INDENTURE by and among PENNANTPARK CLO I, LTD., Issuer PENNANTPARK CLO I, LLC, Co-Issuer U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Trustee and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Collateral Agent Dated as of September 19, 2019
Exhibit 99.2
EXECUTION VERSION
by and among
PENNANTPARK CLO I, LTD.,
Issuer
PENNANTPARK CLO I, LLC,
Co-Issuer
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Trustee
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Collateral Agent
Dated as of September 19, 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I |
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DEFINITIONS |
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Section 1.1 |
Definitions | 2 | ||||
Section 1.2 |
Usage of Terms | 73 | ||||
Section 1.3 |
Assumptions as to Assets | 74 | ||||
ARTICLE II |
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THE NOTES |
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Section 2.1 |
Forms Generally | 76 | ||||
Section 2.2 |
Forms of Notes | 77 | ||||
Section 2.3 |
Authorized Amount; Stated Maturity; Denominations | 79 | ||||
Section 2.4 |
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating | 81 | ||||
Section 2.5 |
Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange | 81 | ||||
Section 2.6 |
Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Note | 92 | ||||
Section 2.7 |
Payment of Principal and Interest and Other Amounts; Principal and Interest Rights Preserved | 93 | ||||
Section 2.8 |
Persons Deemed Owners | 96 | ||||
Section 2.9 |
Cancellation | 97 | ||||
Section 2.10 |
DTC Ceases to be Depository | 97 | ||||
Section 2.11 |
Non-Permitted Holders | 98 | ||||
Section 2.12 |
[Reserved] | 99 | ||||
Section 2.13 |
Additional Issuance | 100 | ||||
ARTICLE III |
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
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Section 3.1 |
Conditions to Issuance of Notes on Closing Date | 101 | ||||
Section 3.2 |
Conditions to Additional Issuance | 105 | ||||
Section 3.3 |
Custodianship; Delivery of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments | 106 | ||||
ARTICLE IV |
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE |
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Section 4.1 |
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture | 000 |
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Xxxxxxx 4.2 |
Application of Trust Money | 109 | ||||
Section 4.3 |
Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent | 109 | ||||
Section 4.4 |
Limitation on Obligation to Incur Administrative Expenses | 109 | ||||
ARTICLE V |
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES |
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Section 5.1 |
Events of Default | 109 | ||||
Section 5.2 |
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment | 111 | ||||
Section 5.3 |
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Collateral Agent | 113 | ||||
Section 5.4 |
Remedies | 115 | ||||
Section 5.5 |
Optional Preservation of Assets | 116 | ||||
Section 5.6 |
Trustee and Collateral Agent May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes | 118 | ||||
Section 5.7 |
Application of Money Collected | 118 | ||||
Section 5.8 |
Limitation on Suits | 118 | ||||
Section 5.9 |
Unconditional Rights of Holders of Secured Debt to Receive Principal and Interest | 119 | ||||
Section 5.10 |
Restoration of Rights and Remedies | 119 | ||||
Section 5.11 |
Rights and Remedies Cumulative | 120 | ||||
Section 5.12 |
Delay or Omission Not Waiver | 120 | ||||
Section 5.13 |
Control by Majority of Controlling Class | 120 | ||||
Section 5.14 |
Waiver of Past Defaults | 120 | ||||
Section 5.15 |
Undertaking for Costs | 121 | ||||
Section 5.16 |
Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws | 121 | ||||
Section 5.17 |
Sale of Assets | 121 | ||||
Section 5.18 |
Action on the Notes | 122 | ||||
ARTICLE VI |
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THE TRUSTEE AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT |
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Section 6.1 |
Certain Duties and Responsibilities | 123 | ||||
Section 6.2 |
Notice of Event of Default | 124 | ||||
Section 6.3 |
Certain Rights of Trustee | 125 | ||||
Section 6.4 |
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Secured Debt | 128 | ||||
Section 6.5 |
May Hold Notes | 128 | ||||
Section 6.6 |
Money Held in Trust | 129 | ||||
Section 6.7 |
Compensation and Reimbursement | 129 | ||||
Section 6.8 |
Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility | 130 | ||||
Section 6.9 |
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor | 130 | ||||
Section 6.10 |
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor | 132 | ||||
Section 6.11 |
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee | 132 | ||||
Section 6.12 |
Co-Trustees | 133 |
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Section 6.13 |
Certain Duties of Trustee Related to Delayed Payment of Proceeds and the Assets | 134 | ||||
Section 6.14 |
Authenticating Agents | 135 | ||||
Section 6.15 |
Withholding | 135 | ||||
Section 6.16 |
Representative for Noteholders Only; Agent for each other Secured Party | 136 | ||||
Section 6.17 |
Representations and Warranties of the Bank | 136 | ||||
Section 6.18 |
Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Collateral Agent | 137 | ||||
Section 6.19 |
Notice of Event of Default by the Collateral Agent | 139 | ||||
Section 6.20 |
Certain Rights of Collateral Agent | 139 | ||||
Section 6.21 |
Collateral Agent Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Secured Debt | 144 | ||||
Section 6.22 |
Collateral Agent May Hold Secured Debt | 144 | ||||
Section 6.23 |
Money Held in Trust by the Collateral Agent | 144 | ||||
Section 6.24 |
Compensation and Reimbursement of the Collateral Agent | 144 | ||||
Section 6.25 |
Corporate Collateral Agent Required; Eligibility | 146 | ||||
Section 6.26 |
Resignation and Removal of the Collateral Agent; Appointment of Successor Collateral Agent | 146 | ||||
Section 6.27 |
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Collateral Agent | 148 | ||||
Section 6.28 |
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Collateral Agent | 148 | ||||
Section 6.29 |
Certain Duties of Collateral Agent Related to Delayed Payment of Proceeds | 148 | ||||
Section 6.30 |
Withholding | 149 | ||||
Section 6.31 |
Collateral Agent as Representative for Secured Holders Only; Collateral Agent as Agent for each other Secured Party | 149 | ||||
Section 6.32 |
Communication with the Rating Agency | 149 | ||||
ARTICLE VII |
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COVENANTS |
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Section 7.1 |
Payment of Principal and Interest | 150 | ||||
Section 7.2 |
Maintenance of Office or Agency | 150 | ||||
Section 7.3 |
Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust | 150 | ||||
Section 7.4 |
Existence of Co-Issuers | 152 | ||||
Section 7.5 |
Protection of Assets | 153 | ||||
Section 7.6 |
Opinions as to Assets | 154 | ||||
Section 7.7 |
Performance of Obligations | 155 | ||||
Section 7.8 |
Negative Covenants | 155 | ||||
Section 7.9 |
Statement as to Compliance | 157 | ||||
Section 7.10 |
The Co-Issuers May Consolidate, etc. | 157 | ||||
Section 7.11 |
Successor Substituted | 159 | ||||
Section 7.12 |
No Other Business | 159 | ||||
Section 7.13 |
[Reserved] | 159 | ||||
Section 7.14 |
Annual Rating Review | 159 |
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Section 7.15 |
Reporting | 160 | ||||
Section 7.16 |
Calculation Agent | 160 | ||||
Section 7.17 |
Certain Tax Matters | 161 | ||||
Section 7.18 |
Effective Date; Purchase of Additional Collateral Obligations | 162 | ||||
Section 7.19 |
Representations Relating to Security Interests in the Assets | 165 | ||||
Section 7.20 |
Limitation on Certain Maturity Amendments | 168 | ||||
Section 7.21 |
[Reserved] | 168 | ||||
Section 7.22 |
Mandatory Sales of Assets under the Xxxxxxx Rule | 168 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII |
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SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
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Section 8.1 |
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders of Secured Debt or Preferred Shares | 168 | ||||
Section 8.2 |
Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders of Secured Debt and Preferred Shares | 172 | ||||
Section 8.3 |
Execution of Supplemental Indentures | 174 | ||||
Section 8.4 |
Effect of Supplemental Indentures | 176 | ||||
Section 8.5 |
Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures | 176 | ||||
Section 8.6 |
Amendments to Master Loan Sale Agreement | 176 | ||||
ARTICLE IX |
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REDEMPTION OF NOTES |
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Section 9.1 |
Mandatory Redemption | 176 | ||||
Section 9.2 |
Optional Redemption | 177 | ||||
Section 9.3 |
Tax Redemption | 180 | ||||
Section 9.4 |
Redemption Procedures | 180 | ||||
Section 9.5 |
Secured Debt Payable on Redemption Date | 182 | ||||
Section 9.6 |
Special Redemption | 183 | ||||
Section 9.7 |
Optional Re-Pricing | 184 | ||||
Section 9.8 |
Clean-Up Call Redemption | 186 | ||||
ARTICLE X |
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ACCOUNTS, ACCOUNTINGS AND RELEASES |
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Section 10.1 |
Collection of Money | 188 | ||||
Section 10.2 |
Collection Account | 188 | ||||
Section 10.3 |
Transaction Accounts | 190 | ||||
Section 10.4 |
The Revolver Funding Account | 192 | ||||
Section 10.5 |
Contributions | 193 | ||||
Section 10.6 |
Reinvestment of Funds in Accounts; Reports by Collateral Agent | 194 | ||||
Section 10.7 |
Accountings | 195 |
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Section 10.8 |
Release of Assets | 203 | ||||
Section 10.9 |
Reports by Independent Accountants | 204 | ||||
Section 10.10 |
Reports to Rating Agencies and Additional Recipients | 205 | ||||
Section 10.11 |
Procedures Relating to the Establishment of Accounts Controlled by the Trustee | 206 | ||||
Section 10.12 |
Section 3(c)(7) Procedures | 206 | ||||
ARTICLE XI |
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APPLICATION OF MONIES |
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Section 11.1 |
Disbursements of Monies from Payment Account | 209 | ||||
ARTICLE XII |
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SALE OF COLLATERAL OBLIGATIONS; |
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PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL OBLIGATIONS |
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Section 12.1 |
Sales of Collateral Obligations | 216 | ||||
Section 12.2 |
Purchase of Additional Collateral Obligations | 219 | ||||
Section 12.3 |
Optional Repurchase or Substitution of Collateral Obligations | 221 | ||||
Section 12.4 |
Conditions Applicable to All Sale and Purchase Transactions | 224 | ||||
ARTICLE XIII |
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NOTEHOLDERS’ RELATIONS |
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Section 13.1 |
Subordination | 227 | ||||
Section 13.2 |
Standard of Conduct | 228 | ||||
ARTICLE XIV |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 14.1 |
Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee and the Collateral Agent | 228 | ||||
Section 14.2 |
Acts of Holders | 230 | ||||
Section 14.3 |
Notices, etc. | 231 | ||||
Section 14.4 |
Notices to Holders; Waiver | 233 | ||||
Section 14.5 |
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents | 234 | ||||
Section 14.6 |
Successors and Assigns | 234 | ||||
Section 14.7 |
Severability | 234 | ||||
Section 14.8 |
Benefits of Indenture | 235 | ||||
Section 14.9 |
Reserved | 235 | ||||
Section 14.10 |
Governing Law | 235 | ||||
Section 14.11 |
Submission to Jurisdiction | 235 | ||||
Section 14.12 |
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL | 235 |
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Section 14.13 |
Counterparts | 235 | ||||
Section 14.14 |
Acts of Issuer | 236 | ||||
Section 14.15 |
Confidential Information | 236 | ||||
Section 14.16 |
Liability | 237 | ||||
Section 14.17 |
17g-5 Information | 238 | ||||
Section 14.18 |
Escheat | 239 | ||||
ARTICLE XV |
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ASSIGNMENT OF CERTAIN AGREEMENTS |
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Section 15.1 |
Assignment of Collateral Management Agreement | 240 |
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EXHIBITS AND SCHEDULES
Exhibit A |
Forms of Notes | |
A-1 |
Form of Global Note | |
A-2 |
Form of Certificated Note | |
Exhibit B |
Forms of Transfer and Exchange Certificates | |
B-1 |
Form of Transferor Certificate for Transfer of Rule 144A Global Note or | |
Certificated Note to Regulation S Global Note | ||
B-2 |
Form of Purchaser Representation Letter for Class [A-1][A-2][B-1][B-2][C-1] | |
[C-2][D] Certificated Notes | ||
B-3 |
Form of Transferor Certificate for Transfer of Regulation S Global Note or | |
Certificated Note to Rule 144A Global Note | ||
B-4 |
Form of Transferee Certificate for Rule 144A Global Note | |
B-5 |
Form of Transferee Certificate for Regulation S Global Note | |
Exhibit C |
Form of Securities Account Control Agreement | |
Exhibit D |
Form of Beneficial Ownership Certificate | |
Exhibit E |
Form of Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate Notice | |
Exhibit F |
Form of Notice of Substitution or Repurchase | |
Schedule 1 |
Schedule of Collateral Obligations | |
Schedule 2 |
[Reserved] | |
Schedule 3 |
S&P Industry Classifications | |
Schedule 4 |
Xxxxx’x Rating Definitions | |
Schedule 5 |
S&P Recovery Rate Tables | |
Schedule 6 |
Fitch Rating Definitions | |
Schedule 7 |
S&P CDO Monitor Formula Definitions |
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INDENTURE, dated as of September 19, 2019, among PennantPark CLO I, Ltd., an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Issuer”), PennantPark CLO I, LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Co-Issuer” and, together with the Issuer, the “Co-Issuers”), and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, in its capacity as trustee (herein, together with its permitted successors and assigns in the trusts hereunder, the “Trustee”) and as collateral agent (herein, together with its permitted successors and assigns, the “Collateral Agent”).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
The Co-Issuers are duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture to provide for the Notes issuable as provided herein and to incur the Class A-1 Loans pursuant to the Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, as borrower, the Co-Issuer, as co-borrower, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the lenders party thereto from time to time (the “Credit Agreement”). Except as otherwise provided herein, all covenants and agreements made by the Co-Issuers herein are for the benefit and security of the Secured Parties. The Co-Issuers are entering into this Indenture, and the Trustee is accepting the trusts created hereby, and the Collateral Agent is accepting the agreements established hereby, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Co-Issuers in accordance with the agreement’s terms have been done.
GRANTING CLAUSES
The Issuer hereby Grants to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit and security of the Holders of the Secured Debt, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Transferor, the Collateral Administrator, the Fiscal Agent, the Custodian, the Document Custodian and the Administrator (collectively, the “Secured Parties”), all of its right, title and interest in, to and under, in each case, whether now owned or existing, or hereafter acquired or arising, (a) the Collateral Obligations (listed, as of the Closing Date, in Schedule 1 to this Indenture) and all payments thereon or with respect thereto, (b) each of the Accounts, and any Eligible Investments on deposit in any of the Accounts, and all income from the investment of funds therein, (c) the Collateral Management Agreement as set forth in Article XV hereof, the Fiscal Agency Agreement, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Master Loan Sale Agreement, the Master Participation Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the Administration Agreement, (d) all Cash or Money owned by the Issuer, (e) any Equity Securities received by the Issuer, it being understood that Equity Securities may not be purchased by the Issuer but it is possible that the Issuer may receive an Equity Security in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout in such case that would be considered “received in lieu of debts previously contracted with respect to the Collateral Obligation” under the Xxxxxxx Rule, (f) all accounts, chattel paper, deposit accounts, financial assets, general intangibles, instruments, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, documents, goods and other supporting obligations relating to the foregoing (other than the Preferred Shares Payment Account) (in each case as defined in the UCC), (g) the Issuer’s ownership interest in any Equity Holder Subsidiary, (h) any other property of the Issuer and (i) all
proceeds with respect to the foregoing; provided that, such Grants shall not include (i) the U.S.$250 transaction fee paid to the Issuer in consideration of the issuance of the Notes and the Preferred Shares, (ii) the proceeds of the issue and allotment of the Issuer’s ordinary shares, (iii) the membership interests of the Co-Issuer, (iv) the Preferred Shares Payment Account and any funds deposited in or credited to such account, (v) the bank account in the Cayman Islands in which the funds referred to in items of (i) and (ii) above are deposited (or any interest thereon) or (vi) any Margin Stock held by the Issuer (collectively, the “Excepted Property”) (the assets referred to in (a) through (i), excluding the Excepted Property, are collectively referred to as the “Assets”).
The above Grant is made in trust to secure the Secured Debt and certain other amounts payable by the Issuer as described herein. Except as set forth in the Priority of Payments and Article XIII of this Indenture, the Secured Debt is secured by the Grant equally and ratably without prejudice, priority or distinction between any Note or Class A-1 Loan on one hand and any other Note or Class A-1 Loan on the other by reason of difference in time of issuance or otherwise. The Grant is made to secure, in accordance with the priorities set forth in the Priority of Payments and Article XIII of this Indenture, (i) the payment of all amounts due on the Secured Debt in accordance with their respective terms, (ii) the payment of all other sums (other than in respect of the Preferred Shares) payable under this Indenture, (iii) the payment of amounts owing by the Issuer under the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Master Loan Sale Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the Administration Agreement and (iv) compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, all as provided herein. The foregoing Grant shall, for the purpose of determining the property subject to the lien of this Indenture, be deemed to include any securities and any investments granted to the Collateral Agent by or on behalf of the Issuer, whether or not such securities or investments satisfy the criteria set forth in the definitions of “Collateral Obligation” or “Eligible Investments,” as the case may be.
The Collateral Agent acknowledges such Grant, accepts the trusts hereunder in accordance with the provisions hereof, and agrees to perform the duties herein in accordance with the terms hereof.
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Definitions. Except as otherwise specified herein or as the context may otherwise require, the following terms have the respective meanings set forth below for all purposes of this Indenture, and the definitions of such terms are equally applicable both to the singular and plural forms of such terms and to the masculine, feminine and neuter genders of such terms. The word “including” shall mean “including without limitation”. All references herein to designated “Articles,” “Sections,” “subsections” and other subdivisions are to the designated articles, sections, sub-sections and other subdivisions of this Indenture. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular article, section, subsection or other subdivision.
“17g-5 Information”: The meaning specified in Section 14.17(a).
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“17g-5 Website”: A password-protected website which shall initially be located at xxxxx://00x0.xxx. Any change of the 17g-5 Website shall only occur after notice has been delivered by the Issuer to the Information Agent, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Collateral Manager, the Placement Agent, and the Rating Agencies setting the date of change and new location of the 17g-5 Website.
“1940 Act”: The United States Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended from
time to time.
“25% Limitation”: The meaning specified in the Fiscal Agency Agreement.
