicurrency Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate and (2) upon the request of the Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all USD Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.
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(i) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuer. The Company shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, a fronting fee, with respect to each Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum equal to 0.125%, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the fifth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in respect of the then-most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), computed as of the end of such quarter and commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09. In addition, the Company shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
(j) Conflict with Issuer Documents. In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.
(k) Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary, the Company shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit. The Company hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Company, and that the Company’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
(l) Additional L/C Issuers. The Company may, at any time and from time to time with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender, designate one or more additional Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders to act as an L/C Issuer under the terms of this Agreement (provided that there shall not be more than three (3) L/C Issuers at any one time), subject to Section 2.03(m). Any Lender designated as an L/C Issuer pursuant to this clause (l) shall be deemed to be an “L/C Issuer” (in addition to being a Lender) in respect of Letters of Credit issued or to be issued by such Lender, and, with respect to such Letters of Credit, such term shall thereafter apply to the other L/C Issuer(s) and such Lender.
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(m) L/C Issuer Reports to the Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer shall, in addition to its notification obligations set forth elsewhere in this Section 2.03, provide the Administrative Agent a Letter of Credit Report, as set forth below:
(i) reasonably prior to the time that such L/C Issuer issues, amends, renews, increases or extends a Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance, amendment, renewal, increase or extension and the stated amount of the applicable Letters of Credit after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (and whether the amounts thereof shall have changed);
(ii) on each Business Day on which such L/C Issuer makes a payment pursuant to a Letter of Credit, the date and amount of such payment;
(iii) on any Business Day on which a Borrower fails to reimburse a payment made pursuant to a Letter of Credit required to be reimbursed to such L/C Issuer on such day, the date of such failure and the amount of such payment;
(iv) on any other Business Day, such other information as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request as to the Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer; and
(v) for so long as any Letter of Credit issued by an L/C Issuer is outstanding, such L/C Issuer shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (A) on the last Business Day of each calendar month, (B) at all other times a Letter of Credit Report is required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement, and (C) on each date that (1) an L/C Credit Extension occurs or (2) there is any expiration, cancellation and/or disbursement, in each case, with respect to any such Letter of Credit, a Letter of Credit Report appropriately completed with the information for every outstanding Letter of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer.
Section 2.04. Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, to make loans in Dollars (each such loan, a “Swing Line Loan”) to the Borrowers from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period with respect to the USD Revolving Credit Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of USD Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that (x) after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (i) the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and (ii) the USD Revolving Credit Exposure of any USD Revolving Credit Lender shall not exceed such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment, (y) the Borrowers shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan, and (z) the Swing Line Lender shall not be under any obligation to make any Swing Line Loan if it shall reasonably determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that it has, or by such Credit Extension may have, Fronting Exposure. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions
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hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. For the avoidance of doubt, Swing Line Loans made to the U.K. Borrower shall be made under the U.K. Borrower Sublimit, Swing Line Loans made to the Designated Borrowers shall be made under the Designated Borrower Sublimit and Swing Line Loans made to the Company shall be made under the Revolving Credit Facility. Each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest only at a rate based on the Base Rate. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each USD Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.
(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon any Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone or (B) by a Swing line Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a Swing Line Loan Notice. Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum principal amount of $100,000, (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day and (iii) the applicable Borrower. Promptly after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swing Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any USD Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article 4 is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Borrowers at its office by crediting the account of the applicable Borrower on the books of the Swing Line Lender in Same Day Funds.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.
(i) The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole discretion may request, on behalf of the applicable Borrower (each of which hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each USD Revolving Credit Lender make a USD Revolving Credit Loan that is a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding for the account of such Borrower. Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for purposes
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hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the applicable Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each USD Revolving Credit Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of the amount specified in such Committed Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral of the applicable Borrower available with respect to the applicable Swing Line Loan) for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agent’s Office for Dollar-denominated payments not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Committed Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each USD Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the applicable Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a USD Revolving Credit Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Loans submitted by the Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Lender that each of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and each USD Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(iii) If any USD Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such USD Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i), the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such USD Revolving Credit Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Swing Line Lender in connection with the foregoing. If such USD Revolving Credit Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Loan included in the relevant USD Revolving Credit Borrowing or funded participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan, as the case may be. A certificate of the Swing Line Lender submitted to any USD Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(iv) Each USD Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make USD Revolving Credit Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such USD Revolving Credit Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each USD Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make USD Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of any Borrower to repay Swing Line Loans made for such Borrower’s account, together with interest as provided herein.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after any USD Revolving Credit Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such USD Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each USD Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate. The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swing Line Lender. The obligations of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
(e) Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender. The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the applicable Borrower for interest on the Swing Line Loans. Until each USD Revolving Credit Lender funds its USD Revolving Credit Loans that are Base Rate Loans or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.
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(f) Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender. The applicable Borrower shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the Swing Line Lender.
Section 2.05. Prepayments/Commitment Reductions.
(a) Voluntary Prepayments.
(i) At any time and from time to time:
(A) with respect to Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, the Borrowers may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount (or, if less, the aggregate principal amount of Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans then outstanding, as applicable);
(B) with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the Borrowers may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount (or, if less, the aggregate principal amount of Eurocurrency Rate Loans then outstanding); and
(C) with respect to Swing Line Loans, the Borrowers may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part in an aggregate minimum amount of $500,000, and in integral multiples of $100,000 in excess of that amount.
(ii) All such prepayments shall be made:
(A) upon written or telephonic notice on the date of prepayment, in the case of Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans;
(B) upon not less than three (3) Business Days’ prior written or telephonic notice in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars;
(C) upon not less than four (4) Business Days’ (or five, in the case of prepayment of Loans denominated in Special Notice Currencies) prior written or telephonic notice in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated an Alternative Currencies; and
(D) upon written or telephonic notice on the date of prepayment, in the case of Swing Line Loans;
in each case given to the Administrative Agent or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, by 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date required pursuant to delivery to
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the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment and, if given by telephone, promptly confirmed in writing to the Administrative Agent pursuant to delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment (and the Administrative Agent will promptly transmit such telephonic or original notice for Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, as the case may be, by electronic mail or telephone to each Appropriate Lender) or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be. Upon the giving of any such notice, the principal amount of the Loans specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the prepayment date specified therein. Any such voluntary prepayment shall be applied as specified in Section 2.06(a).
(b) Voluntary Commitment Reductions.
(i) The Company may, upon not less than three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice pursuant to delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment or telephonic notice confirmed in writing to the Administrative Agent pursuant to delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment (which original written or telephonic notice the Administrative Agent will promptly transmit by electronic mail or telephone to each applicable Lender), at any time and from time to time terminate in whole or permanently reduce in part, without premium or penalty, the Revolving Credit Commitments of each Class or any Class, in the Company’s discretion, in an amount up to the amount by which the Revolving Credit Commitments exceed the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings at the time of such proposed termination or reduction; provided, any such partial reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount.
(ii) The Company’s notice to the Administrative Agent shall designate the date (which shall be a Business Day) of such termination or reduction and the amount of any partial reduction, and such termination or reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be effective on the date specified in the Company’s notice and shall reduce the Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage of each Revolving Credit Lender of the applicable Class on a pro rata basis.
(c) Mandatory Prepayments/Commitment Reductions.
(i) Asset Sales. Subject to Sections 2.06(e) and 2.20, no later than the fifth Business Day following the date of receipt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Net Asset Sale Proceeds in excess of the greater of (x) $300,000,000 and (y) 15.0% of Consolidated Tangible Assets in the aggregate (for the avoidance of doubt such basket shall be fully available as of the Restatement Date) arising from an Asset Sale pursuant to Section 7.08(c) (other than any such Net Asset Sale Proceeds that are used to repay, prepay or redeem (I) the 2.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2042, issued by the Company pursuant to the Base Indenture and that certain Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 5, 2012, by and between Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and the Company or (II) the 2.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2043
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issued by the Company pursuant to the Base Indenture and that certain Fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 21, 2013, by and between Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and the Company) (including, in the case of the immediately preceding clauses (I) and (II), all principal, interest, fees, recapture taxes in regards to such Indebtedness, costs, expenses and/or premiums related thereto), the Company shall prepay the Loans as set forth in Section 2.06(b) in an aggregate amount equal to such Net Asset Sale Proceeds; provided so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall have the option, directly or through one or more of its Subsidiaries, to invest or commit to invest such Net Asset Sale Proceeds within one year of receipt thereof in productive assets of the general type used in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, through a Permitted Acquisition and/or any other acquisition constituting a permitted Investment; provided that if any amount is so committed to be reinvested within such one-year period, but is not reinvested within the later to occur of (x) six months of the date of such commitment and (y) the end of such one year period, the Company shall prepay the Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05(c)(i) without giving further effect to such reinvestment right.
(ii) Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds. Subject to Sections 2.06(e) and 2.20, no later than the fifth Business Day following the date of receipt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or the Administrative Agent as loss payee, of any Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, the Company shall prepay the Loans as set forth in Section 2.06(b) in an aggregate amount equal to such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds (in excess of $25,000,000 in the aggregate (for the avoidance of doubt such basket shall be fully available as of the Restatement Date)); provided, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall have the option, directly or through one or more of its Subsidiaries, to invest or commit to invest such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds within one year of receipt thereof in long-term productive assets of the general type used in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including through a Permitted Acquisition, which investment may include the repair, restoration or replacement of the applicable assets thereof; provided that if any amount is so committed to be reinvested within such one-year period, but is not reinvested within the later to occur of (x) six months of the date of such commitment and (y) the end of such one year period, the Company shall prepay the Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05(c)(ii) without giving further effect to such reinvestment right.
(iii) [Reserved].
(iv) Issuance of Debt. Subject to Sections 2.06(e) and 2.20, no later than the fifth Business Day following the date of receipt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any net Cash proceeds from the incurrence of any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the Company shall prepay the Loans as set forth in Section 2.06(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and commissions, and other
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reasonable costs and expenses associated therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses; provided, however, that the net Cash proceeds of any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.01 shall be excluded from the application hereof.
(v) Reserved.
(vi) Revolving Credit Loans and Swing Line Loans. The Company shall from time to time prepay first, the Swing Line Loans without reductions in USD Revolving Credit Commitments and second, the Revolving Credit Loans of each and/or any Class without reductions in Revolving Credit Commitments, in each case to the extent necessary so that the Total Revolving Credit Outstandings shall not at any time exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.
(vii) Letter of Credit Sublimit. If at any time the L/C Obligations shall exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit, the Company shall immediately Cash Collateralize Letters of Credit in an amount equal to such excess.
(viii) Prepayment Certificate. Concurrently with any prepayment of the Loans pursuant to Sections 2.05(c)(i) through 2.05(c)(iv), the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer demonstrating the calculation of the amount of the applicable net proceeds. In the event that the Company shall subsequently determine that the actual amount received exceeded the amount set forth in such certificate by more than $1,000,000, the Company shall promptly make an additional prepayment of the Loans in an amount equal to such excess, and the Company shall concurrently therewith deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer demonstrating the derivation of such excess.
(ix) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.05, (A) to the extent that any or all of the Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds of any Disposition by a Foreign Subsidiary (a “Foreign Disposition”), in each case giving rise to a prepayment event pursuant to Section 2.05(c)(i) or 2.05(c)(ii), are or is prohibited, restricted or delayed by applicable local law from being repatriated to the United States, the portion of such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds so affected will not be required to be applied to repay Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05 but may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit repatriation to the United States (the Company hereby agreeing to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the applicable Foreign Subsidiary to promptly take all actions reasonably required by the applicable local law to permit such repatriation), and once such repatriation of any of such affected Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds is permitted under the applicable local law, such repatriation will be promptly effected and such repatriated Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds will be promptly (and in any event not later than two Business Days after such repatriation) applied (net of all
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applicable additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) to the repayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05 (if so required) to the extent provided herein or (B) to the extent that the Company has determined in good faith that repatriation of any or all of the Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds of any Foreign Disposition would have a material adverse tax cost consequence (taking into account any foreign tax credit or benefit actually realized in connection with such repatriation) with respect to such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, the Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds so affected may be retained by the applicable Foreign Subsidiary, provided that, in the case of this clause (B), on or before the date on which any Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds so retained would otherwise have been required to be applied to reinvestments or prepayments pursuant to Section 2.05(c)(i) or 2.05(c)(ii), (x) the Company shall apply an amount equal to such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds to such reinvestments or prepayments as if such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds had been received by the Company rather than such Foreign Subsidiary, less the amount of additional taxes that would have been payable or reserved against if such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds had been repatriated (or, if less, the Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds that would be calculated if received by such Foreign Subsidiary), or (y) such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds shall be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness of a Foreign Subsidiary, in each case, other than as mutually agreed by the Company and the Administrative Agent (it being understood and agreed that to the extent any amount is applied pursuant to clause (x) or (y) above, such payment shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements under Section 2.05(c)(i) and/or 2.05(c)(ii), as applicable). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (ix), to the extent the U.K. Borrower has any Loans outstanding under the U.K. Borrower Sublimit hereunder, any Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds of the U.K. Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries shall not be subject to this Section 2.05(c)(ix) and therefore, the U.K. Borrower shall be required to apply such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds to its outstanding Loans to the extent the Company would have been required to prepay its Loans under this Section 2.05 as if the U.K. Borrower were the Company thereunder (subject, in the case of Net Asset Sale Proceeds and Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, to the applicable reinvestment rights set forth in Sections 2.05(c)(i) and 2.05(c)(ii), as applicable). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (ix), to the extent any Designated Borrower has any Loans outstanding under the Designated Borrower Sublimit hereunder, any Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds of such Designated Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries shall not be subject to this Section 2.05(c)(ix) and therefore, such Designated Borrower shall be required to apply such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds to its outstanding Loans to the extent the Company would have been required to prepay its Loans under this Section 2.05 as
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if such Designated Borrower were the Company thereunder (subject, in the case of Net Asset Sale Proceeds and Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, to the applicable reinvestment rights set forth in Sections 2.05(c)(i) and 2.05(c)(ii), as applicable).
(x) Each Appropriate Lender may reject all or a portion of its Applicable Percentage of any mandatory prepayment (such declined amounts, the “Declined Proceeds”) of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to Section 2.05(c)(i) by providing written notice (each, a “Rejection Notice”) to the Administrative Agent and the Company no later than 5:00 p.m. two (2) Business Days after the date of such Term Lender’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent regarding such prepayment. Each Rejection Notice from a given Term Lender shall specify the principal amount of the mandatory prepayment of Term Loans to be rejected by such Term Lender. If a Term Lender fails to deliver a Rejection Notice to the Administrative Agent within the time frame specified above or such Rejection Notice fails to specify the principal amount of the Term Loans to be rejected, any such failure will be deemed an acceptance of the total amount of such mandatory repayment of Term Loans. Any Declined Proceeds may be used by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for any purpose not prohibited hereunder.
Section 2.06. Application of Prepayments/Reductions.
