AMENDED AND RESTATED FIRST LIEN TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT among GREENLIGHT ACQUISITION CORPORATION, as HOLDINGS, VM CONSOLIDATED, INC., as LEAD BORROWER, the other Parties listed as a Borrower on the signature pages hereto, as BORROWERS, VARIOUS...
Exhibit 10.8
EXHIBIT A
to Amendment No. 12 to Amended and Restated First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement
AMENDED AND RESTATED FIRST LIEN TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
among
GREENLIGHT ACQUISITION CORPORATION,
as HOLDINGS,
VM CONSOLIDATED, INC.,
as LEAD BORROWER,
the other Parties listed as a Borrower on the signature pages hereto,
as BORROWERS,
VARIOUS LENDERS
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT and COLLATERAL AGENT
_______________________________________
Dated as of March 26, 2021
as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of December 7, 2021 and
Amendment No. 2, dated as of March 29, 2023
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as LEAD ARRANGER and SOLE BOOKRUNNER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 1. Definitions and Accounting Terms. 1
1.01 Defined Terms 1
1.02 Terms Generally and Certain Interpretive Provisions 47
1.03 Limited Condition Transactions 4748
1.04 Classification and Reclassification 4849
1.05 Divisions 4849
Section 2. Amount and Terms of Credit. 49
2.01 The Commitments. 49
2.02 Minimum Amount of Each Borrowing 4951
2.03 Notice of Borrowing 5051
2.04 Disbursement of Funds. 5051
2.05 Notes. 5152
2.06 Interest Rate Conversions. 5153
2.07 Pro Rata Borrowings 5253
2.08 Interest. 5253
2.09 Interest Periods 5354
2.10 Increased Costs, Illegality, etc. 5455
2.11 Compensation 5556
2.12 Change of Lending Office 5557
2.13 Replacement of Lenders 5657
2.14 Extended Term Loans. 5657
2.15 Incremental Term Loan Commitments. 5859
2.16 Inability to Determine Rates; LIBOR Successor Rate. 6061
2.17 [Reserved]. 6263
2.18 Refinancing Term Loans. 6263
2.19 Reverse Dutch Auction Repurchases. 64
2.20 Open Market Purchases. 6566
2.21 Sponsor and Affiliate Term Loan Purchases 6566
Section 3. [Reserved]. 6667
Section 4. Fees; Reductions of Commitment. 6667
4.01 Fees. 6667
4.02 Mandatory Reduction of Commitments. 6768
Section 5. Prepayments; Payments; Taxes. 6768
5.01 Voluntary Prepayments. 6768
5.02 Mandatory Repayments. 6869
5.03 Method and Place of Payment 7172
5.04 Net Payments. 7172
Section 6. Conditions Precedent to Credit Events on the First Restatement Effective Date 7374
6.01 Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 1 7374
6.02 Unsecured Notes Indenture 7374
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6.03 Opinions of Counsel 7374
6.04 Corporate Documents; Proceedings, etc. 7374
6.05 Solvency Certificate 7374
6.06 Fees, etc 7374
6.07 Representations and Warranties 7475
6.08 Patriot Act 7475
6.09 Notice of Borrowing 7475
6.10 Notice of Prepayment 7475
6.11 Officer’s Certificate 7475
6.12 Material Adverse Effect 7475
Section 7. Conditions Precedent to all Credit Events after the First Restatement Effective Date 7475
Section 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements 7475
8.01 Organizational Status 7475
8.02 Power and Authority; Enforceability 7475
8.03 No Violation 7576
8.04 Approvals 7576
8.05 Financial Statements; Financial Condition; Projections. 7576
8.06 Litigation 7577
8.07 True and Complete Disclosure 7677
8.08 Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations. 7677
8.09 Tax Returns and Payments 7677
8.10 ERISA. 7677
8.11 The Security Documents. 7778
8.12 Properties 7879
8.13 Capitalization 7879
8.14 Subsidiaries 7879
8.15 Compliance with Statutes, OFAC Rules and Regulations; Patriot Act; FCPA. 7879
8.16 Investment Company Act 7980
8.17 [Reserved]. 7980
8.18 Environmental Matters 7980
8.19 Labor Relations 7980
8.20 Intellectual Property 7980
8.21 Affected Financial Institutions 7980
8.22 Beneficial Ownership Certificate. 8081
Section 9. Affirmative Covenants 8081
9.01 Information Covenants 8081
9.02 Books, Records and Inspections; Conference Calls. 8485
9.03 Maintenance of Property; Insurance. 8485
9.04 Existence; Franchises 8586
9.05 Compliance with Statutes, etc 8586
9.06 Compliance with Environmental Laws. 8586
9.07 ERISA 8687
9.08 End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters 8687
9.09 Beneficial Ownership Regulation 8687
9.10 Payment of Taxes 8788
9.11 Use of Proceeds 8788
9.12 Additional Security; Further Assurances; etc. 8788
9.13 Post-Closing Actions 8889
9.14 Permitted Acquisitions. 8889
9.15 Credit Ratings 8990
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9.16 Designation of Subsidiaries 8990
Section 10. Negative Covenants 8990
10.01 Liens 9091
10.02 Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, etc 9394
10.03 Dividends 9697
10.04 Indebtedness 99100
10.05 Advances, Investments and Loans 103104
10.06 Transactions with Affiliates 106107
10.07 Limitations on Payments, Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and Certain Other Agreements, etc 107108
10.08 Limitation on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries 108109
10.09 Business. 109110
10.10 Negative Pledges 110111
Section 11. Events of Default 111112
11.01 Payments 111112
11.02 Representations, etc 111112
11.03 Covenants 111112
11.04 Default Under Other Agreements 111112
11.05 Bankruptcy, etc 112113
11.06 ERISA 112113
11.07 Security Documents 112113
11.08 Guarantees 113114
11.09 Judgments 113114
11.10 Change of Control 113114
Section 12. The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent. 113114
12.01 Appointment and Authorization. 113114
12.02 Delegation of Duties 114115
12.03 Exculpatory Provisions 114115
12.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent 115116
12.05 No Other Duties, Etc 115116
12.06 Non-reliance on Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Other Lenders 115116
12.07 Indemnification by the Lenders 115116
12.08 Rights as a Lender 116117
12.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding 116117
12.10 Resignation of the Agents 117118
12.11 Collateral Matters and Guaranty Matters 117118
12.12 Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Designated Treasury Services Agreements 118119
12.13 Withholding Taxes 118119
12.14 Certain ERISA Matters. 119120
12.15 Recovery of Erroneous Payments 120121
Section 13. Miscellaneous. 120121
13.01 Payment of Expenses, etc. 120121
13.02 Right of Setoff. 122123
13.03 Notices. 122123
13.04 Benefit of Agreement; Assignments; Participations, etc. 123124
13.05 No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative 128129
13.06 Payments Pro Rata. 128129
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13.07 Calculations; Computations. 128129
13.08 GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. 129130
13.09 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness 130131
13.10 [Reserved]. 130131
13.11 Headings Descriptive 130131
13.12 Amendment or Waiver; etc. 130131
13.13 Survival 132133
13.14 Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers. 132133
13.15 Confidentiality. 134135
13.16 USA Patriot Act Notice 135136
13.17 Waiver of Sovereign Immunity 135136
13.18 Lead Borrower 136137
13.19 INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENTS. 136137
13.20 Absence of Fiduciary Relationship 137138
13.21 Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents 137138
13.22 Entire Agreement 137138
13.23 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions 138139
13.24 Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs 138139
SCHEDULE 1.01(A) Unrestricted Subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 2.01 Commitments
SCHEDULE 2.19(a) Reverse Dutch Auction Procedures
SCHEDULE 8.12 Real Property
SCHEDULE 8.14 Subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 8.19 Labor Matters
SCHEDULE 9.13 Post-Closing Actions
SCHEDULE 10.01(iii) Existing Liens
SCHEDULE 10.04 Existing Indebtedness
SCHEDULE 10.05(iii) Existing Investments
SCHEDULE 10.06(viii) Affiliate Transactions
SCHEDULE 13.03 Notice Information
EXHIBIT A-1 Form of Notice of Borrowing
EXHIBIT A-2 Form of Notice of Conversion/Continuation
EXHIBIT B Form of Term Note
EXHIBIT C Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate
EXHIBIT D [Reserved]
EXHIBIT E Form of Officers’ Certificate
EXHIBIT F [Reserved]
EXHIBIT G [Reserved]
EXHIBIT H [Reserved]
EXHIBIT I Form of Solvency Certificate
EXHIBIT J Form of Compliance Certificate
EXHIBIT K Form of Assignment and Assumption
EXHIBIT L [Reserved]
EXHIBIT M Form of First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement
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THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED FIRST LIEN TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of March 26, 2021, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on theand Amendment No. 1 Effective Date2, among GREENLIGHT ACQUISITION CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“Holdings”), VM CONSOLIDATED, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Lead Borrower”), AMERICAN TRAFFIC SOLUTIONS, INC., a Kansas corporation (“AT Solutions”), and LASERCRAFT, INC., a Georgia corporation (together with Lead Borrower and AT Solutions, the “Borrowers”), the Lenders party hereto from time to time and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. (“Bank of America”), as the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent. All capitalized terms used herein and defined in Section 1 are used herein as therein defined.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Holdings, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the lenders party thereto entered into that certain First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement on the Closing Date (as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1, dated as of July 24, 2018, as amended by that certain Amendment No. 2, dated as of February 20, 2020 and as further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the First Restatement Effective Date, the “Original Credit Agreement”).
WHEREAS, the Lead Borrower has requested that on the First Restatement Effective Date, (i) the Initial Term Loan Lenders (including the Refinancing Term Loan Lenders and the Rollover Initial Term Lenders) make the Initial Term Loans in the aggregate principal amount of $650,000,000 and (ii) this Agreement be amended and restated as set forth herein, pursuant to Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 1.
WHEREAS, the Lenders have indicated their willingness to amend and restate this Agreement on the First Restatement Effective Date and the Refinancing Term Loan Lenders have indicated their willingness make the Initial Term Loans on the First Restatement Effective Date on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 1.
The parties hereto intend that (a) the Obligations under the Original Credit Agreement that remain unpaid and outstanding as of the First Restatement Effective Date (the “Original Obligations”) shall continue to exist under this Agreement on the terms set forth herein and (b) the Collateral and the Credit Documents shall continue to secure, guarantee, support and otherwise benefit the Original Obligations as well as the other Obligations of the Borrowers and the other Credit Parties under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
“2021 Incremental Term Loan Commitment” shall have the meaning set forth in Amendment No. 1.
“2021 Incremental Term Loan Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Amendment No. 1.
“2021 Incremental Term Loans” shall mean the Term Loans made by the 2021 Incremental Term Loan Lenders on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date pursuant to Amendment No. 1. Prior to the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date, the 2021 Incremental Term Loans shall constitute a separate new Tranche to Term Loans, provided that (x) all terms applicable to the 2021 Incremental Term Loans shall be identical to the terms of the Initial Term Loans (including as to maturity) outstanding under this Agreement immediately prior to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, except as expressly set forth herein and (y) all references to Initial Term Loans hereunder shall apply to 2021 Incremental Term Loans mutatis mutandis (other than Section 5.02(a)(i)). On and after the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date, the 2021 Incremental Term Loans, for all purposes under this Agreement and each of the other Credit Documents, shall have terms identical to the Initial Term Loans (including as to maturity) outstanding hereunder immediately prior to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date (but
giving effect to any amendments under Amendment No.1) and shall constitute Initial Term Loans, and the Initial Term Loans and 2021 Incremental Term Loans shall collectively comprise a single fungible Tranche of Term Loans.
“2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(d).
“ABL Collateral” shall have the meaning set forth in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Collateral Agent” shall mean Bank of America, as collateral agent under the ABL Credit Agreement or any successor thereto acting in such capacity.
“ABL Credit Agreement” shall mean (i) that certain asset-based revolving credit agreement, as in effect on the Closing Date and as the same has been and may be further amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof (including by reference to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement) and thereof, among Holdings, the Borrowers, the other borrowers party thereto, certain lenders party thereto and Bank of America, as the administrative agent and collateral agent, and (ii) any other credit agreement, loan agreement, note agreement, promissory note, indenture or other agreement or instrument evidencing or governing the terms of any Indebtedness or other financial accommodation that has been incurred to refinance (subject to the limitations set forth herein (including by reference to the ABL Intercreditor Agreement)) in whole or in part the Indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under (x) the credit agreement referred to in clause (i) or (y) any subsequent ABL Credit Agreement, unless such agreement or instrument expressly provides that it is not intended to be and is not an ABL Credit Agreement hereunder. Any reference to the ABL Credit Agreement hereunder shall be deemed a reference to any ABL Credit Agreement then in existence.
“ABL Credit Documents” shall have the meaning ascribed to the term “Credit Documents” in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“ABL Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean that certain ABL Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Collateral Agent, the ABL Collateral Agent and the other parties party thereto, as may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Acquired Entity or Business” shall mean either (x) the assets constituting a business, division, product line, manufacturing facility or distribution facility of any Person not already a Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, which assets shall, as a result of the respective acquisition, become assets of Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower (or assets of a Person who shall be merged with and into Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower) or (y) a majority of the Equity Interests of any such Person, which Person shall, as a result of the respective acquisition, become a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower (or shall be merged with and into Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower).
“Additional Initial Term Loan” means a Loan that is made pursuant to the second sentence of Section 2.01(a) of this Agreement on the First Restatement Effective Date.
“Additional Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean an intercreditor agreement among the Collateral Agent and one or more Junior Representatives for holders of Permitted Junior Debt providing that, inter alia, the Liens on the Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Creditors) shall be senior to such Liens in favor of the Junior Representatives (for the benefit of the holders of Permitted Junior Debt), as such intercreditor agreement may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The Additional Intercreditor Agreement shall be in a form customary at such time for transactions of the type contemplated thereby and reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower (it being understood that the terms of any First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement are reasonably satisfactory).
“Additional Refinancing Term Loan Lender” means a Person with an Initial Term Loan Commitment to make Additional Initial Term Loans to the Borrowers on the First Restatement Effective Date.
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“Additional Security Documents” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.12(a).
“Adjusted Consolidated Working Capital” shall mean, at any time, Consolidated Current Assets less Consolidated Current Liabilities at such time.
“Administrative Agent” shall mean Bank of America, in its capacity as Administrative Agent for the Lenders hereunder, and shall include any successor to the Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section 12.10.
“Administrative Questionnaire” shall mean an administrative questionnaire in the form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Advisory Agreement” shall mean that certain Corporate Advisory Services Agreement dated as of May 31, 2017 by and between Greenlight Holding Corporation and the Sponsor, as may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time.
“Affected Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, such Person. A Person shall be deemed to control another Person if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such other Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; provided, however, that neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender (nor any Affiliate thereof) shall be considered an Affiliate of Lead Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof as a result of this Agreement, the extensions of credit hereunder or its actions in connection therewith.
“Agent Parties” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.03(d).
“Agents” shall mean the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any sub-agent or co-agent of either of the foregoing pursuant to the Credit Documents and the Lead Arranger.
“Agreement” shall mean this Amended and Restated First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement, as amended and restated by Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 1 on the First Restatement Effective Date and as may be further amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time.
“Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 1” shall mean that certain Amendment and Restatement No. 1 to First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2021, among Holdings, the Borrowers, the other Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders party thereto, the Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto.
“Amendment No. 1” shall mean Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, by and among Holdings, the Borrowers, the Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the other parties thereto.
“Amendment No. 1 Effective Date” shall mean December 7, 2021.
“Amendment No. 1 Transactions” shall have the meaning set forth in Amendment No. 1.
“Amendment No. 2” shall mean Amendment No. 2 to the Amended and Restated First Lien Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2023, by and among the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” shall mean all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.
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“Applicable Increased Term Loan Spread” shall mean, with respect to any then outstanding Initial Term Loans at the time of the incurrence of any new Tranche of Incremental Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.15 within six (6) months after the First Restatement Effective Date, which new Tranche is subject to an Effective Yield that is greater than the Effective Yield applicable to such Initial Term Loans by more than 0.75%, the margin per annum (expressed as a percentage) mutually determined by the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower in good faith (and notified by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders) as the margin per annum required to cause the Effective Yield applicable to such then existing Initial Term Loans to equal (i) the Effective Yield applicable to such new Tranche of Incremental Term Loans minus (ii) 0.75%. Each mutual determination of the “Applicable Increased Term Loan Spread” by the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower shall be conclusive and binding on all Lenders absent manifest error.