“Accountants’ Certificate”: The meaning set forth in Section 7.18(d).
“Accounts”: (i) The Payment Account, (ii) the Collection Account, (iii) the Ramp-Up Account, (iv) the Revolver Funding Account, (v) the Expense Reserve Account, (vi) the Interest Reserve Account, (vii) the Contribution Account and (viii) the Custodial Account.
“Act” and “Act of Holders”: The meanings specified in Section 14.2(a).
“Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount”: As of any date of determination, (a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations, Long-Dated Obligations and Discount Obligations), plus (b) without duplication, the amounts on deposit in the Collection Account and the Ramp-Up Account (including Eligible Investments therein) representing Principal Proceeds, plus (c) the aggregate of the Defaulted Obligation Balances for each Defaulted Obligation, plus (d) the Aggregate Principal Balance of Long-Dated Obligations multiplied by 70%; plus (e) the aggregate of the purchase prices for each Discount Obligation, excluding accrued interest, expressed as a percentage of par and multiplied by the Principal Balance thereof, for such Discount Obligation, minus (f) the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount; provided that, with respect to any Collateral Obligation that satisfies more than one of the definitions of Defaulted Obligation, Long-Dated Obligation and Discount Obligation, or any asset that falls into the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount, such Collateral Obligation shall, for the purposes of this definition, be treated as belonging to the category of Collateral Obligations to which it otherwise belongs and which results in the lowest Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount on any date of determination.
“Administration Agreement”: An agreement between the Administrator (as administrator and as share owner) and the Issuer relating to the various corporate management functions the Administrator will perform on behalf of the Issuer, including communications with shareholders and the general public, and the provision of certain clerical, administrative and other corporate services in the Cayman Islands, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented or varied from time to time.
“Administrative Expense Cap”: An amount equal on any Payment Date (when taken together with any Administrative Expenses paid during the period since the preceding Payment Date or in the case of the first Payment Date, the period since the Closing Date) to the sum of (a) 0.03% per annum (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed) of the Fee Basis Amount on the related Determination Date and (b) U.S.$250,000 per annum (prorated for the related Interest Accrual
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Period on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months); provided that (1) in respect of any Payment Date after the third Payment Date following the Closing Date, if the aggregate amount of Administrative Expenses paid pursuant to Section 11.1(a)(i)(A), Section 11.1(a)(ii)(A) and Section 11.1(a)(iii)(A) (including any excess applied in accordance with this proviso) on the three immediately preceding Payment Dates and during the related Collection Periods is less than the stated Administrative Expense Cap (without regard to any excess applied in accordance with this proviso) in the aggregate for such three preceding Payment Dates, then the excess may be applied to the Administrative Expense Cap with respect to the then-current Payment Date; and (2) in respect of the third Payment Date following the Closing Date, such excess amount shall be calculated based on the Payment Dates preceding such Payment Date.
“Administrative Expenses”: The fees, expenses (including reasonable and documented costs and expenses indemnities) and other amounts due or accrued with respect to any Payment Date (including, with respect to any Payment Date, any such amounts that were due and not paid on any prior Payment Date in accordance with the Priority of Payments) and payable in the following order by the Issuer: first, to the Trustee, the Loan Agent and the Collateral Agent for their respective fees and expenses in each of their capacities hereto and pursuant to Section 6.7 and the other provisions of this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents (including the Credit Agreement), second, to the Collateral Administrator pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement and to the Bank in any of its other capacities, third, on a pro rata basis, the following amounts (excluding indemnities) to the following parties: (i) the Independent Review Party, Independent accountants, agents (other than the Collateral Manager) and counsel of the Issuer and any Equity Holder Subsidiary for fees and expenses; (ii) the Rating Agencies for fees and expenses (including any annual fee, amendment fees and surveillance fees) in connection with any rating of the Secured Debt or in connection with the rating of (or provision of credit estimates in respect of) any Collateral Obligations; (iii) the Collateral Manager under this Indenture and the Collateral Management Agreement, including without limitation reasonable expenses of the Collateral Manager (including fees for its accountants, agents and counsel) incurred in connection with the purchase or sale of any Collateral Obligations, any other expenses incurred in connection with the Collateral Obligations and any other amounts payable pursuant to the Collateral Management Agreement but excluding the Aggregate Collateral Management Fee; (iv) the Administrator pursuant to the Administration Agreement; (v) the independent manager of the Co-Issuer for fees and expenses; (vi) the independent special member or agent of any Equity Holder Subsidiary for any fees or expenses due under the management agreement between such Equity Holder Subsidiary and independent special member or agent; (vii) any other Person in connection with satisfying the requirements of the EU Securitization Laws; and (viii) any other Person in respect of any other fees or expenses permitted under this Indenture, the Credit Agreement, the Secured Debt and the documents delivered pursuant to or in connection with this Indenture (including without limitation the payment of all legal and other fees and expenses incurred in connection with the purchase or sale of any Collateral Obligations and any other expenses incurred in connection with the Collateral Obligations) and the Secured Debt, including but not limited to, any amounts due in respect of the listing of the Notes on any securities exchange or trading system, any Re-Pricing, redemption, Refinancing or additional issuance of Secured Debt, and fourth, on a pro rata basis, indemnities payable to any Person pursuant to any Transaction Document; provided that (x) amounts due in respect of actions taken on or before the Closing Date shall not be payable as Administrative Expenses but shall be payable only from the
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Expense Reserve Account pursuant to Section 10.3(d) and (y) for the avoidance of doubt, amounts that are expressly payable to any Person under the Priority of Payments in respect of an amount that is stated to be payable as an amount other than as Administrative Expenses (including, without limitation, interest and principal in respect of the Secured Debt) shall not constitute Administrative Expenses.
“Administrator”: Crestbridge Cayman Limited, or its successor under the Administration Agreement.
“Advisers Act”: The Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended.
“Affected Class”: Any Class of Secured Debt that, as a result of the occurrence of a Tax Event, has not received 100% of the aggregate amount of principal and interest that would otherwise be due and payable to such Class on any Payment Date.
“ Affiliate”: With respect to a Person, (i) any other Person who, directly or indirectly, is in control of, or controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person or (ii) any other Person who is a director, Officer, employee or general partner (a) of such Person, (b) of any subsidiary or parent company of such Person or (c) of any Person described in clause (i) above; provided that neither the Administrator nor any special purpose entity for which it acts as share trustee or administrator will be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer solely because the Administrator or any of its Affiliates serves as administrator or share trustee for the Issuer or the Co-Issuer. For the purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person shall mean the power, direct or indirect, (x) to vote more than 50% of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Persons or (y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by contract or otherwise.
“Affiliate Originated Collateral Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation with respect to which the Depositor, either itself or through related entities (including without limitation the Transferor and the Issuer), directly or indirectly, was involved in the original agreement which created such Collateral Obligation.
“Agent Members”: Members of, or participants in, DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream.
“Aggregate Collateral Management Fee”: All accrued and unpaid Collateral Management Fees, Current Deferred Management Fees and Cumulative Deferred Management Fees, excluding any Waived Collateral Management Fee.
“Aggregate Coupon”: As of any Measurement Date, the sum of the products obtained by multiplying, in the case of each Fixed Rate Obligation (including, for any Permitted Deferrable Obligation, only the required current cash interest required by the Underlying Documents thereon and excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation), (i) the stated coupon payable in cash on such Collateral Obligation expressed as a percentage and (ii) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation.
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“Aggregate Funded Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the sum of:
(a) in the case of each Floating Rate Obligation (other than a Defaulted Obligation) that bears interest at a spread over a Libor-based index (including, for any Permitted Deferrable Obligation, only the excess of the required current cash pay interest required by the Underlying Documents thereon over the applicable index and excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation), (i) the stated interest rate spread payable in Cash on such Collateral Obligation above such index multiplied by (ii) the outstanding Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation; provided that, with respect to any Libor Floor Obligation, the stated interest rate spread payable in Cash on such Collateral Obligation over the applicable index shall be deemed to be equal to the sum of (x) the stated interest rate spread payable in Cash over the applicable index and (y) the excess, if any, of the specified “floor” rate relating to such Collateral Obligation over the applicable index; and
(b) in the case of each Floating Rate Obligation (other than a Defaulted Obligation) that bears interest at a spread over an index other than a Libor-based index (including, for any Permitted Deferrable Obligation, only the required current cash pay interest required by the Underlying Documents thereon and excluding the unfunded portion of any Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation), (i) the excess of the sum of such spread and such index payable in Cash over LIBOR as of the immediately preceding Interest Determination Date (which spread or excess may be expressed as a negative percentage) multiplied by (ii) the outstanding Principal Balance of each such Collateral Obligation;
provided that, for purposes of this definition, the interest over the applicable index in respect of a floating rate Step-Down Obligation shall be deemed to be the lowest possible interest spread over such index under the Underlying Documents relating to such Step-Down Obligation.
“Aggregate Outstanding Amount”: (i) With respect to any of the Secured Debt as of any date, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Secured Debt Outstanding on such date and (ii) with respect to the Preferred Shares, the notional amount represented by such Outstanding Preferred Shares, assuming a notional amount of U.S.$1.00 per share.
“Aggregate Principal Balance”: When used with respect to all or a portion of the Collateral Obligations or the Assets, the sum of the Principal Balances of all or of such portion of the Collateral Obligations or Assets, respectively.
“Aggregate Unfunded Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (i) for each Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation (other than Defaulted Obligations), the related commitment fee rate then in effect as of such date and (ii) the undrawn commitments of each such Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation and Revolving Collateral Obligation as of such date.
“Alternative Rate”: The meaning specified in the definition of “LIBOR”.
“AML Compliance”: Compliance with the Cayman AML Regulations.
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“ Asset-backed Commercial Paper”: Commercial paper or other short-term obligations of a program that primarily issues externally rated commercial paper backed by assets or exposures held in a bankruptcy-remote, special purpose entity.
“Assets”: The meaning specified in the Granting Clauses hereof.
“Assignment/Conversion”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(n)(iv).
“Assumed Reinvestment Rate”: LIBOR (as determined on the most recent Interest Determination Date relating to an Interest Accrual Period beginning on a Payment Date or the Closing Date) minus 0.25% per annum; provided that, the Assumed Reinvestment Rate shall not be less than 0.00%.
“Authenticating Agent”: With respect to the Notes or a Class of the Notes, the Person designated by the Trustee to authenticate such Notes on behalf of the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 hereof.
“Available Funds”: With respect to each Payment Date and each Permitted RIC Distribution Date, the amount (if any) of distributions received by the Fiscal Agent from the Issuer or the Collateral Agent under the Priority of Payments or as a Permitted RIC Distribution, as applicable, for payments on the Preferred Shares.
“Balance”: On any date, with respect to Cash or Eligible Investments in any account, the aggregate of the (i) current balance of Cash, demand deposits, time deposits, certificates of deposit and federal funds; (ii) principal amount of interest-bearing corporate and government securities, money market accounts and repurchase obligations; and (iii) purchase price (but not greater than the face amount) of non-interest-bearing government and corporate securities and commercial paper.
“Bank”: U.S. Bank National Association, in its individual capacity and not as Trustee, or any successor thereto.
“Bankruptcy Code”: The United States federal Bankruptcy Code, Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy law or similar law, and any bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up, reorganization or similar law enacted under the laws of the Cayman Islands or any other applicable jurisdiction, including without limitation, Part V of the Companies Law (as amended) of the Cayman Islands and the Companies Winding Up Rules of the Cayman Islands, each as amended from time to time.
“ Bankruptcy Exchange”: The exchange of a Defaulted Obligation (without the payment of any additional funds other than reasonable and customary transfer costs) for another debt obligation issued by another Obligor which, but for the fact that such debt obligation is a Defaulted Obligation or a Credit Risk Obligation, would otherwise qualify as a Collateral Obligation and (i) in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable business judgment, at the time of the exchange, such debt obligation received on exchange has a better likelihood of recovery than the Defaulted Obligation to be exchanged, (ii) as determined by the Collateral Manager, at the time of the exchange, the debt obligation received on exchange is not less senior in right of payment vis-
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à-vis such Obligor’s other outstanding indebtedness than the Defaulted Obligation to be exchanged vis-à-vis its Obligor’s other outstanding indebtedness, (iii) as determined by the Collateral Manager, both prior to and after giving effect to such exchange, each of the Coverage Tests is satisfied or, if any Coverage Test was not satisfied prior to such exchange, the coverage ratio relating to such test shall be at least as close to being satisfied after giving effect to such exchange as it was before giving effect to such exchange, (iv) as determined by the Collateral Manager, both prior to and after giving effect to such exchange, not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount consists of obligations received in a Bankruptcy Exchange, (v) the period for which the Issuer held the Defaulted Obligation to be exchanged shall be included for all purposes in this Indenture when determining the period for which the Issuer holds the debt obligation received on exchange, (vi) the Bankruptcy Exchange Test is satisfied, (vii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the obligations received in Bankruptcy Exchanges since the Closing Date is not more than 15.0% of the Target Initial Par Amount and (viii) if the debt obligation received on exchange is a Credit Risk Obligation, it has an S&P Rating.
“Bankruptcy Exchange Test”: A test that is satisfied if, in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable business judgment, the projected internal rate of return of the obligation obtained as a result of a Bankruptcy Exchange is greater than the projected internal rate of return of the Defaulted Obligation exchanged in a Bankruptcy Exchange, calculated by the Collateral Manager by aggregating all Cash and the Market Value of any Collateral Obligation subject to a Bankruptcy Exchange at the time of each Bankruptcy Exchange; provided that the foregoing calculation shall not be required for any Bankruptcy Exchange prior to and including the occurrence of the third Bankruptcy Exchange.
“Beneficial Ownership Certificate”: The meaning specified in Section 14.2(e).
“Benefit Plan Investor”: Any of the following (i) a “benefit plan investor” as defined in the Plan Asset Regulation, which includes an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, or (ii) any plan to which Section 4975 of the Code applies or an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of such an employee benefit plan’s or a plan’s investment in such entity within the meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation.
“Board of Directors”: With respect to the Issuer, the directors of the Issuer duly appointed by the shareholder of the Issuer or the board of directors of the Issuer pursuant to the current articles of association of the Issuer, and with respect to the Co-Issuer, the manager of the Co-Issuer duly appointed by the sole member of the Co-Issuer.
“Business Day”: Any day other than (i) a Saturday or a Sunday or (ii) a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by applicable law, regulation or executive order to close in New York, New York or in the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent is located or, for any final payment of principal, in the relevant place of presentation.
“Calculation Agent”: The meaning specified in Section 7.16(a).
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“ Cash”: Such money (as defined in Section 1-201(b)(24) of the UCC) and funds denominated in currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for payment of all public and private debts, including funds standing to the credit of an Account.
“Cash Contribution”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5.
“Cayman AML Regulations”: The Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (2018 Revision) (as amended) and The Guidance Notes on the Prevention and Detection of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the Cayman Islands, each as amended and revised from time to time.
“Cayman FATCA Legislation”: The Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority Law (2017 Revision) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information – Common Reporting Standard (each as amended, and together with any rules, regulations and guidance notes made pursuant thereto).
“CCC Collateral Obligation”: A CCC S&P Collateral Obligation or a CCC Fitch Collateral Obligation, as the context requires.
“CCC Excess”: The amount equal to the greater of:
(i) the excess of the Principal Balance of all CCC S&P Collateral Obligations over an amount equal to 17.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount as of such date of determination; and
(ii) the excess of the Principal Balance of all CCC Fitch Collateral Obligations over an amount equal to 17.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount as of such date of determination;
provided that, in determining which of the CCC Collateral Obligations shall be included in the
CCC Excess, the CCC Collateral Obligations with the lowest Market Value (expressed as a percentage of the outstanding Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligations as of such date of determination) shall be deemed to constitute such CCC Excess.
“CCC Fitch Collateral Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (other than a Defaulted Obligation) with a Fitch Rating of “CCC+” or lower.
“CCC S&P Collateral Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (other than a Defaulted Obligation) with an S&P Rating of “CCC+” or lower.
“Certificate of Authentication”: The meaning specified in Section 2.1.
“Certificated Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(iii).
“Certificated Security”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(4) of the UCC.
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“Class”: (a) In the case of the Secured Debt, all Secured Debt having the same Interest Rate, Stated Maturity and class designation; provided that the Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-1 Loans shall be treated as a single Class of Secured Debt except as otherwise expressly provided or as the context otherwise requires; provided, further, that the Class B-1 Notes and the Class B-2 Notes shall be treated as a single Class of Notes and the Class C-1 Notes and the Class C-2 Notes shall be treated as a single Class of Notes, in each case, except as otherwise expressly provided or as the context otherwise requires; provided, further, that, for purposes of calculating the Interest Coverage Ratio and the Overcollateralization Ratio, the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes shall be treated as a single Class; (b) in the case of the Notes, all Notes having the same Interest Rate, Stated Maturity and class designation; and (c) in the case of the Preferred Shares, all of the Preferred Shares.
“Class A-1 Debt”: Collectively, the Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-1 Loans.
“Class A-1 Lender”: Each lender party to the Credit Agreement.
“Class A-1 Loans”: The Class A-1 Senior Secured Loans incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement.
“Class A-1 Notes”: The Class A-1 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class A-2 Notes”: The Class A-2 Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class A/B Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes.
“Class A/B Interest Coverage Test”: The Interest Coverage Test, as applied with respect to the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes.
“ Class A/B Overcollateralization Ratio Test”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test, as applied with respect to the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes.
“Class B Notes”: Collectively, the Class B-1 Notes and the Class B-2 Notes.
“Class B-1 Notes”: The Class B-1 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class B-2 Notes”: The Class B-2 Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class Break-even Default Rate”: With respect to the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding (other than the Class A-1 Debt), the maximum percentage of defaults, at any time, that the Current Portfolio or the Proposed Portfolio, as applicable, can sustain, determined through application of the S&P CDO Monitor, which, after giving effect to S&P’s assumptions on recoveries, defaults and timing and to the Priority of Payments, will result in sufficient funds remaining for the payment of such Class of Secured Debt in full. Prior to the S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date, S&P will provide the Collateral Manager with the Class
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Break-even Default Rates for each S&P CDO Monitor input file based upon the Weighted Average Floating Spread and the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate to be associated with such S&P CDO Monitor input file as selected by the Collateral Manager from Section 2 of Schedule 5 or any other Weighted Average Floating Spread and Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate selected by the Collateral Manager from time to time.