(a) Application of Voluntary Prepayments by Type of Loans. Subject to Section 2.20, any voluntary prepayment of Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to prepay the Loans and, as applicable, scheduled amortization payments as directed by the Company. Subject to Section 2.20, in the absence of a designation by the Company, (i) any voluntary prepayment of the Term Loans shall be applied to prepay the Term Loans on a pro rata basis (in accordance with the respective outstanding principal amounts thereof); and further applied within each such Class of Loans to reduce the scheduled remaining Installments of such Class of Loans in direct order of maturity and (ii) any voluntary prepayment of the Revolving Credit Loans shall be applied to each Class on a pro rata basis.
(b) Application of Mandatory Prepayments by Class of Loans. Subject to Section 2.20 hereof, any amount required to be paid pursuant to Sections 2.05(c)(i) through 2.05(c)(iv) shall be applied as follows:
first, to prepay the Term Loans on a pro rata basis (in accordance with the respective outstanding principal amounts thereof), with such prepayments to be applied to reduce the Installments within each Class of Loans, first by application to the next eight Installments within such respective Class in direct order of maturity and then pro rata among the remaining Installments of such Class of Loans;
second, to prepay the Swing Line Loans to the full extent thereof without reduction of USD Revolving Credit Commitments;
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third, to prepay each Class of Revolving Credit Loans on a pro rata basis to the full extent thereof without reduction of any Class of Revolving Credit Commitments;
fourth, to prepay outstanding reimbursement obligations with respect to Letters of Credit on a pro rata basis; and
fifth, to Cash Collateralize Letters of Credit.
(c) [Reserved.]
(d) Application of Prepayments of Loans to Base Rate Loans, LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans and Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Except as expressly directed by the Company as provided in Section 2.06(a) and subject to Section 2.20, considering each Class of Loans being prepaid separately, any prepayment thereof shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans and second to LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans to the full extent thereof before application to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, in each case in a manner which minimizes the amount of any payments required to be made by the Company pursuant to Section 3.05.
(e) Eurocurrency Prepayment Account. If the Company or the Borrowers are required to make a mandatory prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans under Section 2.05(c), so long as no Event of Default exists, the Company and the other Borrower(s) shall have the right, in lieu of making such prepayment in full, to deposit an amount equal to such mandatory prepayment with the Administrative Agent in a cash collateral account maintained (pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) by and in the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent. Any amounts so deposited shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the prepayment of such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and shall be applied to the prepayment of the applicable Eurocurrency Rate Loans at the end of the current Interest Periods applicable thereto or, sooner, at the election of the Administrative Agent, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default. At the request of the Company, amounts so deposited shall be invested by the Administrative Agent in Cash Equivalents maturing on or prior to the date or dates on (and time or times by) which it is anticipated that such amounts will be applied to prepay such Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Any interest earned on such Cash Equivalents will be for the account of the applicable Borrower and the applicable Borrower will deposit with the Administrative Agent the amount of any loss on any such Cash Equivalents to the extent necessary in order that the deposited amounts equal or exceed the amount of the applicable mandatory prepayment.
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Section 2.07. Scheduled Payments/Commitment Reductions.
(a) The principal amounts of the Term Loans shall be repaid by the Company in consecutive quarterly installments (each, a “Term Loan Installment”) in the aggregate amounts and, on the corresponding “Amortization Dates,” set forth in the table below, commencing on December 30, 2017:
Amortization Date | Term Loan Installments | |
December 29, 2017 |
$9,375,000 | |
March 29, 2018 |
$9,375,000 | |
June 29, 2018 |
$9,375,000 | |
September 28, 2018 |
$9,375,000 | |
December 28, 2018 |
$18,750,000 | |
March 29, 2019 |
$18,750,000 | |
June 28, 2019 |
$18,750,000 | |
September 27, 2019 |
$18,750,000 | |
December 27, 2019 |
$18,750,000 | |
March 27, 2020 |
$18,750,000 | |
June 26, 2020 |
$18,750,000 | |
September 25, 2020 |
$18,750,000 | |
December 23, 2020 |
$28,125,000 | |
March 26, 2021 |
$28,125,000 | |
June 25, 2021 |
$28,125,000 | |
September 24, 2021 |
$28,125,000 | |
December 23, 2021 |
$37,500,000 | |
March 25, 2022 |
$37,500,000 | |
June 24, 2022 |
$37,500,000 | |
September 23, 2022 |
$37,500,000 | |
Term Loan Maturity Date |
$1,050,000,000 or such lesser aggregate principal amount of Term Loans then outstanding |
; provided that in the event any New Term Loans are made, such New Term Loans shall be repaid on each “Amortization Date” occurring on or after the applicable Increased Amount Date in the manner specified in the applicable Joinder Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) such Installments shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis in connection with any voluntary or mandatory prepayments of the Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.05; and (y) Term Loans, together with all other amounts owed hereunder with respect thereto, shall, in any event, be paid in full by the Company no later than the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date therefor.
(b) Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans. The Borrowers shall repay to the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.
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(c) USD Revolving Credit Loans. The Borrowers shall repay to the USD Revolving Credit Lenders on the Maturity Date for the USD Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all USD Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.
(d) Swing Line Loans. The Borrower shall repay each Swing Line Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date ten Business Days after such Swing Line Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date for the USD Revolving Credit Facility.
Section 2.08. Interest. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) below, (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate; (iii) each Swing Line Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate and (iv) each LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate plus the Applicable Rate.
(b) (i) If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(ii) If any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by any Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(iii) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) or 8.01(g), the Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(iv) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable by the applicable Borrower upon demand.
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(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears by the applicable Borrower on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable by the applicable Borrower in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
(d) For the avoidance of doubt, (i) the U.K. Borrower shall only be required to pay interest which accrues on account of the Loans under the U.K. Borrower Sublimit and (ii) the Designated Borrowers shall only be required to pay interest which accrues on account of the Loans under the Designated Borrower Sublimit. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.08(d) shall be subject to Section 2.20.
Section 2.09. Fees. In addition to certain fees described in subsections (h) and (i) of Section 2.03:
(a) Commitment Fee. The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent (x) for the account of each Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, a commitment fee (the “Multicurrency Commitment Fee”) in Dollars calculated on a daily basis equal to the Applicable Rate as of such day times the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Multicurrency Revolving Commitments exceed the sum as of such day of Exhibit A the Outstanding Amount of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans and Exhibit B the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations with respect to Multicurrency Letters of Credit, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18 and (y) for the account of each USD Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit Percentage, a commitment fee (the “USD Commitment Fee”, and together with the Multicurrency Commitment Fee, the “Commitment Fee”) in Dollars calculated on a daily basis equal to the Applicable Rate as of such day times the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate USD Revolving Commitments exceed the sum as of such day of (i) the Outstanding Amount of USD Revolving Credit Loans and (ii) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations with respect to USD Letters of Credit, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.18. For the avoidance of doubt, the Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans shall not be counted towards or considered usage of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments for purposes of determining the Commitment Fee. The Commitment Fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period with respect to the applicable Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article 4 is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the fifth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Restatement Date, and on the last day of the applicable Availability Period. The Commitment Fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears on the last day of such quarter, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
(b) Other Fees. (i) The Company shall pay to the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts, in Dollars, fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
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(ii) The Company shall pay to the Lenders, in Dollars, such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
Section 2.10. Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate. (a) All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans (including Base Rate Loans determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate) shall be made on the basis of actual days elapsed in a 365 day year or 366 day year, as the case may be. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year), or, in the case of interest in respect of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies as to which market practice differs from the foregoing, in accordance with such market practice. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid, provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. With respect to all Non-LIBOR Quoted Currencies, the calculation of the applicable interest rate shall be determined in accordance with market practice.
(a) If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Company or for any other reason, the Company or the Lenders determine that (i) the Total Net Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Company as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Total Net Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the applicable Borrowers shall retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to any Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or similar law in any other jurisdiction, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period. This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under Section 2.03(c)(iii), 2.03(h) or 2.08(b) or under Article 8. The Company’s obligations under this paragraph shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
Section 2.11. Evidence of Debt. (a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records
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maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to each applicable Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to their respective Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender to a Borrower made through the Administrative Agent, such Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans to such Borrower in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to a Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount, currency and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
(b) In addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.
Section 2.12. Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback.
(a) All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein and except with respect to principal of and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect to principal and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office in such Alternative Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent on the dates specified herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent may require that any payments due under this Agreement be made in the United States. If, for any reason, any Borrower is prohibited by any Law from making any required payment hereunder in an Alternative Currency, such Borrower shall make such payment in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent of the Alternative Currency payment amount. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage in respect of the applicable Facility (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent (i) after 2:00 p.m., in the case of
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payments in Dollars, or (ii) after the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of payments in an Alternative Currency, shall in each case be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by any Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
(b) (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such 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 Section 2.02 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable 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 and the applicable Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to such Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the Overnight Rate, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by such Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If such Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to such Borrower the amount of such interest paid by such Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by such Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim such Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) Payments by Borrowers; Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the applicable Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Appropriate Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if such Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Appropriate Lenders or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the
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Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the Overnight Rate.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Company with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender to any Borrower as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article 2, and such funds are not made available to such Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article 4 are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(d) Obligations of Lenders Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 10.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 10.04(c).
(e) Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
(f) Insufficient Funds. If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, L/C Borrowings, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied, subject to Section 2.20, (i) first, toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, toward payment of principal and L/C Borrowings then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and L/C Borrowings then due to such parties.
Section 2.13. Sharing of Payments by Lenders. Subject to Section 2.20, if any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a) Loan Document Obligations due and payable to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Loan Document Obligations due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Loan Document Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other
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Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Loan Document Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) Loan Document Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Loan Document Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Loan Document Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payment on account of the Loan Document Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans of the 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 ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of Loan Document Obligations then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be, provided that:
(i) if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and
(ii) the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by or on behalf of any Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), (y) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in Section 2.17, or (z) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or participant.
Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, and in all cases subject to Section 2.20, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan Party in the amount of such participation.
Section 2.14. Designated Borrowers. U.K. Borrower
(a) The Company may at any time, upon not less than 10 Business Days’ notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), designate any additional wholly-owned Foreign Subsidiary of the Company (an “Applicant Borrower”) as a Designated Borrower to receive Revolving Credit Loans hereunder in Dollars or, in the case of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans, in any Alternative Currency in an aggregate
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Outstanding Amount not to exceed the Designated Borrower Sublimit, by delivering to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver counterparts thereof to each Lender) a duly executed notice and agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit H (a “Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement”). The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that prior to any Applicant Borrower becoming entitled to utilize the credit facilities provided for herein the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Credit Lenders shall have received such supporting Organizational Documents, board and shareholder resolutions, incumbency certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, in form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as may be required by the Administrative Agent or the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, consistent with the documentation delivered on the Closing Date with respect to the U.K. Borrower (with such amendments as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require), and Notes signed by such Applicant Borrowers to the extent any applicable Revolving Credit Lenders so require. If the Administrative Agent and the Required Revolving Credit Lenders agree that an Applicant Borrower shall be entitled to receive Revolving Credit Loans hereunder (it being understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent and the Required Revolving Credit Lenders shall not fail to so agree solely as a result of the jurisdiction of organization of any Applicant Borrower being the United Kingdom), then promptly following receipt of all such requested resolutions, incumbency certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, the Administrative Agent shall send a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit I (a “Designated Borrower Notice”) to the Company and the Revolving Credit Lenders specifying the effective date upon which the Applicant Borrower shall constitute a Designated Borrower for purposes hereof, whereupon each of the applicable Revolving Credit Lenders agree to permit such Designated Borrower to receive the applicable Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, on the terms and conditions set forth herein, and each of the parties agrees that such Designated Borrower otherwise shall be a Borrower for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that (i) no Committed Loan Notice or Letter of Credit Application may be submitted by or on behalf of such Designated Borrower until the date five Business Days after such effective date and (ii) no Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement shall become effective as to any Applicant Borrower if any Revolving Credit Lender under the applicable Revolving Credit Facility shall be prohibited under applicable Law, regulation or existing internal “know-your-customer” policy, or shall not be licensed, to make the applicable Revolving Credit Loans or otherwise extend credit to such Applicant Borrower as provided herein, subject to the Company’s right to replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.
(b) The Obligations of the Designated Borrowers shall be several in nature.
(c) The U.K. Borrower and each Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a “Designated Borrower” pursuant to this Section 2.14 hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent for all purposes relevant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including (i) the giving and receipt of notices (including, without limitation, any notices relating to the service of process pursuant to Section 10.14(d)), (ii) the execution and delivery of all documents, instruments and certificates contemplated herein and all modifications hereto, and (iii) the receipt of the proceeds of any Loans made by the Lenders to the U.K. Borrower or any such Designated Borrower hereunder,
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but such appointment does not limit the right of each Designated Borrower to take these actions directly for its own account; provided, that in the event that the Administrative Agent shall receive conflicting instructions from the Company and the U.K. Borrower or a Designated Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall follow the instruction of the Company. Any acknowledgment, consent, direction, certification or other action which might otherwise be valid or effective only if given or taken by all Borrowers, or by each Borrower acting singly, shall be valid and effective if given or taken only by the Company, whether or not any such other Borrower joins therein. Any notice, demand, consent, acknowledgement, direction, certification or other communication delivered to the Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been delivered to each Designated Borrower and the U.K. Borrower, as applicable.
(d) The Company may from time to time, upon not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), terminate a Designated Borrower’s status as such, provided that there are no outstanding Loans payable by such Designated Borrower, or other amounts payable by such Designated Borrower on account of any Loans made to it, as of the effective date of such termination. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any such termination of a Designated Borrower’s status. For the avoidance of doubt, the termination of the status of the Designated Borrower shall not, in and of itself, reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments or the Designated Borrower Sublimit.
(e) The Company may from time to time, upon not less than three (3) Business Days’ notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), terminate the U.K. Borrower’s status as a Borrower, provided that there are no outstanding Loans payable by the U.K. Borrower, or other amounts payable by the U.K. Borrower on account of any Loans made to it, as of the effective date of such termination. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any such termination of the U.K. Borrower’s status as a Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, the termination of the status of the U.K. Borrower shall not, in and of itself, reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments or the U.K. Borrower Sublimit.
Section 2.15. Extension of Loans.
(a) The Borrowers may from time to time, pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.15, agree with one or more Lenders holding Loans and Commitments of any Class (an “Existing Class”) to extend the maturity date and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15 (each such modification, an “Extension”) pursuant to one or more written offers (each an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time by the applicable Borrower to all Lenders under any Class that is proposed to be extended under this Section 2.15, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the relative principal amounts of the outstanding Loans and Commitments of each Lender in such Class) and on the same terms to each such Lender. In connection with each Extension, the applicable Borrower will provide notification to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Lenders of the applicable Class) no later than 30 days prior to the maturity date of the
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applicable Class to be extended of the requested new maturity date for the extended Loans or Commitments of such Class (each an “Extended Maturity Date”) and the due date for Lender responses. In connection with any Extension, each Lender of the applicable Class wishing to participate in such Extension shall, prior to such due date, provide the Administrative Agent with a written notice thereof in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Any Lender that does not respond to an Extension Offer by the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension. In connection with any Extension, the applicable Borrower shall agree to such procedures, if any, as may be reasonably established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15.