“Applicable Margin” shall mean a percentage per annum equal to, in the case of Initial Term Loans maintained as (a) Base Rate Term Loans, 2.25% and (b) LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loans, 3.25%.
The Applicable Margins for any Tranche of Incremental Term Loans shall be (i) in the case of Incremental Term Loans added to an existing Tranche, the same as the Applicable Margins for such existing Tranche, and (ii) otherwise, as specified in the applicable Incremental Term Loan Amendment; provided that on and after the date of such incurrence of any Tranche of Incremental Term Loans which gives rise to a determination of a new Applicable Increased Term Loan Spread, the Applicable Margins for the Initial Term Loans shall be the higher of (x) the Applicable Increased Term Loan Spread for such Type of Initial Term Loans and (y) the Applicable Margin for such Type of Initial Term Loans as otherwise determined above in the absence of the foregoing clause (x). The Applicable Margins for any Tranche of Refinancing Term Loans shall be as specified in the applicable Refinancing Term Loan Amendment. The Applicable Margins for any Tranche of Extended Term Loans shall be as specified in the applicable Extension Amendment.
“Applicable Asset Sale/Recovery Event Prepayment Percentage” shall mean, at any time, 100%; provided that, if, within five Business Days (or within such later period as the Administrative Agent shall determine in its sole discretion) of the receipt of Net Sale Proceeds from the relevant Asset Sale or receipt of Net Insurance Proceeds from the relevant Recovery Event, Lead Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer certifying that on a Pro Forma Basis immediately after giving effect to such Asset Sale or Recovery Event, as applicable, and the application of the proceeds thereof, the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio is (i) less than or equal to 3.70:1.00 but greater than 3.20:1.00, the Applicable Asset Sale/Recovery Event Prepayment Percentage shall instead be 25% and (ii) less than or equal to 3.20:1.00, the Applicable Asset Sale/Recovery Event Prepayment Percentage shall instead be 0%.
“Applicable ECF Prepayment Percentage” shall mean, at any time, 50%; provided that, if at any time the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the fiscal year for which the Applicable ECF Prepayment Percentage is calculated (as set forth in an officer’s certificate delivered pursuant to Section 9.01(e) for such fiscal year) is (i) less than or equal to 3.70:1.00 but greater than 3.20:1.00 the Applicable ECF Prepayment Percentage shall instead be 25% and (ii) less than or equal to 3.20:1.00, the Applicable ECF Prepayment Percentage shall instead be 0%.
“Approved Fund” shall mean any Person (other than a natural person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural person)) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) an existing Lender, (b) an Affiliate of an existing Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages an existing Lender.
“Asset Sale” shall mean any sale, transfer or other disposition of all or any part of the property or assets of by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or entry into any Sale-Leaseback Transaction by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, pursuant to Sections 10.02(ii), (x) or (xii)(b).
“Assignment and Assumption” shall mean an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit K (appropriately completed) or such other form as shall be acceptable to the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower (such approval by Lead Borrower not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned).
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“AT Solutions” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble hereto.
“Auction” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(a).
“Auction Manager” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.19(a).
“Available Amount” shall mean, on any date (the “Determination Date”), an amount equal to:
(a) the sum of, without duplication:
(i) (A) the greater of $120,000,000 and 8.50% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured at the time of utilization of the Available Amount) plus (B) the Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount; plus
(ii) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds and the fair market value of property other than cash received by Lead Borrower since the Closing Date (A) as a contribution to its common equity capital (including any contribution to its common equity capital from any direct or indirect Parent Company with the proceeds of any issue or sale by such Parent Company of its Equity Interests) (other than any (x) Disqualified Stock or (y) Equity Interests sold to a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower or pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement of any Parent Company or its Subsidiaries) or (B) from the issue or sale of the Equity Interests of Lead Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock), in each case, to the extent not otherwise applied to any other basket or exception under this Agreement, plus
(iii) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds from the issue or sale of Disqualified Stock of Lead Borrower or debt securities of Lead Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock or debt securities issued or sold to a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower), in each case that have been converted into or exchanged for Equity Interests of Lead Borrower or any direct or indirect Parent Company (other than Disqualified Stock); plus
(iv) 100% of the aggregate amount of cash proceeds and the fair market value of property other than cash received by Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower from (A) the sale or disposition (other than to Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower) of Investments made after the Closing Date the permissibility of which was contingent upon the utilization of the Available Amount and from repayments, repurchases and redemptions of such Investments from Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries by any Person (other than Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries); (B) a return, profit, distribution or similar amounts from an Investment made after the Closing Date the permissibility of which was contingent upon the utilization of the Available Amount, to the extent that such amounts were not otherwise included in the Consolidated Net Income of Lead Borrower for such period, (C) the sale (other than to Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) of the Equity Interests of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; (D) a distribution or dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary, to the extent that such amounts were not otherwise included in the Consolidated Net Income of Lead Borrower for such period; and (E) any Investment that was made after the Closing Date in a Person that is not a subsidiary at such time that subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower; plus
(v) in the event that any Unrestricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower designated as such in reliance on the Available Amount after the Closing Date is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary or has been merged or consolidated with or into or transfers or conveys its assets to, or is liquidated into, Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, the fair market value of Lead Borrower’s Investment in such Subsidiary as of the date of such redesignation, combination or transfer (or of the assets transferred or conveyed, as applicable), after deducting any Indebtedness associated with the Unrestricted Subsidiary so designated or combined or any Indebtedness associated with the assets so transferred or conveyed (limited, to the extent that the
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designation of such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary constituted an Investment not made entirely in reliance on the Available Amount, to the percentage of such fair market value that is proportional to the portion of such Investment that was made in reliance on the Available Amount); plus
(vi) the amount of Declined Proceeds;
minus (b) the sum of:
(i) the aggregate amount of the consideration paid by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in reliance upon the Available Amount under Section 9.14(a) hereof or Section 9.14(a) of the Original Credit Agreement in connection with Permitted Acquisitions consummated on or after the Closing Date and on or prior to the Determination Date;
(ii) the aggregate amount of all Dividends made by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 10.03(xiii) hereof or Section 10.03(xiii) of the Original Credit Agreement on or after the Closing Date and on or prior to the Determination Date;
(iii) the aggregate amount of all Investments made by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 10.05(xviii) hereof or Section 10.05(xviii) of the Original Credit Agreement on or after the Closing Date and on or prior to the Determination Date; and
(iv) the aggregate amount of repayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of Indebtedness pursuant to Section 10.07(a)(i) hereof or Section 10.07(a)(i) of the Original Credit Agreement on or after the Closing Date and on or prior to the Determination Date.
“Bail-In Action” shall mean the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” shall mean, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank of America” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble hereto.
“Bankruptcy Code” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.05.
“Bankruptcy Proceedings” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(g).
“Base Rate” shall mean, for any day, a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate (which, if negative, shall be deemed to be 0.00%) plus ½ of 1%, (b) the Prime Rate and (c) the LIBO Rate for a LIBO Rate Loan with a one month Interest Period commencing on such dayTerm SOFR plus 1.00%.
“Base Rate Term Loan” shall mean each Term Loan which is designated or deemed designated as a Term Loan bearing interest at the Base Rate by Lead Borrower at the time of the incurrence thereof or conversion thereto.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” shall mean a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” shall mean 31 C.F.R. Section 1010.230.
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“Benefit Plan” shall mean any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party shall mean an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.
“Borrower Materials” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.01.
“Borrowers” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble hereto.
“Borrowing” shall mean the borrowing of the same Type of Term Loan pursuant to a single Tranche by the Borrowers from all the Lenders having Commitments with respect to such Tranche on a given date (or resulting from a conversion or conversions on such date), having, in the case of LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loans, the same Interest Period; provided that any Incremental Term Loans incurred pursuant to Section 2.01(b) shall be considered part of the related Borrowing of the then outstanding Tranche of Term Loans (if any) to which such Incremental Term Loans are added pursuant to, and in accordance with the requirements of, Section 2.15(c).
“Business Day” shall mean (i) for all purposes other than as covered by clause (ii) below, any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be in New York City a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or other government action to close and (ii) with respect to all notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, LIBO Rate Term Loans, any day which is a “Business Day” described in clause (i) above and which is also a day for trading by and between banks in the New York or London interbank Eurodollar market.any interest rate settings as to such Term SOFR Term Loan, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in respect of any such Term SOFR Term Loan and, or any other dealings to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Term SOFR Term Loan, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized or required to close under the laws of the state where the Notice Office is located.
“Capital Expenditures” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all expenditures by such Person which are required to be capitalized in accordance with U.S. GAAP and, without duplication, the amount of Capitalized Lease Obligations incurred by such Person; provided that Capital Expenditures shall not include (i) the purchase price paid in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, (ii) the purchase price of equipment that is purchased simultaneously with the trade-in of existing equipment to the extent that the gross amount of such purchase price is reduced by the credit granted by the seller of such equipment for such existing equipment being traded in at such time, (iii) expenditures made in leasehold improvements, to the extent reimbursed by the landlord, (iv) expenditures to the extent that they are actually paid for by any Person other than a Credit Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and for which no Credit Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has provided or is required to provide or incur, directly or indirectly, any consideration or monetary obligation to such third party or any other Person (whether before, during or after such period) and (v) property, plant and equipment taken in settlement of accounts.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all rental obligations of such Person which, under U.S. GAAP, are required to be capitalized on the books of such Person, in each case taken at the amount thereof accounted for as indebtedness in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
“Cash Equivalents” shall mean:
(i) U.S. Dollars, Canadian dollars, pounds sterling, euros, the national currency of any participating member state of the European Union or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, such local currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of business;
(ii) readily marketable direct obligations of any member of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or Japan, or any agency or instrumentality thereof or obligations unconditionally guaranteed
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by the full faith and credit of such country, and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having a credit rating of at least Aa3 (or the equivalent grade) by Xxxxx’x or AA- by S&P;
(iii) marketable general obligations issued by any state of the United States or any political subdivision thereof or any instrumentality thereof that are guaranteed by the full faith and credit of such state, and, at the time of acquisition thereof, having a credit rating of at least Aa3 (or the equivalent grade) by Xxxxx’x or AA- by S&P;
(iv) securities or any other evidence of Indebtedness or readily marketable direct obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States government (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support of those securities), in such case having maturities of not more than twelve months from the date of acquisition;
(v) certificates of deposit and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of twenty-four months or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding twenty-four months and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any Lender party to this Agreement or any commercial bank or trust company having, or which is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company having, a long-term unsecured debt rating of at least “A” or the equivalent thereof from S&P or “A2” or the equivalent thereof from Xxxxx’x;
(vi) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than thirty days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (iv) and (v) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (v) above;
(vii) commercial paper having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from Xxxxx’x or S&P and, in each case, maturing within twenty-four months after the date of acquisition;
(viii) money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (i) through (vii) of this definition; and
(ix) Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Person having a credit rating of at least A-2 (or the equivalent grade) by Xxxxx’x or A by S&P, maturing within twenty-four months after the date of acquisition.
“CERCLA” shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as the same has been amended and may hereafter be amended from time to time, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq.
“CFC” shall mean a Subsidiary of Lead Borrower that is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code.
“Change in Law” shall mean the occurrence after the Closing Date or, with respect to any Lender, such later date on which such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement, of (a) the adoption of or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) compliance by any Lender (or, for purposes of Section 2.10(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after such applicable date; 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 and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall be deemed to be a “Change in Law,” regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“Change of Control” shall be deemed to occur if:
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(a) any person or “group” (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Closing Date), but excluding (x) any employee benefit plan of such person and its Subsidiaries and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan, (y) any combination of Permitted Holders and (z) any one or more direct or indirect parent companies of Holdings in which the Sponsor, directly or indirectly, owns the largest percentage of such parent company’s voting Equity Interests and in which no other person or “group” directly or indirectly owns or controls (by ownership, control or otherwise) more voting Equity Interests of such parent company than the Sponsor, shall have, directly or indirectly, acquired beneficial ownership of Equity Interests representing 35% or more of the aggregate voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of Verra Mobility and the Permitted Holders shall own, directly or indirectly, less than such person or “group” of the aggregate voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of Verra Mobility;
(b) a “change of control” (or similar event) shall occur under (i) the ABL Credit Agreement, (ii) the Unsecured Notes Indenture or (iii) the definitive agreements pursuant to which any Refinancing Notes or Indebtedness permitted under Section 10.04(xxvii) or (xxix) was issued or incurred, in each case of this subclause (iii) with an aggregate outstanding principal amount in respect of such series of Refinancing Notes or other Indebtedness in excess of the Threshold Amount; or
(c) (i) Holdings shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests of Lead Borrower or (ii) Verra Mobility shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests of Holdings.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this definition or any provision of Section 13d-3 of the Exchange Act, no person or “group” shall be deemed to beneficially own Equity Interests to be acquired by such person or “group” pursuant to a stock or asset purchase agreement, merger agreement, option agreement, warrant agreement or similar agreement until the consummation of the acquisition of the Equity Interests in connection with the transactions contemplated by such agreement.
“Claim” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(g).
“Closing Date” shall mean March 1, 2018.
“CME” shall mean CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited.
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Collateral” shall mean all property (whether real, personal or otherwise) with respect to which any security interests have been granted (or purported to be granted) pursuant to any Security Document (including any Additional Security Documents), including, without limitation, all “Collateral” as described in the Security Agreement and all Mortgaged Properties; provided that in no event shall the term “Collateral” include any Excluded Collateral.
“Collateral Agent” shall mean Bank of America, in its capacity as Collateral Agent for the Secured Creditors pursuant to the Security Documents, and shall include any successor to the Collateral Agent appointed pursuant to Section 12.10.
“Commitment” shall mean any of the commitments of any Lender, whether an Initial Term Loan Commitment, Refinancing Term Loan Commitment or an Incremental Term Loan Commitment (including the 2021 Incremental Term Loan Commitment) of such Lender.
“Commodity Exchange Act” shall mean the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
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“Consolidated Current Assets” shall mean, at any time, the consolidated current assets of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such time (other than cash and Cash Equivalents, amounts related to current or deferred Taxes based on income or profits, assets held for sale, loans to third parties that are permitted under this Agreement, pension assets, deferred bank fees and derivative financial instruments).
“Consolidated Current Liabilities” shall mean, at any time, the consolidated current liabilities of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such time (other than the current portion of any Indebtedness under this Agreement, the current portion of any other long-term Indebtedness which would otherwise be included therein, accruals of Interest Expense (excluding Interest Expense that is due and unpaid), accruals for current or deferred Taxes based on income or profits, accruals of any costs or expenses related to restructuring reserves to the extent permitted to be included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA and the current portion of pension liabilities).
“Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” shall mean, with respect to any Person, for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including (i) amortization of deferred financing fees and debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses, (ii) amortization of unrecognized prior service costs and actuarial gains and losses related to pensions and other post-employment benefits and (iii) amortization of intangibles (including, without limitation, amortization of turnaround costs, goodwill and organizational costs) (excluding any such adjustment to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenditures in any future period except to the extent such adjustment is subsequently reversed), in each case of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
“Consolidated EBITDA” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any period, Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period; plus (without duplication):
(i) provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital (including state franchise taxes and similar taxes in the nature of income tax) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, franchise taxes and foreign withholding taxes and including an amount equal to the tax distributions actually made to the holders of the Equity Interests of such Person or any direct or indirect parent of such Person in respect of such period in accordance with Section 10.03(vi) as though such amounts had been paid as income taxes directly by such Person, in each case, to the extent that such provision for taxes was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(ii) the Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expenses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(iii) the Consolidated Fixed Charges of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such Consolidated Fixed Charges were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(iv) any other non-cash charges of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such non-cash charges were included in computing such Consolidated Net Income; provided that if any such non-cash charge represents an accrual or reserve for anticipated cash charges in any future period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period; plus
(v) any losses from foreign currency transactions (including losses related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such losses were taken into account in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(vi) (a) the Specified Permitted Adjustment and (b) any other cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies permitted to be added back to this definition pursuant to the definition of “Pro Forma Cost Savings” (including, without limitation, costs and expenses incurred after the First Restatement Effective Date related to employment of terminated employees incurred by such
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Person during such period to the extent such costs and expenses were deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income); plus
(vii) losses in respect of post-retirement benefits of such Person, as a result of the application of ASC 715, Compensation-Retirement Benefits, to the extent that such losses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(viii) the amount of fees and expenses incurred or reimbursed by such Person pursuant (a) to the Advisory Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date during such period or pursuant to any amendment, modification or supplement thereto or replacement thereof, so long as the Advisory Agreement, as so amended, modified, supplemented or replaced, taken as a whole, is otherwise permitted hereunder and (b) Section 10.06(xii) hereunder; plus
(ix) any proceeds from business interruption insurance received by such Person during such period, to the extent the associated losses arising out of the event that resulted in the payment of such business interruption insurance proceeds were included in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(x) any fees and expenses related to a Qualified Securitization Transaction or any Receivables Facility to the extent such fees and expenses are included in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus
(xi) the amount of loss on sales of receivables and related assets to a Securitization Entity in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction or otherwise in connection with a Receivables Facility to the extent included in computing Consolidated Net Income; minus
(xii) the amount of any gain in respect of post-retirement benefits as a result of the application of ASC 715, to the extent such gains were taken into account in computing such Consolidated Net Income; minus
(xiii) any gains from foreign currency transactions (including gains related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such gains were taken into account in computing such Consolidated Net Income; minus
(xiv) non-cash gains increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such period, other than the accrual of revenue in the ordinary course of business and other than reversals of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period,
in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
“Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio” shall mean, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated First Lien Secured Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period, in each case, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Consolidated First Lien Secured Debt” shall mean, at any time, (i) the sum of all Consolidated Indebtedness at such time that is secured by a Lien on any assets of Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, less (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such time that is secured solely by a Lien on the assets of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that is junior to the Lien securing the Obligations, less (iii) the aggregate amount of (a) unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) cash and Cash Equivalents of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries restricted solely in favor of or pursuant to (x) any ABL Credit Document, any Credit Document, any Permitted Pari Passu Notes Documents, any Refinancing Note Documents (to the extent such Refinancing Notes constitute Permitted Pari Passu Notes) or Refinancing Term Loan Amendment and (y) any Permitted Junior Debt Documents and any Refinancing Note Documents (to the extent such Refinancing Notes constitute Permitted Junior Debt), in the case of this clause (y), to the extent such cash and Cash Equivalents also secure the Indebtedness hereunder on a senior priority basis.
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“Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” shall mean, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such Test Period, in each case, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Consolidated Fixed Charges” shall mean, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:
(1) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued, to the extent such expense was deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income, including, without limitation, amortization of original issue discount, the interest component of all payments associated with Capitalized Lease Obligations, and the net of the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to Interest Rate Protection Agreements (but excluding any non-cash interest expense attributable to the mark-to-market valuation of Interest Rate Protection Agreements or other derivatives pursuant to U.S. GAAP) and excluding amortization or write-off of deferred financing fees and expensing of any other financing fees, including any expensing of bridge or commitment fees and the non-cash portion of interest expense resulting from the reduction in the carrying value under purchase accounting of outstanding Indebtedness of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries and commissions, discounts, yield and other fees and charges (including any interest expense) relating to any securitization transaction; provided that, for purposes of calculating consolidated interest expense, no effect will be given to the discount and/or premium resulting from the bifurcation of derivatives under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, as a result of the terms of the Indebtedness to which such consolidated interest expense applies; plus
(2) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; plus
(3) all cash dividends, whether paid or accrued, on any series of preferred stock or any series of Disqualified Stock of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, excluding items eliminated in consolidation, in each case, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP; minus
(4) the consolidated interest income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether received or accrued, to the extent such income was included in determining Consolidated Net Income.
“Consolidated Indebtedness” shall mean, at any time, the sum of (without duplication) (i) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (ii) all Indebtedness of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries of the type described in clause (i)(A) of the definition of “Indebtedness” and (iii) all Contingent Obligations of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness of any third Person of the type referred to in the preceding clauses (i) and (ii), in each case, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis; provided that Consolidated Indebtedness shall not include Indebtedness in respect of any Refinancing Notes or Permitted Notes that have been defeased or satisfied and discharged in accordance with the applicable indenture or with respect to which the required deposit has been made in connection with a call for repurchase or redemption to occur within the time period set forth in the applicable indenture, in each case to the extent such transactions are permitted by Section 10.07(a). For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that obligations under any Receivables Facility and any Qualified Securitization Transaction do not constitute Consolidated Indebtedness.
“Consolidated Net Income” shall mean, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the aggregate of the net income (loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP; provided that:
(i) any after-tax effect of all extraordinary (as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP prior to giving effect to Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-01, Income Statement—Extraordinary and Unusual Items (Subtopic 225-20), Simplifying Income Statement Presentation by Eliminating the Concept of Extraordinary Items), nonrecurring or unusual gains or losses or income or expenses (including related to the Transaction) or any restructuring charges or reserves, including, without limitation, any expenses
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related to any reconstruction, recommissioning or reconfiguration of fixed assets for alternate uses, retention, severance, system establishment cost, contract termination costs, costs to consolidate facilities and relocate employees, advisor fees and other out of pocket costs and non-cash charges to assess and execute operational improvement plans and restructuring programs, will be excluded;
(ii) any expenses, costs or charges incurred, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any equity issuance, Investment, acquisition, disposition, recapitalization or incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement, including a refinancing thereof (in each case whether or not successful) (including any such costs and charges incurred in connection with the Transaction), and all gains and losses realized in connection with any business disposition or any disposition of assets outside the ordinary course of business or the disposition of securities or the early extinguishment of Indebtedness, together with any related provision for taxes on any such gain, loss, income or expense will be excluded;
(iii) the net income (or loss) of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting will be excluded; provided that the income of such Person will be included to the extent of the amount of dividends or similar distributions paid in cash (or converted to cash) to the specified Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Person;
(iv) the net income (or loss) of any Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries will be calculated without deducting the income attributed to, or adding the losses attributed to, the minority equity interests of third parties in any non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary except to the extent of the dividends paid in cash (or convertible into cash) during such period on the shares of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary held by such third parties;
(v) solely for the purpose of determining the amount available under clause (a)(i)(B) of the definition of “Available Amount”, the net income (but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower (other than any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor) will be excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that net income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter or any Requirement of Law, unless such restrictions with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions have been legally waived; provided that the Consolidated Net Income of such Person will be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments actually paid in cash (or converted to cash) by any such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person in respect of such period, to the extent not already included therein;
(vi) the cumulative effect of any change in accounting principles will be excluded;
(vii) (a) any non-cash expenses resulting from the grant or periodic remeasurement of stock options, restricted stock grants or other equity incentive programs (including any stock appreciation and similar rights) and (b) any costs or expenses incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent, in the case of clause (b), that such costs or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the common equity capital of Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, will be excluded;
(viii) the effect of any non-cash impairment charges or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs of assets or liabilities resulting from the application of U.S. GAAP and the amortization of intangibles arising from the application of U.S. GAAP, including pursuant to ASC 805, Business Combinations, ASC 350, Intangibles-Goodwill and Other, or ASC 360, Property, Plant and Equipment, as applicable, will be excluded;
(ix) any net after-tax income or loss from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations and any net after-tax gains or losses on disposed, abandoned or discontinued, transferred or closed operations will be excluded;
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(x) any increase in amortization or depreciation, or effect of any adjustments to inventory, property, plant or equipment, software, goodwill and other intangibles, debt line items, deferred revenue or rent expense, any one time cash charges (such as purchased in process research and development or capitalized manufacturing profit in inventory) or any other effects, in each case, resulting from purchase accounting in connection with any acquisition prior to or following the First Restatement Effective Date will be excluded;
(xi) an amount equal to the tax distributions actually made to the holders of the Equity Interests of such Person or any direct or indirect parent of such Person in respect of such period in accordance with Section 10.03(vi) will be included as though such amounts had been paid as income taxes directly by such Person for such period;
(xii) unrealized gains and losses relating to foreign currency transactions, including those relating to mark-to-market of Indebtedness resulting from the application of U.S. GAAP, including pursuant to ASC 830, Foreign Currency Matters, (including any net loss or gain resulting from hedge arrangements for currency exchange risk) will be excluded;
(xiii) any net gain or loss in connection with the early extinguishment of Indebtedness or obligations under Interest Rate Protection Agreements or Other Hedging Agreements (including of ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging) will be excluded; and
(xiv) the amount of any restructuring, business optimization, acquisition and integration costs and charges (including, without limitation, retention, severance, systems establishment costs, excess pension charges, information technology costs, rebranding costs, contract termination costs, including future lease commitments, costs related to the start-up, closure or relocation or consolidation of facilities and costs to relocate employees) will be excluded.
“Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio” shall mean, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated Secured Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period, in each case, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Consolidated Secured Debt” shall mean, at any time, (i) the sum of all Consolidated Indebtedness at such time that is secured by a Lien on any assets of Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, less (ii) the aggregate amount of (a) unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) cash and Cash Equivalents of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries restricted solely in favor of or pursuant to (x) any ABL Credit Document, any Credit Document, any Permitted Pari Passu Notes Documents, any Refinancing Note Documents (to the extent such Refinancing Notes constitute Permitted Pari Passu Notes) or Refinancing Term Loan Amendment and (y) any Permitted Junior Debt Documents and any Refinancing Note Documents (to the extent such Refinancing Notes constitute Permitted Junior Debt), in the case of this clause (y), to the extent such cash and Cash Equivalents also secure the Indebtedness hereunder on a senior priority basis.
“Consolidated Total Assets” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the amount that would, in conformity with U.S. GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period.
“Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio” shall mean, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated Indebtedness as of the last day of such Test Period, less the aggregate amount of (a) unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) cash and Cash Equivalents of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries restricted solely in favor of or pursuant to (x) any ABL Credit Document, any Credit Document, any Permitted Pari Passu Notes Documents, any Refinancing Note Documents (to the extent such Refinancing Notes constitute Permitted Pari Passu Notes) or Refinancing Term Loan Amendment and (y) any Permitted Junior Debt Documents and any Refinancing Note Documents (to the extent such Refinancing Notes constitute Permitted Junior Debt), in the case of this clause (y), to the extent such cash and Cash Equivalents also secure the Indebtedness hereunder on a senior priority basis, to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period, in each case, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
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“Contingent Obligation” shall mean, as to any Person, any obligation of such Person as a result of such Person being a general partner of any other Person, unless the underlying obligation is expressly made non-recourse as to such general partner, and any obligation of such Person guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness (“primary obligations”) of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any such obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (x) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (y) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Contingent Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. Except as otherwise provided herein, the amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Contract Consideration” shall have the meaning provided to such term in the definition of “Excess Cash Flow.”
“Contribution Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount not greater than the aggregate amount of cash contributions (other than the proceeds from the issuance of Disqualified Stock, contributions by Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any Specified Equity Contribution (as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement) or any similar “cure amounts” with respect to any financial covenant under any subsequent ABL Credit Agreement) made to the capital of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date (whether through the issuance or sale of capital stock or otherwise), in each case, to the extent not otherwise applied to increase the Available Amount or any other basket or exception under this Agreement; provided that (a) the maturity date of such Contribution Indebtedness is no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Contribution Indebtedness was incurred and (b) such Contribution Indebtedness is so designated as Contribution Indebtedness pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Lead Borrower promptly following incurrence thereof.
“Covered Entity” shall mean any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Covered Party” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.24(a).
“Credit Documents” shall mean this Agreement, Amendment and Restatement No. 1, Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2, each Note, the Guaranty Agreement, each Security Document, the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, any First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, each Incremental Term Loan Amendment, each Refinancing Term Loan Amendment and each Extension Amendment.
“Credit Event” shall mean the making of any Term Loan.
“Credit Party” shall mean Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount” shall mean, as of any date, an amount equal to the sum of (i) aggregate cumulative sum of Retained Excess Cash Flow Amounts for all Excess Cash Flow Payment Periods ending after the First Restatement Effective Date and prior to such date and (ii) the “Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount” under the Original Credit Agreement immediately prior to the First Restatement Effective Date.
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“Debt Fund Affiliate” shall mean any Affiliate of the Sponsor (other than Holdings, Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries) that invests in commercial bank loans in the ordinary course of business at the time of the relevant sale or assignment thereto pursuant to Section 2.21 and so long as the individuals who are employees, officers or directors of the Sponsor and who are primarily responsible for the advisement or management of such Affiliate do not include any individual who is primarily responsible for the advisement or management of Holdings or Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, and the individuals who are employees, officers or directors of the Sponsor and who are primarily responsible for the advisement and management of Holdings or Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries do not have the right to direct the credit decisions of such Affiliate.
“Debtor Relief Laws” shall mean the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.
“Declined Proceeds” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.02(k).
“Default” shall mean any event, act or condition which with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Defaulting Lender” shall mean, 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 Lead Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Xxxxxx’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 or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent 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 Xxxxxx’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Xxxxxx’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 or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or Lead Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, other than via an Undisclosed Administration, (i) become the subject of (A) a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or (B) a Bail-In Action, or (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; 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 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 Lead Borrower and each other Lender promptly following such determination.
“Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement” shall mean each Interest Rate Protection Agreement and Other Hedging Agreements entered into by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with a Guaranteed Creditor that is (i) so designated as a “Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement” in a writing executed by such
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Guaranteed Creditor and Lead Borrower and delivered to the Administrative Agent (for purposes of the preceding notice requirement, all Interest Rate Protection Agreements under a specified master agreement, whether previously entered into or to be entered into in the future, may be designated as Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreements pursuant to a single notice); provided that the Lead Borrower may not make any such designation during the continuance of an Event of Default and (ii) secured by the Security Documents. It is hereby understood that an Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Other Hedging Agreement may not be a Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement to the extent it is similarly treated as such under the ABL Credit Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall any agreement evidencing any Excluded Swap Obligation with respect to a Subsidiary Guarantor constitute a Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement with respect to such Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Designated Non-cash Consideration” shall mean the fair market value of non-cash consideration received by Lead Borrower or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale that is so designated as Designated Non-cash Consideration pursuant to an officers’ certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-cash Consideration.
“Designated Treasury Services Agreement” shall mean each Treasury Services Agreement entered into by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with a Guaranteed Creditor that is (i) so designated as a “Designated Treasury Services Agreement” in a writing executed by such Guaranteed Creditor and Lead Borrower and delivered to the Administrative Agent; provided that Lead Borrower may not make any such designation during the continuance of an Event of Default and (ii) secured by the Security Documents. It is hereby understood that a Treasury Services Agreement may not be a Designated Treasury Services Agreement to the extent it is similarly treated as such under the ABL Credit Agreement.
“Determination Date” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of the term “Available Amount.”
“Disqualified Lender” shall mean (a) competitors of Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and any person controlling or controlled by any such competitor, in each case identified in writing by Lead Borrower (or its counsel) to the Administrative Agent at any time, (b) institutions previously designated in writing by Lead Borrower (or its counsel) to the Administrative Agent (or its counsel) on March 14, 2021 and (c) any affiliates of any such competitors, controlling or controlled persons or institutions reasonably identifiable as affiliates solely on the basis of their names (other than bona fide fixed income investors or debt funds that are affiliates of competitors described in clause (a) above but not of institutions described in clause (b) above) or identified by Lead Borrower (or its counsel) in writing to the Administrative Agent at any time (it being understood that any update pursuant to clause (a) or clause (c) above shall not become effective until the third business day following the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such notice, and, in any event, shall not apply retroactively or to any entity that is party to a pending trade as of the date of such notice).
“Disqualified Stock” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any capital stock of such Person other than common Equity Interests or Qualified Preferred Stock of such Person.
“Dividend” shall mean, with respect to any Person, that such Person has paid a dividend, distribution or returned any equity capital to its stockholders, partners or members or made or caused to be made any other payment or delivery of property (other than common equity of such Person) to its stockholders, partners or members as such, or redeemed, retired, purchased or otherwise acquired, directly or indirectly, for consideration any shares of any class of its capital stock or any partnership or membership interests outstanding on or after the First Restatement Effective Date (or any options or warrants issued by such Person with respect to its Equity Interests).
“Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“EEA Financial Institution” shall mean (a) any institution 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 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.