“Class C Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class C Notes.
“Class C Interest Coverage Test”: The Interest Coverage Test, as applied with respect to the Class C Notes.
“Class C Notes”: Collectively, the Class C-1 Notes and the Class C-2 Notes.
“Class C-1 Notes”: The Class C-1 Secured Deferrable Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class C-2 Notes”: The Class C-2 Secured Deferrable Fixed Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class C Overcollateralization Ratio Test”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test, as applied with respect to the Class C Notes.
“Class D Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied with respect to the Class D Notes.
“Class D Interest Coverage Test”: The Interest Coverage Test, as applied with respect to the Class D Notes.
“Class D Notes”: The Class D Secured Deferrable Floating Rate Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture and having the characteristics specified in Section 2.3.
“Class D Overcollateralization Ratio Test”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test, as applied with respect to the Class D Notes.
“Class Default Differential”: With respect to the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding (other than the Class A-1 Debt), (i) prior to the S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date, the rate calculated by subtracting (x) the Class Scenario Default Rate at such time for such Class from (y) the Class Break-even Default Rate, and (ii) on and after the S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date, the rate calculated by subtracting (x) the S&P CDO Monitor SDR at such time for such Class from (y) the S&P CDO Monitor Adjusted BDR for such Class of Secured Debt.
“Class Scenario Default Rate”: With respect to the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding (other than the Class A-1 Debt), an estimate of the cumulative default rate for the Current Portfolio or the Proposed Portfolio, as applicable, consistent with S&P’s Initial Rating of such Class, determined by the Collateral Manager (which determination shall be made solely by application of the S&P CDO Monitor at such time).
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“Clean-Up Call Redemption”: A redemption of the Secured Debt in accordance with Section 9.8.
“Clearing Agency”: An organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.
“Clearing Corporation”: (i) Clearstream, (ii) DTC, (iii) Euroclear and (iv) any entity included within the meaning of “clearing corporation” under Section 8-102(a)(5) of the UCC.
“Clearing Corporation Security”: Securities which are in the custody of or maintained on the books of a Clearing Corporation or a nominee subject to the control of a Clearing Corporation and, if they are Certificated Securities in registered form, properly endorsed to or registered in the name of the Clearing Corporation or such nominee.
“Clearstream”: Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, a corporation organized under the laws of the Duchy of Luxembourg (formerly known as Cedelbank, société anonyme).
“Closing Date”: September 19, 2019.
“Closing Date Participation Interests”: Any Participation Interest in an asset conveyed to the Issuer on the Closing Date pursuant to the Master Loan Sale Agreement or the Master Participation Agreement, as applicable, until elevated by assignment, which may be settled directly into the Issuer pursuant to such applicable agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the failure to elevate any Closing Date Participation Interest will not result or be deemed to result in a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture or any other Transaction Document.
“Code”: The United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Co-Issuer”: The Person named as such on the first page of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become the Issuer pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Co-Issuer” shall mean such successor Person.
“Co-Issuers”: The Issuer and the Co-Issuer.
“Co-Structuring Agent”: Capital One Securities, Inc.
“ Collateral Administration Agreement”: An agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and the Collateral Administrator, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Collateral Administrator”: U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as collateral administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement, and any successor thereto.
“Collateral Agent”: The meaning specified in the first sentence of this Indenture.
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“Collateral Interest Amount”: As of any date of determination, without duplication, the aggregate amount of Interest Proceeds that has been received or that is expected to be received (other than Interest Proceeds expected to be received from Defaulted Obligations, but including Interest Proceeds actually received from Defaulted Obligations), in each case during the Collection Period in which such date of determination occurs (or after such Collection Period but on or prior to the related Payment Date if such Interest Proceeds would be treated as Interest Proceeds with respect to such Collection Period).
“Collateral Management Agreement”: The agreement dated as of the Closing Date, between the Issuer and the Collateral Manager relating to the management of the Collateral Obligations and the other Assets by the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Collateral Management Fee”: The fee payable to the Collateral Manager in arrears on each Payment Date (prorated for the related Interest Accrual Period) pursuant to Section 8(a) of the Collateral Management Agreement and Section 11.1 of this Indenture, in an amount equal to 0.15% per annum (calculated on the basis of the actual number of days in the applicable Interest Accrual Period divided by 360) of the Fee Basis Amount at the beginning of the Collection Period relating to such Payment Date.
“Collateral Management Fee Shortfall Amount”: To the extent all or a portion of the Collateral Management Fee is not paid on a Payment Date due to insufficient Interest Proceeds or Principal Proceeds (and such fee was not voluntarily deferred or waived by the Collateral Manager), the Collateral Management Fee due on such Payment Date (or the unpaid portion thereof, as applicable). Such amount is automatically deferred for payment on the succeeding Payment Date, with interest at the rate specified in the Collateral Management Agreement, as certified to the Trustee by the Collateral Manager, in accordance with the Priority of Payments.
“Collateral Manager”: PennantPark Investment Advisers, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, until such time, if any, as a successor Person shall have become the Collateral Manager pursuant to the provisions of the Collateral Management Agreement, and thereafter “Collateral Manager” shall mean such successor Person.
“Collateral Manager Notes”: Any Notes owned by the Collateral Manager, an Affiliate thereof, or any account, fund, client or portfolio established and controlled by the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof or for which the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof acts as the investment adviser or with respect to which the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof exercises discretionary control thereover.
“Collateral Manager Standard”: The meaning specified in the Collateral Management Agreement.
“Collateral Obligation”: A debt obligation that is a Senior Secured Loan (including, but not limited to, interests in middle market loans acquired by way of a purchase or assignment), or Participation Interest therein, a Second Lien Loan or Participation Interest therein, or a DIP Collateral Obligation or a Participation Interest therein, that as of the date of acquisition by the Issuer:
(i) is U.S. Dollar denominated and is neither convertible by the Obligor thereof into, nor payable in, any other currency;
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(ii) is not (A) a Defaulted Obligation (unless such obligation is a Purchased Defaulted Obligation or is being acquired in connection with a Bankruptcy Exchange) or (B) a Credit Risk Obligation;
(iii) is not a lease;
(iv) if it is a Deferrable Obligation, it is a Permitted Deferrable Obligation;
(v) provides for a fixed amount of principal payable in Cash on scheduled payment dates and/or at maturity and does not by its terms provide for earlier amortization or prepayment at a price of less than par;
(vi) does not constitute Margin Stock;
(vii) provides for payments that do not, at the time the obligation was acquired, subject the Issuer to withholding tax unless the related Obligor is required to make additional payments so that the net amount received by the Issuer after satisfaction of such tax is the amount due to the Issuer before the imposition of any withholding tax;
(viii) has an S&P Rating and a Fitch Rating;
(ix) is not a debt obligation whose repayment is subject to substantial non-credit related risk as determined by the Collateral Manager;
(x) except for Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations and Revolving Collateral Obligations, is not an obligation pursuant to which any future advances or payments to the borrower or the Obligor thereof may be required to be made by the Issuer; provided that the Issuer may be required, as a lender under the Underlying Document, to make customary protective advances or provide customary indemnities to the agent of the Collateral Obligation (for which the Issuer may receive a participation interest or other right of payment);
(xi) does not have an “f,” “p,” “pi,” “sf” or “t” subscript assigned to the rating by S&P, or an “sf” subscript assigned to the rating by Moody’s;
(xii) is not a commodity forward contract, a bond, a Structured Finance Obligation or a note or any debt obligation that is not a loan;
(xiii) will not require the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or the pool of Assets to be registered as an investment company under the 1940 Act;
(xiv) is not an Equity Security or by its terms convertible into or exchangeable for an Equity Security and does not have Equity Securities attached thereto as part of a unit;
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(xv) is not the subject of an Offer of exchange, or tender by its Obligor, for cash, securities or any other type of consideration other than a Permitted Offer;
(xvi) does not mature after the earliest Stated Maturity of any Outstanding Secured Debt;
(xvii) is Registered;
(xviii) is not a Synthetic Security;
(xix) does not pay interest less frequently than semi-annually;
(xx) is not a letter of credit and does not support a letter of credit;
(xxi) is not an interest in a grantor trust;
(xxii) is purchased at a price at least equal to 65% of its Principal Balance;
(xxiii) is not issued by an Obligor Domiciled in Greece, Italy, Portugal or Spain;
(xxiv) is issued by a Non-Emerging Market Obligor Domiciled in the United States, Canada, a Group I Country, a Group II Country, a Group III Country or a Tax Jurisdiction;
(xxv) if it is a Participation Interest (other than a Closing Date Participation Interest), the Third Party Credit Exposure Limits are satisfied with respect to the acquisition thereof;
(xxvi) is not an obligation of a Portfolio Company;
(xxvii) does not have attached equity warrants;
(xxviii) is not a warrant;
(xxix) is not a Loan for which the underlying collateral consists primarily of real property owned by the obligor;
(xxx) is not issued by an Obligor with a most recently calculated EBITDA (calculated in accordance with the related Underlying Documents) of less than U.S.$5,000,000; and
(xxxi) other than in the case of a Fixed Rate Obligation, accrues interest at a floating rate determined by reference to (a) the Dollar prime rate, federal funds rate or LIBOR or (b) a similar interbank offered rate, commercial deposit rate or any other index.
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“Collateral Principal Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations (other than Defaulted Obligations, except as otherwise expressly set forth herein) and (b) without duplication, the amounts on deposit in any Account (including Eligible Investments therein) representing Principal Proceeds; provided that for purposes of calculating the Concentration Limitations, Defaulted Obligations shall be included in the Collateral Principal Amount with a Principal Balance equal to the Defaulted Obligation Balance thereof.
“Collateral Quality Test”: A test satisfied as of the Effective Date and any other date thereafter on which such test is required to be determined hereunder if, in the aggregate, the Collateral Obligations owned (or in relation to a proposed purchase of a Collateral Obligation, proposed to be owned) by the Issuer satisfy each of the tests set forth below (or, after the Effective Date, if any such test is not satisfied at the time of reinvestment, the level of compliance with such test is maintained or improved as described in the Investment Criteria):
(i) the Minimum Floating Spread Test;
(ii) the Minimum Weighted Average Coupon Test;
(iii) the S&P CDO Monitor Test;
(iv) the Maximum Fitch Rating Factor Test;
(v) the Minimum Weighted Average Fitch Recovery Rate Test;
(vi) the Minimum Fitch Floating Spread Test;
(vii) prior to the S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date, the Minimum Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate Test; and
(viii) the Weighted Average Life Test.
“Collection Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.2 which consists of the Principal Collection Subaccount and the Interest Collection Subaccount.
“ Collection Period”: (i) With respect to the first Payment Date, the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending at the close of business on the eighth Business Day prior to the first Payment Date; and (ii) with respect to any other Payment Date, the period commencing on the day immediately following the prior Collection Period and ending (a) in the case of the final Collection Period preceding the latest Stated Maturity of any Class of Secured Debt, on the day of such Stated Maturity, (b) in the case of the final Collection Period preceding an Optional Redemption, Tax Redemption or Clean-Up Call Redemption in whole of the Secured Debt, on the Redemption Date and (c) in any other case, at the close of business on the eighth Business Day prior to such Payment Date.
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“Concentration Limitations”: Limitations satisfied on each Measurement Date on or after the Effective Date and during the Reinvestment Period if, in the aggregate, the Collateral Obligations owned (or in relation to a proposed purchase of a Collateral Obligation, proposed to be owned) by the Issuer comply with all of the requirements set forth below (or in relation to a proposed purchase after the Effective Date, if not in compliance, the relevant requirements (excluding clause (vii)(B) of this definition) must be maintained or improved after giving effect to the purchase), calculated in each case as required by Section 1.3 herein:
(i) not less than 95.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Senior Secured Loans, Cash and Eligible Investments (assuming for purposes of these calculations that Eligible Investments representing Principal Proceeds are Senior Secured Loans);
(ii) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may, in the aggregate, consist of First-Lien Last-Out Loans and Second Lien Loans;
(iii) not more than 2.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of obligations issued by a single Obligor and its Affiliates; provided that one Obligor shall not be considered an Affiliate of another Obligor solely because they are controlled by the same financial sponsor;
(iv) (A) not more than 17.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations with an S&P Rating of “CCC+” or below (other than Defaulted Obligations), and (B) not more than 17.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations with a Fitch Rating of “CCC+” or below (other than Defaulted Obligations);
(v) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Current Pay Obligations;
(vi) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist, in the aggregate, of unfunded commitments under Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations and unfunded and funded commitments under Revolving Collateral Obligations;
(vii) (A) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Participation Interests, and (B) the Third Party Credit Exposure Limits may not be exceeded with respect to any such Participation Interest; provided that Closing Date Participation Interests will be excluded for purposes of this clause (vii) for the first 90 days following the Closing Date;
(viii) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may have an S&P Rating derived from a Xxxxx’x Rating as set forth in clause (iii)(a) of the definition of the term “S&P Rating”;
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(ix) no more than the percentage listed below of the Collateral Principal Amount may be issued by Obligors Domiciled in the country or countries set forth opposite such percentage:
% Limit |
Country or Countries | |
15.0% | All countries (in the aggregate) other than the United States; | |
10.0% | Canada; | |
5.0% | all countries (in the aggregate) other than the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom; | |
2.5% | any individual Group I Country; | |
2.0% | all Group II Countries in the aggregate; | |
2.0% | any individual Group II Country; | |
1.5% | all Group III Countries in the aggregate; and | |
1.5% | all Tax Jurisdictions in the aggregate; |
(x) not more than 12.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations that are issued by Obligors that belong to any single S&P Industry Classification, except that (x) the largest S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 20.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount; (y) the second-largest S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 17.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount; and (z) the third-largest S&P Industry Classification may represent up to 15.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount;
(xi) not more than 2.5% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations that are Permitted Deferrable Obligations;
(xii) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of DIP Collateral Obligations;
(xiii) not more than 15.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Cov-Lite Loans
(xiv) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations that pay interest at least semi-annually, but less frequently than quarterly;
(xv) not more than 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Fixed Rate Obligations; and
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(xvi) not more than 10.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount may consist of Collateral Obligations with respect to which the related Obligor’s most recently calculated EBITDA (calculated in accordance with the related Underlying Documents) is less than U.S.$ 10,000,000.
“Confidential Information”: The meaning specified in Section 14.15(b).
“Contribution”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5.
“Contribution Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(f).
“Contributor”: The meaning specified in Section 10.5.
“Controlling Class”: The Class A-1 Debt so long as any Class A-1 Notes or Class A-1 Loans are Outstanding; then the Class A-2 Notes so long as any Class A-2 Notes are Outstanding; then the Class B Notes so long as any Class B Notes are Outstanding; then the Class C Notes so long as any Class C Notes are Outstanding; then the Class D Notes so long as any Class D Notes are Outstanding; and then the Preferred Shares.
“Controlling Person”: A Person (other than a Benefit Plan Investor) who has discretionary authority or control with respect to the assets of an entity or any Person who provides investment advice for a fee (direct or indirect) with respect to such assets or an affiliate of any such Person. For this purpose, an “affiliate” of a Person includes any Person, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Person. “Control,” with respect to a Person other than an individual, means the power to exercise a controlling influence over the management or policies of such Person, and “Controlling” shall have the meaning correlative to the foregoing.
“Conversion Date”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(n).
“Conversion Option”: The option of a Converting Lender to convert all or a portion of its Class A-1 Loans into an equivalent principal amount of Class A-1 Notes pursuant to the Credit Agreement and this Indenture.
“Converting Lender”: A Class A-1 Lender that has exercised a Conversion Option.
“Corporate Trust Office”: The designated corporate trust office of (a) the Trustee at which the Trustee administers this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, currently located at (i) for Note transfer purposes and for presentment and surrender of the Notes for final payment thereon, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xx. Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Bondholder Services – EP-MN-WS2N, Reference: PennantPark CLO I, Ltd., and (ii) for all other purposes, U.S. Bank National Association, Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Global Corporate Trust – PennantPark CLO I, Ltd., email: XxxxxxxXxxx.Xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx; (b) the Collateral Agent at which the Collateral Agent administers this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, currently located at U.S. Bank National Association, Xxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Global Corporate Trust – PennantPark CLO I, Ltd., email: XxxxxxxXxxx.Xxxx@xxxxxx.xxx; and (c) the Loan Agent at which the Loan Agent administers
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the Credit Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, currently located at 000 X. Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xxx Xxxxxx, Reference: PennantPark CLO I, Ltd., email: xxxxxx.xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx; or in each case, such other address as the Trustee or the Collateral Agent may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders, the Collateral Manager and the Issuer or the principal corporate trust office of any successor trustee or collateral agent.
“Cov-Lite Loan”: A Collateral Obligation the Underlying Documents for which do not (i) contain any financial covenants or (ii) require the borrower thereunder to comply with any Maintenance Covenant (regardless of whether compliance with one or more Incurrence Covenants is otherwise required by such Underlying Documents).
“Coverage Tests”: The Overcollateralization Ratio Test and the Interest Coverage Test, each as applied to each specified Class or Classes of Secured Debt.
“Credit Agreement”: The meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statement.
“Credit Amendment”: A Maturity Amendment that, in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable judgment, is necessary (i) to prevent the related Collateral Obligation from becoming a Defaulted Obligation or (ii) due to the materially adverse financial condition of the related Obligor, to minimize material losses on the related Collateral Obligation.
“Credit Improved Criteria”: The criteria that will be met if, with respect to any Collateral Obligation, any of the following occur:
(a) such Collateral Obligation has experienced a reduction in its credit spread of 10% or more compared to the credit spread in effect as of the Cut-Off Date for such Collateral Obligation, such reduction in spread being determined by reference to an Eligible Loan Index; or
(b) such Collateral Obligation has a Market Value above the higher of (i) 95% of its Principal Balance and (ii) the initial purchase price paid by the Issuer for such Collateral Obligation.
“Credit Improved Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation which, in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable commercial judgment, has significantly improved in credit quality after it was acquired by the Issuer; provided that, during a Restricted Trading Period, a Collateral Obligation will qualify as a Credit Improved Obligation only if (i) it has been upgraded by any Rating Agency at least one rating sub-category or has been placed and remains on a credit watch with positive implication by S&P since it was acquired by the Issuer, (ii) the Credit Improved Criteria are satisfied with respect to such Collateral Obligation or (iii) a Majority of the Controlling Class consents to treat such Collateral Obligation as a Credit Improved Obligation.