(b) After giving effect to any Extension, the Term Loans, Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or USD Revolving Credit Commitments so extended shall cease to be a part of the Class that they were a part of immediately prior to the Extension and shall be a new Class hereunder; provided that at no time shall there be more than four different Classes of Term Loans and six different classes of Revolving Credit Commitments; provided further, that, in the case of any Extension Amendment relating to a Class of Revolving Credit Commitments or Revolving Credit Loans, (i) all borrowings and all prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans of such Class shall continue to be made on a ratable basis among all Revolving Credit Lenders of such Class, based on the relative amounts of their Revolving Credit Commitments, until the repayment of the Revolving Credit Loans of such Class (and termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class) attributable to the non-extended Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class on the relevant maturity date, (ii) the allocation of the participation exposure with respect to any then-existing or subsequently issued or made Letter of Credit or Swing Line Loan as between the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments of such new “Class” and the remaining Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a ratable basis in accordance with the relative amounts thereof until the maturity date relating to such non-extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments has occurred, (iii) no termination of Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and no repayment of Loans under Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments accompanied by a corresponding permanent reduction in Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permitted unless such termination or repayment (and corresponding reduction) is accompanied by at least a pro rata termination or permanent repayment (and corresponding pro rata permanent reduction), as applicable, of the Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and Loans under Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments (or all Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class and related Loans under Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments shall have otherwise been terminated and repaid in full), (iv) no termination of Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments and no repayment of Loans under Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments accompanied by a corresponding permanent reduction in Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permitted unless such termination or repayment (and corresponding reduction) is accompanied by at least a pro rata termination or permanent repayment (and corresponding pro rata permanent reduction), as applicable, of the Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments and Loans under Existing USD Revolving Credit
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Commitments (or all Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class and related Loans under Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments shall have otherwise been terminated and repaid in full), (v) with respect to Letters of Credit, the maturity date with respect to the Revolving Credit Commitments may not be extended without the prior written consent of the L/C Issuer and (vi) with respect to Swing Line Loans, the maturity date with respect to the USD Revolving Credit Commitments may not be extended without the prior written consent of the Swing Line Lender. If the Total Multicurrency Revolving Credit Outstandings exceeds the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment as a result of the occurrence of the maturity date with respect to any Class of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments while an extended Class of Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments remains outstanding, the applicable Borrower shall make such payments as are necessary in order to eliminate such excess on such maturity date. If the Total USD Revolving Credit Outstandings exceeds the USD Revolving Credit Commitment as a result of the occurrence of the maturity date with respect to any Class of USD Revolving Credit Commitments while an extended Class of USD Revolving Credit Commitments remains outstanding, the applicable Borrower shall make such payments as are necessary in order to eliminate such excess on such maturity date.
(c) The consummation and effectiveness of each Extension shall be subject to the following:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time any Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders or at the time of such Extension;
(ii) the Term Loans, Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, of any Lender extended pursuant to any Extension (as applicable, “Extended Term Loans”, “Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments” or “Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments”) shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans, Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, subject to the related Extension Amendment (as applicable, “Existing Term Loans”, “Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments” or “Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments”); except (A) (1) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of a Class to be extended pursuant to an Extension shall be later than the Maturity Date of the Class of Existing Term Loans or Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, subject to the related Extension Amendment, (2) the weighted average life to maturity of any Extended Term Loans of a Class to be extended pursuant to an Extension shall be no shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of the Class of Existing Term Loans subject to the related Extension Amendment and (3) there shall be no scheduled amortization of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the scheduled termination date of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall not be earlier than the scheduled termination date of the Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable; (B) the Weighted Average Yield with respect to the
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Extended Term Loans, Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, may be higher or lower than the Weighted Average Yield for the Existing Term Loans, Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable; (C) the revolving credit commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the revolving credit commitment fee rate for Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; (D) no repayment of any Extended Term Loans shall be permitted unless such repayment is accompanied by an at least pro rata repayment of all earlier maturing Term Loans (including previously extended Term Loans) (or all earlier maturing Term Loans (including previously extended Term Loans) shall otherwise be or have been terminated and repaid in full); (E) the Extended Term Loans, Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and/or Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments may contain a “most favored nation” provision for the benefit of Lenders holding previously Extended Term Loans, previously Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or previously Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable; (F) such Extended Term Loans, Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and/or Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments will rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the Existing Term Loans, Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable; (G) such Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall be guaranteed by the Guaranty; and (H) the other terms and conditions applicable to Extended Term Loans, Extended Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and/or Extended USD Revolving Credit Commitments may be different than those with respect to the Existing Term Loans, Existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, so long as such terms and conditions only apply after the Latest Maturity Date;
(iii) all documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the foregoing and reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and all written communications by the Borrowers generally directed to the applicable Lenders under the applicable Class in connection therewith shall be in form and substance consistent with the foregoing;
(iv) a minimum amount in respect of such Extension (to be determined in the applicable Borrower’s discretion and specified in the relevant Extension Offer, but in no event less than $25,000,000, unless a lesser amount is agreed to by the Administrative Agent) shall be satisfied; and
(v) no Extension shall become effective unless, on the proposed effective date of such Extension, the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall be satisfied (with all references in such Section to a Credit Date being deemed to be
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references to the Extension on the applicable date of such Extension) or waived by the Lenders whose Loans are being extended pursuant to such Extension, and the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated the applicable date of such Extension and executed by a Responsible Officer of the applicable Borrower.
(d) For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood and agreed that the provisions of Section 2.13 and Section 10.01 will not apply to Extensions of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, pursuant to Extension Offers made pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.15, including to any payment of interest or fees in respect of any Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, that have been extended pursuant to an Extension at a rate or rates different from those paid or payable in respect of Loans or Commitments of any other Class, in each case as is set forth in the relevant Extension Offer.
(e) No Lender who rejects any request for an Extension shall be deemed a Non-Consenting Lender for purposes of Section 10.13; provided, however, that if so requested by any Borrower in an Extension Offer, the Required Lenders may approve an amendment to have such Lenders be deemed Non-Consenting Lenders and subject to the terms and conditions of Section 10.13.
(f) The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments (collectively, “Extension Amendments”) to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Company, in order to give effect to the provisions of this Section 2.15, including any amendments necessary to establish new Classes of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, created pursuant to an Extension, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.15; provided that no such Extension Amendment shall effect any amendments that would require the consent of each affected Lender pursuant to Section 10.01 without compliance with the requirements thereof. All such Extension Amendments entered into with any Borrower by the Administrative Agent hereunder shall be binding on the Lenders. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extension, (i) [reserved] and (ii) the applicable Borrower shall deliver board resolutions, secretary’s certificates, officer’s certificates and other documents as shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Agent in connection therewith and legal opinion(s) of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
(g) Promptly following the consummation and effectiveness of any Extension, the applicable Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent (who shall promptly furnish to each Lender) written notice setting forth the Extended Maturity Date and material economic terms of the Extension and the aggregate principal amount of each class of Loans and Commitments after giving effect to the Extension and attaching a copy of the fully executed Extension Amendment.
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(h) For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.15 shall be subject to Section 2.20.
Section 2.16. Incremental Facilities.
(a) Any Borrower may by written notice to the Administrative Agent elect to request (i) the establishment of one or more new term loan commitments (the “New Term Loan Commitments”) denominated in Dollars or any Alternative Currency, (ii) prior to the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date, an increase to the existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments (any such increase, the “New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments”) and/or (iii) prior to the USD Revolving Credit Commitment Termination Date, an increase to the existing USD Revolving Credit Commitments (any such increase, the “New USD Revolving Credit Commitments”); provided the aggregate amount of all such increased commitments and new loans, together with any Permitted Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred from and after the Restatement Date and at or prior to such time, does not exceed the sum of (1) $750,000,000 and (2) the maximum amount that would not cause the Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio to exceed 3.50:1.00 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the then-most recently ended Fiscal Quarter as if all such incremental or increased Commitments had been fully drawn on such date but without netting the proceeds thereof) (the “Incremental Cap”; for the avoidance of doubt, clause (1) of this basket shall be reset and shall otherwise be fully available as of the Restatement Date after giving effect to the making of the 2017 Incremental Term Loans); provided further that any Obligations incurred by any Foreign Subsidiary in respect of New Term Loan Commitments or New Revolving Credit Commitments (such Obligations of such Foreign Subsidiaries, the “Priority Incremental Obligations”) shall not exceed, together with any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Sections 7.01(f) to the extent incurred by non-Loan Parties, 7.01(m)(ii), 7.01(n)(i) and 7.01(q), the Priority Debt Cap. For the avoidance of doubt, (i) such increased commitments and new loans maybe incurred under clause (2) of the immediately preceding sentence in Borrower’s sole discretion prior to being allocated by the Borrower to the amount allowed under clause (1) from the immediately preceding sentence and (ii) the 2017 Incremental Term Loans shall not reduce clause (1) of the Incremental Cap. Any such increased commitment or new loan shall be in an amount not less than $25,000,000 individually and integral multiples of $10,000,000 in excess of that amount. Each such notice from the applicable Borrower shall specify (a) the date (each, an “Increased Amount Date”) on which the applicable Borrower proposes that the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments, New USD Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than five (5) Business Days after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent, (b) in the case of New Term Loan Commitments or New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments, the currency in which such Incremental Facility shall be denominated and (c) the identity of each Lender or other Person that is an Eligible Assignee (each, a “New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender”, “New USD Revolving Credit Lender” or “New Term Loan Lender,” as applicable) to whom the applicable Borrower proposes any portion of such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, be allocated and the amounts of such allocations; provided that the
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Administrative Agent may elect or decline to arrange such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments in its sole discretion and any Lender approached to provide all or a portion of the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a New Revolving Credit Commitment or a New Term Loan Commitment. Such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments shall become effective as of such Increased Amount Date; provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist on such Increased Amount Date before or after giving effect to such New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable; (ii) both before and after giving effect to the making of any Series of New Term Loans, each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall be satisfied; (iii) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance with each of the covenants set forth in Section 7.07 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the then-most recently ended Fiscal Quarter as if all such incremental or increased Commitments had been fully drawn on such date but without netting the proceeds thereof) (provided that, to the extent the proceeds of Loans made pursuant to any New Term Loan Commitment will be used to consummate a Limited Condition Acquisition, the requirements specified in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above shall only be required to be satisfied on the date on which definitive purchase or merger agreements with respect to such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into); (iv) the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, shall be effected pursuant to one or more Joinder Agreements executed and delivered by the applicable Borrower, each New Revolving Credit Lender or New Term Loan Lender, as applicable, and the Administrative Agent, each of which shall be recorded in the Register, and each New Revolving Credit Lender or New Term Loan Lender shall be subject to the requirements set forth in Section 3.01(e); (v) the applicable Borrower(s) shall make any payments required pursuant to Section 3.05 in connection with the New Revolving Credit Commitments or New Term Loan Commitments, as applicable; and (vi) the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered any legal opinions or other documents reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in connection with any such transaction. Any New Term Loans made on an Increased Amount Date shall be designated a separate series (a “Series”) of New Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement.
(b) (i) On any Increased Amount Date on which New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (A) each of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders shall assign to each of the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, and each of the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders shall purchase from each of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, at the principal amount thereof (together with accrued interest), such interests in the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans will be held by existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders and New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments to the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments, (B) each of the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders shall automatically and without further act
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be deemed to have assigned to each of the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, and each such New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding Multicurrency Letters of Credit as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments, such participations in Multicurrency Letters of Credit will be held by existing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders and New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments to the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments, (C) each New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment and each Loan made thereunder (a “New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan”) shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loan and (D) each New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment and all matters relating thereto.
(ii) On any Increased Amount Date on which any New Term Loan Commitments of any Series are effective, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (A) each New Term Loan Lender of any Series shall make a Loan to the applicable Borrower (a “New Term Loan”) in an amount equal to its New Term Loan Commitment of such Series and (B) each New Term Loan Lender of any Series shall become a Lender hereunder with respect to the New Term Loan Commitment of such Series and the New Term Loans of such Series made pursuant thereto.
(iii) On any Increased Amount Date on which New USD Revolving Credit Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (A) each of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders shall assign to each of the New USD Revolving Credit Lenders, and each of the New USD Revolving Credit Lenders shall purchase from each of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders, at the principal amount thereof (together with accrued interest), such interests in the USD Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such USD Revolving Credit Loans will be held by existing USD Revolving Credit Lenders and New USD Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their USD Revolving Credit Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New USD Revolving Credit Commitments to the USD Revolving Credit Commitments, (B) each of the USD Revolving Credit Lenders shall automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each of the New USD Revolving Credit Lenders, and each such New USD Revolving Credit Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such USD Revolving Credit Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding USD Letters of Credit as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments, such participations in USD Letters of Credit will be held by existing USD Revolving Credit Lenders and New USD Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their USD Revolving Credit
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Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New USD Revolving Credit Commitments to the USD Revolving Credit Commitments, (C) each New USD Revolving Credit Commitment shall be deemed for all purposes a USD Revolving Credit Commitment and each Loan made thereunder (a “New USD Revolving Credit Loan”) shall be deemed, for all purposes, a USD Revolving Credit Loan and (D) each New USD Revolving Credit Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the New USD Revolving Credit Commitment and all matters relating thereto.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders promptly upon receipt of a Borrower’s notice of each Increased Amount Date and in respect thereof (x) the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders, the New USD Revolving Credit Commitments and the New USD Revolving Credit Lenders or the Series of New Term Loan Commitments and the New Term Loan Lenders of such Series, as applicable, and (y) in the case of each notice to any Revolving Credit Lender, the respective interests in such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans subject to the assignments contemplated by this Section.
(d) The terms and provisions of the New Term Loans and New Term Loan Commitments of any Series shall be, except as otherwise set forth herein or in the Joinder Agreement and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, substantially the same as the Term Loans (in the case of a Non-Institutional Incremental Facility) or, taken as a whole, not materially less favorable to the Company than the Term Loans (in the case of an Institutional Incremental Facility). It being agreed by all parties hereto that the New Term Loan may be subject to an excess cash flow sweep to the extent the Borrower and the lender(s) of the New Term Loan agree to the terms thereof. The terms and provisions of the New Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans shall be identical to the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans. The terms and provisions of the New USD Revolving Credit Loans shall be identical to the USD Revolving Credit Loans. In any event (i) (A) the weighted average life to maturity of all New Term Loans of any Series shall be no shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans and (B) the New Term Loan Maturity Date of each Series shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date; provided that a Borrower may incur New Term Loans that do not satisfy clauses (A) and (B) above so long as such New Term Loans (x) are in an aggregate principal amount, together with all other New Term Loans incurred pursuant to this proviso, not greater than $250,000,000, (y) have a New Term Loan Maturity Date on or after the Term Loan Maturity Date and (z) have a weighted average life to maturity that is equal to or longer than the weighted average life to maturity of the Term Loans, (ii) the Weighted Average Yield applicable to the New Term Loans of each Series shall be determined by the applicable Borrower and the applicable New Term Lenders and shall be set forth in each applicable Joinder Agreement; provided that in the event that the Weighted Average Yield applicable to a Non-Institutional Incremental Term Facility is more than 0.50% higher than the Weighted Average Yield applicable to the Term Facility, then the Applicable Rate that shall apply to the calculation of the interest rate on the Term Loans shall, in the case of each Pricing Level set forth in the table contained in the definition of “Applicable Rate,” be increased by an amount equal to the difference between the Weighted Average Yield with respect to such Non-Institutional Incremental Term
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Facility and the Weighted Average Yield on the Term Facility, minus 0.50%, (iii) any New Term Loans and New Revolving Credit Loans incurred by a Foreign Obligor will rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the other Obligations of the Foreign Obligors hereunder, (iv) any New Term Loans and New Revolving Credit Loans incurred by the Company will rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the other Obligations of the Company hereunder and (v) such New Term Loans and New Revolving Credit Loans shall, subject to Section 2.20, be guaranteed by the Guaranty. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.16, New Term Loan Commitments denominated in Dollars may also take the form of an increase to an existing Class of Term Loans. Each Joinder Agreement may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.16 without the consent of any other Lenders.