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“EEA Member Country” shall mean any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” shall mean any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Effective Yield” shall mean, as to any Term Loan or other Indebtedness, the effective yield on such Term Loan or other Indebtedness as mutually determined by the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower in good faith, taking into account the applicable interest rate margins in effect from time to time, any interest rate floors or similar devices in effect from time to time and all fees, including upfront or similar fees or original issue discount (amortized over the shorter of (x) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Term Loan or other Indebtedness and (y) the four years following the date of incurrence thereof) payable generally to lenders providing such Term Loan or other Indebtedness (and, in the case of Incremental Term Loans added to (and forming part of) of such Term Loans of the applicable Tranche, weighted average original issue discount based on the relative sizes of the Term Loans immediately prior to the addition of such Incremental Term Loans, on the one hand, and such Incremental Term Loans, on the other), but excluding any arrangement, structuring, commitment, underwriting or similar fees (regardless of whether paid in whole or in part to any lenders) and other fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally shared with the relevant lenders and customary consent fees paid generally to consenting lenders. Each mutual determination of the “Effective Yield” by the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower shall be conclusive and binding on all Lenders absent manifest error.
“Eligible Transferee” shall mean and include any existing Lender, any Approved Fund or any commercial bank, an insurance company, a finance company, a financial institution, any fund that invests in loans or any other “accredited investor” (as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act) but in any event excluding (i) any natural person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, a natural person), (ii) any Disqualified Lender (solely, in the case of a sale of a participation to such Person, to the extent that the list of Disqualified Lenders has been disclosed to all Lenders) and (iii) except to the extent provided in Sections 2.19, 2.20, 2.21 and 13.04(d) and (g), the Sponsor, Holdings, each of the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries and Affiliates (other than Debt Fund Affiliates).
“Environment” shall mean ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, land surface and sub-surface strata and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.
“Environmental Claims” shall mean any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, directives, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations and/or proceedings relating in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any approval given, under any such Environmental Law, including, without limitation, (a) any and all Environmental Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for enforcement, investigation, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law, and (b) any and all Environmental Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief arising out of or relating to an alleged injury or threat of injury to human health, safety or the Environment due to the presence of Hazardous Materials, including any Release or threat of Release of any Hazardous Materials.
“Environmental Law” shall mean any federal, state, provincial, foreign or local statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, binding guideline and rule of common law, now or hereafter in effect and in each case as amended, and any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of the Environment, occupational health or Hazardous Materials.
“Equity Interests” of any Person shall mean any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any preferred stock, any limited or general partnership interest and any limited liability company membership interest, but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Indebtedness convertible into or exchangeable for the foregoing.
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“ERISA” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and, unless the context indicates otherwise, the regulations promulgated and rulings issued thereunder. Section references to ERISA are to ERISA, as in effect at the date of this Agreement and any successor Section thereof.
“ERISA Affiliate” shall mean each person (as defined in Section 3(9) of ERISA) which together with Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower would be deemed to be a “single employer” within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code and solely with respect to Section 412 of the Code, Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
“ERISA Event” shall mean (a) any “reportable event,” as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, but excluding any event for which the 30-day notice period is waived with respect to a Plan, (b) any failure to make a required contribution to any Plan that would result in the imposition of a Lien or other encumbrance or the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standards set forth in Section 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 or 303 of ERISA, or the arising of such a Lien or encumbrance, with respect to a Plan, (c) the incurrence by Lead Borrower, a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, or an ERISA Affiliate of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan or the withdrawal or partial withdrawal (including under Section 4062(e) of ERISA) of any of Lead Borrower, a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, or an ERISA Affiliate from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan or the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 of ERISA, (e) the receipt by Lead Borrower, a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, or an ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice of intent to terminate any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan, (f) the adoption of any amendment to a Plan that would require the provision of security pursuant to the Code, ERISA or other applicable law, (g) the receipt by Lead Borrower, a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, or an ERISA Affiliate of any written notice concerning statutory liability arising from the withdrawal or partial withdrawal of Lead Borrower, a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower, or an ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or a written determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, (h) the occurrence of any non-exempt “prohibited transaction” (within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) with respect to which Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary is a “disqualified person” (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code) or with respect to which Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary could reasonably be expected to have liability, (i) the occurrence of any event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of any Plan or the appointment of a trustee to administer any Plan, (j) the filing of any request for or receipt of a minimum funding waiver under Section 412(c) of the Code with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (k) a determination that any Plan is in “at-risk” status (as defined in Section 303(i)(4) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4) of the Code), (l) the receipt by Lead Borrower, a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, in endangered or critical status under Section 305 of ERISA, or (m) any other extraordinary event or condition with respect to a Plan or Multiemployer Plan which would reasonably be expected to result in a Lien or any acceleration of any statutory requirement to fund all or a substantial portion of the unfunded accrued benefit liabilities of such plan.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning provided in Section 11.
“Excess Cash Flow” shall mean, for any period, the remainder of (a) the sum of, without duplication, (i) Consolidated Net Income for such period and (ii) the decrease, if any, in Adjusted Consolidated Working Capital from the first day to the last day of such period (but excluding any such decrease in Adjusted Consolidated Working Capital arising from a Permitted Acquisition or dispositions of any Person by Lead Borrower and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period), minus (b) the sum of, without duplication, (i) the aggregate amount of all Capital Expenditures made by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash, (ii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (iii) below, the aggregate amount of all cash payments made in respect of all Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments (excluding Investments in Cash Equivalents or in Lead Borrower or a Person that, prior to and immediately following the making of such Investment, was and remains a Restricted Subsidiary) permitted under Section 10.05 made by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period, in each case to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash, (iii) without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior periods, the aggregate consideration required to be paid in cash by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to binding contracts (the “Contract Consideration”) entered into prior to or during such period relating to Permitted
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Acquisitions, Investments or Capital Expenditures to be consummated or made during the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Lead Borrower following the end of such period; provided that to the extent the aggregate amount of Internally Generated Cash actually utilized to finance such Permitted Acquisitions, Investments or Capital Expenditures during such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters is less than the Contract Consideration, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow at the end of such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, (iv) Dividends made in cash during such fiscal year to the extent otherwise permitted by Section 10.03(iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix) or (x), to the extent paid for with Internally Generated Cash, (v) (A) the aggregate amount of Scheduled Repayments and other permanent principal payments of Indebtedness of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than (x) voluntary prepayments of Term Loans, Refinancing Notes and Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 10.04(xxvii) that rank pari passu with the Term Loans, (y) prepayments of revolving loans under the ABL Credit Agreement or any other revolving credit facility secured by a Lien on the Collateral ranking pari passu with the Lien on the Collateral securing the ABL Credit Agreement or senior or pari passu with the Lien on the Collateral securing the Indebtedness hereunder and (z) prepayments of any other revolving credit facility except to the extent accompanied by a permanent reduction in commitments therefor) in each case to the extent paid for with Internally Generated Cash and (B) prepayments and repayments of Term Loans pursuant to Sections 5.02(d) or 5.02(f) to the extent the Asset Sale or Recovery Event giving rise to such prepayment or repayment resulted in an increase to Consolidated Net Income (but not in excess of the amount of such increase), (vi) the portion of Transaction Costs and other transaction costs and expenses related to items (i)-(v) above paid in cash during such fiscal year not deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income, (vii) the increase, if any, in Adjusted Consolidated Working Capital from the first day to the last day of such period (but excluding any such increase in Adjusted Consolidated Working Capital arising from a Permitted Acquisition or disposition of any Person by Lead Borrower and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period), (viii) cash payments in respect of non-current liabilities (other than Indebtedness) to the extent made with Internally Generated Cash, (ix) the aggregate amount of expenditures actually made by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries with Internally Generated Cash during such period (including expenditures for the payment of financing fees, taxes, rent and pension and other retirement benefits) to the extent such expenditures are not expensed during such period, (x) the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or penalty payments actually paid with Internally Generated Cash during such period that are required to be made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness, (xi) Dividends made pursuant to clause (xiii) of Section 10.03 or, to the extent used to service Indebtedness of any Parent Company, clause (xv) of Section 10.03, and (xii) all non-cash gains to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any non-cash gains to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated Net Income in any prior period).
“Excess Cash Flow Payment Date” shall mean the date occurring 10 Business Days after the date on which the Borrower’s annual audited financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 9.01(b) (commencing with respect to the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022).
“Excess Cash Flow Payment Period” shall mean, with respect to any Excess Cash Flow Payment Date, the immediately preceding fiscal year of the Borrower.
“Exchanged Term Loans” shall mean each Term B-1 Loan outstanding on the First Restatement Effective Date (or portion thereof) and held by a Rollover Initial Term Lender on the First Restatement Effective Date immediately prior to the extension of credit hereunder on the First Restatement Effective Date and as to which the Rollover Initial Term Lender thereof has consented to exchange into an Initial Term Loan and the Administrative Agent has allocated into an Initial Term Loan.
“Excluded Collateral” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
“Excluded Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of Lead Borrower that is (a) a Foreign Subsidiary, (b) an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (c) a FSHCO, (d) not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Lead Borrower or one or more of its Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries, (e) an Immaterial Subsidiary, (f) established or created pursuant to Section 10.05(xi) and meeting the requirements of the proviso thereto; provided that such Subsidiary shall only be an Excluded Subsidiary for the period prior to such acquisition, (g) prohibited (but only for so long as such Subsidiary would be prohibited) by applicable law, rule or regulation from guaranteeing the facilities under this Agreement, or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a guarantee, in each case, unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received (but without
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obligation to seek the same), (h) prohibited (but only for so long as such Subsidiary would be prohibited) from guaranteeing the Obligations by any contractual obligation in existence (x) on the Closing Date or (y) at the time of the acquisition of such Subsidiary after the Closing Date (to the extent such prohibition was not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition), (i) a Subsidiary with respect to which a guarantee by it of the Obligations would result in a material adverse tax consequence to Holdings, Lead Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, as reasonably determined in good faith by Lead Borrower and notified in writing to the Administrative Agent, (j) a not-for-profit Subsidiary or a Subsidiary regulated as an insurance company, (k) any other Subsidiary with respect to which Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent reasonably agree in writing that the cost or other consequences of guaranteeing the Obligations shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, and (l) any Domestic Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of a CFC or that is a FSHCO; provided that, notwithstanding the above, (x) Lead Borrower may designate any Restricted Subsidiary that would otherwise constitute an “Excluded Subsidiary” hereunder as a “Subsidiary Guarantor” and cause such Subsidiary to execute the Guaranty Agreement as a “Subsidiary Guarantor” (and from and after the execution of the Guaranty Agreement, such Subsidiary shall no longer constitute an “Excluded Subsidiary” unless released from its obligations under the Guaranty Agreement as a “Subsidiary Guarantor” in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; provided that such Restricted Subsidiary shall not be released solely on the basis that it was not required to become a Guarantor) so long as the Administrative Agent has consented to such designation, and such Subsidiary shall grant a perfected lien on substantially all of its assets to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors regardless of whether such Subsidiary is organized in a jurisdiction other than the United States (notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement), pursuant to arrangements reasonably agreed between the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower and subject to customary limitations in such jurisdiction to be reasonably agreed to between the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower and (y) if a Subsidiary serves as a guarantor under the ABL Credit Agreement, then it shall not constitute an “Excluded Subsidiary.” For the avoidance of doubt, no Borrower shall constitute an Excluded Subsidiary.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, (x) as it relates to all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder (determined after giving effect to any “keepwell, support or other agreement” for the benefit of such Guarantor and any and all guarantees of such Guarantor’s Swap Obligations by other Credit Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or (y) as it relates to all or a portion of the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, such Swap Obligation (or such security interest in respect thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder (determined after giving effect to any “keepwell, support or other agreement” for the benefit of such Guarantor and any and all guarantees of such Guarantor’s Swap Obligations by other Credit Parties) at the time the security interest of such Guarantor becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” shall mean, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Credit Document, (a) Taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income and franchise (and similar) Taxes imposed on it in lieu of income Taxes, either pursuant to the laws of the jurisdiction in which such recipient is organized or in which the principal office or applicable lending office of such recipient is located (or any political subdivision thereof) or as a result of any other present or former connection between it and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than a connection arising from such Administrative Agent, Lender or other recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Credit Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Term Loan or Credit Document), (b) any branch profits Taxes under Section 884(a) of the Code or any similar Tax imposed by any jurisdiction described in clause (a) above, (c) in the case of a Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by a Borrower under Section 2.13), any U.S. federal withholding Tax that (i) is imposed on amounts payable
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to or for the account of such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office), except to the extent such recipient (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, immediately before the designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Credit Parties with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or (ii) is attributable to such recipient’s failure to comply with Section 5.04(b) or Section 5.04(c), (d) any Taxes imposed under FATCA and (e) U.S. federal backup withholding Taxes pursuant to Code Section 3406.
“Existing Term Loan Tranche” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Extended Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean, with respect to any Tranche of Extended Term Loans, the date specified as such in the applicable Extension Amendment.
“Extended Term Loans” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Extending Term Loan Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(c).
“Extension” shall mean any establishment of Extended Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.14 and the applicable Extension Amendment.
“Extension Amendment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(d).
“Extension Election” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(c).
“Extension Request” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“Extension Series” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.14(a).
“FATCA” shall mean Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations thereunder or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code as of the date of this Agreement (or any such amended or successor version), any intergovernmental agreements between a non-U.S. jurisdiction and the United States with respect to any of the foregoing and any Requirement of Law adopted and any agreements entered into pursuant to any such intergovernmental agreement.
“FCPA” shall mean the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
“Federal Funds Rate” shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System on such day, 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, and (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 reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.
“Fees” shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to or referred to in Section 4.01.
“First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean any First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit M.
“First Restatement Effective Date” shall have the meaning provided in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement No. 1, such date being March 26, 2021.
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“Flood Insurance Laws” shall mean, collectively, (i) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (iii) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (v) the Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.
“Foreign Asset Sale” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.02(j).
“Foreign Pension Plan” shall mean any plan, fund (including, without limitation, any superannuation fund) or other similar program established or maintained outside the United States by any Borrower or any one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries primarily for the benefit of employees of such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiaries residing outside the United States, which plan, fund or other similar program provides, or results in, retirement income, a deferral of income in contemplation of retirement or payments to be made upon termination of employment, and which plan is not subject to ERISA or the Code.
“Foreign Recovery Event” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.02(j).
“Foreign Subsidiaries” shall mean each Subsidiary of a Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“FSHCO” shall mean any Domestic Subsidiary that is a disregarded entity that has no material assets other than Equity Interests in one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs.
“Governmental Authority” shall mean the government of the United States of America, any other, supranational authority or nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state, provincial or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
“Guaranteed Creditors” shall mean and include (x) each of the Lender Creditors, (y) any Person that was the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender and any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender (even if the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or such Lender subsequently ceases to be the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or a Lender under this Agreement for any reason) (i) at the time of entry into a particular Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Designated Treasury Services Agreement or (ii) in the case of a Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Designated Treasury Services Agreement existing on the Closing Date, on the Closing Date and (z) any other Secured Creditor.
“Guarantor” shall mean and include Holdings, each Borrower (other than with respect to its own Obligations) and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Guaranty” shall mean, as to any Guarantor, the guarantees granted by such Guarantor pursuant to the terms of the Guaranty Agreement.
“Guaranty Agreement” shall mean that certain First Lien Guaranty Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Guarantors party thereto and each additional Guarantor that becomes a party thereto from time to time.
“Hazardous Materials” shall mean (a) any petroleum or petroleum products, radioactive materials, asbestos in any form that is or could become friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon gas; (b) any chemicals, materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of “hazardous substances,” “hazardous waste,” “hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous substances,” “restricted hazardous waste,” “toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,” “contaminants,” or “pollutants,” or words of similar import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and (c) any other chemical, material or substance regulated under any Environmental Law.
“Holdings” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble hereto.
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“Immaterial Subsidiary” shall mean any Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower that, as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period, does not have, when taken together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries, (a) assets in excess of 5.00% of Consolidated Total Assets; or (b) revenues for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such date in excess of 5.00% of the combined revenues of Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period.