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“ Credit Risk Criteria”: The criteria that will be met if, with respect to any Collateral Obligation, any of the following occur:
(a) the spread over LIBOR or other Eligible Loan Index for such Collateral Obligation has been increased since the date of purchase by the Issuer by (A) 0.25% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread over the applicable reference rate selected by the Collateral Manager in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment (prior to such increase) less than or equal to 2%), (B) 0.375% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread over the applicable reference rate selected by the Collateral Manager in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment (prior to such increase) greater than 2% but less than or equal to 4%) or (C) 0.5% or more (in the case of a Collateral Obligation with a spread over the applicable reference rate selected by the Collateral Manager in the exercise of its reasonable business judgment (prior to such increase) greater than 4%) due, in each case, to a deterioration in the related Obligor’s financial ratios or financial results in accordance with the Underlying Documents relating to such Collateral Obligation; or
(b) the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation has decreased by at least 2.5% of the price paid by the Issuer for such Collateral Obligation due to a deterioration in the related Obligor’s financial ratios or financial results in accordance with the Underlying Documents relating to such Collateral Obligation.
“Credit Risk Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that, in the Collateral Manager’s reasonable commercial judgment, has a significant risk of declining in credit quality or price; provided that, during a Restricted Trading Period, a Collateral Obligation will qualify as a Credit Risk Obligation for purposes of sales of Collateral Obligations only if (i) such Collateral Obligation has been downgraded by any Rating Agency at least one rating sub-category or has been placed and remains on a credit watch with negative implication by S&P since it was acquired by the Issuer, (ii) the Credit Risk Criteria are satisfied with respect to such Collateral Obligation or (iii) a Majority of the Controlling Class consents to treat such Collateral Obligation as a Credit Risk Obligation.
“Cumulative Deferred Management Fee”: All or a portion of the previously deferred Collateral Management Fees or Collateral Management Fee Shortfall Amounts (including accrued interest prior to the Payment Date on which the payment of such Collateral Management Fee Shortfall Amount was deferred by the Collateral Manager), which may be declared due and payable by the Collateral Manager on any Payment Date.
“Current Deferred Management Fee”: With respect to a Payment Date, all or a portion of the Collateral Management Fees or Collateral Management Fee Shortfall Amounts (including accrued interest), due and owing to the Collateral Manager the payment of which is voluntarily deferred (for payment on a subsequent Payment Date), without interest, by the Collateral Manager.
“ Current Pay Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation (other than a DIP Collateral Obligation) that would otherwise be treated as a Defaulted Obligation but as to which no payments are due and payable that are unpaid and with respect to which the Collateral Manager has certified to the Trustee in writing that it believes, in its reasonable business judgment, that (a) the Obligor of such Collateral Obligation is current on all interest payments, principal payments and other amounts due and payable thereunder and will continue to make scheduled payments of interest thereon and will pay the principal thereof and all other amounts due and payable thereunder by maturity or as otherwise contractually due, (b) if the Obligor is subject to a bankruptcy proceeding,
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it has been the subject of an order of a bankruptcy court that permits it to make the scheduled payments on such Collateral Obligation and all interest payments, principal payments and other amounts due and payable thereunder have been paid in Cash when due, (c) the Collateral Obligation has a Market Value of at least 80% of its par value and (d) (A) has an S&P Rating of at least “CCC+” and a Market Value of at least 80% of its par value or (B) has an S&P Rating of at least “CCC” and its Market Value is at least 85% of its par value (Market Value being determined, solely for the purposes of clauses (c) and (d), without taking into consideration clause (iii) of the definition of the term “Market Value”).
“Current Portfolio”: At any time, the portfolio of Collateral Obligations, Cash and Eligible Investments representing Principal Proceeds (determined in accordance with Section 1.3 to the extent applicable), then held by the Issuer.
“Custodial Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(b).
“Custodian”: The custodian appointed by the Issuer, initially U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as custodian under the Securities Account Control Agreement, together with its successors and assigns, as applicable, which custodian shall be a Securities Intermediary.
“Cut-Off Date”: Each date on or after the Closing Date on which a Collateral Obligation is transferred to the Issuer.
“Debt Interest Amount”: With respect to any Class of Secured Debt and any Payment Date, the amount of interest for the related Interest Accrual Period payable in respect of each U.S.$100,000 of outstanding principal amount of such Class of Secured Debt.
“Debt Payment Sequence”: The application, in accordance with the Priority of Payments, of Interest Proceeds or Principal Proceeds, as applicable, in the following order:
(i) to the payment, pari passu and pro rata based on their respective Aggregate Outstanding Amounts, of principal of the Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-1 Loans, until the Class A-1 Notes and the Class A-1 Loans have been paid in full;
(ii) to the payment of principal of the Class A-2 Notes until the Class A-2 Notes have been paid in full;
(iii) to the payment, pari passu and pro rata based on their respective Aggregate Outstanding Amounts, of principal of the Class B-1 Notes and the Class B-2 Notes, until the Class B-1 Notes and the Class B-2 Notes have been paid in full;
(iv) to the payment, pari passu and pro rata based on amounts due, of any accrued and unpaid interest and any Deferred Interest (and interest thereon) on the Class C-1 Notes and the Class C-2 Notes, until such amounts have been paid in full;
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(v) to the payment, pari passu and pro rata based on their respective Aggregate Outstanding Amounts, of principal of the Class C-1 Notes and the Class C-2 Notes, until the Class C-1 Notes and the Class C-2 Notes have been paid in full;
(vi) to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest and any Deferred Interest (and interest thereon) on the Class D Notes until such amounts have been paid in full; and
(vii) to the payment of principal of the Class D Notes until the Class D Notes have been paid in full;
provided that, in connection with any Tax Redemption, Clean-Up Call Redemption or Optional Redemption of the Secured Debt in whole, holders of 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of any Class of Notes may elect to receive less than 100% of the Redemption Price that would otherwise be payable to the Holders of such Class.
“ Default”: Any Event of Default or any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
“Default Rate Dispersion”: The meaning specified in Schedule 7.
“Defaulted Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation included in the Assets as to which:
(a) a default as to the payment of principal and/or interest has occurred and is continuing with respect to such Collateral Obligation (without regard to any grace period applicable thereto (except as otherwise provided in this clause (a)), or waiver or forbearance thereof, after the passage (in the case of a default that in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, as certified to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator in writing, is not due to credit-related causes) of five Business Days or seven calendar days, whichever is greater, but in no case beyond the passage of any grace period applicable thereto);
(b) a default as to the payment of principal and/or interest has occurred and is continuing on another debt obligation of the same Obligor which is senior or pari passu in right of payment to such Collateral Obligation (without regard to any grace period applicable thereto (except as otherwise provided in this clause (b)), or waiver or forbearance thereof, after the passage (in the case of a default that in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, as certified to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator in writing, is not due to credit-related causes) of three Business Days or five calendar days, whichever is greater, but in no case beyond the passage of any grace period applicable thereto; provided that both the Collateral Obligation and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable Obligor or secured by the same collateral);
(c) the Obligor or others have instituted proceedings to have the Obligor adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent or placed into receivership and such proceedings have not been stayed or dismissed or such Obligor has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code;
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(d) such Collateral Obligation has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or had such rating before such rating was withdrawn or such debt obligation has a Fitch Rating of “D” or “RD” or had such rating immediately before such rating was withdrawn or the Obligor;
(e) such Collateral Obligation is junior or pari passu in right of payment as to the payment of principal and/or interest to another debt obligation of the same Obligor which has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or had such rating before such rating was withdrawn or another debt obligation of an Obligor which has a Fitch Rating of “D” or “RD” or had such rating immediately before such rating was withdrawn; provided that both the Collateral Obligation and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable Obligor or secured by the same collateral;
(f) the Collateral Manager has received notice or a Responsible Officer thereof has actual knowledge that a default has occurred under the Underlying Documents and any applicable grace period has expired and the holders of such Collateral Obligation have accelerated the repayment of the Collateral Obligation (but only until such acceleration has been rescinded) in the manner provided in the Underlying Documents;
(g) the Collateral Manager has in its reasonable commercial judgment otherwise declared such debt obligation to be a “Defaulted Obligation”;
(h) such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest with respect to which the Selling Institution has defaulted in any respect in the performance of any of its payment obligations under the Participation Interest;
(i) such Collateral Obligation is a Participation Interest in a Loan that would, if such Loan were a Collateral Obligation, constitute a “Defaulted Obligation” or with respect to which the Selling Institution has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or had such rating before such rating was withdrawn;
(j) such Collateral Obligation is a Deferring Obligation (other than a Permitted Deferrable Obligation); or
(k) such Collateral Obligation has, since the date it was acquired by the Issuer, become subject to an amendment, waiver or modification that had the effect of reducing the principal amount of such Collateral Obligation;
provided that (1) a Collateral Obligation shall not constitute a Defaulted Obligation pursuant to clauses (b) through (e) above if such Collateral Obligation (or, in the case of a Participation Interest, the underlying Loan) is a Current Pay Obligation (provided that the Aggregate Principal Balance of Current Pay Obligations exceeding 5.0% of the Collateral Principal Amount will be treated as Defaulted Obligations), (2) a Collateral Obligation shall not constitute a Defaulted Obligation pursuant to clauses (b), (c) and (e) above if such Collateral Obligation (or, in the case of a Participation Interest, the underlying Loan) is a DIP Collateral Obligation (other than a DIP
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Collateral Obligation that has an S&P Rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower or a Fitch Rating of “D” or “RD”), and (3) a Collateral Obligation shall not constitute a Defaulted Obligation pursuant to clause (k) above if, since the effective date of such amendment, waiver or modification, such Collateral Obligation has received a new rating or credit estimate (or a confirmation of a prior rating or credit estimate) assigned by each Rating Agency then rating the Notes, which rating or credit estimate must be at least “CCC”.
Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Collateral Manager shall give the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator prompt written notice should any Collateral Obligation become a Defaulted Obligation. Until so notified or until a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent or the Collateral Administrator obtains actual knowledge that a Collateral Obligation has become a Defaulted Obligation, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator shall not be deemed to have any notice or knowledge that a Collateral Obligation has become a Defaulted Obligation. The Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon such notice from the Collateral Manager and shall have no liability for relying thereon. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall remain obligated to perform its duties set forth in and in accordance with Section 6.13 hereof.
“Defaulted Obligation Balance”: For any Defaulted Obligation, the lesser of the (i) S&P Collateral Value of such Defaulted Obligation and (ii) Fitch Collateral Value of such Defaulted Obligation; provided that the Defaulted Obligation Balance will be zero if the Issuer has owned such Defaulted Obligation for more than three years after its default date.
“Deferrable Notes”: The Class C Notes and/or the Class D Notes.
“Deferrable Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation (including any Permitted Deferrable Obligation) that by its terms permits the deferral or capitalization of payment of accrued, unpaid interest.
“Deferred Interest”: With respect to each Class of Deferrable Notes, the meaning specified in Section 2.7(a).
“Deferring Obligation”: A Deferrable Obligation that is deferring the payment of the cash interest due thereon and has been so deferring the payment of cash interest due thereon (i) with respect to Collateral Obligations that have an S&P Rating of at least “BBB-,” for the shorter of two consecutive accrual periods or one year, and (ii) with respect to Collateral Obligations that have an S&P Rating of “BB+” or below, for the shorter of one accrual period or six consecutive months, which deferred capitalized interest has not, as of the date of determination, been paid in Cash.
“Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation”: A Collateral Obligation that (a) requires the Issuer to make one or more future advances to the borrower under the Underlying Documents relating thereto, (b) specifies a maximum amount that can be borrowed on one or more fixed borrowing dates, and (c) does not permit the re-borrowing of any amount previously repaid by the borrower thereunder; but any such Collateral Obligation will be a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation only until all commitments by the Issuer to make advances to the borrower expire or are terminated or are reduced to zero.
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“Deliver” or “Delivered” or “Delivery”: The taking of the following steps:
(i) in the case of each Certificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security), Instrument and Participation Interest in which the underlying loan is represented by an Instrument,
(a) causing the delivery of such Certificated Security or Instrument to the Custodian by registering the same in the name of the Custodian or its affiliated nominee or by endorsing the same to the Custodian or in blank;
(b) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Certificated Security or Instrument is credited to the applicable Account; and
(c) causing the Custodian to maintain continuous possession of such Certificated Security or Instrument;
(ii) in the case of each Uncertificated Security (other than a Clearing Corporation Security),
(a) causing such Uncertificated Security to be continuously registered on the books of the issuer thereof to the Custodian; and
(b) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Uncertificated Security is credited to the applicable Account;
(iii) in the case of each Clearing Corporation Security,
(a) causing the relevant Clearing Corporation to credit such Clearing Corporation Security to the securities account of the Custodian; and
(b) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Clearing Corporation Security is credited to the applicable Account;
(iv) in the case of each security issued or guaranteed by the United States of America or agency or instrumentality thereof and that is maintained in book-entry records of a Federal Reserve Bank (“FRB”) (each such security, a “Government Security”),
(a) causing the creation of a Security Entitlement to such Government Security by the credit of such Government Security to the securities account of the Custodian at such FRB; and
(b) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Government Security is credited to the applicable Account;
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(v) in the case of each Security Entitlement not governed by clauses (i) through (iv) above,
(a) causing a Securities Intermediary (x) to indicate on its books and records that the underlying Financial Asset has been credited to the Custodian’s securities account, (y) to receive a Financial Asset from a Securities Intermediary or acquire the underlying Financial Asset for a Securities Intermediary, and in either case, accepting it for credit to the Custodian’s securities account or (z) to become obligated under other law, regulation or rule to credit the underlying Financial Asset to a Securities Intermediary’s securities account;
(b) causing such Securities Intermediary to make entries on its books and records continuously identifying such Security Entitlement as belonging to the Custodian and continuously indicating on its books and records that such Security Entitlement is credited to the Custodian’s securities account; and
(c) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Security Entitlement (or all rights and property of the Custodian representing such Security Entitlement) is credited to the applicable Account;
(vi) in the case of Cash or Money,
(a) causing the delivery of such Cash or Money to the Collateral Agent for credit to the applicable Account or to the Custodian;
(b) if delivered to the Custodian, causing the Custodian to treat such Cash or Money as a Financial Asset maintained by such Custodian for credit to the applicable Account in accordance with the provisions of Article 8 of the UCC or causing the Custodian to deposit such Cash or Money to a deposit account over which the Custodian has control (within the meaning of Section 9-104 of the UCC) for the benefit of the Collateral Agent; and
(c) causing the Custodian to indicate continuously on its books and records that such Cash or Money is credited to the applicable Account; and
(vii) in the case of each general intangible (including any Participation Interest in which neither the Participation Interest nor the underlying loan is represented by an Instrument),
(a) causing the filing of a Financing Statement in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, and
(b) causing the registration of the security interests granted under this Indenture in the Issuer’s register of mortgages and charges maintained at the Issuer’s registered office in the Cayman Islands.
In addition, the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer will obtain any and all consents required by the Underlying Documents relating to any general intangibles for the transfer of ownership and/or pledge hereunder (except to the extent that the requirement for such consent is rendered ineffective under Section 9-406 of the UCC).
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“Depositor”: On the Closing Date, PennantPark CLO I Depositor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd., and thereafter any successor, assignee or transferee thereof permitted under the U.S. Risk Retention Rules.
“Determination Date”: The last day of each Collection Period.
“DIP Collateral Obligation”: A loan made to a debtor-in-possession pursuant to Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code having the priority allowed by either Section 364(c) or 364(d) of the Bankruptcy Code and fully secured by senior liens.
“Discount Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation forming part of the Assets which was purchased (as determined without averaging prices of purchases on different dates) for less than (a) 85% of its Principal Balance, if such Collateral Obligation has an S&P Rating lower than “B-,” or (b) 80% of its Principal Balance, if such Collateral Obligation has an S&P Rating of “B-” or higher; provided that:
(x) such Collateral Obligation shall cease to be a Discount Obligation at such time as the Market Value (expressed as a percentage of the par amount of such Collateral Obligation) determined for such Collateral Obligation on each day during any period of 30 consecutive days since the acquisition by the Issuer of such Collateral Obligation, equals or exceeds 90% on each such day;
(y) any Collateral Obligation that would otherwise be considered a Discount Obligation, but that is purchased in accordance with the Investment Criteria with the proceeds of a sale of a Collateral Obligation that was not a Discount Obligation at the time of its purchase, so long as such purchased Collateral Obligation (A) is purchased or committed to be purchased within five Business Days of such sale, (B) is purchased at a purchase price (expressed as a percentage of the par amount of such Collateral Obligation) equal to or greater than the sale price of the sold Collateral Obligation, (C) is purchased at a purchase price (expressed as a percentage of the par amount of such Collateral Obligation) not less than 65% of its Principal Balance and (D) has a Moody’s Default Probability Rating equal to or greater than the Moody’s Default Probability Rating of the sold Collateral Obligation, will not be considered to be a Discount Obligation; and
(z) clause (y) above in this proviso shall not apply to any such Collateral Obligation at any time on or after the acquisition by the Issuer of such Collateral Obligation if, as determined at the time of such acquisition, such application would result in (A) more than 5% of the Collateral Principal Amount consisting of Collateral Obligations to which such clause (y) has been applied, disregarding any Collateral Obligation that has ceased to be a Discount Obligation pursuant to clause (x) above in this proviso, or (B) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations to which such clause (y) has been applied since the Closing Date being more than 10% of the Target Initial Par Amount.
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“Dissolution Expenses”: The amount of expenses reasonably likely to be incurred in connection with the discharge of this Indenture, the liquidation of the Assets and the dissolution of the Co-Issuers, the Depositor and any Equity Holder Subsidiary as reasonably calculated by the Collateral Manager or the Issuer, based in part on expenses incurred by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent and reported to the Collateral Manager or Issuer.
“Distribution Report”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(b).
“Document Custodian”: The document custodian appointed by the Issuer, initially U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as document custodian under the Securities Account Control Agreement, together with its successors and assigns, as applicable.
“Xxxx-Xxxxx”: The Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, as amended.
“Dollar” or “U.S.$”: A dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private.
“Domicile” or “Domiciled”: With respect to any Obligor with respect to a Collateral Obligation, (a) except as provided in clause (b) below, its country of organization; or (b) if it is organized in a Tax Jurisdiction, each of such jurisdiction and the country in which, in the Collateral Manager’s good faith estimate, a substantial portion of its operations are located or from which a substantial portion of its revenue is derived, in each case directly or through subsidiaries (which shall be any jurisdiction and country known at the time of designation by the Collateral Manager to be the source of the majority of revenues, if any, of such Obligor).