(e) For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.16 shall be subject to Section 2.20.
Section 2.17. Cash Collateral.
(a) Certain Credit Support Events. If (i) the L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing, (ii) as of the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, (iii) the applicable Borrower shall be required to provide Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 8.02(c), or (iv) there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, the applicable Borrowers shall, solely with respect to their respective outstanding Letters of Credit or L/C Borrowing, as applicable, immediately (in the case of clause (iii) above) or within one Business Day (in all other cases) following any request by the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer, provide Cash Collateral in an amount not less than the applicable Minimum Collateral Amount (determined in the case of Cash Collateral provided pursuant to clause (iv) above, after giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender). Additionally, if the Administrative Agent notifies the Company at any time that the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time exceeds 101% of the Letter of Credit Sublimit then in effect, then, within two Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Company shall provide Cash Collateral for the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations in an amount not less than the amount by which the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit. For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding any other provisions set forth herein, (i) the U.K. Borrower shall only be required to provide Cash Collateral hereunder on account of Letters of Credit issued under the U.K. Borrower Sublimit (if any) and (ii) the Designated Borrowers shall only be required to provide Cash Collateral hereunder on account of Letters of Credit issued under the Designated Borrower Sublimit (if any).
(b) Grant of Security Interest. The Borrowers, and to the extent provided by any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, hereby grants to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders, and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such
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cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.17(c). If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuer as herein provided, other than Liens permitted under Sections 7.02(a) and 7.02(z), or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the Minimum Collateral Amount, the applicable Borrower will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency. All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of America. The applicable Borrower shall pay on demand therefor from time to time all customary account opening, activity and other administrative fees and charges in connection with the maintenance and disbursement of Cash Collateral. Each Designated Borrower hereby agrees to take all such further acts and to execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, filed and register such documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to carry out the provisions of this Section 2.17.
(c) Application. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this Section 2.17 or Sections 2.03, 2.05, 2.18 or 8.02 in respect of Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, Swing Line Loans, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may otherwise be provided for herein; provided that, notwithstanding any provisions set forth herein, no Cash Collateral provided by, or in respect of any Obligations of, a Foreign Obligor shall be applied to the satisfaction of any Obligations of the Company or the other U.S. Loan Parties.
(d) Release. Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or to secure other obligations shall be released (i) in whole, promptly upon the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 10.06(b)(vi))) or (ii) in part at any time upon the determination by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer that there exists excess Cash Collateral, in an amount required to eliminate such excess; provided, however, (x) any such release shall be without prejudice to, and any disbursement or other transfer of Cash Collateral shall be and remain subject to, any other Lien conferred under the Loan Documents and the other applicable provisions of the Loan Documents and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the L/C Issuer may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations of such Person.
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(e) For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.17 shall be subject to Section 2.20.
Section 2.18. Defaulting Lenders.
(a) Adjustments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:
(i) Waivers and Amendments. Such Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of “Required Lenders”, “Required Revolving Credit Lenders”, “Required Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders”, “Required USD Revolving Credit Lenders” and Section 10.01.
(ii) Defaulting Lender Waterfall. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article 8 or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.08 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, to Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuer’s Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 2.17; fourth, as the Company may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Company, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to (x) satisfy such Defaulting Lender’s potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuer’s future Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.17; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Company as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Company against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share, and (y) such Loans
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were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Obligations owed to, all Non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Obligations owed to, such Defaulting Lender until such time as all Loans and funded and unfunded participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans are held by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Commitments hereunder without giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv). Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.18(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) Certain Fees.
(A) No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any fee payable under Section 2.09(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrowers shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).
(B) Each Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive Letter of Credit Fees for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent allocable to its Applicable Percentage of the stated amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.17.
(C) With respect to any fee payable under Section 2.09(a) or (b) or any Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (A) or (B) above, the applicable Borrower shall (x) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender that portion of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iv) below, (y) pay to the L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, as applicable, the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to such L/C Issuer’s or Swing Line Lender’s Fronting Exposure to such Defaulting Lender, and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.
(iv) Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure. During any period in which there is a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender that is a Defaulting Lender, all or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations in respect of Multicurrency Letters of Credit shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders that are Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable
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Revolving Credit Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment) but only to the extent that such reallocation does not cause the aggregate Multicurrency Revolving Credit Exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender that is a Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender’s Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitment. During any period in which there is a USD Revolving Credit Lender that is a Defaulting Lender, all or any part of such Defaulting Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations in respect of USD Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders that are USD Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Revolving Credit Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment) but only to the extent that such reallocation does not cause the aggregate USD Revolving Credit Exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender that is a USD Revolving Credit Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lender’s USD Revolving Credit Commitment. No reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Revolving Credit Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.
(v) Cash Collateral, Repayment of Swing Line Loans. If the reallocation described in clause (a)(iv) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the applicable Borrower(s) shall, without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under applicable Law, (x) first, prepay their respective Swing Line Loans in an amount equal to the Swing Line Lenders’ Fronting Exposure and (y) second, Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers’ Fronting Exposure in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.17.
(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Company, the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Revolving Credit Lender that is a Defaulting Lender, the L/C Issuer and in the case of a USD Revolving Credit Lender that is a Defaulting Lender, the Swing Line Lender agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.18(a)(iv)), whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrowers while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.
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Section 2.19. Refinancing Amendments.
(a) The Company may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time, request Indebtedness in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace or refinance, in whole or part, existing Term Loans or existing Revolving Credit Loans of any Class (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class), or any then existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (solely for purposes of this Section 2.19, “Refinanced Debt”) in the form of (i) Refinancing Term Loans in respect of all or any portion of any Class of Term Loans then outstanding under this Agreement, (ii) Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of all or any portion of any Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans (and the unused Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments with respect to such Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans) then outstanding under this Agreement or (iii) Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of all or any portion of any USD Revolving Credit Loans (and the unused USD Revolving Credit Commitments with respect to such USD Revolving Credit Loans) then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment (such Indebtedness, “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”). Each written notice to the Administrative Agent requesting a Refinancing Amendment shall set forth (i) the amount of the Refinancing Term Loans, Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Loans or Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments being requested (which shall be in minimum increments of $25,000,000 and a minimum amount of $50,000,000) and (ii) the date on which such Refinancing Term Loans or the applicable Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments are requested to become effective (which shall not be less than 10 Business Days (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) after the date of such notice). The Company may seek Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness from existing Lenders (each of which shall be entitled to agree or decline to participate in its sole discretion) or any Person that is an Eligible Assignee (each such Person that is not an existing Lender and that agrees to provide any portion of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.19, an “Additional Lender”)
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to (i) on the date of effectiveness thereof, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall be caused thereby, (ii) the terms of the applicable Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall comply with Section 2.19(c), (iii) before and after giving effect to the incurrence of any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 shall be satisfied and (iv) except as otherwise specified in the applicable Refinancing Amendment, the Administrative Agent shall have received (with sufficient copies for each of the Refinancing Term Loan Lenders, Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Lenders and Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable) legal opinions, board resolutions and other closing certificates and documents reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date under Section 4.01, with such amendments as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
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(c) The terms and provisions of any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to any Refinancing Amendment shall be, except as otherwise set forth herein or in the Refinancing Amendment and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, substantially the same as the Refinanced Debt; provided that (i) such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness consisting of Refinancing Term Loans shall have (A) a maturity date no earlier than the maturity date of the Refinanced Debt and (B) a weighted average life to maturity equal to or greater than the Refinanced Debt, (ii) there shall be no scheduled amortization of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness consisting of Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments and the scheduled termination date of such Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments and Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments shall not be earlier than the scheduled termination date of the applicable Refinanced Debt, (iii) such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness will rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the other Obligations of the Company hereunder, (iv) such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be guaranteed by the Guaranty, (v) the interest rate margin, rate floors, fees, original issue discount and premiums applicable to such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be determined by the Company and the Lenders providing such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (vi) such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (including, if such Indebtedness includes any Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, the unused portion of such Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable) shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt plus accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) thereon and reasonable fees and expenses associated with the refinancing (provided that the principal amount of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall not include any principal constituting interest paid in kind), and the aggregate unused Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments shall not exceed the unused Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments or USD Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, being replaced and (vii) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, defeased or satisfied and discharged on a dollar-for-dollar basis, and all accrued interest, fees and premiums (if any) in connection therewith shall be paid, substantially concurrently with the incurrence of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.05; provided further that to the extent that such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness consists of (x) Refinancing USD Revolving Credit Commitments, the USD Revolving Credit Commitments being refinanced by such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be terminated, and all accrued fees in connection therewith shall be paid, on the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or obtained and (y) Refinancing Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments, the Multicurrency Revolving Credit Commitments being refinanced by such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be terminated, and all accrued fees in connection therewith shall be paid, on the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or obtained . Any Refinancing Amendment may provide for the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of the applicable Borrower, pursuant to any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments established thereby, in each case on terms substantially equivalent to the
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terms applicable to Letters of Credit under the applicable Revolving Credit Commitments to be refinanced thereby; provided that terms relating to pricing, fees or premiums may vary to the extent otherwise permitted by this Section 2.19 and set forth in such Refinancing Amendment.
(d) In connection with any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to this Section 2.19, the Company, the U.K. Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each applicable Lender or Additional Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Refinancing Amendment and such other documentation as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably specify to evidence such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Refinancing Amendment. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment, this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to reflect the existence and terms of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto. Any Refinancing Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Company, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.19, including any amendments necessary to establish the Refinancing Term Loans and Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments as new Classes, tranches or sub-tranches of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments and such other technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Company in connection therewith, in each case on terms not inconsistent with this Section 2.19; provided that no such Refinancing Amendment shall effect any amendments that would require the consent of each affected Lender pursuant to Section 10.01 without compliance with the requirements thereof.
Section 2.20. Foreign Obligors Not Obligated For U.S. Loan Party Obligations. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions in any Loan Document, all references in the Loan Documents to payments, proceeds, liabilities, Obligations (whether joint and several or otherwise), Loans, fees, collections, Guarantees, Collateral, security interests, pledges, indemnities (whether or not joint and several), cash collateralization, setoff, L/C Advances, L/C Borrowings and any other arrangement affecting the payment obligations of the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties and their responsibilities to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, Swing Line Lender, L/C Issuer and the other Secured Parties, shall be with respect to, in the case of and as applied to any U.S. Loan Party, only such U.S. Loan Party and the other U.S. Loan Parties Guaranteeing the Obligations of such U.S. Loan Party, such that no payments required to be paid by any Foreign Obligor or received from, setoffs in respect of, or collections on account of the property or assets of (including on account of cash collateral of), a Foreign Obligor (or rights to such receipt or such collection) shall be applied, directly, or indirectly by sharing among Lenders or Agents, to such U.S. Loan Party’s Obligations and the Foreign Subsidiaries shall not be liable for or otherwise obligated to pay (or pledge assets to secure) any Obligations of the U.S. Loan Parties (whether or not the provisions hereof provide that the Loan Parties’ obligations are joint and several), it being the intention of the parties hereto to avoid adverse tax consequences due to the application of Section 956 of the Code. For the avoidance of doubt, each of the U.K. Borrower and any Designated Borrower shall be
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required to make payments in respect of its Loans and Commitments to the extent provided for under this Agreement, whether or not such payment is required to be made by the Company or by any Borrower. All provisions contained in any Loan Document or side letter shall be interpreted consistently with this Section 2.20 to the extent possible, and where such other provisions conflict with the provisions of this Section 2.20, the provisions of this Section 2.20 shall govern.
Section 2.21. U.S. Loan Parties; U.K. Borrower; Designated Borrowers. Notwithstanding any contrary provisions in any Loan Document, including without limitation, if applicable, any references in the Loan Documents to payments, prepayments, proceeds, liabilities, Obligations (whether joint and several or otherwise), Loans, fees, collections, Guarantees, Collateral, security interests, pledges, cash collateralization, setoffs, L/C Advances, L/C Borrowings and any other arrangement affecting the payment obligations of the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties and their responsibilities to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, Swing Line Lender, L/C Issuer and the other Secured Parties, (a) the Company shall be liable solely as a Guarantor under Article 11 in regards to the Obligations of the U.K. Borrower and any Designated Borrowers and the Cash Management Obligations and Hedge Obligations owing by any other Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party and (b) each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be liable solely as a Guarantor under Article 11 in regards to the Obligations of the Company, the U.K. Borrower and any Designated Borrowers and the Cash Management Obligations and Hedge Obligations owing by any other Loan Party or any other Subsidiary of any Loan Party. All provisions contained in any Loan Document or side letter shall be interpreted consistently with this Section 2.21 to the extent possible, and where such other provisions conflict with the provisions of this Section 2.21, the provisions of this Section 2.21 shall govern.
ARTICLE 3
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
Section 3.01. Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes; Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes. (i) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Laws. If any applicable Laws (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Administrative Agent) require the deduction or withholding of any Taxes from any such payment by the Administrative Agent or a Loan Party, then the Administrative Agent or such Loan Party shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding.
(ii) If any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes, including both United States Federal backup withholding and withholding taxes, from any payment, then (A) the Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined in the good faith discretion of the Administrative Agent to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to Section 3.01(e),
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(B) the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with the Code, and (C) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.
(iii) If any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by any applicable Laws other than the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as required by such Laws, shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined in the good faith discretion of it to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, to the extent required by such Laws, shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with such Laws, and (C) if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.
(iv) A payment shall not be increased under Section 3.01(a)(iii)(C) above by reason of a requirement to withhold or deduct from the payment Taxes imposed by the United Kingdom if, on the date the payment falls due, the payment could have been made to the Lender without such withholding or deduction if the Lender had been a Qualifying Lender but on that date that Lender is not or has ceased to be a Qualifying Lender other than as a result of any change after the date it became a Lender under this Agreement in (or in the interpretation, administration, or application of) any law or Treaty or any published practice or published concession of any relevant taxing authority.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Company shall (or shall cause the applicable Loan Party to) timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent, timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes
(c) Tax Indemnifications. (i) Each of the U.S. Loan Parties and the Foreign Obligors in respect only of Loans to any Foreign Obligors and subject to Section 2.20 shall, and does hereby, jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, and
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any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Company by a Lender or the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Subject to Section 2.20, each of the Loan Parties shall, and does hereby, jointly and severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, for any amount which a Lender or the L/C Issuer for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly to the Administrative Agent as required pursuant to Section 3.01(c)(ii) below.