“Incremental Amount” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the greater of $250,000,000 and 100% of Consolidated EBITDA of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for the most recently ended Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) (the “First Lien Fixed Dollar Incremental Amount”), plus (b) an amount (the “Prepayment Available Incremental Amount”) equal to the sum of all voluntary prepayments of Term Loans, Refinancing Notes and Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 10.04(xxvii) (limited, in the case of any voluntary prepayment in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.19 or Section 2.20 or similar provisions in the definitive documentation with respect to such Refinancing Notes or other Indebtedness, to the cash payment made by any Credit Party or Restricted Subsidiary therefor) (in each case other than with the proceeds of long-term Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness under the ABL Credit Agreement)) in each case prior to such date; provided that no Incremental Term Loan or Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 10.04(xxvii) in reliance on the Prepayment Available Incremental Amount shall be secured on a greater priority basis than that by which the Indebtedness so repaid and underlying such portion of the Prepayment Available Incremental Amount so utilized was secured, less (c) the aggregate principal amount of Incremental Term Loans incurred pursuant to Section 2.15(a)(v)(x) and Permitted Pari Passu Notes or Permitted Junior Debt incurred pursuant to Section 10.04(xxvii)(A)(1) prior to such date (clauses (a), (b) and (c), collectively, the “Fixed Dollar Incremental Amount”), plus (d) an unlimited amount so long as either (i) (A) in the case of any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with any Lien on the Collateral securing the Obligations, the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of such date would not exceed either (x) 4.20:1.00 or (y) at the election of Lead Borrower in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period, (B) solely for purposes of Section 10.04(xxvii), in the case of any Permitted Junior Debt consisting of Indebtedness secured by the Collateral on a junior-lien basis relative to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Obligations, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio, determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of such date would not exceed either (x) 5.20:1.00 or (y) at the election of Lead Borrower in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period or (C) solely for purposes of Section 10.04(xxvii), in the case of any Permitted Junior Debt consisting of unsecured Indebtedness, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of such date would not either (x) exceed 5.20:1.00 or (y) at the election of Lead Borrower in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period or (ii) the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of such date would not be less than either (x) 2.00:1.00 or (y) at the election of Lead Borrower in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period (amounts pursuant to this clause (d), the “Incurrence-Based Incremental Amount” and each of clauses (d)(i)(A), (d)(i)(B), (d)(i)(C) and (d)(ii), an “Incurrence-Based Incremental Facility Test”) (it being understood that (1) the Borrowers may utilize the Incurrence-Based Incremental Amount prior to the Fixed Dollar Incremental Amount and that amounts under each of the Fixed Dollar Incremental Amount and the Incurrence-Based Incremental Amount may be used in a single transaction and (2) any amounts utilized under the Fixed Dollar Incremental Amount shall be reclassified, as Lead Borrower may elect from time to time, as incurred under the Incurrence-Based Incremental Amount if the Borrower meets any applicable Incurrence-Based Incremental Facility Test at such time on a Pro Forma Basis, and if any applicable Incurrence-Based Incremental Facility Test would be satisfied on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of any subsequent Test Period after the initial utilization under the Fixed Dollar Incremental Amount, such reclassification shall be deemed to have automatically occurred whether or not elected by Lead Borrower).
“Incremental Term Loan” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.01(b).
“Incremental Term Loan Amendment” shall mean an amendment to this Agreement among the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and each Lender or Eligible Transferee providing the Incremental Term Loan Commitments to be established thereby, which amendment shall be not inconsistent with Section 2.15.
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“Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date” shall mean, with respect to each Incremental Term Loan, each date on which Incremental Term Loans are incurred pursuant to Section 2.01(b), which date shall be the date of the effectiveness of the respective Incremental Term Loan Amendment pursuant to which such Incremental Term Loans are to be made.
“Incremental Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, for each Lender, any commitment to make Incremental Term Loans provided by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.15 on a given Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date, in such amount as agreed to by such Lender in the Incremental Term Loan Amendment delivered pursuant to Section 2.15, as the same may be terminated pursuant to Sections 4.02 and/or 11.
“Incremental Term Loan Commitment Requirements” shall mean, with respect to any provision of an Incremental Term Loan Commitment on a given Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date, the satisfaction of each of the following conditions: (a) no Event of Default then exists or would result therefrom (provided, that with respect to any Incremental Term Loan Commitment requested with respect to any Limited Condition Transaction, such requirement shall be limited to the absence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 11.01 or Section 11.05); (b) the delivery by the relevant Credit Parties of such technical amendments, modifications and/or supplements to the respective Security Documents as are reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to ensure that the additional Obligations to be incurred pursuant to the Incremental Term Loan Commitments are secured by, and entitled to the benefits of, the relevant Security Documents, and each of the Lenders hereby agrees to, and authorizes the Collateral Agent to enter into, any such technical amendments, modifications or supplements and (c) the delivery by Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent of an officer’s certificate executed by a Responsible Officer certifying as to compliance with preceding clause (a); it being understood that in no event shall any representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Credit Documents be required to be made or true and correct on any Incremental Term Loan Borrowing Date except to the extent required by the Lenders providing such Incremental Term Loan Commitment.
“Incremental Term Loan Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.15(b).
“Indebtedness” shall mean, as to any Person, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness (including principal, interest, fees and charges) of such Person (A) for borrowed money or (B) for the deferred purchase price of property or services, (ii) the maximum amount available to be drawn under all letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances and similar obligations issued for the account of such Person and all unpaid drawings in respect of such letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances and similar obligations, (iii) all Indebtedness of the types described in clause (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (vi) or (vii) of this definition secured by any Lien on any property owned by such Person, whether or not such Indebtedness has been assumed by such Person (provided that, if the Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable in respect of such Indebtedness, such Indebtedness shall be deemed to be in an amount equal to the lesser of (x) the aggregate unpaid amount of Indebtedness secured by such Lien and (y) the fair market value of the property to which such Lien relates as determined in good faith by such Person), (iv) the aggregate amount of all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person, (v) all Contingent Obligations of such Person, (vi) all obligations under any Interest Rate Protection Agreement, any Other Hedging Agreement, any Treasury Services Agreement or under any similar type of agreement and (vii) all Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities of such Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness shall not include (a) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred by any Person in accordance with customary practices and in the ordinary course of business of such Person or (b) earn-outs and contingent payments in respect of acquisitions except to the extent that the liability on account of any such earn-outs or contingent payment has become fixed, due and payable for more than 10 Business Days without being paid and is required by U.S. GAAP to be reflected as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.01(a).
“Indemnified Taxes” shall mean Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Credit Document other than (i) Excluded Taxes and (ii) Other Taxes.
“Independent Assets or Operations” shall mean, with respect to any Parent Company, that such Parent Company’s total assets, revenues, income from continuing operations before income taxes and cash flows from operating activities (excluding in each case amounts related to its investment in Lead Borrower and the Restricted
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Subsidiaries), determined in accordance with GAAP and as shown on the most recent balance sheet of such Parent Company, is more than 5.00% of such Parent Company’s corresponding consolidated amount.
“Initial Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date” shall mean, for any Tranche of Incremental Term Loans, the final maturity date set forth for such Tranche of Incremental Term Loans in the Incremental Term Loan Amendment relating thereto; provided that the initial final maturity date for all Incremental Term Loans of a given Tranche shall be the same date.
“Initial Maturity Date for Initial Term Loans” shall mean the date that is seven years after the First Restatement Effective Date, or if such date is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day.
“Initial Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, with respect to an Additional Refinancing Term Loan Lender, the commitment of such Additional Refinancing Term Loan Lender to make an Additional Initial Term Loan hereunder on the First Restatement Effective Date, in the amount set forth opposite such Xxxxxx’s name on Schedule 2.01, as the same may be terminated pursuant to Sections 4.02 and/or 11. The aggregate amount of the Initial Term Loan Commitments of all Additional Refinancing Term Loan Lenders shall equal the outstanding aggregate principal amount of Non-Exchanged Term Loans minus $215,642,005.40.
“Initial Term Loans” shall mean (i) prior to the 2021 Incremental Term Loan Conversion Date, the Term Loans made on the First Restatement Effective Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) and (ii) on and after the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date, the Term Loans made on the First Restatement Effective Date pursuant to Section 2.01(a) and the 2021 Incremental Term Loans.
“Initial Tranche” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of the term “Tranche.”
“Intellectual Property” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.20.
“Interest Determination Date” shall mean, with respect to any LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loan, the second Business Day prior to the commencement of any Interest Period relating to such LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loan.
“Interest Expense” shall mean the aggregate consolidated interest expense (net of interest income) of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with U.S. GAAP, including amortization or original issue discount on any Indebtedness and amortization of all fees payable in connection with the incurrence of such Indebtedness, including, without limitation, the interest portion of any deferred payment obligation and the interest component of any Capitalized Lease Obligations, and, to the extent not included in such interest expense, any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income and gains on such hedging obligations, and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities.
“Interest Payment Date” shall mean (a) with respect to any Base Rate Term Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period.
“Interest Period” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.09.
“Interest Rate Protection Agreement” shall mean any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement.
“Internally Generated Cash” shall mean cash generated from Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries’ operations or borrowings under the ABL Credit Agreement, any similar working capital facility permitted under Section 10.04 or any Qualified Securitization Transaction or Receivables Facility permitted under Section 10.04 and not representing (i) a reinvestment by Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries of the Net
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Sale Proceeds of any Asset Sale or Net Insurance Proceeds of any Recovery Event, (ii) the proceeds of any issuance of any Equity Interests or any Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (excluding borrowings under the ABL Credit Agreement, any similar working capital facility permitted under Section 10.04 or any Qualified Securitization Transaction or Receivables Facility permitted under Section 10.04) or (iii) any credit received by Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any trade-in of property for substantially similar property or any “like kind exchange” of assets.
“Investments” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05.
“ISDA Definitions” shall mean the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
“Junior Representative” shall mean, with respect to any series of Permitted Junior Debt, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Junior Debt is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained and each of their successors in such capacities.
“Latest Maturity Date” shall mean, at any time, the latest Maturity Date applicable to any Term Loan hereunder at such time, including the latest maturity date of any Incremental Term Loan, Refinancing Term Loan or Extended Term Loan, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.
“LCT Election” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.03.
“LCT Test Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.03.
“Lead Arranger” shall mean Bank of America, N.A. in its capacity as lead arranger and sole bookrunner (including, for the avoidance of doubt, in its capacity as lead arranger and sole bookrunner for the 2021 Incremental Term Loans).
“Lead Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble hereto.
“Lender” shall mean each financial institution listed on Schedule 2.01, as well as any Person that becomes a “Lender” hereunder pursuant to Section 2.13, 2.15, 2.18 or 13.04(b).
“Lender Creditors” shall mean the Agents, the Lenders and the Indemnified Persons.
“LIBO Rate” shall mean: (a) for any Interest Period, with respect to a LIBO Rate Term Loan, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or a comparable or successor rate, as published on the applicable Bloomberg screenpage (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated) (the “LIBOR Screen Rate”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; and (b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Term Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at approximately 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 herewith, 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. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, the LIBO Rate shall not at any time be less than 0.00% per annum.
“LIBO Rate Term Loan” shall mean each Term Loan which is designated as a Term Loan bearing interest at the LIBO Rate by Lead Borrower at the time of the incurrence thereof or conversion thereto.
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“LIBOR Replacement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“LIBOR Successor Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(a).
“LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes” shall mean, with respect to any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definition of Business Day, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such LIBOR Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such LIBOR Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Credit Document).
“Lien” shall mean any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, security deposit arrangement, encumbrance, deemed or statutory trust, security conveyance, lien (statutory or other), preference, priority or other security agreement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, and any lease having substantially the same effect as any of the foregoing).
“Limited Condition Acquisition” shall mean any acquisition (including by way of merger) or similar Investment whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, financing.
“Limited Condition Transaction” shall mean any acquisition (including by way of merger) or similar Investment (including the assumption or incurrence of Indebtedness), the making of any Dividend and/or the making of any voluntary or optional payment or prepayment on or redemption or acquisition for value of any Indebtedness subject to Section 10.07(a).
“Limited Originator Recourse” shall mean a letter of credit, cash collateral account or other such credit enhancement issued in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness by a Securitization Entity under a Qualified Securitization Transaction, in each case, solely to the extent required to satisfy Standard Securitization Undertakings.
“Loans” shall mean the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement.
“Location” of any Person shall mean such Person’s “location” as determined pursuant to Section 9-307 of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York.
“Majority Lenders” of any Tranche shall mean those Non-Defaulting Lenders which would constitute the Required Lenders under, and as defined in, this Agreement if all outstanding Obligations of the other Tranches under this Agreement were repaid in full and all Commitments with respect thereto were terminated.
“Margin Stock” shall have the meaning provided in Regulation U.
“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean (i) a material adverse effect on the business, assets, financial condition or results of operations of Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) a material and adverse effect on the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, taken as a whole, under the Credit Documents or (iii) a material and adverse effect on the ability of the Credit Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their payment obligations under the Credit Documents.
“Material Real Property” shall mean each parcel of Real Property that is now or hereafter owned in fee by any Credit Party that (together with any other parcels constituting a single site or operating property) has a fair market value (as determined by Lead Borrower in good faith) of at least $27,000,000.
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“Maturity Date” shall mean (a) with respect to any Initial Term Loans, the Initial Maturity Date for Initial Term Loans and (b) with respect to any Tranche of Extended Term Loans, the Extended Term Loan Maturity Date applicable thereto. For the avoidance of doubt, the parties understand that no waiver of any Default, Event of Default or mandatory prepayment shall constitute an extension of the Maturity Date.
“Minimum Borrowing Amount” shall mean $1,000,000.
“Minimum Purchase Condition” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.19(b).
“Moody’s” shall mean Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc.
“Mortgage” shall mean a mortgage, debenture, leasehold mortgage, deed of trust, leasehold deed of trust, deed to secure debt, leasehold deed to secure debt or similar security instrument in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors, as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time.
“Mortgaged Property” shall mean any Material Real Property of Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries which is required to be encumbered by a Mortgage.
“Multiemployer Plan” shall mean a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA and subject to Title IV of ERISA under which Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower has any obligation or liability, including on account of an ERISA Affiliate.
“Net Debt Proceeds” shall mean, with respect to any incurrence of Indebtedness for borrowed money, an amount in cash equal to the gross cash proceeds received by the respective Person from such incurrence, net of underwriting discounts, commissions, fees and other costs of, and expenses associated with, such incurrence.
“Net Insurance Proceeds” shall mean, with respect to any Recovery Event, an amount in cash equal to the gross cash proceeds received by the respective Person in connection with such Recovery Event, net of (i) costs of, and expenses associated with, such Recovery Event (including any costs incurred by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the adjustment, settlement or collection of any claims of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect thereof), (ii) any taxes paid or payable as a result of such Recovery Event (including Lead Borrower’s good faith estimate of any incremental income taxes that will be payable as a result of such Recovery Event, including pursuant to tax sharing arrangements or any tax distributions), (iii) required payments of any Indebtedness or other obligations (other than the Loans and Indebtedness secured on a pari passu or junior basis to the Loans) which are secured by the assets which were the subject of such Recovery Event or would be in default under the terms thereof as a result of such theft, loss, physical destruction, damage, taking or similar event underlying such Recovery Event and (iv) to the extent such Recovery Event involves any theft, loss, physical destruction, damage, taking or similar event with respect to Investments made after the First Restatement Effective Date, the permissibility of which was contingent upon the utilization of the Available Amount, the portion of the Available Amount so utilized in connection with such initial Investment.
“Net Sale Proceeds” shall mean, with respect to any Asset Sale (including, without limitation, any cash or Cash Equivalents received upon the sale or other disposition of any Designated Non-cash Consideration received in any Asset Sale), an amount in cash equal to the gross cash proceeds (including any cash received by way of deferred payment pursuant to a promissory note, receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received) received from such Asset Sale, net of (i) costs of, and expenses associated with, such Asset Sale (including fees and commissions), (ii) any taxes paid or payable as a result of such Asset Sale (including Lead Borrower’s good faith estimate of any incremental income taxes that will be payable as a result of such Asset Sale, including pursuant to tax sharing arrangements or any tax distributions), (iii) payments of unassumed liabilities relating to the assets sold and required payments of any Indebtedness or other obligations (other than the Loans and Indebtedness secured on a pari passu or junior basis to the Loans) which are secured by the assets which were sold or would be in default under the terms thereof as a result of such Asset Sale), (iv) amounts provided as a reserve in accordance with U.S. GAAP against any liabilities under any indemnification obligation or purchase price adjustment associated with such Asset Sale (provided that to the extent and at the time any such amounts are released from such reserve to Lead Borrower or
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any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, such amounts shall constitute Net Sale Proceeds), (v) cash escrows from the sale price for such Asset Sale (provided that to the extent and at the time any such amounts are released from escrow to Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, such amounts shall constitute Net Sale Proceeds) and (vi) to the extent such Asset Sale involves any disposition of Investments made after the First Restatement Effective Date, the permissibility of which was contingent upon the utilization of the Available Amount, the portion of the Available Amount so utilized in connection with such initial Investment.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” shall mean and include each Lender other than a Defaulting Lender.