“DTC”: The Depository Trust Company, its nominees, and their respective successors.
“Due Date”: Each date on which any payment is due on an Asset in accordance with its terms.
“Effective Date”: The earlier to occur of (i) December 15, 2019 and (ii) the first date on which the Collateral Manager certifies to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator that the Target Initial Par Condition has been satisfied.
“Effective Date Condition”: A condition satisfied if (A) the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator are provided with an Accountants’ Certificate indicating the level of compliance with, or satisfaction or non-satisfaction of Effective Date Specified Tested Items and (B) each of the Rating Agencies is provided with (i) a report identifying the Collateral Obligations and (ii) an Effective Date Report. For the avoidance of doubt, the Effective Date Report shall not include or refer to the Accountants’ Certificate.
“Effective Date Report”: A report prepared by the Collateral Administrator and determined as of the Effective Date, containing (A) the information required in a Monthly Report,B) a calculation with respect to whether the Target Initial Par Condition is satisfied, and (C) the results of calculations indicating satisfaction of the Effective Date Specified Tested Items.
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“Effective Date Specified Tested Items”: The Collateral Quality Test (other than the S&P CDO Monitor Test), the Overcollateralization Ratio Tests, the Concentration Limitations and the Target Initial Par Condition.
“Eligible Investment Required Ratings”: (a) Such obligation or security has a short-term credit rating of at least “A-1” from S&P and, in the case of any obligation or security with a maturity of greater than 60 days, a long-term credit rating of at least “AA-” by S&P, and (b) to the extent that Fitch is rating any Secured Debt then Outstanding, for obligations or securities (i) with remaining maturities up to 30 days, such obligation or security has a short-term credit rating of at least “F1” or a long-term credit rating of at least “A” from Fitch or (ii) with remaining maturities of more than 30 days but not in excess of 60 days, such obligation or security a short-term credit rating of “F1+” or a long-term credit rating of at least “AA-” from Fitch.
“ Eligible Investments”: Either Cash or any Dollar investment that, at the time it is delivered to the Collateral Agent (directly or through an intermediary or custodian), (x) matures not later than the earlier of (A) the date that is 60 days after the date of delivery thereof and (B) the Business Day immediately preceding the Payment Date immediately following the date of delivery thereof, and (y) is one or more of the following obligations or securities:
(i) direct Registered obligations of, and Registered obligations the timely payment of principal and interest on which is fully and expressly guaranteed by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the obligations of which are expressly backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America and which satisfy the Eligible Investment Required Ratings;
(ii) demand and time deposits in, certificates of deposit of, trust accounts with, bankers’ acceptances issued by, or federal funds sold by any depository institution or trust company incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities, in each case payable within 183 days after issuance, so long as the commercial paper and/or the debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company at the time of such investment or contractual commitment providing for such investment have the Eligible Investment Required Ratings;
(iii) commercial paper (other than extendible commercial paper or Asset-backed Commercial Paper) with the Eligible Investment Required Ratings and that either bears interest or is sold at a discount from the face amount thereof and has a maturity of not more than 183 days from its date of issuance; and
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(iv) registered money market funds that have, at all times, credit ratings of “AAAm” by S&P and, to the extent that Fitch is rating any Secured Debt then Outstanding, either the highest credit rating assigned by Fitch (“AAAmmf”) to the extent rated by Fitch or otherwise the highest credit rating assigned by another NRSRO (excluding S&P); provided that (1) Eligible Investments purchased with funds in the Collection Account shall be held until maturity except as otherwise specifically provided herein and shall include only such obligations or securities as mature (or are putable at par to the issuer thereof) no later than the earlier of 60 days and the Business Day prior to the next Payment Date unless such Eligible Investments are issued by the Bank in its capacity as a banking institution, in which event such Eligible Investments may mature on such Payment Date; and (2) none of the foregoing obligations or securities shall constitute Eligible Investments if (a) all, or substantially all, of the remaining amounts payable thereunder consist of interest and not principal payments, (b) payments with respect to such obligations or securities or proceeds of disposition are subject to withholding taxes by any jurisdiction unless the payor is required to make “gross-up” payments that cover the full amount of any such withholding tax on an after-tax basis, (c) such obligation or security is secured by real property, (d) such obligation or security is purchased at a price greater than 100% of the principal or face amount thereof, (e) such obligation or security is subject of a tender offer, voluntary redemption, exchange offer, conversion or other similar action, (f) in the Collateral Manager’s judgment, such obligation or security is subject to material non-credit related risks, (g) such obligation is a Structured Finance Obligation, (h) such obligation or security is represented by a certificate of interest in a grantor trust, (i) such obligation or security would not be treated as “cash equivalents” for the purposes of Section 75.10(c)(8)(iii)(A) of the regulations implementing the Xxxxxxx Rule and in accordance with any applicable interpretive guidance thereunder or (j) such obligation has an “f,” “r,” “p,” “pi,” “q,” “t,” or “sf” subscript assigned by S&P. Eligible Investments may include, without limitation, those investments issued by or made with U.S. Bank National Association or for which U.S. Bank National Association or an Affiliate of U.S. Bank National Association provides services and receives compensation.
“Eligible Loan Index”: With respect to each Collateral Obligation, one of the following indices as selected by the Collateral Manager upon the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation: the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Indices (formerly the DLJ Leveraged Loan Index Plus), the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Loan Index, the Xxxxxxx Sachs/Loan Pricing Corporation Liquid Leveraged Loan Index, the Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Leveraged Loan Index, the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Indices or any successor or other comparable nationally recognized loan index; provided that the Collateral Manager may change the index applicable to a Collateral Obligation to another Eligible Loan Index at any time following the acquisition thereof after giving notice to the Rating Agencies, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Collateral Administrator so long as the same index applies to all Collateral Obligations for which this definition applies.
“Enforcement Event”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a)(iii).
“Entitlement Order”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(8) of the UCC.
“Equity Holder Subsidiary”: A subsidiary of the Issuer that is formed for the sole purpose of holding, subject to the limitations in this Indenture, stock or other equity interests of one or more Obligors acquired in connection with a workout of a Collateral Obligation. For reporting purposes and for purposes of calculating the Coverage Tests, the Investment Criteria and any other requirements related to the acquisition of additional Collateral Obligations, assets held by any Equity Holder Subsidiary that constitute Equity Securities will be treated as Equity Securities owned by the Issuer (and the equity interest in such Equity Holder Subsidiary shall not be included in such calculation).
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“Equity Security”: Any security or debt obligation that by its terms does not provide for periodic payments of interest at a stated coupon rate and repayment of principal at a stated maturity and any other security that is not eligible for purchase by the Issuer as a Collateral Obligation and is not an Eligible Investment (other than a loan received in exchange for a Defaulted Obligation or portion thereof, in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout of the Obligor or issuer thereof which shall be deemed to be a Defaulted Obligation); it being understood that Equity Securities may not be purchased by the Issuer (or an Equity Holder Subsidiary) but it is possible that the Issuer or an Equity Holder Subsidiary may receive an Equity Security in connection with an insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, debt restructuring or workout that would be considered “received in lieu of debts previously contracted with respect to the Collateral Obligation” under the Xxxxxxx Rule.
“ERISA”: The United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
“ EU Acquisition Test”: A test that is satisfied, in connection with and at the time of the purchase by the Issuer of any Collateral Obligation that is not an Affiliate Originated Collateral Obligation, if, after taking into account any such proposed acquisition, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Affiliate Originated Collateral Obligations then owned by the Issuer is more than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Collateral Obligations then owned by the Issuer.
“EU Retention Holder”: On the Closing Date, PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd., as an originator, and thereafter any successor, assignee or transferee thereof permitted under the EU Securitization Laws.
“EU Retention Interest”: An interest in the first loss tranche within the meaning of paragraph (d) of Article 6(3) of the Securitization Regulation as in effect as of the Closing Date, by way of holding, subject to the provisions of the Retention of Net Economic Interest Letter, the minimum amount of Preferred Shares currently required by the applicable EU Securitization Laws.
“EU Securitization Laws”: The Securitization Regulation, together with any final regulatory guidance and technical standards published in relation thereto and the guidelines published in relation to the preceding risk retention legislation by the European Supervisory Authorities which continue to apply to the provisions of the Securitization Regulation as of the Closing Date.
“European Supervisory Authorities”: Collectively, the European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, in each case including any successor or replacement organization thereto.
“Euroclear”: Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V.
“Event of Default”: The meaning specified in Section 5.1.
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“Excel Default Model Input File”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(c).
“Excepted Property”: The meaning specified in the Granting Clauses.
“Excess CCC Adjustment Amount”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations included in the CCC Excess, over (ii) the sum of the Market Values of all Collateral Obligations included in the CCC Excess.
“Excess Weighted Average Coupon”: A percentage equal as of any date of determination to a number obtained by multiplying (a) the excess, if any, of the Weighted Average Coupon over the Minimum Weighted Average Coupon by (b) the number obtained by dividing the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations.
“Excess Weighted Average Floating Spread”: A percentage equal as of any date of determination to a number obtained by multiplying (a) the excess, if any, of the Weighted Average Floating Spread over the Minimum Floating Spread by (b) the number obtained by dividing the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations.
“Exchange Act”: The United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Exchange Transaction”: The meaning specified in Section 12.5.
“Exchanged Defaulted Obligation”: The meaning specified in Section 12.5.
“Exercise Notice”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(c).
“Expense Reserve Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(d).
“Failed Optional Redemption”: Any announced Optional Redemption (i) with respect to which notice of redemption has been given pursuant to Section 9.4, (ii) such notice is no longer capable of being withdrawn pursuant to Section 9.4(c), and (iii) the Issuer has sold or entered into commitments to sell Assets in connection with such Optional Redemption and has insufficient funds to pay the Redemption Prices due and payable on the Secured Debt in respect of such announced Optional Redemption on the related Redemption Date in accordance with the Priority of Payments; provided that any Optional Redemption with respect to which an expected Refinancing fails to occur shall not be a Failed Optional Redemption.
“FATCA”: Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code, or any U.S. or non-U.S. fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, guidelines or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such sections of the Code or analogous provisions of non-U.S. law.
“Federal Reserve Board”: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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“Fee Basis Amount”: As of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Collateral Principal Amount, (b) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Defaulted Obligations and (c) without duplication, the aggregate amount of all Principal Financed Accrued Interest and Principal Financed Capitalized Interest.
“Fiduciary”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(h)(iii).
“Financial Asset”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC.
“Financing Statements”: The meaning specified in Section 9-102(a)(39) of the UCC.
“First-Lien Last-Out Loan”: A Collateral Obligation that is a Senior Secured Loan that may be fully subordinated in right of payment or application of proceeds (other than permitted interest and principal payments) to the related senior secured loans (including, without limitation, Non-Super-Priority Senior Secured Loans) of the same Obligor until such related senior secured loans are paid in full; provided that a Collateral Obligation will not be treated as a First-Lien Last-Out Loan solely as a result of customary exceptions for Loans secured by a first-priority perfected security interest, including a Super-Priority Revolving Facility.
“First LIBOR Period End Date”: October 15, 2019.
“First Lien Term Loan Behind a Revolver”: A Collateral Obligation in the form of a term loan that has a first lien on the related Obligor’s non-current and related assets and, as additional collateral, may have a second lien on the related Obligor’s current and related assets.
“ Fiscal Agency Agreement”: The fiscal agency agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Fiscal Agent, the Share Registrar and the Issuer, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Fiscal Agent”: U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as the fiscal agent appointed by the Issuer pursuant to the Fiscal Agency Agreement, together with any successor thereunder.
“Fitch”: Fitch Ratings, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Fitch Collateral Value”: With respect to any Defaulted Obligation, the lesser of (i) the product of the Fitch Recovery Rate of such Defaulted Obligation multiplied by its Principal Balance, in each case, as of the relevant Measurement Date and (ii) the Market Value of such Defaulted Obligation as of the relevant Measurement Date; provided that if the Market Value cannot be determined for any reason, the Fitch Collateral Value shall be determined in accordance with clause (i) above.
“Fitch Rating”: The meaning specified in Schedule 6 hereto.
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“Fitch Rating Factor”: In respect of any Collateral Obligation, the number set forth in the table below opposite the Fitch Rating in respect of such Collateral Obligation:
Fitch Rating |
Fitch Rating Factor |
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AAA |
0.19 | |||
AA+ |
0.35 | |||
AA |
0.64 | |||
AA- |
0.86 | |||
A+ |
1.17 | |||
A |
1.58 | |||
A- |
2.25 | |||
BBB+ |
3.19 | |||
BBB |
4.54 | |||
BBB- |
7.13 | |||
BB+ |
12.19 | |||
BB |
17.43 | |||
BB- |
22.80 | |||
B+ |
27.80 | |||
B |
32.18 | |||
B- |
40.60 | |||
CCC+ |
62.80 | |||
CCC |
62.80 | |||
CCC- |
62.80 | |||
CC |
100.00 | |||
C |
100.00 | |||
D |
100.00 |
“Fitch Recovery Rate”: The meaning specified in Schedule 6 hereto.
“Fitch Test Matrix”: The meaning specified in Schedule 6 hereto.
“Fitch Weighted Average Rating Factor”: The number determined by (a) summing the products of (i) the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation multiplied by (ii) its Fitch Rating Factor, (b) dividing such sum by the aggregate Principal Balance of all such Collateral Obligations and (c) rounding the result down to the nearest two decimal places. For the purposes of determining the Principal Balance and aggregate Principal Balance of Collateral Obligations in this definition, the Principal Balance of each Defaulted Obligation shall be excluded.
“Fixed Rate Notes”: Notes that bear a fixed rate of interest.
“Fixed Rate Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that bears a fixed rate of interest.
“Floating Rate Notes”: Notes that bear a floating rate of interest.
“Floating Rate Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation that bears a floating rate of interest.
“GAAP”: The meaning specified in Section 6.3(j).
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“Global Note”: Any Regulation S Global Note or Rule 144A Global Note.
“ Global Rating Agency Condition”: With respect to any action taken or to be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer, satisfaction of the S&P Rating Condition (to the extent applicable) together with prior notice to Fitch delivered at least five Business Days prior to such action (to the extent that Fitch is rating any Secured Debt then Outstanding).
“Governmental Authority”: Whether U.S. or non-U.S., (i) any national, state, county, municipal or regional government or quasi-governmental authority or political subdivision thereof; (ii) any agency, regulator, arbitrator, board, body, branch, bureau, commission, corporation, department, master, mediator, panel, referee, system or instrumentality of any such government or quasi-government entity, or political subdivision thereof; and (iii) any court.
“Grant” or “Granted”: To grant, bargain, sell, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, create and grant a security interest in and right of setoff against, deposit, set over and confirm. A Grant of the Assets, or of any other instrument, shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including, the immediate continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the Assets, and all other Monies payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.
“Group I Country”: The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
“Group II Country”: Germany, Sweden and Switzerland.
“Group III Country”: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Norway.
“Holder” or “holder”: With respect to (a) any Note, the Person whose name appears on the Note Register as the registered holder of such Note or the holder of a beneficial interest in (i.e., a beneficial owner of) such Note, (b) the Class A-1 Loans, each Class A-1 Lender recorded in the Loan Register and (c) any Preferred Share, the Person whose name appears on the Share Register maintained by the Share Registrar as the registered holder of such Preferred Share or the holder of a beneficial interest (i.e., a beneficial owner) of such Preferred Share, in each case, except as otherwise provided herein.
“IAI/QP”: Any Person that, at the time of its acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition of Notes is both an Institutional Accredited Investor and a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust) and each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner of which is a Qualified Purchaser).
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“Incurrence Covenant”: A covenant by any borrower to comply with one or more financial covenants only upon the occurrence of certain actions of the borrower, including a debt issuance, dividend payment, share purchase, merger, acquisition or divestiture.
“Indenture”: This instrument as originally executed and, if from time to time supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof, as so supplemented or amended.
“Independent”: As to any Person, any other Person (including, in the case of an accountant or lawyer, a firm of accountants or lawyers, and any member thereof, or an investment bank and any member thereof) who (i) does not have and is not committed to acquire any material direct or any material indirect financial interest in such Person or in any Affiliate of such Person, and (ii) is not connected with such Person as an Officer, employee, promoter, underwriter, voting trustee, partner, manager, director or Person performing similar functions. “Independent” when used with respect to any accountant may include an accountant who audits the books of such Person if in addition to satisfying the criteria set forth above, the accountant is independent with respect to such Person within the meaning of Rule 101 of the Code of Professional Conduct of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. For purposes of this definition, no special member, manager, director or independent review party of any Person will fail to be Independent solely because such Person acts as an independent special member, independent manager, independent director or independent review party thereof or of any such Person’s affiliates.
Any pricing service, certified public accountant or legal counsel that is required to be Independent of another Person under this Indenture must satisfy the criteria above with respect to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager and their Affiliates.
“Independent Review Party”: The meaning set forth in the Collateral Management Agreement.
“Index Maturity”: With respect to any Class of Secured Debt (other than the Fixed Rate Notes), the period indicated with respect to such Class in Section 2.3; provided that with respect to the portion of the first Interest Accrual Period comprising the period from the Closing Date to but excluding the First LIBOR Period End Date, LIBOR shall be determined by interpolating between the rate for 1 week and 1 month.
“Industry Diversity Measure”: The meaning specified in Schedule 7.
“Ineligible Collateral Obligation”: The meaning set forth in the Master Loan Sale Agreement.
“Initial Rating”: With respect to the Secured Debt, the rating or ratings, if any, indicated in Section 2.3.
“Initial Sale and Contribution”: The initial sale and contribution of Collateral Obligations, in each case on the Closing Date, from the Transferor to the Depositor and from the Depositor to the Issuer.
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“Institutional Accredited Investor”: An “accredited investor” within the meaning set forth in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act.
“Instrument”: The meaning specified in Section 9-102(a)(47) of the UCC.