(ii) Each Lender and the L/C Issuer shall, and does hereby, severally indemnify, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, (x) the Administrative Agent against any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender or the L/C Issuer (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (y) the Administrative Agent and the Loan Parties, as applicable, against any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.06(d) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Loan Parties, as applicable, against any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender and the L/C Issuer hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (ii).
(d) Evidence of Payments. Upon request by the Company or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Company, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Company or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be.
(e) Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, such
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properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, each Lender, if reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation either (A) set forth in Section 3.01(e)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below or (B) required by applicable law other than the Code or by the taxing authorities of the jurisdiction pursuant to such applicable law to comply with the requirements for exemption or reduction of withholding tax in that jurisdiction) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that a Borrower is a U.S. Person,
(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W 9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
(1) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E, as applicable) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E, as applicable) establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;
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(2) executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;
(3) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Company within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E, as applicable); or
(4) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN (or W-8BEN-E, as applicable), a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K-2 or Exhibit K-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit K-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by applicable Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by
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applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Company and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the Closing Date.
(iii) Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 3.01 expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender or the L/C Issuer, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender or the L/C Issuer, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be. If any Recipient determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Loan Party or with respect to which any Loan Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall pay to such Loan Party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by such Loan Party under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) incurred by such Recipient, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that each Loan Party, upon the request of the Recipient, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Loan Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Recipient in the event the Recipient is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the applicable Recipient be required to pay any amount to such Loan Party pursuant to this subsection the payment of which would place the Recipient in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Recipient would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This subsection shall not be construed to require any Recipient to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to any Loan Party or any other Person.
(g) VAT.
(i) All amounts expressed to be payable under a Loan Document by any Loan Party to a Recipient which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for any supply for VAT purposes are deemed to be exclusive of any
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VAT which is chargeable on that supply, and accordingly, subject to paragraph (ii) below, if VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Recipient to any Loan Party under a Loan Document and such Recipient is required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT, that Loan Party must pay to such Recipient (in addition to and at the same time as paying any other consideration for such supply) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (and such Recipient must promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to that Loan Party).
(ii) If VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Recipient (the “Supplier”) to any other Recipient (the “Receiving Party”) under a Loan Document, and any Loan Party other than the Receiving Party (the “Relevant Party”) is required by the terms of any Loan Document to pay an amount equal to the consideration for that supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to reimburse or indemnify the Receiving Party in respect of that consideration):
(A) (where the Supplier is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Relevant Party must also pay to the Supplier (at the same time as paying that amount) an additional amount equal to the amount of the VAT. The Receiving Party must (where this paragraph (i) applies) promptly pay to the Relevant Party an amount equal to any credit or repayment the Receiving Party receives from the relevant tax authority which the Receiving Party reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on that supply; and
(B) (where the Receiving Party is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Relevant Party must promptly, following demand from the Receiving Party, pay to the Receiving Party an amount equal to the VAT chargeable on that supply but only to the extent that the Receiving Party reasonably determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of that VAT.
(iii) Where a Loan Document requires any Loan Party to reimburse or indemnify a Recipient for any cost or expense, that Loan Party shall reimburse or indemnify (as the case may be) such Recipient for the full amount of such cost or expense, including such part thereof as represents VAT, save to the extent that such Recipient reasonably determines that it is entitled to credit or repayment in respect of such VAT from the relevant tax authority.
(iv) Any reference in this Section 3.01(g) to any Loan Party shall, at any time when such Loan Party is treated as a member of a group for VAT purposes, include (where appropriate and unless the context otherwise requires) a reference to the Person who is treated as making the supply, or (as appropriate) receiving the supply, under the grouping rules (as provided for in Article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC or as implemented by a European Member State, or equivalent provisions in any other jurisdiction).
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(v) In relation to any supply made by a Recipient to any Loan Party under a Loan Document, if reasonably requested by such Recipient, that Loan Party must promptly provide such Recipient with details of that Loan Party’s VAT registration and such other information as is reasonably requested in connection with such Recipient’s VAT reporting requirements in relation to such supply.
(vi) For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 3.01(g) shall be subject to Sections 2.20 and 2.21.
(h) Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender or the L/C Issuer, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.
Section 3.02. Illegality. If any Lender reasonably determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate (whether denominated in Dollars or any Alternative Currency) or the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate or the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars or any Alternative Currency in the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Company through the Administrative Agent, (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in Dollars or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, shall be suspended, and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the applicable Borrower(s) shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars, convert all Eurocurrency Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such
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Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, as applicable and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the applicable Borrower(s) shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.
Section 3.03. Inability to Determine Rates.
(a) If in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof, (i) the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that (A) deposits (whether in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) are not being offered to banks in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, or (B) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for (I) determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan (whether denominated in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan or (II) the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate (in each case with respect to clause (i) above, “Impacted Loans”), or (ii) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders reasonably determine that for any reason the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan or the LIBOR Daily Floating Rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loan, as applicable, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Company and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans or LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies shall be suspended, (to the extent of the affected LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans, Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods), and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Company may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods), LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans (to the extent of the affected LIBOR Daily Floating Rate Loans) or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Administrative Agent has made the determination described in Section 3.03(a)(i), the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the applicable Borrower and the affected Lenders, may establish an alternative interest rate for the Impacted Loans, in which case, such alternative rate of interest shall
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apply with respect to the Impacted Loans until (1) the Administrative Agent revokes the notice delivered with respect to the Impacted Loans under clause (a)(i) of the first sentence of Section 3.03, (2) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent and the applicable Borrower that such alternative interest rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding the Impacted Loans, or (3) any Lender reasonably determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for such Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to such alternative rate of interest or to determine or charge interest rates based upon such rate or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to do any of the foregoing and provides the Administrative Agent and the applicable Borrower written notice thereof.
Section 3.04. Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement contemplated by Section 3.04(e), other than as set forth below) or the L/C Issuer;
(ii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or
(iii) impose on any Lender or the L/C Issuer or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Rate Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Loan the interest on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate (or, in the case of clause (ii) above, any Loan), or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan, or to increase the cost to such Lender or the L/C Issuer 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 L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or the L/C Issuer, the applicable Borrower(s) will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduced amount received or receivable.
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(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or the L/C Issuer reasonably determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or the L/C Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the applicable Borrower(s) will pay to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company for any such reduction suffered; provided that such amounts shall only be payable by the Borrower to the applicable Lender, the L/C Issuer or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company under this Section 3.04(b) so long as it is such Lender’s, L/C Issuer’s or such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s holding company’s general policy or practice to demand compensation in similar circumstances under comparable provisions of similar financing agreements.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or the L/C Issuer setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Company shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The applicable Borrower(s) shall pay such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the provisions of this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s right to demand such compensation, provided that no Loan Party shall be required to compensate a Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to the provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than six months prior to the date that such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Company of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the L/C Issuer’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
(e) Additional Reserve Requirements. The applicable Borrower(s) shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency liabilities”), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good
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faith, which determination shall be conclusive), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan, provided that (i) the applicable Borrower shall have received at least 10 days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or costs from such Lender and (ii) such amounts shall only be payable by the Borrower to the applicable Lender under this Section 3.04(e) so long as it is in such Lender’s general policy or practice to demand compensation in similar circumstances under comparable provisions of similar financing agreements. If a Lender fails to give notice 10 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such notice.
(f) For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 3.04 shall be subject to Section 2.20.
Section 3.05. Compensation for Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the applicable Borrower (with respect to any Borrowings made by such Borrower) shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense directly incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);
(b) any failure by any such Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the applicable Borrower (or any other Borrower);
(c) any failure by any Borrower to make payment of any Loan or drawing under any Multicurrency Letter of Credit (or interest due thereon) denominated in an Alternative Currency on its scheduled due date or any payment thereof in a different currency; or
(d) any assignment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to Section 10.13;
including any foreign exchange losses and any loss or expense directly arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained or from the performance of any foreign exchange contract (but expressly excluding any loss of anticipated profits).
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For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made by it at the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the offshore interbank market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan was in fact so funded. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 3.05 shall be subject to Section 2.20.
Section 3.06. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. Each Lender may make any Credit Extension to any Borrower through any Lending Office, provided that the exercise of this option shall not affect the obligation of such Borrower to repay the Credit Extension in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. If any Lender or the L/C Issuer requests compensation under Section 3.04, or any Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender, the L/C Issuer, or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or the L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then at the request of the Company such Lender or the L/C Issuer shall, as applicable, 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 or the L/C Issuer, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as the case may be. The applicable Borrower(s) hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender or the L/C Issuer in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if any Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 and, in each case, such Lender has declined or is unable to designate a different lending office in accordance with Section 3.06(a), the Borrowers may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.
Section 3.07. Survival. All obligations of the Loan Parties under this Article 3 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder, and resignation of the Administrative Agent.
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ARTICLE 4
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 4.01. Conditions of Initial Credit Extension. The obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension on the Closing Date hereunder is subject to prior or concurrent satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (subject to Section 6.12(c) hereof):
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or electronic copies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials and certain other documents to be agreed, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement and each other Loan Document, sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Company;
(ii) Notes executed by the Borrowers party to this Agreement on the Closing Date in favor of each Lender requesting Notes;
(iii) (A) sufficient copies of each Organizational Document of each Loan Party, as applicable, and, to the extent applicable, certified as of the Closing Date or a recent date prior thereto by the appropriate Governmental Authority; (B) signature and incumbency certificates of the officers of such Persons executing the Loan Documents on behalf of each Loan Party; (C) copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors or similar governing body of each Loan Party approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party or by which it or its assets may be bound as of the Closing Date and, in respect of the U.K. Borrower, authorizing the Company to act as its agent in connection with the Loan Documents, certified as of the Closing Date by its secretary or an assistant secretary as being in full force and effect without modification or amendment; (D) other than with respect to the U.K. Borrower, a good standing certificate from the applicable Governmental Authority of each Loan Party’s jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation, dated the Closing Date or a recent date prior thereto and (E) to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent in respect of the U.K. Borrower, (i) copies of resolutions of its shareholders approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Loan Documents to which the U.K. Borrower is a party and (ii) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the U.K. Borrower certifying that the U.K. Borrower Sublimit would not cause any borrowing or similar limit binding on it to be exceeded.
(iv) a favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the U.S. Loan Parties, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx S.C., Wisconsin counsel for the Loan Parties (or another law firm reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent) and
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Xxxxx Xxxxxxx XXX, X.X. counsel for the U.K. Borrower, in each case as to such matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, dated as of the Closing Date and otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(v) [reserved];
(vi) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company certifying (A) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied and (B) that there has been no event or circumstance since September 27, 2014 that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect;
(vii) a certificate from the applicable Loan Party’s insurance broker or other evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to Section 6.05 is in full force and effect, together with endorsements naming the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder to the extent required under Section 6.05;
(viii) (A) evidence that the outstanding obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been repaid in full and all commitments to lend or make other extensions of credit thereunder shall have been terminated and (B) all documents or instruments necessary to release or evidence the release of all Liens securing the obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement or other obligations thereunder being repaid on the Closing Date (the “Refinancing”);
(ix) a certificate attesting to the Solvency of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, after giving effect to the Transactions (as defined in the Solvency Certificate) and the Borrowings hereunder as if they occurred on the Closing Date, from the Company’s chief financial officer, substantially in the form of Exhibit M;
(x) a certificate signed by the chief financial officer of the Company certifying (on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the incurrence of Indebtedness under the Facilities, the Refinancing and the other transactions to occur on the Closing Date) that the Company is in compliance with the financial covenants in Section 7.07 as of the last day of the then-most recently completed Test Period.
(xi) [Reserved].
(xii) Personal Property Collateral:
(A) evidence that each U.S. Loan Party shall have taken or caused to be taken any action, executed and delivered or caused to be executed and delivered any agreement, document or instrument (including any Intellectual Property Security Agreements, intercompany
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notes evidencing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.01(b) or (x), UCC financing statements, originals of securities, instruments and chattel paper, any agreements governing deposit and/or securities accounts, in each case, to the extent required under and subject to the provisions of the Pledge and Security Agreement and any other Collateral Documents) and made or caused to be made searches of UCC filings in the jurisdiction of the chief executive office and state of organization of each U.S. Loan Party and each jurisdiction where a UCC filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, or any filing or recording in furtherance thereof or in connection therewith, in each case, to the extent reasonably required by the Collateral Agent and in each case, subject to the provisions of the Pledge and Security Agreement and the other provisions hereof;
(B) completed Perfection Certificate dated as of the Closing Date and executed by a Responsible Officer of each U.S. Loan Party, together with all attachments contemplated thereby;
(C) fully executed Intellectual Property Security Agreements, in proper form for filing or recording in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, as applicable, in accordance with Section 4.03 of the Pledge and Security Agreement; and
(D) evidence that each U.S. Loan Party shall have taken or caused to be taken any other action, executed and delivered or caused to be executed and delivered any other agreement, document and instrument and made or caused to be made any other filing and recording (other than as set forth herein) reasonably required by Collateral Agent.
(b) Any fees required to be paid pursuant to the Fee Letter on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid. It is hereby expressly acknowledged and agreed that any fees paid pursuant to this clause (b) shall be paid in accordance with the Flow of Funds Memorandum delivered by the Company to the Administrative Agent on the Closing Date.
(c) The Company shall have paid all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent reimbursable hereunder and invoiced prior to or on the Closing Date). It is hereby expressly acknowledged and agreed that any fees paid pursuant to this clause (c) shall be paid in accordance with the Flow of Funds Memorandum delivered by the Company to the Administrative Agent on the Closing Date
(d) USA Patriot Act. The Loan Parties shall have provided the documentation and other information to the Administrative Agent and Lenders that are required by
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regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, to the extent the Company shall have received written requests therefor at least seven (7) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
(e) The Closing Date shall have occurred on or before June 30, 2015.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.
Section 4.02. Conditions to all Credit Extensions. The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) is subject to the satisfaction or waiver in accordance with Section 10.01 of following conditions precedent:
(a) The representations and warranties of the Company and each other Loan Party contained in Article 5 or any other Loan Document, or which are contained in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, with respect to any such representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, with respect to any such representation or warranty that is qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 4.02, the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.08(a) and (b) shall be deemed to refer to the then-most recent statements furnished pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), respectively.
(b) No Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds thereof.
(c) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(d) If the applicable Borrower is a Designated Borrower, then the conditions of Section 2.14 to the designation of such Borrower as a Designated Borrower shall have been met to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent.
(e) In the case of a Credit Extension to be denominated in an Alternative Currency, there shall not have occurred any change in national or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls which in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, the Required Multicurrency
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Revolving Credit Lenders (in the case of any Loans to be denominated in an Alternative Currency) or the L/C Issuer (in the case of any Multicurrency Letter of Credit to be denominated in an Alternative Currency) would make it impracticable for such Credit Extension to be denominated in the relevant Alternative Currency.
Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) submitted by a Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a), (b) and, if applicable, (d) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.
Section 4.03. Conditions to the Restatement Date. The obligation of the L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its Credit Extension hereunder on the Restatement Date is subject to prior or concurrent satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (subject to Section 6.12(c) hereof):
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or electronic copies (followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Restatement Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials and certain other documents to be agreed, a recent date before the Restatement Date) and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement, sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Company;
(ii) (A) sufficient copies of each Organizational Document of each Loan Party, as applicable, and, to the extent applicable, certified as of the date hereof or a recent date prior thereto by the appropriate Governmental Authority; (B) signature and incumbency certificates of the officers of such Persons executing the Loan Documents on behalf of each Loan Party; (C) copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors or similar governing body of each Loan Party approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party or by which it or its assets may be bound as of the date hereof and, in respect of the U.K. Borrower, authorizing the Company to act as its agent in connection with the Loan Documents, certified as of the date hereof by its secretary or an assistant secretary as being in full force and effect without modification or amendment; (D) other than with respect to the U.K. Borrower, a good standing certificate from the applicable Governmental Authority of each Loan Party’s jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation, dated as of the date hereof or a recent date prior thereto and (E) to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent in respect of the U.K. Borrower, (i) copies of resolutions of its shareholders approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Loan Documents to which the U.K. Borrower is a party and (ii) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the U.K. Borrower certifying that the U.K. Borrower Sublimit would not cause any borrowing or similar limit binding on it to be exceeded.
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(iii) a favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, dated as of the date hereof, in a form consistent with the opinion delivered by Xxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP on the Closing Date (other than opinions regarding real property); and
(iv) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company certifying (a) that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied and (b) that there has been no event or circumstance since September 24, 2016 that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Concurrently with the making of the 2017 Refinancing Term Loans and the 2017 Incremental Term Loans, (a) the entire aggregate principal amount of the Existing Term A Loans and (b) all accrued interest, fees and other amounts accrued prior to this Agreement becoming effective in connection therewith shall have been paid in full and all Interest Periods in respect thereof shall have been terminated;
(c) Concurrently with the availability of the 2017 Revolving Credit Commitments, (i) the Revolving Credit Commitments in effect immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective shall have been terminated and the entire aggregate principal amount of the all Revolving Credit Loans outstanding immediately prior to this Agreement becoming effective shall have been paid in full and (ii) all accrued interest, fees and other amounts accrued prior to this Agreement becoming effective in connection therewith shall have been paid in full and all Interest Periods in respect thereof shall have been terminated;
(d) Any fees required to be paid pursuant to the Fee Letter on or before the Restatement Date shall have been paid. It is hereby expressly acknowledged and agreed that any fees paid pursuant to this clause (d) shall be paid in accordance with the Flow of Funds Memorandum delivered by the Company to the Administrative Agent on the Restatement Date.
(e) The Company shall have paid all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent reimbursable hereunder and invoiced prior to or on the Restatement Date). It is hereby expressly acknowledged and agreed that any fees paid pursuant to this clause (e) shall be paid in accordance with the Flow of Funds Memorandum delivered by the Company to the Administrative Agent on the Restatement Date
(f) The Loan Parties shall have provided the documentation and other information to the Administrative Agent and Lenders that are required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know-your-customer” rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, to the extent the Company shall have received written requests therefor at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Restatement Date.
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(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received all documents or instruments necessary to release or evidence the release of all Liens and to discharge any mortgages recorded in favor of the Collateral Agent on real property securing the obligations under the Original Credit Agreement.
(h) The Restatement Date shall have occurred on or before October 31, 2017.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.03, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the Restatement Date specifying its objection thereto.
ARTICLE 5
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
In order to induce the Lenders and the L/C Issuer to enter into this Agreement and to make each Credit Extension to be made thereby, each Loan Party makes the following representations and warranties to each Lender and the L/C Issuer, on the Restatement Date and on each Credit Date:
Section 5.01. Organization; Requisite Power and Authority; Qualification. Each of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) (a) is duly organized, validly existing and (to the extent the concept is applicable in such jurisdiction) in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization as identified in Schedule 5.01 as of the Restatement Date, (b) has all requisite power and authority (i) to own and operate its properties and carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted except to the extent the combined effect of all such failures and exceptions would not have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) to enter into the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to carry out the transactions contemplated thereby and (iii) to the extent such concepts are applicable in such jurisdictions, is qualified to do business and in good standing in every jurisdiction where its assets are located and wherever necessary to carry out its business and operations, except in jurisdictions where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing has not had, and would not be reasonably expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.02. Equity Interests and Ownership. The Equity Interests of each Subsidiary of the Company (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) and the other Loan Parties have been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non-assessable. As of the Restatement Date, there is no existing option, warrant, call, right, commitment or other agreement to which the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) is a party requiring, and there is no membership interest or other
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Equity Interests of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary) outstanding which upon conversion or exchange would require, the issuance by such Borrower or such Subsidiary of any additional membership interests or other Equity Interests of such Borrower or such Subsidiary or other Securities convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the right to subscribe for or purchase, a membership interest or other Equity Interests of such Borrower or such Subsidiary. Schedule 5.02 correctly sets forth the organizational structure, including the ownership interest of each Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries, and capital structure of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as of the Restatement Date.
Section 5.03. Due Authorization. The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of each Loan Party that is a party thereto.
Section 5.04. No Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance by the Loan Parties of the Loan Documents to which they are parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents do not and will not (a) violate (i) any provision of any law or any governmental rule or regulation applicable to the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries except to the extent that such violation would not have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) any of the Organizational Documents of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, or (iii) in any material respect, any order, judgment or decree of any court or other agency of government binding on the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries; (b) conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any Contractual Obligation of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, except to the extent the combined effect of all such conflicts, breaches and defaults would not have a Material Adverse Effect; (c) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Liens permitted under any of the Loan Documents or created under any of the Loan Documents in favor of the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties); or (d) require any approval of stockholders, members or partners or any approval or consent of any Person under any Contractual Obligation of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, except (x) for such approvals or consents which will be obtained on or before the Restatement Date and disclosed in writing to Lenders or (y) to the extent the combined effect of the failure to obtain all such approvals and consents would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.05. Governmental Consents. As of the Restatement Date, the execution, delivery and performance by the Loan Parties of the Loan Documents to which they are parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents do not and will not require any registration with, consent or approval of, or notice to, or other action to, with or by, any Governmental Authority, unless such action is taken, notice given or consents obtained on or prior to the Restatement Date and except for (a) filings and recordings with respect to the Collateral to be made, or otherwise delivered to the Collateral Agent for filing and/or recordation, on or before the Restatement Date and (b) those registrations with, consents approvals or approvals of, or notices to, or other action to, with or by, any Governmental Authority, the failure of which to obtain, make or take would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 5.06. Binding Obligation. Each Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is a party thereto and is the legally valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
Section 5.07. Reserved.
Section 5.08. Financial Statements.
(a) The Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations, cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein.
(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries dated July 1, 2017, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the Fiscal Quarter ended on that date (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations, cash flows and changes in shareholders’ equity for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end audit adjustments.
Section 5.09. No Material Adverse Effect. Since September 24, 2016, no event, circumstance or change has occurred that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.10. No Restricted Junior Payments. Since September 24, 2016, neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries has directly or indirectly declared, ordered, paid or made, or set apart any sum or property for, any Restricted Junior Payment or agreed to do so except as permitted pursuant to Section 7.04 (or, with respect to the period prior to the Restatement Date, would have been permitted if this Agreement had been in effect at such time).
Section 5.11. Adverse Proceedings, Etc. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.11 as of the Restatement Date, there are no Adverse Proceedings, that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries (a) is in violation of any applicable laws (including Environmental Laws) that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably
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be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (b) is subject to or in default with respect to any final judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, rules or regulations of any court or any federal, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.12. Payment of Taxes. Except as otherwise permitted under Section 6.03, all federal, state and other Tax returns and Tax reports of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries required to be filed by any of them have been timely filed (taking into account any extension of time granted to them), and all federal, state and other Taxes shown on such Tax returns to be due and payable and all federal, state, and other Taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges upon the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and upon their respective properties, assets, income, businesses and franchises which are due and payable have been paid when due and payable, except those (a) which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made or provided in accordance with GAAP or (b) with respect to which the failure to make such filing or payment would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Borrower has not received notice of any proposed federal, state or other Tax assessment against such Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries except those (a) which are being actively contested by such Borrower or such Subsidiary in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made or provided in accordance with GAAP or (b) with respect to which the failure to pay such proposed Tax assessment would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.13. Properties.
(a) Title. Each of the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries has (i) good, sufficient and legal title to (in the case of fee interests in real property), (ii) valid leasehold interests in (in the case of leasehold interests in real or personal property), (iii) valid licensed rights in (in the case of licensed interests in Intellectual Property) and (iv) good title to (in the case of all other personal property) all of their respective properties and assets reflected in their respective Audited Financial Statements referred to in Section 5.08 and in the then-most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01, in each case except for assets disposed of since the date of such financial statements in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise permitted under Section 7.08, except for such defects in title, leasehold interest or licensed interest as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as permitted by this Agreement or any Collateral Document, all such properties and assets are free and clear of Liens in all material respects.
(b) Real Estate. As of the Restatement Date, Schedule 5.13(b) contains a true, accurate and complete list of (i) all Domestic Real Estate Assets, the fee interest with respect to which, is owned by a Loan Party and (ii) all leases, licenses or other occupancy arrangements (together with all amendments, modifications, supplements, renewals or extensions of any thereof) currently in effect with respect to any Material Real Estate
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Asset. Each lease or assignments of lease affecting any Real Estate Asset of any U.S. Loan Party, regardless of whether such U.S. Loan Party is the landlord or tenant (whether directly or as an assignee or successor in interest) under such lease or assignment is in full force and effect with respect to such U.S. Loan Party and the Company does not have knowledge of any default that has occurred and is continuing thereunder, except where such defaults individually or in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and each such agreement constitutes the legally valid and binding obligation of each applicable U.S. Loan Party, enforceable against such U.S. Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles.
(c) Intellectual Property. Each of the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries owns or is validly licensed to use all Intellectual Property that is necessary for the present conduct of its business, free and clear of Liens (other than Permitted Liens), without conflict with the rights of any other Person unless the failure to own or benefit from such valid license would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Restatement Date, neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries is infringing, misappropriating, diluting or otherwise violating the Intellectual Property rights of any other Person unless (x) such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (y) set forth on Schedule 5.13 hereof. As of the Restatement Date, other than as set forth on Schedule 5.13(c), there is no pending or, to the best knowledge of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, threatened claim, investigation, litigation or other proceeding against the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries alleging any such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violation that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the best knowledge of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, during the past two (2) years (or earlier if presently not resolved), no Person has infringed, misappropriated, diluted or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property Assets unless such infringement, misappropriation, dilution or violation would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each of the Borrowers and each of their Subsidiaries has taken and are taking commercially reasonable steps, consistent with industry standards, to maintain and protect all Intellectual Property Assets that are material to the conduct of its respective business unless failure to take such steps would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.14. Environmental Matters. Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries nor any of their respective Real Property Facilities or operations are subject to any outstanding written order, consent decree or settlement agreement with any Person relating to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Claim or any Hazardous Materials Activity that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries or, to any Loan Party’s knowledge, any predecessor of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, has received any letter or request for information under Section 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C.
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§ 9604) or any comparable state law that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no and, to each of the Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ knowledge, have been no, conditions, occurrences or Hazardous Materials Activities which would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or any predecessor of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Borrowers’ and their Subsidiaries’ operations that involve the generation, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste, including as defined under 40 C.F.R. Parts 260 et seq. or any state equivalent, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Compliance with all requirements pursuant to or under Environmental Laws would not be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. No event or condition has occurred or is occurring with respect to the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or, to any Loan Party’s knowledge, any predecessor of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, relating to any Environmental Law or any Hazardous Materials Activity which individually or in the aggregate has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.15. No Defaults. Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries are in material default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions contained in any of its Contractual Obligations, and no condition exists which, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, could constitute such a default, except, in each case, where the consequences, direct or indirect, of such default or defaults, if any, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.16. Material Contracts. Schedule 5.16 contains a true, correct and complete list of all agreements evidencing Contractual Obligations of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries in effect on the Restatement Date which are required by U.S. securities laws to be filed by the Company as exhibits to the periodic reports it files with the SEC except for employment agreements, management contracts or compensatory plans, contracts or arrangements. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.16, as of the Restatement Date, all Material Contracts are in full force and effect and, to the Company’s knowledge, no defaults currently exist thereunder.
Section 5.17. Governmental Regulation.
(a) Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries is required to register or is subject to regulation under (i) the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (ii) any other federal or state statute or regulation which, in each case, may limit its ability to incur Indebtedness or which may otherwise render all or any portion of the Obligations unenforceable.
(b) Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries are a “registered investment company” or a company “controlled” by a “registered investment company” or a “principal underwriter” of a “registered investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940.
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Section 5.18. Margin Stock. After applying the proceeds of the Loans, not more than 25% of the value of assets of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, consist of Margin Stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB). Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries are engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of buying or carrying Margin Stock.
Section 5.19. Employee Matters. Neither the Borrowers nor any of their Subsidiaries are engaged in any unfair labor practice that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of the Borrowers, threatened against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement that is so pending against the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries or to the knowledge of the Borrowers, threatened against any of them, (b) no strike or work stoppage in existence or threatened involving the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries and (c) to the knowledge of the Borrowers, no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Borrowers, no union organization activity that is taking place, except (with respect to any matter specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.20. Employee Benefit Plans. Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrowers, each of their Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates are in compliance with all applicable provisions and requirements of ERISA and the Code and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, and have performed all their obligations under each Employee Benefit Plan. Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Employee Benefit Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has received or requested a favorable determination, opinion, or advisory letter from the Internal Revenue Service indicating that such Employee Benefit Plan is so qualified and nothing has occurred subsequent to the issuance of such determination letter which would cause such Employee Benefit Plan to lose its qualified status. Except as would not reasonably expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, no liability to the PBGC (other than required premium payments), the Internal Revenue Service, any Employee Benefit Plan or any trust established under Title IV of ERISA has been or is expected to be incurred by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, either alone or together with all other such ERISA Events, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Except to the extent required under Section 4980B of the Code or similar state laws, no Employee Benefit Plan provides health or welfare benefits (through the
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purchase of insurance or otherwise) for any retired or former employee of the Borrowers, any of their Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates. Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under each Pension Plan sponsored, maintained or contributed to by the Borrowers, any of their Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates (determined as of the end of the then-most recent plan year on the basis of the actuarial assumptions specified for funding purposes in the then-most recent actuarial valuation for such Pension Plan) did not materially exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Pension Plan. For purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, if as of the applicable valuation date the Pension Plan has an adjusted funding target attainment percentage of at least eighty percent (80%), the present value of aggregate benefit liabilities under such Pension Plan shall be deemed not to materially exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Pension Plan. Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, as of the then-most recent valuation date for each Multiemployer Plan for which the actuarial report is available, in each case, prior to the Closing Date, the potential liability of the Borrowers, their respective Subsidiaries and their respective ERISA Affiliates for a complete withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan (within the meaning of Section 4203 of ERISA), when aggregated with such potential liability for a complete withdrawal from all Multiemployer Plans, based on information available pursuant to Section 4221(e) of ERISA is not more than zero. Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrowers, each of their respective Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates have complied with the requirements of Section 515 of ERISA with respect to each Multiemployer Plan and are not in “default” (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA) with respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has received any notice or is otherwise aware that its Foreign Pension Plans are not in compliance with their terms or with the requirements of any applicable laws, statutes, rules, regulations and orders, and the aggregate unfunded liabilities with respect to such Foreign Pension Plans would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.21. [Reserved].