“Non-Exchanged Term Loan” means each Term B-1 Loan outstanding immediately prior to the First Restatement Effective Date (or portion thereof) under this Agreement (as in effect immediately prior to the First Restatement Effective Date) other than an Exchanged Term Loan.
“Note” shall mean each Term Note.
“Notice of Borrowing” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.03.
“Notice of Conversion/Continuation” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.06(a).
“Notice Office” shall mean the office of the Administrative Agent set forth in Schedule 13.03, or such other office as the Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such to the other parties hereto.
“Notice of Prepayment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.01(a).
“Obligations” shall mean (i) all now existing or hereafter arising debts, obligations, covenants, and duties of payment or performance by any Credit Party of every kind, matured or unmatured, direct or contingent, owing, arising, due, or payable to any Lender, Agent or Indemnified Person by any Credit Party arising out of this Agreement or any other Credit Document, including, without limitation, all obligations to repay principal or interest on the Term Loans, and to pay interest, fees, costs, charges, expenses, professional fees, and all sums chargeable to any Credit Party or for which any Credit Party is liable as indemnitor under the Credit Documents, whether or not evidenced by any note or other instrument (in each case, including interest, fees and other amounts accruing during any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) and (ii) liabilities and indebtedness of Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries owing under any Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Designated Treasury Services Agreement (with respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor, other than any Excluded Swap Obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor) entered into by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, whether now in existence or hereafter arising. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, (x) obligations of any Credit Party or Restricted Subsidiary under any Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Designated Treasury Services Agreement shall be secured and guaranteed pursuant to the Credit Documents only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other Obligations are so secured and guaranteed and (y) any release of Collateral or Guarantors effected in the manner permitted by this Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of obligations under Designated Interest Rate Protection Agreement or Designated Treasury Services Agreement.
“OFAC” shall mean the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control.
“Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities” of any Person shall mean (i) any repurchase obligation or liability of such Person with respect to accounts or notes receivable sold by such Person, (ii) any liability of such Person under any Sale-Leaseback Transactions that do not create a liability on the balance sheet of such Person, (iii) any obligation under a Synthetic Lease or (iv) any obligation arising with respect to any other transaction which is the functional equivalent of or takes the place of borrowing but which does not constitute a liability on the balance sheet of such Person.
“Open Market Purchase” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.20(a).
“Original Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals hereto.
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“Original Obligations” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals hereto.
“Other Hedging Agreements” shall mean any foreign exchange contracts, currency swap agreements, commodity agreements or other similar arrangements, or arrangements designed to protect against fluctuations in currency values or commodity prices.
“Other Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or property Taxes or similar Taxes arising from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, registration, performance or enforcement of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Credit Document except any such Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 2.13) that are imposed as a result of any present or former connection between the relevant Lender and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than a connection arising from such Lender having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Credit Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Term Loan or Credit Document).
“Parent Company” shall mean any direct or indirect parent company of Lead Borrower (other than the Sponsor).
“Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean an intercreditor agreement among the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and one or more Pari Passu Representatives for holders of Permitted Pari Passu Notes (or Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) providing that, inter alia, the Liens on the Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Creditors) shall be pari passu with such Liens in favor of the Pari Passu Representatives (for the benefit of the holders of Permitted Pari Passu Notes (or Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof)), as such intercreditor agreement may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof. The Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement shall be in a form customary at such time for transactions of the type contemplated thereby and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Lead Borrower.
“Pari Passu Representative” shall mean, with respect to any series of Permitted Pari Passu Notes (or Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof), the trustee, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or other agreement pursuant to which such Permitted Pari Passu Notes (or Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) are issued and each of their successors in such capacities.
“Participant” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(c).
“Participant Register” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(c).
“Patent Security Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
“Patriot Act” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.16.
“PBGC” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor thereto.
“Perfection Certificate” shall have the meaning provided in the Security Agreement.
“Permitted Acquisition” shall mean (x) the Redflex Acquisition and (y) any other acquisition by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of an Acquired Entity or Business; provided that, in the case of this clause (y), (i) the Acquired Entity or Business acquired is in a business permitted by Section 10.09 and (ii) all applicable requirements of Section 9.14 are satisfied.
“Permitted Encumbrance” shall mean, with respect to any Mortgaged Property, such exceptions to title as are set forth in the mortgage title insurance policy delivered with respect thereto, all of which exceptions must be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
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“Permitted Holders” shall mean (i) the Sponsor, (ii) any Related Party of the Sponsor and (iii) any “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision) of which any of the foregoing are members; provided that in the case of such “group” and without giving effect to the existence of such “group” or any other “group,” such Persons specified in clauses (i) or (ii) above, collectively, have beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the voting stock of Lead Borrower or any of its direct or indirect parent entities held by such “group.”
“Permitted Investment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05.
“Permitted Junior Debt” shall mean any Permitted Junior Notes and any Permitted Junior Loans.
“Permitted Junior Debt Documents” shall mean any Permitted Junior Notes Documents and any Permitted Junior Loan Documents.
“Permitted Junior Loan Documents” shall mean, after the execution and delivery thereof, each agreement, document or instrument relating to the incurrence of Permitted Junior Loans, in each case as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Permitted Junior Loans” shall mean any Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the form of unsecured or secured loans; provided that (i) except as provided in clause (v) below, no such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall be secured by any asset of Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) no such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall be guaranteed by any Person other than Holdings, a Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, (iii) no such Indebtedness shall be subject to scheduled amortization or have a final stated maturity (excluding for this purpose, interim loan financings that provide for automatic rollover, subject to customary conditions, to Indebtedness otherwise meeting the maturity requirements of this clause), in either case prior to the date occurring ninety-one (91) days following the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred, (iv) any “asset sale” mandatory prepayment provision included in the agreement governing such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall not prohibit Lead Borrower or the respective Subsidiary from repaying obligations under this Agreement before prepaying or offering to prepay such Indebtedness, (v) in the case of any such Indebtedness incurred by a Credit Party that is secured, (a) such Indebtedness is secured only by assets comprising Collateral on a junior-lien basis relative to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Obligations of the Credit Parties, and not secured by any property or assets of any Credit Party other than the Collateral, (b) the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same as the Security Documents (with such differences as are necessary to reflect the differing lien priorities or as otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) and (c) a Junior Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the Additional Intercreditor Agreement; provided that if such Indebtedness is the initial incurrence of Permitted Junior Debt that is secured by assets of any Credit Party, then the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Junior Representative for such Indebtedness shall have executed and delivered, and each Credit Party shall have acknowledged, the Additional Intercreditor Agreement and (vi) to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, the covenants and events of default, taken as a whole, shall not be materially more favorable to the lenders providing such Permitted Junior Loans than the related provisions contained in this Agreement; provided that (x) any such terms may be more favorable to the extent they take effect after the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred, and (y) in the event that any agreement evidencing such Indebtedness contains financial maintenance covenants that are effective prior to the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred, the Borrowers shall have offered in good faith to enter into an amendment to this Agreement to add any such financial covenants as are not then contained in this Agreement (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Lead Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent 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 Lead Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set out in the foregoing clause (vi), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to Lead Borrower of an objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects)).
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“Permitted Junior Notes” shall mean any Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the form of notes and incurred pursuant to one or more issuances of such notes; provided that (i) except as provided in clause (vii) below, no such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall be secured by any asset of Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) no such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall be guaranteed by any Person other than Holdings, a Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, (iii) no such Indebtedness shall be subject to scheduled amortization or have a final stated maturity, in either case prior to the date occurring ninety-one (91) days following the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred, (iv) any “asset sale” offer to purchase covenant included in the indenture governing such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall not prohibit Lead Borrower or the respective Subsidiary from repaying obligations under this Agreement before offering to purchase such Indebtedness, (v) the indenture governing such Indebtedness shall not include any financial maintenance covenants, (vi) the “default to other indebtedness” event of default contained in the indenture governing such Indebtedness shall provide for a “cross-acceleration” or a “cross-acceleration” and “cross-payment default” rather than a “cross-default,” (vii) in the case of any such Indebtedness incurred by a Credit Party that is secured, (a) such Indebtedness is secured only by assets comprising Collateral on a junior-lien basis relative to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Obligations of the Credit Parties, and not secured by any property or assets of any Credit Party other than the Collateral, (b) the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same as the Security Documents (with such differences as are necessary to reflect the differing lien priorities or as otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) and (c) a Junior Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the Additional Intercreditor Agreement; provided that if such Indebtedness is the initial incurrence of Permitted Junior Debt that is secured by assets of any Credit Party, then the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Junior Representative for such Indebtedness shall have executed and delivered, and each Credit Party shall have acknowledged, the Additional Intercreditor Agreement and (viii) to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, the negative covenants and events of default, taken as a whole, contained in the indenture governing such Indebtedness shall not be materially more favorable to the holders of such Permitted Junior Notes than the related provisions contained in this Agreement; provided that any such terms may be more favorable to the extent they take effect after the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Lead Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent 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 Lead Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set out in the foregoing clause (viii), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to Lead Borrower of an objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects)).
“Permitted Junior Notes Documents” shall mean, after the execution and delivery thereof, each Permitted Junior Notes Indenture, and the Permitted Junior Notes, in each case as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Permitted Junior Notes Indenture” shall mean any indenture or similar agreement entered into in connection with the issuance of Permitted Junior Notes, as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Permitted Liens” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.01.
“Permitted Notes” shall mean and include (i) any Permitted Junior Notes and (ii) any Permitted Pari Passu Notes.
“Permitted Pari Passu Notes” shall mean any Indebtedness of Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the form of notes and incurred pursuant to one or more issuances of such notes; provided that (i) no such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall be guaranteed by any Person other than Holdings, a Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor, (ii) no such Indebtedness shall be subject to scheduled amortization or have a final stated maturity, in either case prior to the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred, (iii) any “asset sale” offer to purchase covenant included in the indenture governing such Indebtedness, to the extent incurred by any Credit Party, shall not prohibit Lead Borrower or the respective Subsidiary from repaying
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obligations under this Agreement on at least a pro rata basis with such Indebtedness from asset sale proceeds, (iv) the indenture governing such Indebtedness shall not include any financial maintenance covenants, (v) the “default to other indebtedness” event of default contained in the indenture governing such Indebtedness shall provide for a “cross-acceleration” or a “cross-acceleration” and “cross-payment default” rather than a “cross-default,” (vi) (a) such Indebtedness is secured only by assets comprising Collateral on a pari passu basis relative to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Obligations of the Credit Parties, and not secured by any property or assets of any Credit Party other than the Collateral, (b) the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same in all material respects as the Security Documents (or with such differences as are reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) and (c) a Pari Passu Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement; provided that if such Indebtedness is the initial issue of Permitted Pari Passu Notes by a Credit Party, then the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Pari Passu Representative for such Indebtedness shall have executed and delivered, and each Credit Party shall have acknowledged, the Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement and (vii) the negative covenants and events of defaults, taken as a whole, contained in the indenture governing such Indebtedness shall not be materially more favorable to the holders of such Permitted Pari Passu Notes than the related provisions contained in this Agreement; provided that any such terms may be more favorable to the extent they take effect after the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred (provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of Lead Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent 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 Lead Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the requirement set out in the foregoing clause (vii), shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent provides notice to Lead Borrower of an objection during such five Business Day period (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it objects)).
“Permitted Pari Passu Notes Documents” shall mean, after the execution and delivery thereof, each Permitted Pari Passu Notes Indenture and the Permitted Pari Passu Notes, in each case as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Permitted Pari Passu Notes Indenture” shall mean any indenture or similar agreement entered into in connection with the issuance of Permitted Pari Passu Notes, as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” shall mean Indebtedness incurred by Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary which serves to extend, replace, refund, refinance, renew or defease (“Refinance”) any Indebtedness, including any previously issued Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, so long as:
(1) the principal amount of such new Indebtedness does not exceed (a) the principal amount of Indebtedness (including any unused commitments therefor that are able to be drawn at such time) being so extended, replaced, refunded, refinanced, renewed or defeased (such Indebtedness, the “Refinanced Debt”), plus (b) any accrued and unpaid interest and fees on such Refinanced Debt, plus (c) the amount of any tender or redemption premium paid thereon or any penalty or premium required to be paid under the terms of the instrument or documents governing such Refinanced Debt and any costs, fees and expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of such new Indebtedness and the Refinancing of such Refinanced Debt;
(2) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness (excluding for this purpose, interim loan financings that provide for automatic rollover, subject to customary conditions, to Indebtedness otherwise meeting the requirements of this clause) has a:
(a) Weighted Average Life to Maturity at the time such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is incurred that is not less than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the applicable Refinanced Debt; and
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(b) final scheduled maturity date equal to or later than the final scheduled maturity date of the Refinanced Debt (or, if earlier, the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Indebtedness was incurred);
(3) to the extent such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness Refinances (a) Indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations (other than Indebtedness assumed or acquired in an acquisition and not created in contemplation thereof), such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated to the Obligations on terms that are, taken as a whole, not materially less favorable to the Lenders than the subordination terms applicable to the Refinanced Debt, (b) secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is (i) unsecured or (ii) secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens that secure the Obligations on terms that are, taken as a whole, not materially less favorable to the Lenders than the Lien subordination terms applicable to the Refinanced Debt or (c) secured by Liens that are pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is (i) unsecured or (ii) secured by Liens that are pari passu or subordinated to the Liens that secure the Obligations on terms that are, taken as a whole, not materially less favorable to the Lenders than the Collateral sharing provisions applicable to the Refinanced Debt; and
(4) subject to Section 10.01(vi), such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall not be secured by any assets or property of Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary that does not secure the Refinanced Debt being Refinanced (plus improvements and accessions thereon and proceeds in respect thereof);
provided that (a) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness will not include Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower that is not a Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor that refinances Indebtedness of a Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor and (b) clause (2) of this definition will not apply to any Refinancing of any Indebtedness under clause (iii) or (v) of Section 10.04.
“Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, association, limited liability company, trust or other enterprise or any government or political subdivision or any agency, department or instrumentality thereof.
“Plan” shall mean any pension plan as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA other than a Foreign Pension Plan or a Multiemployer Plan, which is maintained or contributed to by (or to which there is an obligation to contribute of) Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower or with respect to which Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower has, or may have, any liability, including, for greater certainty, liability arising from an ERISA Affiliate.
“Plan of Reorganization” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(j)(ii).
“Platform” shall mean Debt Domain, Intralinks, Syndtrak, ClearPar, or a substantially similar electronic transmission system.
“Pledged Collateral” shall have the meaning provided in the Security Agreement.
“Pre-Adjustment Successor Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“Prime Rate” shall mean the rate publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its “prime rate,” such “prime rate” to change when and as such prime lending rate changes. The Prime Rate is set by the Administrative Agent based upon various factors including Administrative Agent’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 rate announced by the Administrative Agent shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change.
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“Pro Forma Basis” shall mean, with respect to the calculation of any test, financial ratio, basket or covenant under this Agreement, including the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio and the calculation of Consolidated Total Assets, of any Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as of any date, that pro forma effect will be given to the Transaction, any acquisition, merger, consolidation, Investment, any issuance, incurrence, assumption or repayment or redemption of Indebtedness (including Indebtedness issued, incurred or assumed or repaid or redeemed as a result of, or to finance, any relevant transaction and for which any such test, financial ratio, basket or covenant is being calculated) (but excluding the identifiable proceeds of any Indebtedness being incurred substantially simultaneously therewith or as part of the same transaction or series of related transactions for purposes of netting cash to calculate the applicable ratio), any issuance or redemption of preferred stock, all sales, transfers and other dispositions or discontinuance of any Subsidiary, line of business, division, segment or operating unit, any operational change (including the entry into any material contract or arrangement) or any designation of a Restricted Subsidiary to an Unrestricted Subsidiary or of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case that have occurred during the four consecutive fiscal quarter period of such Person being used to calculate such test, financial ratio, basket or covenant (the “Reference Period”), or subsequent to the end of the Reference Period but prior to such date or prior to or simultaneously with the event for which a determination under this definition is made (including any such event occurring at a Person who became a Restricted Subsidiary of the subject Person or was merged or consolidated with or into the subject Person or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the subject Person after the commencement of the Reference Period), as if each such event occurred on the first day of the Reference Period.