“Interest Accrual Period”: (i) With respect to the initial Payment Date (or, in the case of a Re-Priced Class or a Class that is subject to a Refinancing, the first Payment Date following the Re-Pricing Date or the Refinancing, respectively), the period from and including the Closing Date (or, in the case of (x) a Re-Pricing, the Re-Pricing Date and (y) a Refinancing, the date of issuance of the replacement notes or debt obligations) to but excluding such Payment Date; and (ii) with respect to each succeeding Payment Date, the period from and including the immediately preceding Payment Date to but excluding the following Payment Date until the principal of the Secured Debt is paid in full or made available for payment; provided, that, for purposes of determining any Interest Accrual Period in the case of the Fixed Rate Notes, the Payment Date shall be assumed to be the 15th day of the relevant month (irrespective of whether such day is a Business Day).
“ Interest Collection Subaccount”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.2(a).
“Interest Coverage Ratio”: For any designated Class or Classes of Secured Debt, as of any date of determination, the percentage derived from the following equation: (A – B) / C, where:
A = The Collateral Interest Amount as of such date of determination;
B = Amounts payable (or expected as of the date of determination to be payable) on the following Payment Date as set forth in clauses (A) and (B) in Section 11.1(a)(i) (excluding any Collateral Management Fee that would otherwise be payable on the following Payment Date, but that has been designated by the Collateral Manager as a Waived Collateral Management Fee as of such date of determination); and
C = Interest due and payable on the Secured Debt of such Class or Classes and each Class of Secured Debt that rank senior to or pari passu with such Class or Classes (excluding Deferred Interest but including any interest on Deferred Interest with respect to the Deferrable Notes) on such Payment Date.
For purposes of calculating the Interest Coverage Ratio, the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes shall be treated as a single Class.
“Interest Coverage Test”: A test that is satisfied with respect to any Class or Classes of Secured Debt as of the Determination Date immediately preceding the second Payment Date and any other date thereafter on which such test is required to be determined hereunder if (i) the Interest Coverage Ratio for such Class or Classes on such date is at least equal to the Required Interest Coverage Ratio for such Class or Classes or (ii) such Class or Classes are no longer Outstanding.
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“Interest Determination Date”: The second London Banking Day preceding the first day of each Interest Accrual Period; provided that solely with respect to the first Interest Accrual Period, the Interest Determination Date will be (i) with respect to the portion of the first Interest Accrual Period comprising the period from the Closing Date to but excluding the First LIBOR Period End Date, the second London Banking Day preceding the Closing Date and (ii) with respect to the remainder of the first Interest Accrual Period, the second London Banking Day preceding the First LIBOR Period End Date.
“Interest Proceeds”: With respect to any Collection Period or Determination Date, without duplication, the sum of:
(i) all payments of interest and delayed compensation (representing compensation for delayed settlement) received in Cash by the Issuer during the related Collection Period on the Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments, including the accrued interest received in connection with a sale thereof during the related Collection Period, less any such amount that represents Principal Financed Accrued Interest or Principal Financed Capitalized Interest;
(ii) all principal and interest payments received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period on Eligible Investments purchased with Interest Proceeds;
(iii) all amendment and waiver fees, late payment fees and other fees received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period, except for those in connection with (a) the lengthening of the maturity of the related Collateral Obligation or (b) the reduction of the par amount of the related Collateral Obligation, as determined by the Collateral Manager with notice to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator;
(iv) commitment fees and other similar fees received by the Issuer during such Collection Period in respect of Revolving Collateral Obligations and Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations;
(v) any amounts deposited in the Collection Account from the Expense Reserve Account that are designated as Interest Proceeds in the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager as provided in Section 10.3(d);
(vi) any amounts deposited in the Collection Account from the Interest Reserve Account that are designated as Interest Proceeds in the sole discretion of the Collateral Manager pursuant to Section 10.3(e);
(vii) any amounts deposited in the Collection Account from the Contribution Account as Interest Proceeds at the direction of the related Contributor (or, if no direction is given by the Contributor, at the direction of the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion); and
(viii) upon the receipt by the Issuer of aggregate distributions in respect of an asset held by an Equity Holder Subsidiary that was acquired by or transferred to such Equity Holder Subsidiary in exchange for a Collateral Obligation in an amount equal to the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation at the time of such exchange, any additional amounts received by the Issuer from such Equity Holder Subsidiary in respect of such asset designated by the Collateral Manager as Interest Proceeds (with notice to the Collateral Administrator);
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provided that (a) any amounts received in respect of any Defaulted Obligation will constitute Principal Proceeds (and not Interest Proceeds) until the aggregate of all collections in respect of such Defaulted Obligation and, if such Defaulted Obligation is a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation or a Revolving Collateral Obligation, any amounts transferred from the Revolver Funding Account to the Principal Collection Subaccount with regard thereto, since it became a Defaulted Obligation equals the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation at the time it became a Defaulted Obligation; (b) that capitalized interest shall not constitute Interest Proceeds; and (c) any amounts relating to Maturity Amendments that are required to be treated as Principal Proceeds under this Indenture shall not constitute Interest Proceeds. For the avoidance of doubt, under no circumstances will Interest Proceeds include the Excepted Property or any interest earned thereon.
“Interest Rate”: With respect to each Class of Secured Debt, the per annum stated interest rate payable on such Class with respect to each Interest Accrual Period, which rate shall be equal to the rate specified for such Class in Section 2.3 (or any Alternative Rate, if applicable); provided that with respect to any Interest Accrual Period during which a Re-Pricing has occurred, the applicable Interest Rate of any Re-Priced Class shall reflect the applicable Re-Pricing Rate from, and including, the applicable Re-Pricing Date.
“Interest Reserve Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(e).
“Interest Reserve Amount”: U.S.$0.
“Investment Criteria”: The criteria specified in Section 12.2.
“IRS”: The United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Issuer”: The Person named as such on the first page of this Indenture until a successor Person shall have become the Issuer pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Issuer” shall mean such successor Person.
“Issuer Order” and “Issuer Request”: A written order or request (which may be a standing order or request) dated and signed in the name of the Issuer or the Co- Issuer or by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer or by the Collateral Manager by a Responsible Officer thereof, on behalf of the Issuer. For the avoidance of doubt, an order or request provided in an email or other electronic communication by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer or by a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer shall constitute an Issuer Order, unless the Collateral Agent otherwise requests that such Issuer Order be in writing.
“Junior Class”: With respect to a particular Class of Secured Debt, each Class of Secured Debt that is subordinated to such Class, as indicated in Section 2.3.
“Libor”: The London interbank offered rate.
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“LIBOR”: With respect to the Secured Debt (other than the Fixed Rate Notes), for any Interest Accrual Period LIBOR will equal the greater of (i) 0.0% and (ii)(a) the rate appearing on the Reuters Screen for deposits with a term of the Index Maturity or (b) if such rate is unavailable at the time LIBOR is to be determined, unless and until the Collateral Manager has selected an Alternative Rate in accordance with the proviso below, LIBOR shall be determined on the basis of the rates at which deposits in U.S. Dollars are offered by four major banks in the London market selected by the Collateral Manager (the “Reference Banks”) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Interest Determination Date to prime banks in the London interbank market for a period approximately equal to such Interest Accrual Period and an amount approximately equal to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Secured Debt. The Collateral Manager will request the London office of each Reference Bank to provide a quotation of its rate. If at least two such quotations are provided, LIBOR shall be the arithmetic mean of such quotations (rounded upward to the next higher 1/100). If fewer than two quotations are provided as requested, LIBOR with respect to such Interest Accrual Period will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted by three major banks in New York, New York selected by the Collateral Manager at approximately 11:00 a.m., New York time, on such Interest Determination Date for loans in U.S. Dollars to leading European banks for a term approximately equal to such Interest Accrual Period and an amount approximately equal to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Secured Debt. If the Calculation Agent is required but is unable to determine a rate in accordance with at least one of the procedures described above and if no Alternative Rate applies, LIBOR will be LIBOR as determined on the previous Interest Determination Date. “LIBOR”, when used with respect to a Collateral Obligation, means the “Libor” rate determined in accordance with the terms of such Collateral Obligation. Neither the Calculation Agent nor the Collateral Manager shall have any liability for (x) the selection of Reference Banks or major banks in New York, New York whose quotations may be used for purposes of calculating LIBOR or for the failure of any Reference Bank or major bank to provide a quotation or (y) quotations received from such Reference Banks or major banks, as applicable.
Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing, if at any time while any Secured Debt (other than Fixed Rate Notes) remains Outstanding, the Collateral Manager determines that (i) a material disruption to LIBOR occurs, (ii) a change in the methodology of calculating LIBOR occurs, (iii) LIBOR ceases to exist or be reported on the Reuters Screen or (iv) greater than 50% of the par amount of (A) the quarterly pay Floating Rate Obligations or (B) the floating rate notes issued in the preceding three months in new issue CLO transactions rely on reference rates other than LIBOR, (x) the Collateral Manager (on behalf of the Issuer) may select (with notice to the Trustee, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Administrator and the Calculation Agent) an alternative rate, including any applicable spread adjustments thereto (the “Alternative Rate”) that, in its commercially reasonable judgment, is (a) an industry benchmark rate that is generally accepted in the financial markets as a replacement benchmark for LIBOR, (b) a benchmark rate that is used to determine interest payable on at least 50% of all Floating Rate Obligations, (c) the reference rate recognized or acknowledged (whether by letter, protocol, publication of standard terms or otherwise) as a replacement reference rate for LIBOR by the Loan Syndications and Trading Association or the Alternative Reference Rates Committee convened by the Federal Reserve or similar association or committee or successor thereto, (d) the single reference rate that is used in calculating the interest rate of at least 50% of the par amount of floating rate notes priced or issued in the preceding three months in new issue collateralized loan obligation transactions or amendments of existing collateralized loan obligation transactions subject to LIBOR-related
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supplemental indentures, (e) the single reference rate that is used in calculating the interest rate of floating rate notes priced or issued in the preceding six months in at least ten new issue collateralized loan obligation transactions or amendments of existing collateralized loan obligation transactions subject to LIBOR-related supplemental indentures and/or (f) any other alternative rate chosen by the Collateral Manager with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class (as to this clause (f)) and (y) all references herein to “LIBOR” will mean such Alternative Rate selected by the Collateral Manager; provided that such Alternative Rate shall be equal to or greater than 0.0%; provided, further, that the Issuer shall have obtained written advice of Dechert LLP or an opinion of tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters to the effect that such selection will not cause the Issuer to be treated as a publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes or to be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to its net income or tax liability under Section 1446 of the Code.
“Libor Floor Obligation”: As of any date of determination, a Floating Rate Obligation (a) the interest in respect of which is paid based on Libor and (b) that provides that such Libor is (in effect) calculated as the greater of (i) a specified “floor” rate per annum and (ii) Libor for the applicable interest period for such Collateral Obligation.
“Loan”: Any obligation for the payment or repayment of borrowed money that is documented by a term loan agreement, revolving loan agreement or other similar credit agreement.
“Loan Agent”: U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as loan agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement, unless and until a successor Person shall have become the loan agent pursuant to the provisions thereof, and thereafter, the “Loan Agent” shall mean such successor person.
“Loan Register”: The “Register” as defined in the Credit Agreement.
“London Banking Day”: A day on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London, England.
“Long-Dated Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation, the stated maturity date of which is extended to occur after the earliest Stated Maturity of the Notes Outstanding pursuant to an amendment or modification of its terms following its acquisition by the Issuer.
“Maintenance Covenant”: A covenant by any borrower to comply with one or more financial covenants during each reporting period, whether or not such borrower has taken any specified action.
“Majority”: With respect to (a) any Class or Classes of Secured Debt, the Holders of more than 50% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Class or Classes, as applicable; provided that, with respect to the Class A-1 Loans, a “Majority of the Class A-1 Lenders” at any time means Class A-1 Lenders holding more than 50% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Loans Outstanding at such time; and (b) the Preferred Shares, the Holders of more than 50% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Preferred Shares.
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“Margin Stock”: “Margin Stock” as defined under Regulation U issued by the Federal Reserve Board, including any debt security which is by its terms convertible into “Margin Stock.”
“Market Value”: With respect to any loans or other assets, the amount (determined by the Collateral Manager) equal to the product of the Principal Balance thereof and the price (expressed as a percentage of par) determined in the following manner:
(i) either (A) the “bid side” price determined by the Loan Pricing Corporation, Markit Group Limited, LoanX Xxxx-It Partners, FT Interactive, Bridge Information Systems, KDP, IDC, Bank of America High Yield Index, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc., Pricing Direct Inc., S&P Security Evaluations Service, Xxxxxxxx Reuters Pricing Service, TradeWeb Markets LLC or any other third party nationally recognized pricing service selected by the Collateral Manager or (B) if data for such Collateral Obligation is not available from such a pricing service, an analysis performed by a third party nationally recognized valuation firm to establish a fair market value of such Collateral Obligation that reflects the “bid side” price that would be paid by a willing buyer to a willing seller of such Collateral Obligation in an expedited sale on an arm’s-length basis; or
(ii) if the price described in clause (i) is not available or the Collateral Manager determines in accordance with the Collateral Manager Standard that such price does not reflect the value of such asset;
(A) | the average of the bid side prices determined by three broker-dealers active in the trading of such asset that are Independent (without giving effect to the last sentence in the definition thereof) from each other and the Issuer and the Collateral Manager; |
(B) | if only two such bids can be obtained, the lower of the bid side prices of such two bids; or |
(C) | if only one such bid can be obtained, and such bid was obtained from a Qualified Broker/Dealer that is Independent (without giving effect to the last sentence in the definition thereof) from each other and the Issuer and the Collateral Manager, such bid; or |
(iii) if a value cannot be obtained by the Collateral Manager exercising reasonable efforts pursuant to the means contemplated by clauses (i) or (ii), the value determined as the bid side market value of such Collateral Obligation as reasonably determined by the Collateral Manager (so long as the Collateral Manager is a Registered Investment Adviser) consistent with the Collateral Manager Standard and certified by the Collateral Manager to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator; or
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(iv) if the Market Value of an asset is not determined in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, then such Market Value shall be deemed to be zero until such determination is made in accordance with clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above;
provided that, solely for purpose of calculating the CCC Excess and the Excess CCC Adjustment Amount, the Market Value of any CCC Collateral Obligation determined pursuant to paragraph (iii) will equal the lesser of (x) such bid side market value determined by the Collateral Manager and (y) 70%.
“Master Loan Sale Agreement”: That certain Master Loan Sale Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, by and among the Transferor, the Depositor and the Issuer whereby the Transferor will sell and/or contribute to the Depositor, and the Depositor will sell and/or contribute to the Issuer, without recourse (except as set forth therein), all of the right, title and interest of the Transferor and the Depositor, as applicable, in and to the Collateral Obligations and the proceeds thereof contemplated thereby.
“Master Participation Agreement”: That certain Master Participation Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, by and between the Issuer and PennantPark Floating Rate Funding I, LLC.
“ Material Covenant Default”: A default by an Obligor with respect to any Collateral Obligation, and subject to any grace periods contained in the related Underlying Document, that gives rise to the right of the lender(s) thereunder to accelerate the principal of such Collateral Obligation.
“Maturity”: With respect to any Class of Secured Debt, the date on which the unpaid principal of such Class becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
“Maturity Amendment”: The meaning specified in Section 7.20.
“ Maximum Fitch Rating Factor Test”: A test that will be satisfied on any date of determination if the Fitch Weighted Average Rating Factor as at such date is less than or equal to the applicable level in the Fitch Test Matrix.
“Measurement Date”: (i) Any day on which a purchase of a Collateral Obligation occurs, (ii) any Determination Date, (iii) the Monthly Report Determination Date, (iv) with five Business Days’ prior written notice, any Business Day requested by either Rating Agency and (v) the Effective Date.
“Memorandum and Articles”: The Issuer’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, as they may be amended, revised or restated from time to time.
“Merging Entity”: The meaning specified in Section 7.10.
“Minimum Denomination”: With respect to each Class of Notes, U.S.$250,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1 in excess thereof.
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“Minimum Fitch Floating Spread”: As of any date of determination, the weighted average spread (expressed as a percentage) applicable to the current Fitch Test Matrix selected by the Collateral Manager.
“Minimum Fitch Floating Spread Test”: A test that will be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Floating Spread plus the Excess Weighted Average Coupon equals or exceeds the Minimum Fitch Floating Spread.
“Minimum Floating Spread”: The applicable percentage set forth in the definition of “S&P CDO Monitor” upon the option chosen by the Collateral Manager in accordance with Section 2 of Schedule 5.
“Minimum Floating Spread Test”: The test that is satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Floating Spread plus the Excess Weighted Average Coupon equals or exceeds the Minimum Floating Spread.
“Minimum Weighted Average Coupon”: If any of the Collateral Obligations are Fixed Rate Obligations, 7.50%.
“Minimum Weighted Average Coupon Test”: The test that is satisfied on any date of determination as of which the Collateral Obligations include any Fixed Rate Obligations if the Weighted Average Coupon plus the Excess Weighted Average Floating Spread equals or exceeds the Minimum Weighted Average Coupon.
“ Minimum Weighted Average Fitch Recovery Rate Test”: The test that will be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Fitch Recovery Rate is greater than or equal to the applicable level in the Fitch Test Matrix.
“Minimum Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate Test”: The test that will be satisfied on any date of determination prior to the S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date if the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding equals or exceeds the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for such Class of Secured Debt selected by the Collateral Manager in connection with the S&P CDO Monitor Test.
“Money”: The meaning specified in Section 1-201(24) of the UCC.
“Monthly Report”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(a).
“Monthly Report Determination Date”: The meaning specified in Section 10.7(a).
“Moody’s”: Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Moody’s Default Probability Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 4 hereto.
“Moody’s Derived Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 4 hereto.
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“Xxxxx’x Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the rating determined pursuant to Schedule 4 hereto.
“Net Exposure Amount”: As of the applicable Cut-Off Date, with respect to any Substitute Collateral Obligation which is a Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, the lesser of (i) the aggregate amount of the then-unfunded funding obligations thereunder, and (ii) the amount necessary to cause, upon completion of such substitution on the applicable Cut-Off Date, the amount of funds on deposit in the Revolver Funding Account to be at least equal to the sum of the unfunded funding obligations under all Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligations and Revolving Collateral Obligations then included in the Assets.
“Net Purchased Loan Balance”: As of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the sum of (i) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations conveyed, directly or indirectly, by the Transferor to the Issuer under the Master Loan Sale Agreement prior to such date, calculated as of the respective Cut-Off Dates of such Collateral Obligations, and (ii) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations acquired by the Issuer other than directly or indirectly from the Transferor prior to such date minus (b) the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations (other than Ineligible Collateral Obligations) repurchased or substituted by the Transferor prior to such date.