Section 5.22. Solvency. The Loan Parties are, in the aggregate, and, upon the incurrence of any Obligation by any Loan Party on any date on which this representation and warranty is made, will be, in the aggregate, Solvent.
Section 5.23. [Reserved].
Section 5.24. Compliance with Statutes, Etc. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.24, as of the Restatement Date, each of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all Governmental Authorities, in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its property (including compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws and the requirements of any permits issued under such Environmental Laws with respect to any Real Property Facility or the operations of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries), except such non-compliance that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 5.25. Disclosure. The written information (other than the Projections) contained in any Loan Document or in any other documents, certificates or written statements furnished to any Agent or Lender by or on behalf of the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, taken as a whole, as and when furnished but after giving effect to all supplements and updates provided thereto, is and will be complete and correct in all material respects and does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were or are made, not materially misleading. Any projections and pro forma financial information contained in such materials (the “Projections”) have been or will be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the Company to be reasonable at the time such Projections are furnished to the Lenders (it being understood that the Projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the Company’s control, the Projections, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and no assurances are being given by the Company that the results reflected in the Projections will be achieved and actual results may differ from the Projections and such differences may be material) (it being understood that nothing under this Section 5.25 or any other provision of this Agreement shall be construed to require the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to deliver Projections). There are no facts known (or which should upon the reasonable exercise of diligence be known) to the Borrowers (other than matters of a general economic nature) that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that have not been disclosed herein or in such other documents, certificates and statements furnished to Lenders for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby.
Section 5.26. Senior Indebtedness. The Obligations constitute “Senior Indebtedness,” “Designated Senior Indebtedness” or any similar designation under and as defined in any agreement governing any Subordinated Indebtedness and the subordination provisions set forth in each such agreement are legally valid and enforceable against the Loan Parties party thereto except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability.
Section 5.27. PATRIOT Act; Sanctioned Persons.
(a) To the extent applicable, each Loan Party is in compliance, in all material respects, with (i) the United States Trading with the Enemy Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 C.F.R., Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, (ii) the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”) and all other applicable anti-corruption Laws, and (iii) the PATRIOT Act.
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(b) Neither the Borrowers, nor any of their Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Borrowers, any director, officer, employee, agent or affiliate of the Borrowers is a Person that is, or is owned or controlled by Persons that are: (i) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”) or (ii) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).
Section 5.28. Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Loans and will request the issuance of Letters of Credit only for the purposes specified in Section 6.14.
Section 5.29. Security Documents.
(a) The Pledge and Security Agreement, upon execution and delivery thereof by the parties thereto, will create in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Personal Property Collateral and the proceeds described therein and (i) when the Pledged Collateral is delivered to the Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of the Pledge and Security Agreement, the Lien created under Pledge and Security Agreement shall constitute a fully perfected first priority Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the U.S. Loan Parties in such Pledged Collateral, in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person and (ii) when financing statements in appropriate form are filed in the offices specified in the Perfection Certificate delivered on the Closing Date, the Lien created under the Pledge and Security Agreement will constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the U.S. Loan Parties in the Personal Property Collateral described in such statements (other than Intellectual Property and any Personal Property Collateral which may not be perfected by filing of a financing statement) in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person, other than with respect to Liens expressly permitted by Section 7.02.
(b) Upon the recordation of the Pledge and Security Agreement (or a short-form security agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Collateral Agent) with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, together with the financing statements in appropriate form filed in the offices specified in the Perfection Certificate delivered on or before the Closing Date, the Lien created under the Pledge and Security Agreement shall, constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the U.S. Loan Parties in the Intellectual Property of such Loan Parties described therein as “Collateral” to the extent that a security interest therein may be perfected by filing in the United States and such Lien is, in each case, prior and superior in right to the Lien of any other Person other than Liens permitted by Section 7.02 (it being understood that subsequent recordings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office may be necessary to perfect a Lien on registered trademarks and patents, trademark and patent applications and registered copyrights acquired by the U.S. Loan Parties after the Restatement Date).
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Section 5.30. Representations as to Foreign Obligors. Each of the Company and each Foreign Obligor represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:
(a) Such Foreign Obligor is subject to civil and commercial Laws with respect to its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party (collectively as to such Foreign Obligor, the “Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents”), and the execution, delivery and performance by such Foreign Obligor of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents constitute and will constitute private and commercial acts and not public or governmental acts. Neither such Foreign Obligor nor any of its property has any immunity from jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process (whether through service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) under the laws of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing in respect of its obligations under the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents.
(b) The Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents to which such Foreign Obligor is party are, subject to Legal Reservations, in proper legal form under the Laws of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing for the enforcement thereof against such Foreign Obligor under the Laws of such jurisdiction, and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of such Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents. It is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents to which such Foreign Obligor is a party that such Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents be filed, registered or recorded with, or executed or notarized before, any court or other authority in the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing or that any registration charge or stamp or similar Tax be paid on or in respect of such Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents or any other document, except for (i) any such filing, registration, recording, execution or notarization as has been made or is not required to be made until such Applicable Foreign Obligor Document or any other document is sought to be enforced and (ii) any charge or tax as has been timely paid.
(c) There is no Tax, levy, impost, duty, fee, assessment or other governmental charge, or any deduction or withholding, imposed by any Governmental Authority in or of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing either (i) on or by virtue of the execution or delivery of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents to which such Foreign Obligor is a party, or (ii) in the case of any payment by the U.K. Borrower pursuant to the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents on a payment to a Lender which is (1) a Qualifying Lender pursuant to clause (a) of the definition thereof or (2) a Treaty Lender and the payment is one specified in a direction given by the Commissioners of Revenue and Customs under Regulation 2 of the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (General) Regulations 1970 (SI 1970/488).
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(d) The execution, delivery and performance of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents executed by such Foreign Obligor are, under applicable foreign exchange control regulations of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing, not subject to any notification or authorization except (i) such as have been made or obtained or (ii) such as cannot be made or obtained until a later date (provided that any notification or authorization described in clause (ii) shall be made or obtained as soon as is reasonably practicable).
ARTICLE 6
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
Each Loan Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Commitment is in effect and until payment in full of all Obligations and cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit, each Loan Party shall perform, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this Article 6.
Section 6.01. Financial Statements and Other Reports. The Company will deliver to the Administrative Agent and Lenders:
(a) Quarterly Financial Statements. Promptly when available, and in any event within 55 days after the end of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year, commencing with the Fiscal Quarter in which the Restatement Date occurs, the consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter and for the period from the beginning of the then current Fiscal Year to the end of such Fiscal Quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail, together with a Financial Officer Certification with respect thereto (it being agreed that the furnishing of the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for such Fiscal Quarter, as filed with the SEC, will satisfy the Company’s obligations under this Section 6.01(a) with respect to such Fiscal Quarter).
(b) Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available, and in any event within 120 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, commencing with the Fiscal Year in which the Restatement Date occurs, (i) the consolidated balance sheets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the previous Fiscal Year, in reasonable detail, together with a Financial Officer Certification with respect thereto; and (ii) with respect to such consolidated financial statements a report thereon of Ernst & Young LLP or other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing selected by the Company, or reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which report and/or the accompanying financial statements shall be unqualified as to going concern and scope of audit), and shall be prepared in accordance with audit standards of the Public Accounting Oversight Board and applicable Laws (it being agreed that the furnishing of the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for such year, as filed with the SEC, will satisfy the Company’s obligation under this Section 6.01(b) with respect to such year).
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(c) Compliance Certificate. Promptly when available, and in any event within 55 days after the end of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters and within 120 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, a duly executed and completed Compliance Certificate.
(d) Certificate Regarding Change In GAAP. If any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the consolidated balance sheet of the Company most recently theretofore delivered under Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) hereof that has had, or could have, a significant effect, as determined by Company in its good faith judgment, on the calculations of any ratio or covenant hereunder, the Company shall deliver a certificate specifying in reasonable detail the nature of such change and the effect thereof on such calculations.
(e) Notice of Default. Promptly upon any Responsible Officer of any Borrower obtaining knowledge (i) of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default or that notice has been given to any Borrower with respect thereto; (ii) that any Person has given any notice to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or taken any other action with respect to any event or condition set forth in Section 8.01(b); or (iii) of the occurrence of any event or change that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, a certificate of a Responsible Officer specifying the nature and period of existence of such condition, event or change, or specifying the notice given and action taken by any such Person and the nature of such claimed Event of Default, Default, default, event or condition, and what action such Borrower has taken, is taking and proposes to take with respect thereto.
(f) Notice of Litigation. Promptly upon any Responsible Officer of any Borrower obtaining knowledge of (i) any Adverse Proceeding not previously disclosed in writing by any Borrower to the Lenders or (ii) any development in any Adverse Proceeding that, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or seeks to enjoin or otherwise prevent the consummation of, or to recover any damages or obtain relief as a result of, the transactions contemplated hereby, written notice thereof together with such other information as may be reasonably available to the Borrowers to enable the Lenders and their counsel to evaluate such matters; provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compromise in any way their attorney-client privilege provided that a press release (describing the required information in clauses (i) or (ii) of this Section 6.01(f)) delivered in accordance with Sections 6.01(l) and 6.01(o) shall be deemed to satisfy the requirements in this Section 6.01(f) unless additional information is requested by Lenders in accordance with this Section 6.01(f), in which case the Borrowers shall be required to so deliver such information in accordance with this Section 6.01(f).
(g) ERISA. Provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compromise in any way their attorney-client privilege, (i) promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of or forthcoming occurrence of any ERISA Event that would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, a
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written notice specifying the nature thereof, what action any Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto and, when known, any action taken or threatened by the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or the PBGC with respect thereto; and (ii) with reasonable promptness upon request, copies of (A) each Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the annual report (Form 5500 Series) filed by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates with the Internal Revenue Service with respect to each Pension Plan; (B) all notices received by any Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor concerning an ERISA Event; and (C) copies of such other documents or governmental reports or filings relating to any Employee Benefit Plan as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.
(h) [Reserved].
(i) Insurance Report. As soon as practicable and in any event by the last day of each Fiscal Year, a certificate from the Company’s insurance broker(s) outlining all material insurance coverage maintained as of the date of such certificate by the Company and its Subsidiaries.
(j) Information Regarding Collateral. The Company agrees promptly (and in any event no later than the earlier of (x) 30 days after such change and (y) if applicable, 10 days prior to the date on which the perfection of the Liens under the Collateral Documents would (absent additional filings or other actions) lapse, in whole or in part, by reason of such change) to (i) furnish to the Collateral Agent written notice of any change (A) in any Loan Party’s corporate name, (B) in any Loan Party’s identity or corporate structure, (C) in any Loan Party’s jurisdiction of organization or (D) in any Loan Party’s Federal Taxpayer Identification Number or state organizational identification number and (ii) with respect to any U.S. Loan Party, make all filings under the UCC or otherwise that are required in order for the Collateral Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all material respects in all the Collateral as contemplated in the Collateral Documents; provided that, in connection with any change completed in connection with the Reorganization, the Company shall not be required to take any steps under this Section 6.01(j)(ii) until the date that is ninety (90) days following the date of such change (for the avoidance of doubt, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be required to comply with this Section 6.01(j) for 90 days in regards to each step of the Reorganization; if an additional change occurs with respect to the same Subsidiary or Collateral subject to the initial change(s) within a 90 day period, the Company and its Subsidiaries will have an additional 90 day period to comply with Section 6.01(j) in regards to the new change (and shall not be required comply with Section 6.01(j) in regards to the initial change assuming that such change was changed by the subsequent change rendering compliance with Section 6.01(j) unnecessary). The Company also agrees promptly to notify the Collateral Agent if any material portion of the Collateral is damaged or destroyed.
(k) Annual Collateral Verification. Within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal Year, with respect to the preceding Fiscal Year, the Company shall deliver to the
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Administrative Agent a certificate of its Responsible Officer certifying that all UCC financing statements (including fixtures filings, as applicable) and all supplemental Intellectual Property security agreements (including the Intellectual Property Security Agreements) or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations, (that are required to have been filed pursuant to the Collateral Documents) have been filed of record in each governmental, municipal or other appropriate office in each applicable jurisdiction to the extent necessary to effect, protect and perfect the security interests in the Collateral owned by the U.S. Loan Parties as of such date, in accordance with the Collateral Documents, subject to the compliance periods set forth therein, for a period of not less than 18 months after the date hereof or the date of such certificate (except as noted therein with respect to any continuation statements to be filed within such period).
(l) Other Information. (i) Promptly upon their becoming available, copies of (A) all financial statements, reports, notices and proxy statements sent or made available generally by the Company to its security holders acting in such capacity or by any Subsidiary of the Company to its security holders other than the Company or another Subsidiary of the Company, (B) all regular and periodic reports and all registration statements and prospectuses, if any, filed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any securities exchange or with the SEC or any other Governmental Authority, provided that the Company shall not be required to compromise in any way its attorney-client privilege and (C) all press releases and other statements filed with and/or furnished to the SEC by Company concerning the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) such other information and data with respect to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provided that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be required to compromise in any way their attorney-client privilege.
(m) Certification of Public Information. The Borrowers and each Lender acknowledge that certain of the Lenders may be Public Lenders and, if documents or notices required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 6.01 or otherwise (the “Company Materials”) are being distributed through IntraLinks/IntraAgency, SyndTrak or another relevant website or other information platform (the “Platform”), any document or notice that the Company has indicated contains Non-Public Information shall not be posted on that portion of the Platform designated for such Public Lenders. The Company agrees to clearly designate all information provided to the Administrative Agent by or on behalf of the Company which is suitable to make available to Public Lenders. If the Company has not indicated whether a document or notice delivered pursuant to this Section 6.01 contains Non-Public Information, the Administrative Agent reserves the right to post such document or notice solely on that portion of the Platform designated for Lenders who wish to receive material Non-Public Information with respect to the Company, its Subsidiaries and their securities.
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(i) Immaterial Subsidiaries. Together with each delivery of a Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.01(c) hereof, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company designating any Subsidiary that qualifies as
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an Immaterial Subsidiary, and certifying that such Immaterial Subsidiary, together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries, (x) has assets comprising less than 5% of Total Assets on the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year, as applicable, and (y) contributes less than 5% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters ending on the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year, as applicable, which certificate shall be deemed to supplement Schedule 1.01(D)(2) for all purposes hereof; provided that any Domestic Subsidiary that shall have become a Guarantor hereunder and a Grantor under the Pledge and Security Agreement and otherwise complied with the provisions of Section 6.10 shall be deemed not to be an Immaterial Subsidiary and excluded from the calculations set forth above unless the Company later designates such Subsidiary as an Immaterial Subsidiary.