For purposes of making any computation referred to above:
(1) if any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date for which a determination under this definition is made had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Interest Rate Protection Agreements or Other Hedging Agreements applicable to such Indebtedness);
(2) interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or accounting officer, in his or her capacity as such and not in his or her personal capacity, of Lead Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with U.S. GAAP;
(3) interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be deemed to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as Lead Borrower may designate; and
(4) interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period.
Any pro forma calculation may include, without limitation, adjustments calculated in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act; provided that any such adjustments, other than Specified Permitted Adjustments, that consist of reductions in costs and other operating improvements or synergies (whether added pursuant to this definition, the definition of “Pro Forma Cost Savings” or otherwise added to Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA) shall be calculated in accordance with, and satisfy the requirements specified in, the definition of “Pro Forma Cost Savings.”
“Pro Forma Cost Savings” shall mean, without duplication of any amounts referenced in the definition of “Pro Forma Basis,” an amount equal to the amount of cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements (including the entry into any material contract or arrangement) and acquisition synergies, in each case, projected in good faith to be realized (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such items had been realized on the first day of such period) as a result of actions taken on or prior to, or to be taken by Lead Borrower (or any successor thereto) or any Restricted Subsidiary within 24 months of, the date of such pro forma calculation, net of the amount of actual benefits realized or expected to be realized during such period that are otherwise included in
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the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA from such action; provided that (a) such cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies are factually supportable and reasonably identifiable (as determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer, in his or her capacity as such and not in his or her personal capacity, of Lead Borrower (or any successor thereto)) and are reasonably anticipated to be realized within 24 months after the date of such pro forma calculation and (b) no cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies shall be added pursuant to this definition to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges otherwise added to Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period; provided, further, that the aggregate amount added in respect of the foregoing proviso (or otherwise added to Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated EBITDA) shall no longer be permitted to be added back to the extent the cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies have not been achieved within 24 months of the action or event giving rise to such cost savings, operating expense reductions, operating improvements and synergies.
“Projections” shall mean the detailed projected consolidated financial statements of Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries (after giving effect to the Transaction) delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the First Restatement Effective Date.
“PTE” shall mean a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Public-Sider” shall mean a Lender whose representatives may trade in securities of Lead Borrower or its controlling person or any of its Subsidiaries while in possession of the financial statements provided by Lead Borrower under the terms of this Agreement.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
“QFC Credit Support” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.24.
“Qualified Preferred Stock” shall mean any preferred capital stock of Holdings or Lead Borrower so long as the terms of any such preferred capital stock (x) do not contain any mandatory put, redemption, repayment, sinking fund or other similar provision prior to the 91st day after the Latest Maturity Date as of the date such Qualified Preferred Stock was issued other than (i) provisions requiring payment solely (or with provisions permitting Holdings or Lead Borrower, as applicable, to opt to make payment solely) in the form of common Equity Interests, Qualified Preferred Stock of Holdings or Lead Borrower or cash in lieu of fractional shares, as applicable, or any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Parent Company of Holdings or Lead Borrower, as applicable, (ii) provisions requiring payment solely as a result of a change of control or asset sale, so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale are subject to the payment in full of all Obligations in cash (other than unasserted contingent indemnification obligations) or such payment is otherwise permitted by this Agreement (including as a result of a waiver or amendment hereunder) and (iii) with respect to preferred capital stock issued to any plan for the benefit of employees of Holdings or Lead Borrower, as applicable, or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, provisions requiring the repurchase thereof in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations and (y) give Holdings or Lead Borrower the option to elect to pay such dividends or distributions on a non-cash basis or otherwise do not require the cash payment of dividends or distributions at any time that such cash payment is not permitted under this Agreement or would result in an Event of Default hereunder.
“Qualified Securitization Transaction” shall mean any Securitization Transaction of a Securitization Entity that meets the following conditions:
(1) the board of directors of Lead Borrower (or the board of directors of any direct or indirect parent of the Lead Borrower) or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary shall have determined in good faith that such Qualified Securitization Transaction (including financing terms, covenants, termination events or other provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to Lead Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary;
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(2) all sales of accounts receivable and related assets to the Securitization Entity are made at fair market value (as determined in good faith by Lead Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings; and
(3) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms (as determined in good faith by Lead Borrower) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings and Limited Originator Recourse.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, the grant of a security interest in any accounts receivable of any Credit Party to secure Indebtedness or other obligations under this Agreement, the ABL Credit Agreement shall not be deemed a Qualified Securitization Transaction.
“Real Property” of any Person shall mean, collectively, the right, title and interest of such Person (including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any and all land, improvements and fixtures owned, leased or operated by such Person, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.
“Receivables Assets” shall mean (a) any accounts receivable and the proceeds thereof owed to a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary subject to a Receivables Facility and (b) all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights, guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, all records with respect to such accounts receivable and any other assets customarily transferred together with accounts receivable in connection with an accounts receivable factoring arrangement and which are, in each case, sold, conveyed, assigned or otherwise transferred or pledged by a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary to a commercial bank in connection with a Receivables Facility.
“Receivables Facility” shall mean an agreement between the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary and a commercial bank that is entered into at the request of a customer of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, pursuant to which (a) the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, agrees to sell to such commercial bank accounts receivable owing by such customer, together with Receivables Assets related thereto, at a maximum discount, for each such account receivable, not to exceed 5.0% of the face value thereof, and (b) the obligations of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, thereunder are non-recourse (except for Securitization Repurchase Obligations) to the Borrower and such Restricted Subsidiary.
“Recovery Event” shall mean the receipt by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any cash insurance proceeds or condemnation awards payable (i) by reason of theft, loss, physical destruction, damage, taking or any other similar event with respect to any property or assets of Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (but not by reason of any loss of revenues or interruption of business or operations caused thereby) and (ii) under any policy of insurance required to be maintained under Section 9.03, in each case to the extent such proceeds or awards do not constitute reimbursement or compensation for amounts previously paid by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any such event.
“Redflex Acquisition” shall mean the acquisition of Redflex Holdings Limited, a public company limited by shares, incorporated in Australia and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
“Reference Period” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of the term “Pro Forma Basis.”
“Refinanced Debt” shall have the meaning provided in the definition of the term “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.”
“Refinancing Effective Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.18(a).
“Refinancing Note Documents” shall mean the Refinancing Notes, the Refinancing Notes Indenture and all other documents executed and delivered with respect to the Refinancing Notes or Refinancing Notes Indenture, as
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the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
“Refinancing Notes” shall mean Permitted Junior Debt or Permitted Pari Passu Notes (or Indebtedness that would constitute Permitted Junior Debt or Permitted Pari Passu Notes except as a result of a failure to comply with any maturity or amortization requirement applicable thereto), in each case, that constitute Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Term Loans.
“Refinancing Notes Indenture” shall mean the indenture entered into with respect to the Refinancing Notes and pursuant to which same shall be issued.
“Refinancing Term Loan Amendment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.18(c).
“Refinancing Term Loan Commitments” shall mean one or more commitments hereunder to provide a new Tranche of Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term Loans under an existing Tranche of Term Loans.
“Refinancing Term Loan Lender” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.18(b).
“Refinancing Term Loan Series” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.18(b).
“Refinancing Term Loans” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.18(a).
“Register” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.04(b)(iv).
“Regulation D” shall mean Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof establishing reserve requirements.
“Regulation T” shall mean Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.
“Regulation U” shall mean Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.
“Regulation X” shall mean Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof.
“Rejection Notice” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.02(k).
“Related Adjustment” shall mean, in determining any LIBOR Successor Rate, the first relevant available alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent applicable to such LIBOR Successor Rate:
(a) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the relevant Pre-Adjustment Successor Rate (taking into account the interest period, interest payment date or payment period for interest calculated and/or tenor thereto) and which adjustment or method (x) is published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion or (y) solely with respect to Term SOFR, if not currently published, which was previously so recommended for Term SOFR and published on an information service acceptable to the Administrative Agent; or
(b) the spread adjustment that would apply (or has previously been applied) to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions (taking into account the interest period, interest payment date or payment period for interest calculated and/or tenor thereto).
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“Related Party” shall mean (a) with respect to Platinum Equity Advisors, LLC, (i) any investment fund controlled by or under common control with Platinum Equity Advisors, LLC, any officer or director of the foregoing persons, or any entity controlled by any of the foregoing persons and (ii) any spouse or lineal descendant (including by adoption or stepchildren) of the officers and directors referred to in clause (a)(i); (b) with respect to any officer of Lead Borrower or its Subsidiaries, (i) any spouse or lineal descendant (including by adoption and stepchildren) of such officer and (ii) any trust, corporation or partnership or other entity, in each case to the extent not an operating company, of which an 80% or more controlling interest is held by the beneficiaries, stockholders, partners or owners who are the officer, any of the persons described in clause (b)(i) above or any combination of these identified relationships and (c) with respect to any Agent, such Agent’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Agent and such Agent’s Affiliates.
“Release” shall mean actively or passively disposing, discharging, injecting, spilling, pumping, leaking, leaching, dumping, emitting, escaping, emptying, pouring, seeping, migrating or the like, of any Hazardous Material into, through or upon the Environment or within, from or into any building, structure, facility or fixture.
“Relevant Governmental Body” shall mean the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“Replaced Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.13.
“Replacement Lender” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.13.
“Repricing Transaction” shall mean (1) the incurrence by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness in the form of syndicated term loans secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis relative to the Liens on such Collateral securing the Obligations (including, without limitation, any new or additional term loans under this Agreement (including Refinancing Term Loans), whether incurred directly or by way of the conversion of Initial Term Loans into a new tranche of replacement term loans under this Agreement) (i) having an Effective Yield that is less than the Effective Yield for Initial Term Loans, (ii) the proceeds of which are used to prepay (or, in the case of a conversion, deemed to prepay or replace), in whole or in part, outstanding principal of Initial Term Loans or (2) an amendment to this Agreement resulting in an effective reduction in the Applicable Margin for Initial Term Loans (with such determination to be made in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, consistent with generally accepted financial practices), in each case, to the extent the primary purpose of such incurrence or amendment is to reduce the Effective Yield applicable to the Initial Term Loans; provided that any prepayment, replacement or amendment in connection with a Change of Control or acquisition or Investment not permitted by this Agreement or permitted but with respect to which Lead Borrower has determined in good faith that this Agreement will not provide sufficient flexibility for the operation of the combined business following consummation thereof shall not constitute a Repricing Transaction.
“Required Lenders” shall mean Non-Defaulting Lenders, the sum of whose outstanding principal of Term Loans as of any date of determination represents greater than 50% of the sum of all outstanding principal of Term Loans of Non-Defaulting Lenders at such time.
“Requirement of Law” or “Requirements of Law” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any statute, law, treaty, rule, regulation, order, decree, writ, injunction or determination of any arbitrator or court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
“Rescindable Amount” has the meaning as defined in Section 2.04(b).
“Resolution Authority” shall mean an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer” shall mean, with respect to any Person, its chief financial officer, chief executive officer, president, or any vice president, managing director, treasurer, controller or other officer of such Person
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having substantially the same authority and responsibility and, solely for purposes of notices given pursuant to Section 2, any other officer or employee of the applicable Credit 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 Credit Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Credit Party and the Administrative Agent; provided that, with respect to compliance with financial covenants, “Responsible Officer” shall mean the chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of Lead Borrower, or any other officer of Lead Borrower having substantially the same authority and responsibility.
“Restricted Subsidiary” shall mean each Subsidiary of Lead Borrower other than any Unrestricted Subsidiaries. Each Subsidiary of Lead Borrower that is a Borrower shall constitute a Restricted Subsidiary.
“Retained ECF Percentage” shall mean, with respect to any Excess Cash Flow Payment Period (a) 100% minus (b) the Applicable ECF Prepayment Percentage with respect to such Excess Cash Flow Payment Period.
“Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount” shall mean, with respect to any Excess Cash Flow Payment Period, an amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to the Retained ECF Percentage multiplied by Excess Cash Flow for such Excess Cash Flow Payment Period.
“Returns” shall have the meaning provided in Section 8.09.
“Rollover Initial Term Lender” means each Lender with a Term B-1 Loan outstanding on the First Restatement Effective Date that has consented to exchange such Term B-1 Loan into an Initial Term Loan, and that has been allocated such Initial Term Loan by the Administrative Agent.
“S&P” shall mean S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc., and any successor owner of such division.
“Sale-Leaseback Transaction” shall mean any arrangements with any Person providing for the leasing by Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of real or personal property which has been or is to be sold or transferred by Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person in connection therewith.
“Sanctioned Country” shall mean a country, region or territory that at any time is the subject or target of any comprehensive territorial Sanctions (as of the Closing Date, the Crimea region of the Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).
“Sanctioned Person” shall mean, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, (b) any Person organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person owned or controlled by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clause (a) or (b).
“Sanctions” shall mean economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom.
“Scheduled Repayment” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.02(a).
“Scheduled Repayment Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.02(a).
“Scheduled Unavailability Date” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.16(a).
“SEC” shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.01(g).
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“Section 9.01 Financials” shall mean the annual and quarterly financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 9.01(a) and (b).
“Secured Creditors” shall have the meaning assigned that term in the respective Security Documents.
“Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Securities Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Securitization Assets” shall mean (a) the accounts receivable subject to a Securitization Transaction and the proceeds thereof and (b) all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights, guaranties or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, lockbox accounts and records with respect to such accounts receivable and any other assets customarily transferred (or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted), together with accounts receivable in a securitization financing and which in the case of clause (a) and (b) above are sold, conveyed, assigned or otherwise transferred or pledged by Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a Securitization Financing.
“Securitization Entity” shall mean a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Qualified Securitization Transaction with Lead Borrower in which Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower makes an Investment and to which Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of Lead Borrower transfers Securitization Assets) that is designated by the board of directors of Lead Borrower (or the board of directors of any direct or indirect parent of the Lead Borrower) (as provided below) as a Securitization Entity and engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of Securitization Assets and:
(1) no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (a) is guaranteed by Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Securitization Entity) (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse), (b) is recourse to or obligates Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Securitization Entity) in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse or (c) subjects any asset of Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Securitization Entity), directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse;
(2) with which neither Lead Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms not materially less favorable to Lead Borrower or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of Lead Borrower; and
(3) to which neither Lead Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results.
“Securitization Fees” shall mean distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) paid to a Person that is not a Securitization Entity in connection with any Qualified Securitization Transaction or a Receivables Facility.
“Securitization Repurchase Obligation” shall mean any obligation of a seller of receivables in a Qualified Securitization Transaction or a Receivables Facility, as applicable, to repurchase receivables arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, off-set or counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any other event relating to the seller.
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“Securitization Transaction” shall mean any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by Lead Borrower, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or a Securitization Entity pursuant to which Lead Borrower, such Restricted Subsidiary or such Securitization Entity may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to, or grant a security interest in for the benefit of, (1) a Securitization Entity, Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries which subsequently transfers to a Securitization Entity (in the case of a transfer by Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary) and (2) any other Person (in the case of transfer by a Securitization Entity), any accounts receivable (whether now existing or arising or acquired in the future) of Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries which arose in the ordinary course of business of Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, and any assets related thereto, including, without limitation, all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and other assets (including contract rights) which are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset securitization transactions involving accounts receivable.
“Security Agreement” shall mean that certain First Lien Security Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among Holdings, the Lead Borrower, the Collateral Agent and the other parties party thereto.
“Security Document” shall mean and include each of the Security Agreement, each Mortgage and, after the execution and delivery thereof, each Additional Security Document.
“Similar Business” shall mean any business and any services, activities or businesses incidental, or reasonably related or similar to, or complementary to any line of business engaged in by Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the First Restatement Effective Date (after giving effect to the Transaction) or any business activity that is a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto.
“SOFR” with respect to any Business Day shall mean the secured overnight financing rate published for such daySecured Overnight Financing Rate as administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor source) at approximately 8:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the immediately succeeding Business Day and, in each case, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body..