“No Dividend Payment Condition”: With respect to any Payment Date, the condition in effect if the conditions in the Fiscal Agency Agreement that must be satisfied in order for the Fiscal Agent to make dividend or redemption payments to the holders of the Preferred Shares under the Fiscal Agency Agreement are not satisfied (as notified by the Issuer to the Trustee).
“Non-Call Period”: The period from the Closing Date to but excluding the Payment Date in October 2021.
“Non-Emerging Market Obligor”: An Obligor that is Domiciled in (a) the United States of America, (b) any other country that has a foreign currency government bond rating of at least “Aa2” by Moody’s and a foreign currency issuer credit rating of at least “AA” by S&P, or (c) a Tax Jurisdiction.
“Non-Permitted ERISA Holder”: The meaning specified in Section 2.11(c).
“Non-Permitted Holder”: The meaning specified in Section 2.11(b).
“ Non-Super-Priority Senior Secured Loan”: A Senior Secured Loan other than a revolving credit facility that is customarily referred to as a super-priority revolver.
“Note Register”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(a).
“Note Registrar”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(a).
“Noteholder”: With respect to any Note, the Holder of such Note.
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“Notes”: Collectively, the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-2 Notes, the Class B-1 Notes, the Class B-2 Notes, the Class C-1 Notes, the Class C-2 Notes and the Class D Notes authorized by, and authenticated and delivered under, this Indenture (as specified in Section 2.3), together with any additional Notes issued pursuant to and accordance with this Indenture.
“Notice of Substitution”: The meaning specified in Section 12.3(a)(ii).
“NRSRO”: Any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, other than any Rating Agency.
“NRSRO Certification”: A certification executed by an NRSRO in favor of the Issuer and the Information Agent that states that such NRSRO has provided the Issuer with the appropriate certifications under Exchange Act Rule 17g-5(a)(3)(iii)(B) and that such NRSRO has access to the 17g-5 Website.
“Obligor”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, any Person or Persons obligated to make payments pursuant to or with respect to such Collateral Obligation, including any guarantor thereof, but excluding, in each case, any such Person that is an obligor or guarantor that is in addition to the primary obligors or guarantors with respect to the assets, cash flows or credit on which the related Collateral Obligation is principally underwritten.
“Obligor Diversity Measure”: The meaning specified in Schedule 7.
“Offer”: The meaning specified in Section 10.8(c).
“Offering”: The offering of the Notes pursuant to the Offering Circular.
“Offering Circular”: The offering circular dated September 17, 2019 relating to the offer and sale of the Notes, including any supplements thereto.
“Officer”: (a) With respect to the Issuer and any corporation, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of such entity, (b) with respect to the Co-Issuer and any limited liability company, any managing member or manager thereof or any person to whom the rights and powers of management thereof are delegated in accordance with the limited liability company agreement of such limited liability company, (c) with respect to the Collateral Manager, any manager or member of the Collateral Manager or any duly authorized officer of the Collateral Manager with direct responsibility for the administration of the Collateral Management Agreement and this Indenture and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other duly authorized officer of the Collateral Manager to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and (d) with respect to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Fiscal Agent or the Collateral Administrator or the Bank in any other capacity under the Transaction Documents, a Trust Officer.
“Opinion of Counsel”: A written opinion addressed to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and, if required by the terms hereof, each Rating Agency, as applicable, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent (and, if so addressed, each Rating Agency, as applicable), of an attorney admitted to practice, or a
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nationally or internationally recognized and reputable law firm one or more of the partners of which are admitted to practice, before the highest court of any state of the United States or the District of Columbia (or the Cayman Islands, in the case of an opinion relating to the laws of the Cayman Islands), which attorney or law firm, as the case may be, may, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, be counsel for the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as the case may be, and which attorney or law firm, as the case may be, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent. Whenever an Opinion of Counsel is required hereunder, such Opinion of Counsel may rely on opinions of other counsel who are so admitted and so satisfactory, which opinions of other counsel shall accompany such Opinion of Counsel and shall be addressed to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent (and, if required by the terms hereof, each Rating Agency, as applicable) or shall state that the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent (and, if required by the terms hereof, each Rating Agency, as applicable) shall be entitled to rely thereon.
“Optional Redemption”: A redemption of the Secured Debt in accordance with Section 9.2.
“Other Plan Law”: Any state, local, other federal or non-U.S. laws or regulations that are substantially similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.
“Outstanding”: With respect to (a) the Class A-1 Loans, any of the Class A-1 Loans incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement, to the extent such Class A-1 Loan has not been repaid in accordance with the Credit Agreement or converted to Class A-1 Notes pursuant to Section 2.5(n), (b) the Notes or the Notes of any specified Class, as of any date of determination, all of the Notes or all of the Notes of such Class, as the case may be, theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Note Registrar or delivered to the Note Registrar for cancellation in accordance with the terms of Section 2.9;
(ii) Notes or portions thereof for whose payment or redemption funds in the necessary amount have been theretofore irrevocably deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Notes pursuant to Section 4.1(a)(ii); provided that if such Notes or portions thereof are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by a “protected purchaser” (within the meaning of Section 8-303 of the UCC); and
(iv) Notes alleged to have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen for which replacement Notes have been issued as provided in Section 2.6;
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and (c) the Preferred Shares, as of any date of determination, all of such Preferred Shares shown as issued and outstanding on the Share Register; provided that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Aggregate Outstanding Amount have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (1) Secured Debt and Preferred Shares owned by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer and (only in the case of a vote on (A) the removal of the Collateral Manager for “cause,” (B) the approval of a successor Collateral Manager if the appointment of the Collateral Manager is being terminated pursuant to the Collateral Management Agreement for “cause” and (C) the waiver of any event constituting “cause”) Collateral Manager Notes shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee or the Collateral Agent shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Secured Debt and Preferred Shares that a Trust Officer of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded and (2) Secured Debt or Preferred Shares so owned that has been pledged in good faith shall be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Secured Debt or Preferred Shares and that the pledgee is not one of the Persons specified above.
“Overcollateralization Ratio”: With respect to any specified Class or Classes of Secured Debt as of any date of determination, the percentage derived from: (i) the Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount on such date divided by (ii) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount on such date of such Class or Classes (including, in the case of the Deferrable Notes, any accrued Deferred Interest that remains unpaid) and each Priority Class with respect to such Class or Classes of Secured Debt. For purposes of calculating the Overcollateralization Ratio, the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes shall be treated as a single Class.
“Overcollateralization Ratio Test”: A test that is satisfied with respect to any Class or Classes of Secured Debt as of the Effective Date and any other date thereafter on which such test is required to be determined hereunder, if (i) the Overcollateralization Ratio for such Class or Classes on such date is at least equal to the Required Overcollateralization Ratio for such Class or Classes or (ii) such Class or Classes of Secured Debt is no longer outstanding.
“Partial Refinancing Interest Proceeds”: In connection with a redemption by Refinancing of one or more Classes of Secured Debt, with respect to each such Class, Interest Proceeds up to the amount of accrued and unpaid interest on such Class, but only to the extent that such Interest Proceeds would be available under the Priority of Payments to pay accrued and unpaid interest on such Class on the Redemption Date or, in the case of a Refinancing occurring on a date other than a Payment Date, only to the extent that such Interest Proceeds would be available under the Priority of Payments to pay accrued and unpaid interest on such Class on the next Payment Date, taking into account scheduled distributions on the Assets that are expected to be received prior to the next Determination Date.
“Participation Interest”: A participation interest in a loan that, at the time of acquisition, or the Issuer’s commitment to acquire the same, satisfies each of the following criteria: (i) such loan would constitute a Collateral Obligation were it acquired directly, (ii) the seller of the participation is the lender on the loan, (iii) the aggregate participation in the loan does not exceed the principal amount or commitment of such loan, (iv) such participation does not grant, in the aggregate, to the participant in such participation a greater interest than the seller holds in the loan or commitment that is the subject of the participation, (v) the entire purchase price for such participation is paid in full at the time of its acquisition (or, in the case of a participation in a
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Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, at the time of the funding of such loan), (vi) the participation provides the participant all of the economic benefit and risk of the whole or part of the loan or commitment that is the subject of the loan participation, and (vii) the participation is documented under a Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Loan Market Association or similar agreement standard for loan participation transactions among institutional market participants. For the avoidance of doubt, a Participation Interest shall not include a sub-participation interest in any loan.
“Paying Agent”: The Collateral Agent in its capacity as Paying Agent, and any successor or other Person authorized by the Issuer to pay the principal of or interest on any Secured Debt on behalf of the Issuer as specified in Section 7.2.
“Payment Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(a).
“Payment Date”: The 15th day of January, April, July and October of each year (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), commencing on the Payment Date in January 2020, except that the final scheduled Payment Date (subject to any earlier redemption or payment of the Secured Debt) shall be the Payment Date in October 2031, as well as any other date not specified above that is a Redemption Date in connection with a redemption in whole but not in part.
“PBGC”: The United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“Permitted Deferrable Obligation”: Any Deferrable Obligation that by the terms of the related Underlying Document carries a current cash pay interest rate of not less than (a) in the case of a Floating Rate Obligation, LIBOR plus 1.00% per annum or (b) in the case of a Fixed Rate Obligation, the zero-coupon swap rate in a fixed/floating interest rate swap with a term equal to five years.
“Permitted Liens”: With respect to the Assets: (i) security interests, liens and other encumbrances created pursuant to the Transaction Documents, (ii) with respect to agented Collateral Obligations, security interests, liens and other encumbrances in favor of the lead agent, the collateral agent or the paying agent on behalf of all holders of indebtedness of such Obligor under the related facility, (iii) with respect to any Equity Security, any security interests, liens and other encumbrances granted on such Equity Security to secure indebtedness of the related Obligor and/or any security interests, liens and other rights or encumbrances granted under any governing documents or other agreement between or among or binding upon the Issuer as the holder of equity in such Obligor and (iv) security interests, liens and other encumbrances, if any, which have priority over first priority perfected security interests in the Collateral Obligations or any portion thereof under the UCC or any other applicable law.
“Permitted Offer”: An Offer (i) pursuant to the terms of which the offeror offers to acquire a debt obligation (including a Collateral Obligation) in exchange for consideration consisting solely of Cash in an amount equal to or greater than the full face amount of such debt obligation plus any accrued and unpaid interest and (ii) as to which the Collateral Manager has determined in its reasonable commercial judgment that the offeror has sufficient access to financing to consummate the Offer.
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“Permitted RIC Distribution Date”: Any date designated under this Indenture for the payment of a Permitted RIC Distribution.
“Permitted RIC Distributions”: Distributions to a Holder of Preferred Shares to the extent required (as determined by the Issuer, or the Collateral Manager on its behalf) to allow such Holder to make sufficient distributions to qualify as a regulated investment company within the meaning of Section 851 of the Code and to otherwise eliminate U.S. federal or state income or excise taxes payable by such Holder in or with respect to any taxable year of such Holder (or any calendar year, as relevant); provided that (A) the amount of any such payments made in or with respect to any such taxable year (or calendar year, as relevant) of such Holder shall not exceed 102% of the amounts that the Issuer would have been required to distribute to such Holder to: (i) allow the Issuer to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements that would be imposed by Section 852(a) of the Code (or any successor thereto) to maintain its eligibility to be subject to tax as a regulated investment company for any such taxable year, (ii) reduce to zero for any such taxable year the Issuer’s liability for U.S. federal income taxes imposed on (x) its investment company taxable income pursuant to Section 852(b)(1) of the Code (or any successor thereto) or (y) its net capital gain pursuant to Section 852(b)(3) of the Code (or any successor thereto), and (iii) reduce to zero the Issuer’s liability for U.S. federal excise taxes for any such calendar year imposed pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code (or any successor thereto), in the case of each of (i), (ii) or (iii), calculated assuming that the Issuer had qualified to be subject to tax as a regulated investment company under the Code, (B) after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the amount of Permitted RIC Distributions made in any calendar quarter shall not exceed U.S.$1,500,000 (or such greater amount consented to by the Majority of the Controlling Class) and (C) amounts may be distributed pursuant to this definition only from Interest Proceeds to the extent available in the Interest Collection Subaccount and only so long as (w) all Coverage Tests are satisfied immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Permitted RIC Distribution, (x) after giving effect on a pro forma basis to the application of Interest Proceeds to the payment of Permitted RIC Distributions and taking into account Scheduled Distributions that are expected to be received prior to the next Payment Date, sufficient Interest Proceeds will be available on the next Payment Date to pay in full all amounts due on all Classes of Secured Debt under the Priority of Payments, (y) the Issuer gives at least one (1) Business Day’s prior written notice thereof to the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator and (z) the Issuer and the Collateral Manager confirm in writing (which may be by email) to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator that the conditions to a Permitted RIC Distribution set forth herein are satisfied.
“Permitted Use”: With respect to any Cash Contribution, any of the following uses as determined by the Collateral Manager: (i) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to the Interest Collection Subaccount for application as Interest Proceeds; (ii) the transfer of the applicable portion of such amount to the Principal Collection Subaccount for application as Principal Proceeds (so long as the Issuer has consented thereto); (iii) the payment of any transaction costs (including fees) in connection with any Refinancing, Re-Pricing or an additional issuance of Secured Debt (in each case, so long as the Issuer has consented thereto); and (iv) to make payments in connection with the exercise of an option, warrant, right of conversion, preemptive right, rights offering, credit bid or similar right in connection with the workout or restructuring of a Collateral Obligation (so long as such right and the asset received in connection with such payment would be considered “received in lieu of debts previously contracted for” with respect to such Collateral Obligation under the Xxxxxxx Rule), in each case, subject to the limitations set forth in Article XII.
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“ Person”: An individual, corporation (including a business trust), partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, statutory trust, trust (including any beneficiary thereof), unincorporated association or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Placement Agent”: GreensLedge Capital Markets LLC, in its capacity as placement agent of the Notes under the Placement Agreement.
“Placement Agreement”: The placement agency agreement dated as of September 19, 2019, by and among the Co-Issuers, the Placement Agent, the Transferor and the Depositor, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Plan Asset Regulation”: The U.S. Department of Labor regulations under 29 C.F.R. § 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA.
“Portfolio Company”: Any company that is controlled by the Collateral Manager, an Affiliate thereof, or an account, fund, client or portfolio established and controlled by the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof.
“ Post-Reinvestment Period Settlement Obligation”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(a).
“Preferred Shares”: The Preferred Shares issued by the Issuer on the Closing Date and any additional Preferred Shares issued pursuant to the Memorandum and Articles and certain resolutions of the Issuer and subject to the terms of the Fiscal Agency Agreement and having the characteristics specified therein.
“Preferred Shares Payment Account”: A segregated account designated as being for the benefit of the Issuer to which the Fiscal Agent shall promptly credit, with respect to each Payment Date, the amount (if any) of distributions received by the Fiscal Agent from the Issuer or the Collateral Agent under the Priority of Payments for payments on the Preferred Shares.
“Principal Balance”: Subject to Section 1.3, with respect to (a) any Asset other than a Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Asset (excluding any capitalized interest) and (b) any Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation (excluding any capitalized interest), plus (except as expressly set forth herein) any undrawn commitments that have not been irrevocably reduced or withdrawn with respect to such Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation; provided that for all purposes the Principal Balance of (1) any Equity Security or interest only strip shall be deemed to be zero and (2) any Defaulted Obligation that is not sold or terminated within three years after becoming a Defaulted Obligation shall be deemed to be zero.
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“ Principal Collection Subaccount”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.2(a).
“ Principal Financed Accrued Interest”: The amount of Principal Proceeds, if any, applied towards the purchase of accrued interest on a Collateral Obligation.
“Principal Financed Capitalized Interest”: The amount of Principal Proceeds, if any, applied towards the purchase of capitalized interest on a Permitted Deferrable Obligation.
“Principal Proceeds”: With respect to any Collection Period or Determination Date, all amounts received by the Issuer during the related Collection Period that do not constitute Interest Proceeds and any other amounts that have been designated as Principal Proceeds pursuant to the terms of this Indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, under no circumstances will Principal Proceeds include the Excepted Property.
“Priority Category”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the applicable category listed in the table under the heading “Priority Category” in clause 1(b) of Schedule 5.
“Priority Class”: With respect to any specified Class of Secured Debt, each Class of Secured Debt that ranks senior to such Class, as indicated in Section 2.3.
“Priority of Payments”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(a).
“Proceeding”: Any suit in equity, action at law or other judicial or administrative proceeding.
“Proposed Portfolio”: The portfolio of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments resulting from the proposed purchase, sale, maturity or other disposition of a Collateral Obligation or a proposed reinvestment in an additional Collateral Obligation, as the case may be.
“Purchased Defaulted Obligation”: The meaning specified in Section 12.5.
“QIB/QP”: Any Person that, at the time of its acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition of Notes is both a Qualified Institutional Buyer and a Qualified Purchaser.
“Qualified Broker/Dealer”: Any of Ares Capital Corporation; Bank of America/Xxxxxxx Xxxxx; The Bank of Montreal; The Bank of New York Mellon; Barclays Bank plc; BNP Paribas; Broadpoint Securities; Calyon; Citibank, N.A.; Credit Agricole S.A.; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Credit Suisse; Deutsche Bank AG; Dresdner Bank AG; GE Capital; Xxxxxxx Xxxxx & Co.; Xxxxx Capital; Guggenheim; HSBC Bank; Imperial Capital LLC; Xxxxxxxxx & Company, Inc.; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; KeyBank National Association; Lloyds TSB Bank; Madison Capital; Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated; Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co.; Natixis; NewStar Financial, Inc.; Northern Trust Company; Royal Bank of Canada; The Royal Bank of Scotland plc; Société Générale; SunTrust Banks, Inc.; The Toronto-Dominion Bank; UBS AG; U.S. Bank National Association; and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association.
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“Qualified Institutional Buyer”: A “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning specified in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
“Qualified Purchaser”: A “qualified purchaser” within the meaning specified in Section 2(a)(51) of the 1940 Act and Rule 2a51-2 or 2a51-3 under the 1940 Act.
“Ramp-Up Account”: The account established pursuant to Section 10.3(c).
“Rating Agency”: Each of Fitch and S&P or, with respect to the Secured Debt or the Collateral Obligations, as applicable, if at any time Fitch or S&P ceases to provide rating services with respect to debt obligations, any other nationally recognized investment rating agency selected by the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer).