(ii) Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries. Together with each delivery of a Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.01(c) hereof, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company designating any Domestic Subsidiary that qualifies as an Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary, and certifying that such Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary, together with all other Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries, (x) has assets comprising less than 5% of Total Assets of the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries on the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year, as applicable, and (y) contributes less than 5% of Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries for the period of four consecutive Fiscal Quarters ending on the last day of the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year, as applicable, which certificate shall be deemed to supplement Schedule 1.01(D)(1) for all purposes hereof; provided that any Domestic Subsidiary that shall have become a Guarantor hereunder and a Grantor under the Pledge and Security Agreement and otherwise complied with the provisions of Section 6.10 shall be deemed not to be an Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary and excluded from the calculations set forth above unless the Company later designates such Subsidiary as an Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary.
(o) Electronic Delivery. Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a), 6.01(b), 6.01(d) or 6.01(l) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Company posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Company’s website on the internet and, other than information required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(l), informs the Administrative Agent in writing on the same date of such posting; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Company’s behalf on an internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial or governmental, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent) and, other than information required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(l) informs the Administrative Agent in writing on the same date of such posting. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, in every instance the Company shall be required to provide electronic or paper copies of the Compliance Certificates required by Section 6.01(c) to the Administrative Agent. Except for such Compliance Certificates,
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the Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of or to maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Company with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it from the Administrative Agent or maintaining its copies of such documents.
Section 6.02. Existence. Except to the extent not prohibited under Section 7.08 (other than Section 7.08(s)) or if otherwise permitted hereunder, each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and all rights and franchises, licenses and permits material to its business (except, other than with respect to the Company, to the extent failing to so preserve and keep its existence and/or such rights, franchises, licenses and permits would not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect).
Section 6.03. Payment of Taxes and Claims. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay all Taxes imposed upon it or any of its properties or assets or in respect of any of its income, businesses or franchises before any material penalty or fine accrues thereon, and all material claims (including claims for labor, services, materials and supplies) for sums that have become due and payable and that by law have or may become a Lien upon any of its properties or assets, prior to the time when any material penalty or fine shall be incurred with respect thereto; provided, (i) no such Tax or claim need be paid if it is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted, so long as (x) adequate reserve or other appropriate provision, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP, shall have been made therefor and (y) in the case of a Tax or claim which has or may become a Lien against any of the Collateral, and which is not permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 such contest proceedings conclusively operate to stay the sale of any portion of the Collateral to satisfy such Tax or claim or (ii) failure to make such payment would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, file or consent to the filing of any consolidated income tax return with any Person (other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries).
Section 6.04. Maintenance of Properties. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain or cause to be maintained in good repair, working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, all material properties reasonably necessary in the operation of or used or useful in the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and from time to time will make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals and replacements thereof. Nothing in this Section 6.04 shall prevent (a) Dispositions, consolidations or mergers in accordance with Section 7.08 or (b) the abandonment of rights, franchises, licenses, trade names, copyrights, patents, trademarks or other Intellectual Property in accordance with Section 7.08(g).
Section 6.05. Insurance. The Borrowers will maintain or cause to be maintained, with financially sound and reputable insurers, such public liability insurance, third-party property damage insurance, business interruption insurance and casualty insurance with respect to liabilities, losses or damage, in respect of the assets, properties
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and businesses of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as may customarily be carried or maintained under similar circumstances by Persons of established reputation engaged in similar businesses, in each case in such amounts (giving effect to self-insurance), with such deductibles, covering such risks and otherwise on such terms and conditions as shall be customary for such Persons. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will maintain or cause to be maintained (a) [reserved] and (b) replacement value casualty insurance on the Collateral under such policies of insurance, with such insurance companies, in such amounts, with such deductibles, and covering such risks as are at all times carried or maintained under similar circumstances by Persons of established reputation engaged in similar businesses. Each such policy of insurance shall name the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an additional insured thereunder as its interests may appear or contain a loss payable clause or endorsement, reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Collateral Agent, that names the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as the loss payee thereunder, as applicable, and provide for at least fifteen (15) days’ (or such shorter period as may be consented to by the Collateral Agent in its reasonable discretion) prior written notice to the Collateral Agent of any cancellation of such policy ; provided that if the Company uses commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the agreement of its then existing insurance companies to deliver such prior written notice of cancellation and is unable to obtain such agreement from its insurers, then the Administrative Agent shall waive such requirement; provided, further that, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Collateral Agent shall turn over to the applicable Borrower any amounts received by it as loss payee under any casualty insurance maintained by such Borrower or its Subsidiaries, the disposition of such amounts to be subject to the provisions of Section 2.05(c)(ii), and, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent agrees that the applicable Borrower and/or the applicable Subsidiary shall have the sole right to adjust or settle any claims under such insurance.
Section 6.06. Books and Records; Inspections. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and accounts in which full, true and correct entries in conformity in all material respects with GAAP shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. Each Loan Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit representatives of the Administrative Agent (and, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, of each Lender), at the expense of the Lenders (or, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, at the expense of the Company) to visit and inspect any of the properties of any Loan Party and any of its respective Subsidiaries (subject to the rights of lessees or sublessees thereof and subject to any restrictions or limitations in the applicable lease, sublease or other written occupancy arrangement pursuant to which Borrowers or such their Subsidiary is a party), to inspect, copy and take extracts from its and their financial and accounting records, and to discuss its and their affairs, finances and accounts with its and their officers and independent public accountants, all upon reasonable notice and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may reasonably be requested.
Section 6.07. [Reserved].
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Section 6.08. Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party will comply, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries, if any, on or occupying any Real Property Facilities to comply, with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority (including all Environmental Laws), except in such instances in which the failure to comply therewith would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.09. Environmental Matters.
(a) Environmental Disclosure. Provided that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall not be required to compromise in any way their attorney-client privilege (except that such attorney-client privilege shall not be asserted in connection with any environmental audits, investigations, analyses and reports of any kind or character prepared by a third party that is not legal counsel for the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), the Company will deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders:
(i) as soon as practicable following receipt thereof, copies of all environmental audits, investigations, analyses and reports of any kind or character, whether prepared by personnel of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by independent consultants, Governmental Authorities or any other Persons, with respect to significant environmental matters relating to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real Property Facility or with respect to any Environmental Claims that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ii) promptly upon a Responsible Officer, the Vice President (Facilities/Environmental, Health and Safety/Real Estate) or Senior Manager (Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety) obtaining knowledge thereof, written notice describing in reasonable detail (A) any Release required to be reported to any Governmental Authority under any applicable Environmental Laws unless the Company reasonably determines that such Release would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (B) any remedial action taken by any Borrower or any other Person in response to (1) any Hazardous Materials Activities the existence of which would reasonably be expected to result in one or more Environmental Claims having, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or (2) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and (C) any Borrower’s discovery of any occurrence or condition on any real property adjoining or in the vicinity of any Real Property Facility that could cause such Real Property Facility or any part thereof to be subject to any restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, transferability or use thereof under any Environmental Laws, except to the extent that such restrictions, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(iii) as soon as practicable following the sending or receipt thereof by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, a copy of any and all written
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communications with respect to (A) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (B) any Release required to be reported to any Governmental Authority that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (C) any request for information from any Governmental Authority that suggests such Governmental Authority is investigating whether the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be potentially responsible for any Hazardous Materials Activity that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(iv) prompt written notice describing in reasonable detail (A) any proposed acquisition of stock, assets or property by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to (1) expose the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to, or result in, Environmental Claims that would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or (2) affect the ability of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to maintain in full force and effect all material Governmental Authorizations required under any Environmental Laws for their respective operations and (B) any proposed action to be taken by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to modify current operations in a manner that would reasonably be expected to subject the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any additional obligations or requirements under any Environmental Laws that would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and
(v) with reasonable promptness, such other documents and information as from time to time may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in relation to any matters disclosed pursuant to this Section 6.09(a).
(b) Hazardous Materials Activities, Etc. Each Loan Party shall promptly take, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries promptly to take, any and all actions necessary to (i) cure any violation of applicable Environmental Laws by such Loan Party or its Subsidiaries that would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) make an appropriate response to any Environmental Claim against such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and discharge any obligations it may have to any Person thereunder where failure to do so would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.10. Subsidiaries.
(a) Unless such Person qualifies as an Excluded Subsidiary, in the event that any Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company:
(i) the Company shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) Business Days, or such later date as agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) cause such Subsidiary to become a Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder and a Grantor under the Pledge and Security Agreement by executing and delivering to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent a Counterpart Agreement; and
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(ii) the Company and such Subsidiary shall promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) Business Days, or such later date as agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) take all such actions and execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all such documents, instruments, agreements and certificates reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent, including those which are similar to those described in Sections 4.01(a)(iii) and 4.01(a)(xii).
(b) In the event that any Person becomes a First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Disregarded Entity, and the Equity Interests of such Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Disregarded Entity are owned by the Company or by any Domestic Subsidiary thereof (other than any Excluded Subsidiary), the Company shall, or shall cause such Domestic Subsidiary to, promptly (and in any event within thirty (30) Business Days, or such later date as agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) deliver all such documents, instruments, agreements and certificates as are similar to those described in Section 4.01(a)(iii), and the Company shall take, or shall cause such Domestic Subsidiary to take, all of the actions referred to in Section 4.01(a)(xii) necessary to grant and to perfect a First Priority Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, under the Pledge and Security Agreement in 65% of the Equity Interests of such First-Tier Foreign Subsidiary or Excluded Disregarded Entity, as applicable (it being understood and agreed that (x) no actions to grant or perfect any lien or security interest in a Foreign Jurisdiction or under the laws of a Foreign Jurisdiction shall be required to be undertaken with respect to such Equity Interests and (y) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to enter into any security agreements or pledge agreements governed by laws of any non-U.S. jurisdictions).
(c) With respect to any Person that becomes a Domestic Subsidiary of the Company, the Company shall promptly (and in any event within fifteen (15) Business Days after such Person becoming a Domestic Subsidiary, or such later date as agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) send to the Administrative Agent written notice setting forth with respect to such Person (x) the date on which such Person became a Domestic Subsidiary of the Company and (y) all of the data required to be set forth in Schedule 5.01 with respect to Subsidiaries of the Company, and such written notice shall be deemed to supplement Schedule 5.01 for all purposes hereof.
Section 6.11. [Reserved].
Section 6.12. Further Assurances.
(a) At any time or from time to time upon the request of the Administrative Agent (but subject to the Collateral Documents, if applicable), each Loan Party will, at its expense, promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent may reasonably
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request in order to effect fully the purposes of the Loan Documents. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Company shall take such actions as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent may reasonably request from time to time to ensure that (i) the Obligations of the Company are (A) guaranteed by each Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary and (B) secured by substantially all of the assets of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors (other than Real Estate Assets) and all of the outstanding Equity Interests of the Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Subsidiaries pursuant to clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) of the definition of “Excluded Subsidiary”) and 65% of the Equity Interests of First-Tier Foreign Subsidiaries and Excluded Disregarded Entities and (ii) the Obligations of the Foreign Obligors are guaranteed by the Company and each Subsidiary Guarantor, subject in each case, to the provisions set forth herein, in the Pledge and Security Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as applicable.
(b) If, at any time and from time to time, any Immaterial Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, together with all other Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries, (i) has assets comprising more than 5% of Total Assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on the last day of the then-most recent Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year for which financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement or (ii) contributes more than 5% of the Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period of four Fiscal Quarters ending on the last day of the Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year then-most recently ended for which financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement, then the Company shall, not later than 30 days after the date by which financial statements for such Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year are required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement, cause one or more Immaterial Domestic Subsidiaries to become Loan Parties such that the conditions contained in clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 6.12(b) cease to be true.
(c) The Company shall, or cause the applicable Loan Party to, complete the actions listed on Schedule 6.12(c) by the times stated therein (or such later date as may be consented to by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion). This Section 6.12 is subject in all respects to Sections 2.20 and 2.21.
Section 6.13. Maintenance of Ratings.
Unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent, at all times, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to maintain (i) a public corporate family rating issued by Xxxxx’x and a public corporate credit rating issued by S&P and (ii) a public credit rating from each of Xxxxx’x and S&P with respect to each of the facilities provided hereunder and the Senior Notes.
Section 6.14. Use of Proceeds.
(a) The proceeds of the Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans on the Closing Date shall be applied by the Borrowers to consummate the Refinancing. The proceeds of the 2017 Refinancing Term Loans made on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) hereof shall be used on the Restatement Date to prepay in full all Existing
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Term A Loans. The proceeds of the 2017 Incremental Term Loans made on the Restatement Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) hereof shall be used to pay Convertible Note Repayment Obligations, purchase, repurchase or redeem Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y), to fund the Convertible Note Repayment Reserve as permitted hereunder, and for working capital and all other general corporate purposes.
(b) The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit made or issued after the Closing Date shall be applied by the Borrowers to the working capital and general corporate purposes of the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries, including Permitted Acquisitions and permitted capital expenditures, and may be used to pay Convertible Note Repayment Obligations, purchase, repurchase or redeem Convertible Notes pursuant to Section 7.04(c)(y) or fund the Convertible Note Repayment Reserve as permitted hereunder.
(c) No portion of the proceeds of any Credit Extension shall be used in any manner that causes or might cause such Credit Extension or the application of such proceeds to violate Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the FRB or any other regulation thereof or to violate the Exchange Act.
Section 6.15. Senior Notes Repayment. From and after the Springing Maturity Date through the earlier of (i) the repayment, redemption or defeasance of the Senior Notes and (ii) a Qualified Refinancing, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall maintain sufficient Qualified Cash and/or availability under the Revolving Credit Facility (or availability under other committed credit facilities) to repay, redeem or defease the Senior Notes in full on the Senior Notes Maturity Date.
ARTICLE 7
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Each Loan Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Commitment is in effect and until payment in full of all Obligations and cancellation or expiration of all Letters of Credit, such Loan Party shall perform, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this Article 7. Notwithstanding any other provisions set forth herein, all baskets under this Article 7 shall be deemed unused and otherwise fully available as of the Restatement Date.
Section 7.01. Indebtedness. No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or guaranty, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness, except:
(a) the Obligations;
(b) Indebtedness of any Loan Party to the Company or any Subsidiary; provided (i) all such Indebtedness owed to a U.S. Loan Party shall be (x) evidenced by the Intercompany Note and (y) subject to a First Priority Lien pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement and (ii) all such Indebtedness that is owed to a Loan Party that is not a U.S. Loan Party or to a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be unsecured and
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subordinated in right of payment to the payment in full of the Obligations pursuant to the terms of the Intercompany Note (which terms shall limit the obligation to subordinate to the extent that material adverse tax consequences under Section 956 of the Code will arise from such subordination);