“SOFR-Based RateSOFR Adjustment” shall mean SOFR or Term SOFR., with respect to Term SOFR, 0.11448% (11.448 basis points) for an Interest Period of one-month’s duration, 0.26161% (26.161 basis points) for an Interest Period of three-month’s duration, 0.42826% (42.826 basis points) for an Interest Period of six-months’ duration and 0.71513% (71.513 basis points) for an Interest Period of twelve–months’ duration.
“Solvent” and “Solvency” shall mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (i) the fair value of the assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis (it being understood that the amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability); (ii) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis (it being understood that the amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability); (iii) such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are able to pay their debts and liabilities (including, without limitation, contingent and subordinated liabilities) as they become absolute and mature in the ordinary course of business on their respective stated maturities and are otherwise “solvent” within the meaning given that term and similar terms under applicable laws relating to fraudulent transfers and conveyances; and (iv) such Person and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis have, and will have, adequate capital with which to conduct the business they are presently conducting and reasonably anticipate conducting.
“Specified Permitted Adjustments” shall mean all adjustments identified in the calculation of “Pro Forma Adjusted EBITDA” in the confidential information memorandum for the Initial Term Loans to the extent such adjustments, without duplication, continue to be applicable to the reference period (it being understood that such
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adjustments shall be calculated net of the amount of actual benefits realized or expected to be realized during such reference period that are otherwise included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA).
“Specified Representations” shall mean the representations and warranties of the Credit Parties set forth in Sections 8.02, 8.03(iii) (in the case of any Tranche of Term Loans with respect to which such Specified Representations are made, limited to the incurrence of such Tranche of Term Loans in the case of the Borrowers, the provision or reaffirmation of the applicable Guaranty in the case of each Guarantor and the grant or reaffirmation of the Liens in the Collateral to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Creditors in the case of all Credit Parties), 8.05(b), 8.08(c) (in the case of any Tranche of Term Loans with respect to which such Specified Representations are made, limited to the incurrence and use of proceeds thereof), 8.08(d) (in the case of any Tranche of Term Loans with respect to which such Specified Representations are made, limited to the incurrence and use of proceeds thereof), 8.11, 8.15 (in the case of any Tranche of Term Loans with respect to which such Specified Representations are made, limited to the incurrence and use of proceeds thereof and solely with respect to Patriot Act, OFAC, FCPA, Sanctions and other anti-terrorism, anti-money laundering and Anti-Corruption Laws) and 8.16.
“Sponsor” shall mean Platinum Equity Advisors, LLC and its Affiliates (excluding any operating portfolio company thereof).
“Sponsor Affiliate” shall mean the collective reference to any entities (other than a portfolio company) controlled directly or indirectly by the Sponsor.
“Standard Securitization Undertakings” shall mean representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and guarantees of performance entered into by Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which Lead Borrower has determined in good faith to be customary in a Securitization Transaction including, without limitation, those relating to the servicing of the assets of a Securitization Entity, it being understood that any Securitization Repurchase Obligation shall be deemed to be a Standard Securitization Undertaking.
“Subordinated Indebtedness” shall mean any Indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations.
“Subsequent Transaction” shall have the meaning provided in Section 1.03.
“Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any corporation more than 50% of whose stock of any class or classes having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at the time owned by such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person has more than a 50% Equity Interest at the time.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” shall mean each Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Borrower in existence on the First Restatement Effective Date (after giving effect to the Transaction) other than any Excluded Subsidiary, as well as each Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Borrower established, created or acquired after the First Restatement Effective Date which becomes a party to the Guaranty Agreement in accordance with the requirements of this Agreement or the provisions of the Guaranty Agreement.
“Successor Rate” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.16(a).
“Successor Rate Conforming Changes” shall mean, with respect to any proposed Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definition of Business Day, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent
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determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Credit Document).
“Supermajority Lenders” of any Tranche shall mean those Non-Defaulting Lenders which would constitute the Required Lenders under, and as defined in, this Agreement if (x) all outstanding Obligations of the other Tranches under this Agreement were repaid in full and all Commitments with respect thereto were terminated and (y) the percentage “50%” contained therein were changed to “66-2/3%.”
“Supported QFC” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.24.
“Swap Obligation” shall mean, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Synthetic Lease” shall mean a lease transaction under which the parties intend that (i) the lease will be treated as an “operating lease” by the lessee and (ii) the lessee will be entitled to various tax and other benefits ordinarily available to owners (as opposed to lessees) of like property.
“Target Person” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.05.
“Tax Group” shall have the meaning provided in Section 10.03(vi)(B).
“Taxes” shall mean any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges, fees, assessments, liabilities or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority in the nature of a tax, including interest, penalties and additions to tax with respect thereto.
“Term B-1 Loan” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Original Credit Agreement as in effect immediately prior to the First Restatement Effective Date.
“Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, for each Lender, its Initial Term Loan Commitment, its Refinancing Term Loan Commitment or its Incremental Term Loan Commitment (including any 2021 Incremental Term Loan Commitment).
“Term Loan Percentage” of a Tranche of Term Loans shall mean, at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage), the numerator of which is equal to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Term Loans of such Tranche at such time and the denominator of which is equal to the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Term Loans of all Tranches at such time.
“Term Loans” shall mean the Initial Term Loans, each Incremental Term Loan, each Refinancing Term Loan and each Extended Term Loan.
“Term Note” shall have the meaning provided in Section 2.05(a).
“Term SOFR” shall mean:
(a) for any Interest Period with respect to a Term SOFR Loan, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided that if the rate is not published prior to 11:00 a.m. on such determination date then Term SOFR means the Term SOFR Screen Rate on the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately prior thereto, in each case, plus the SOFR Adjustment for such Interest Period; and
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(b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such date with a term of one month commencing that day; provided that if the rate is not published prior to 11:00 a.m. on such determination date then Term SOFR means the Term SOFR Screen Rate on the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately prior thereto, in each case, plus the SOFR Adjustment for such term;
provided that if Term SOFR determined in accordance with either of the foregoing provisions (a) or (b) of this definition would otherwise be less than 0.00%, Term SOFR shall be deemed 0.00% for purposes of this Agreement.
“Term SOFR Replacement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“Term SOFR Screen Rate” shall mean the forward-looking SOFR term rate administered by CME (or any successor administrator satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower) and published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower from time to time).
“Term SOFR Term Loan” shall mean the forward-looking term rate for any period that is approximately (as determined by the Administrative Agent) as long as any of the Interest Period options set forth in the definition of “Interest Period” and that is based on SOFR and that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body, in each case as published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion.each Term Loan which is designated as a Term Loan bearing interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of the “Term SOFR” at the time of the incurrence thereof or conversion thereto.
“Test Period” shall mean each period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Lead Borrower (in each case taken as one accounting period) for which Section 9.01 Financials have been (or were required to be) delivered or are otherwise internally available.
“Threshold Amount” shall mean $45,000,000.
“Total Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Total Initial Term Loan Commitment, the Total Incremental Term Loan Commitment and the Total Refinancing Term Loan Commitment.
“Total Incremental Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Incremental Term Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders with such a Commitment at such time.
“Total Initial Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Initial Term Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders at such time.
“Total Refinancing Term Loan Commitment” shall mean, at any time, the sum of the Refinancing Term Loan Commitments of each of the Lenders with such a Commitment at such time.
“Trademark Security Agreement” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the Security Agreement.
“Tranche” shall mean the respective facilities and commitments utilized in making Initial Term Loans or Incremental Term Loans made pursuant to one or more tranches designated pursuant to the respective Incremental Term Loan Amendments in accordance with the relevant requirements specified in Section 2.15 (collectively, the “Initial Tranches” and, each, an “Initial Tranche”), and after giving effect to the Extension pursuant to Section 2.14, shall include any group of Extended Term Loans, extended, directly or indirectly, from the same Initial Tranche and having the same Maturity Date, interest rate and fees and after giving effect to any Refinancing Term Loan Amendment pursuant to Section 2.18, shall include any group of Refinancing Term Loans refinancing, directly or indirectly, the same Initial Tranche having the same Maturity Date, interest rate and fees; provided that only in the circumstances contemplated by Section 2.18(b), Refinancing Term Loans may be made part of a then existing
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Tranche of Term Loans; provided further that only in the circumstances contemplated by Section 2.15(c), Incremental Term Loans may be made part of a then existing Tranche of Term Loans.
“Transaction” shall mean, collectively, (i) the repayment of the Term B-1 Loans under the Original Credit Agreement, (ii) the entering into of the Credit Documents and the incurrence of Initial Term Loans on the First Restatement Effective Date, (iii) the entering into of the Unsecured Notes Indenture and the incurrence of the Unsecured Notes and (iv) the payment of all Transaction Costs.
“Transaction Costs” shall mean the fees, premiums, commissions and expenses payable by Holdings, Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with the transactions described in clauses (i) through (iii) of the definition of “Transaction.”
“Treasury Services Agreement” shall mean any agreement relating to treasury, depositary and cash management services or automated clearinghouse transfer of funds.
“Type” shall mean the type of Term Loan determined with regard to the interest option applicable thereto, i.e., whether a Base Rate Term Loan or a LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loan.
“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the relevant jurisdiction.
“UK Financial Institution” shall mean any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended form time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” shall mean the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Undisclosed Administration” shall mean, in relation to a Lender or its direct or indirect parent company, the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian, or other similar official by a supervisory authority or regulator under or based on the law in the country where such Lender or such parent company is subject to home jurisdiction, if applicable law requires that such appointment not be disclosed.
“Unfunded Pension Liability” of any Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA shall mean the amount, if any, by which the value of the accumulated plan benefits under the Plan determined on a plan termination basis in accordance with actuarial assumptions at such time consistent with those prescribed by the PBGC for purposes of Section 4044 of ERISA, exceeds the fair market value of all plan assets of such Plan.
“United States” and “U.S.” shall each mean the United States of America.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” shall mean (i) on the First Restatement Effective Date, each Subsidiary of Lead Borrower listed on Schedule 1.01(A), except to the extent redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with such Section 9.16, (ii) any other Subsidiary of Lead Borrower designated by the board of directors of Lead Borrower (or the board of directors of any direct or indirect parent of the Lead Borrower) as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 9.16 subsequent to the First Restatement Effective Date, except to the extent redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with such Section 9.16 and (iii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to the foregoing clause (i) or (ii).
“Unsecured Notes” shall mean the senior notes issued under the Unsecured Notes Indenture.
“Unsecured Notes Documents” shall mean the Unsecured Notes Indenture and all other documents executed and delivered with respect to the Unsecured Notes or the Unsecured Notes Indenture, as the same may be amended, amended and restated, modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof.
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“Unsecured Notes Indenture” shall mean that certain Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2021 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), by and among Holdings, the Lead Borrower, as issuer, the other guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee, pursuant to which $350,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.50% senior notes due 2029 were issued.
“U.S. Dollars” and the sign “$” shall each mean freely transferable lawful money (expressed in dollars) of the United States.
“U.S. GAAP” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time; provided that determinations made pursuant to this Agreement in accordance with U.S. GAAP are subject (to the extent provided therein) to Section 13.07(a).
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” shall mean any Business Day, except any Business Day on which any of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the New York Stock Exchange or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is not open for business because such day is a legal holiday under the federal laws of the United States or the laws of the State of New York, as applicable.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.24.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” shall have the meaning provided in Section 5.04(c).
“Verra Mobility” shall mean, Verra Mobility Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the public indirect parent company of Lead Borrower.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” shall mean, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (i) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness into (ii) the product obtained by multiplying (x) the amount of each then remaining installment or other required scheduled payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (y) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment.
“Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such Person which is a Domestic Subsidiary of such Person.
“Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of such Person which is a Restricted Subsidiary of such Person.
“Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” shall mean, as to any Person, (i) any corporation 100% of whose capital stock is at the time owned by such Person and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person and (ii) any partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in which such Person and/or one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person owns 100% of the Equity Interests at such time (other than, in the case of a Foreign Subsidiary with respect to preceding clauses (i) or (ii), director’s qualifying shares and/or other nominal amounts of shares required to be held by Persons other than Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries under applicable law).
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” shall mean, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
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in each case, at the option of Lead Borrower (Lead Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Transaction, an “LCT Election”), the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder shall be made (1) in the case of any acquisition (including by way of merger) or similar Investment (including the assumption or incurrence of Indebtedness in connection therewith), at the time of (or, in the case of any calculation or any financial ratio or test, with respect to, or as of the last day of, the most recently ended Test Period at the time of) either (x) the execution of the definitive agreement with respect to such acquisition or Investment, (y) the public announcement of an intention to make an offer in respect of the target of such acquisition or Investment or (z) the consummation of such acquisition or Investment, (2) in the case of any Dividend, at the time of (or, in the case of any calculation or any financial ratio or test, with respect to, or as of the last day of, the most recently ended Test Period at the time of) (x) the declaration of such Dividend or (y) the making of such Dividend and (3) in the case of any voluntary or optional payment or prepayment on or redemption or acquisition for value of any Indebtedness subject to Section 10.07(a), at the time of (or, in the case of any calculation or any financial ratio or test, with respect to, or as of the last day of, the most recently ended Test Period at the time of) (x) delivery of irrevocable (which may be conditional) notice with respect to such payment or prepayment or redemption or acquisition of such Indebtedness or (y) the making of such voluntary or optional payment or prepayment on or redemption or acquisition for value of any Indebtedness (the “LCT Test Date”), and if, for the Limited Condition Transaction (and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith), Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries would have been permitted to take such action on the relevant LCT Test Date in compliance with such ratio, test or basket, such ratio, test or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, if Lead Borrower has made an LCT Election and any of the ratios, tests or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCT Test Date would have failed to have been complied with as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio, test or basket, including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Total Assets of Lead Borrower or the Person subject to such Limited
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Condition Transaction, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets, tests or ratios will not be deemed to have failed to have been complied with as a result of such fluctuations. If Lead Borrower has made an LCT Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any calculation of any ratio, test or basket availability with respect to the incurrence of Indebtedness or Liens, the making of Dividends, the making of any Permitted Investment, mergers, the conveyance, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Lead Borrower, the prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance or other satisfaction of Indebtedness, or the designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary (each, a “Subsequent Transaction”) following the relevant LCT Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement, public announcement or irrevocable notice for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated, revoked or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of determining whether such Subsequent Transaction is permitted under this Agreement, any such ratio, test or basket shall be required to be satisfied on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated.
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(i) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in Amendment No. 1, each Lender with a 2021 Incremental Term Loan Commitment severally agrees to make a 2021 Incremental Term Loan to the Borrowers, which 2021 Incremental Term Loans (i) shall be incurred pursuant to a single drawing on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, (ii) shall be denominated in U.S. Dollars, (iii) shall, except as hereinafter provided, at the option of Lead Borrower, be incurred and maintained as, and/or converted into one or more Borrowings of Base Rate Term Loans or LIBO RateTerm SOFR Term Loans; provided that except as otherwise specifically provided in Section 2.10(b), all 2021 Incremental Term Loans comprising the same Borrowing shall at all times be of the same Type, and (iv) shall not exceed for any such 2021 Incremental Term Loan Lender at any time of any incurrence thereof, the 2021 Incremental Term Loan Commitment of such 2021 Incremental Term Loan Lender on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date (before giving effect to the termination thereof on such date pursuant to Section 4.02(b)). Once repaid, Incremental Term Loans may not be reborrowed.
(ii) On December 31, 2021 (after giving effect to the mandatory payment of Initial Term Loans (other than 2021 Incremental Term Loans) pursuant to Section 5.02(a) on the last Business Day of December 2021), all 2021 Incremental Term Loans outstanding at such time shall be automatically, without any action or consent of any party to this Agreement, converted into Initial Term Loans (the date of such conversion, the “2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date”), shall constitute part of, and be added to, the Initial Term Loans (including as to maturity) outstanding hereunder immediately prior to the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date and the Initial Term Loans and 2021 Incremental Term Loans shall collectively comprise a single fungible Tranche of Term Loans. On the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 2.09, 2021 Incremental Term Loans shall be added to (and form part of) each Borrowing of Initial Term Loans outstanding hereunder immediately prior to the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date on a pro rata basis (based on the relative sizes of the various outstanding Borrowings), so that each Lender holding such Incremental Term Loans on and after the 2021 Incremental Term Loans Conversion Date participates in each outstanding Borrowing of Initial Term Loans (after giving effect to the conversion of 2021 Incremental Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.01(d)) on a pro rata basis.
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