“Record Date”: As to any Payment Date, Redemption Date or Permitted RIC Distribution Date, with respect to (i) the Notes and the Preferred Shares, the date 15 days prior to such applicable date and (ii) the Class A-1 Loans, the last day of the month immediately preceding such applicable date (whether or not such date is a Business Day).
“Redemption Date”: Any Business Day specified for a redemption of a Class of Secured Debt in accordance with Section 9.2 or Section 9.8 or any Payment Date specified for a redemption of Secured Debt in accordance with Section 9.3.
“Redemption Price”: For (a) the Secured Debt of each Class to be redeemed or sold and transferred (as applicable) in connection with a Tax Redemption, Clean-Up Call Redemption, Optional Redemption or Re-Pricing, (x) 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Class, plus (y) accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Deferred Interest on such Class due and payable pursuant to Section 2.7(a), interest on any accrued and unpaid Deferred Interest and defaulted interest) to the Redemption Date or Re-Pricing Date; and (b) each Preferred Share, its proportional share (determined in accordance with the Fiscal Agency Agreement) of the amount of the proceeds of the Assets remaining after giving effect to the Optional Redemption, Tax Redemption or Clean-Up Call Redemption of the Secured Debt in whole or after all Secured Debt have been repaid in full and payment in full of (and/or creation of a reserve for) all expenses (including all Collateral Management Fees and Administrative Expenses) of the Co-Issuers; provided that, in connection with any Tax Redemption, Clean-Up Call Redemption or Optional Redemption of the Secured Debt in whole or of any Class of Secured Debt in connection with a Refinancing of such Class, Holders of 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of any Class of Notes being redeemed may elect to receive less than 100% of the Redemption Price that would otherwise be payable to the Holders of such Class.
“Reference Banks”: The meaning specified in the definition of “LIBOR”.
“Refinancing”: A loan or an issuance of replacement securities, whose terms in each case will be negotiated by the Issuer or, upon request by the Issuer, by the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, from one or more financial institutions or purchasers to refinance the Secured Debt in connection with an Optional Redemption.
“Refinancing Proceeds”: The net Cash proceeds from a Refinancing.
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“Regional Diversity Measure”: The meaning specified in Schedule 7.
“Registered”: In registered form for U.S. federal income tax purposes (or in registered or bearer form if not a “registration-required obligation” as defined in section 163(f)(2)(A) of the Code).
“Registered Investment Adviser”: A Person duly registered as an investment adviser (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Person that is a relying adviser of a Person that has registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act) in accordance with and pursuant to Section 203 of the Advisers Act.
“Regulation S”: Regulation S, as amended, under the Securities Act.
“Regulation S Global Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(i).
“Reinvestment Period”: The period from and including the Closing Date to and including the earliest of (i) the Payment Date occurring in October 2023, (ii) the date of the acceleration of the Maturity of any Class of Secured Debt pursuant to Section 5.2; provided that, if any such acceleration is rescinded in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and notice is provided to the Rating Agencies, the Reinvestment Period may be reinstated by the Issuer (as directed by the Collateral Manager), (iii) the date on which the Collateral Manager reasonably determines that it can no longer reinvest in additional Collateral Obligations in accordance with the terms hereof or the Collateral Management Agreement for a period of not less than 30 days, or (iv) the date of any Tax Redemption, Clean-Up Call Redemption or Optional Redemption of the Secured Debt in whole other than in connection with a Refinancing; provided that in the case of clause (iii), the Collateral Manager shall notify the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Administrator and Fitch of such determination.
“Reinvestment Target Par Balance”: As of any date of determination, the Target Initial Par Amount minus (i) the amount of any reduction in the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Secured Debt through the payment of Principal Proceeds plus (ii) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of any additional Secured Debt issued under and in accordance with Sections 2.13 and 3.2 and the Credit Agreement and any additional Preferred Shares issued in accordance with the Fiscal Agency Agreement and this Indenture, or, if greater, the aggregate amount of Principal Proceeds that result from the issuance of such additional Secured Debt and additional Preferred Shares.
“Re-Priced Class”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(a).
“Re-Pricing”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(a).
“Re-Pricing Date”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b).
“Re-Pricing Intermediary”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(a).
“Re-Pricing Rate”: The meaning specified in Section 9.7(b)(i).
“Repurchase and Substitution Limit”: The meaning specified in Section 12.3(c).
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“Required Interest Coverage Ratio”: (a) For the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes, 115.0%, (b) for the Class C Notes, 110.0%, and (c) for the Class D Notes, 105.0%.
“Required Overcollateralization Ratio”: (a) For the Class A-1 Debt, the Class A-2 Notes and the Class B Notes, 139.3%, (b) for the Class C Notes, 123.6% and (c) for the Class D Notes, 116.0%.
“Required S&P Credit Estimate Information”: S&P’s “Credit Estimate Information Requirements” dated April 2011 and any other available information S&P reasonably requests in order to produce a credit estimate for a particular asset.
“Reset Amendment”: The meaning specified in Section 8.2(a).
“Resolution”: With respect to the Issuer, a resolution of its Board of Directors and, with respect to the Co-Issuer, an action in writing by its manager.
“Responsible Officer”: With respect to (i) the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Fiscal Agent or the Collateral Administrator, a Trust Officer, and (ii) any other any Person, any duly authorized director, officer or manager of such Person with direct responsibility for the administration of the applicable agreement and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other duly authorized director, officer or manager of such Person to whom such matter is referred because of such director’s, officer’s or manager’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. Each party may receive and accept a certification of the authority of any other party as conclusive evidence of the authority of any Person to act, and such certification may be considered as in full force and effect until receipt by such other party of written notice to the contrary.
“Restricted Trading Period”: The period during which (a) S&P’s rating of any of the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-1 Loans or the Class A-2 Notes is one or more sub-categories below its rating on the Closing Date or (b) S&P’s rating of any of the Class A-1 Notes, the Class A-1 Loans or the Class A-2 Notes (then Outstanding) has been withdrawn and not reinstated; provided that, such period will not be a Restricted Trading Period (so long as S&P’s rating of such Class has not been further downgraded, withdrawn or put on watch for potential downgrade) upon the direction of the Issuer with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class.
“Restructuring Equity Security”: The meaning specified in Section 12.4(b).
“Retention Deficiency”: A failure by the EU Retention Holder to hold the EU Retention Interest as required by the Retention of Net Economic Interest Letter.
“Retention Interest”: The EU Retention Interest and/or the U.S. Retention Interest, as the context may require.
“Retention of Net Economic Interest Letter”: The letter relating to the retention of net economic interest in accordance with the EU Securitization Laws, dated as of the Closing Date and addressed by the EU Retention Holder and the Depositor to the Issuer, the Collateral Agent and the Placement Agent.
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“Reuters Screen”: Reuters Page LIBOR01 (or such other page that may replace that page on such service for the purpose of displaying comparable rates) as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Interest Determination Date.
“Revolver Funding Account”: The meaning specified in Section 10.4.
“Revolving Collateral Obligation”: Any Collateral Obligation (other than a Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation) that is a loan (including, without limitation, revolving loans, including funded and unfunded portions of revolving credit lines (including any portions thereof that may be drawn by the borrower relating to its letter of credit facilities), unfunded commitments under specific facilities and other similar loans) that by its terms may require one or more future advances to be made to the borrower by the Issuer; provided that any such Collateral Obligation will be a Revolving Collateral Obligation only until all commitments to make advances to the borrower expire or are terminated or irrevocably reduced to zero.
“Risk Retention Issuance”: The meaning specified in Section 2.13(a).
“Rule 17g-5”: The meaning specified in Section 14.17(a).
“Rule 144A”: Rule 144A, as amended, under the Securities Act.
“Rule 144A Global Note”: The meaning specified in Section 2.2(b)(ii).
“Rule 144A Information”: The meaning specified in Section 7.15.
“S&P”: S&P Global Ratings, an S&P Global Inc. business, and any successor or successors thereto.
“S&P CDO Monitor”: The dynamic, analytical computer model developed by S&P used to calculate the default frequency in terms of the amount of debt assumed to default as a percentage of the original principal amount of the Collateral Obligations consistent with a specified benchmark rating level based upon certain assumptions (including the applicable Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate) and S&P’s proprietary corporate default studies, as may be amended by S&P from time to time upon notice to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Manager and the Collateral Administrator. Each S&P CDO Monitor will be chosen by the Collateral Manager (with notice to the Collateral Administrator) and associated with either (x) a Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate and a Weighted Average Floating Spread from Section 2 of Schedule 5 or (y) a Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate and a Weighted Average Floating Spread confirmed by S&P, provided that as of any date of determination the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding equals or exceeds the Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate for such Class chosen by the Collateral Manager and the Weighted Average Floating Spread equals or exceeds the Weighted Average Floating Spread chosen by the Collateral Manager.
“S&P CDO Monitor Benchmarks”: The S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor, the Default Rate Dispersion, the Obligor Diversity Measure, the Industry Diversity Measure, the Regional Diversity Measure and the S&P Weighted Average Life.
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“ S&P CDO Monitor Non-Model Adjustments”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(f).
“S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date”: The date specified by the Collateral Manager, on not less than five Business Days’ prior written notice to S&P, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Collateral Administrator, upon which the Collateral Manager shall cease utilizing the S&P CDO Monitor in determining compliance with the S&P CDO Monitor Test.
“S&P CDO Monitor Test”: A test that will be satisfied on any date of determination on or after the Effective Date (and, prior to the S&P CDO Monitor Switchover Date, following receipt by the Collateral Manager of the Class Break-even Default Rates for each S&P CDO Monitor input file (in accordance with the definition of “Class Break-even Default Rate”)) if, after giving effect to the sale of a Collateral Obligation or the purchase of a Collateral Obligation, the Class Default Differential of the Proposed Portfolio with respect to the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding (other than the Class A-1 Debt) is positive. The S&P CDO Monitor Test will be considered to be improved if the Class Default Differential of the Proposed Portfolio with respect to the most senior Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding (other than the Class A-1 Debt) is greater than the corresponding Class Default Differential of the Current Portfolio.
“S&P Collateral Value”: With respect to any Defaulted Obligation or Closing Date Participation Interest, the lesser of (i) the S&P Recovery Amount of such Collateral Obligation, as of the relevant Measurement Date and (ii) the Market Value of such Collateral Obligation, as of the relevant Measurement Date.
“S&P Deemed Rating Confirmation”: The meaning specified in Section 7.18(f).
“S&P Default Rate”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, the default rate as determined in accordance with Section 3 of Schedule 5 hereto. If the number of years to maturity is not an integer, the default rate will be determined using linear interpolation.
“S&P Equivalent Weighted Average Rating Factor”: The number (rounded up to the nearest whole number) determined by: (a) summing the products of (i) the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation (excluding Equity Securities) multiplied by (ii) the S&P Rating Factor of such Collateral Obligation and (b) dividing such sum by the Principal Balance of all such Collateral Obligations.
“S&P Industry Classification”: The S&P Industry Classifications set forth in Schedule 3 hereto, which industry classifications may be updated at the option of the Collateral Manager if S&P publishes revised industry classifications.
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“S&P Rating”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, as of any date of determination, the rating determined in accordance with the following methodology (except the rating of Current Pay Obligations shall be determined in accordance with clause (iv) of this definition):
(i) if there is an issuer credit rating of the issuer of such Collateral Obligation by S&P as published by S&P, or the guarantor which unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees such Collateral Obligation pursuant to a form of guaranty that complies with the then-current S&P Criteria, then the S&P Rating shall be such rating (regardless of whether there is a published rating by S&P on the Collateral Obligations of such issuer held by the Issuer; provided that private ratings (that is, ratings provided at the request of the Obligor) may be used for purposes of this definition if the related Obligor has consented to the disclosure thereof and a copy of such consent has been provided to S&P) or (b) if there is no issuer credit rating of the issuer by S&P but (1) there is a senior secured rating on any obligation or security of the issuer, then the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall be one sub-category below such rating; (2) if clause (1) above does not apply, but there is a senior unsecured rating on any obligation or security of the issuer, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall equal such rating; and (3) if neither clause (1) nor clause (2) above applies, but there is a subordinated rating on any obligation or security of the issuer, then the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall be one sub-category above such rating;
(ii) with respect to any Collateral Obligation that is a DIP Collateral Obligation, the S&P Rating thereof will be the credit rating assigned to such issue by S&P; provided that (a) such credit rating was assigned by S&P within 12 months of such date of determination and (b) the Collateral Manager (on behalf of the Issuer) will notify S&P if the Collateral Manager has actual knowledge of the occurrence of any material amendment or event with respect to such Collateral Obligation that would, in the reasonable business judgment of the Collateral Manager, have a material adverse impact on the credit quality of such Collateral Obligation, including any amortization modifications, extensions of maturity, reductions of principal amount owed, or non-payment of timely interest or principal due;
(iii) if there is not a rating by S&P on the issuer or on an obligation of the issuer, then the S&P Rating may be determined pursuant to clauses (a) through (d) below:
(a) if an obligation of the issuer is publicly rated by Moody’s, then the S&P Rating will be determined in accordance with the methodologies for establishing the Xxxxx’x Rating set forth above except that the S&P Rating of such obligation will be (1) one sub-category below the S&P equivalent of the Xxxxx’x Rating if such Xxxxx’x Rating is “Baa3” or higher and (2) two sub-categories below the S&P equivalent of the Xxxxx’x Rating if such Xxxxx’x Rating is “Ba1” or lower;
(b) the S&P Rating may be based on a credit estimate provided by S&P, and in connection therewith, the Issuer, the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer or the issuer of such Collateral Obligation shall, prior to or within thirty (30) days after the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation, apply (and concurrently submit all available Required S&P Credit Estimate Information in respect of such
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application) to S&P for a credit estimate which shall be its S&P Rating; provided that, if such Required S&P Credit Estimate Information is submitted within such thirty (30) day period, then, pending receipt from S&P of such estimate, such Collateral Obligation shall have an S&P Rating as determined by the Collateral Manager in its sole discretion if the Collateral Manager certifies to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator that it believes that such S&P Rating determined by the Collateral Manager is commercially reasonable and will be at least equal to such rating; provided further, that if such Required S&P Credit Estimate Information is not submitted within such thirty (30) day period, then, pending receipt from S&P of such estimate, the Collateral Obligation shall have (A) the S&P Rating as determined by the Collateral Manager for a period of up to ninety (90) days after the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation and (B) an S&P Rating of “CCC-” following such ninety day period; unless, during such ninety day period, the Collateral Manager has requested the extension of such period and S&P, in its sole discretion, has granted such request; provided further, that (I) if such ninety day period (or other extended period) elapses pending S&P’s decision with respect to such application, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation shall be “CCC-”; (II) if the Collateral Obligation has had a public rating by S&P that S&P has withdrawn or suspended within six months prior to the date of such application for a credit estimate in respect of such Collateral Obligation, the S&P Rating in respect thereof shall be “CCC-” pending receipt from S&P of such estimate, and S&P may elect not to provide such estimate until a period of six months (or such other period as provided in S&P’s then-current criteria) have elapsed after the withdrawal or suspension of the public rating; (III) such credit estimate shall expire 12 months after the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation, following which such Collateral Obligation shall have an S&P Rating of “CCC-” unless, during such 12-month period, the Issuer applies for renewal thereof in accordance with Section 7.14(b) (and concurrently submits all available Required S&P Credit Estimate Information in respect of such renewal), in which case such credit estimate shall continue to be the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation until S&P has confirmed or revised such credit estimate, upon which such confirmed or revised credit estimate shall be the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation; and (IV) such confirmed or revised credit estimate shall expire on the next succeeding 12-month anniversary of the date of the acquisition of such Collateral Obligation and (when renewed annually in accordance with Section 7.14(b)) on each 12-month anniversary thereafter;
(c) with respect to a DIP Collateral Obligation, if the S&P Rating cannot otherwise be determined pursuant to this definition, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation will be “CCC-” or the S&P Rating determined pursuant to clause (iii)(b) above; and
(d) with respect to a Collateral Obligation that is not a Defaulted Obligation, the S&P Rating of such Collateral Obligation will at the election of the Issuer (at the direction of the Collateral Manager) be “CCC-”; provided that (i) neither the issuer of such Collateral Obligation nor any of its Affiliates are subject to any bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings, (ii) the issuer has not
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defaulted on any payment obligation in respect of any debt security or other obligation of the issuer at any time within the two year period ending on such date of determination, all such debt securities and other obligations of the issuer that are pari passu with or senior to the Collateral Obligation are current and the Collateral Manager reasonably expects them to remain current, and (iii) prior to or within thirty (30) days after such election, the Issuer shall have submitted all available Required S&P Credit Estimate Information in respect of such Collateral Obligation to S&P and thereafter shall submit such further available Required S&P Credit Estimate Information in respect of such Collateral Obligation as reasonably requested by S&P; or
(iv) the S&P Rating of any Current Pay Obligation will be the higher of “CCC” and the S&P Rating determined pursuant to clause (i) above;
provided that, for purposes of the determination of the S&P Rating, (x) if the applicable rating assigned by S&P to an obligor or its obligations is on “credit watch positive” by S&P, such rating will be treated as being one sub-category above such assigned rating and (y) if the applicable rating assigned by S&P to an obligor or its obligations is on “credit watch negative” by S&P, such rating will be treated as being one sub-category below such assigned rating provided further that, for purposes of the determination of the S&P Rating, if (x) the issuer or Obligor of any Collateral Obligation was a debtor under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, during which time such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, or any of its obligations (including any Collateral Obligation) either had an S&P rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower from S&P or had an S&P rating that was withdrawn by S&P and (y) such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, is no longer a debtor under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, then, notwithstanding the fact that such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, or any of its obligations (including any Collateral Obligation) continues to have an S&P rating of “SD” or “CC” or lower from S&P (or, in the case of any withdrawal, continues to have no S&P rating), the S&P Rating for any such obligation (including any Collateral Obligation), issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, shall be deemed to be “CCC-”, so long as S&P has not taken any rating action with respect thereto since the date on which the issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, ceased to be a debtor under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code; provided further that, (i) if any issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, has not exited the applicable bankruptcy proceeding and (ii) the applicable rating assigned by S&P to such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, or any of its obligations (including any Collateral Obligation) has been withdrawn, then the S&P Rating for such issuer, Obligor or Selling Institution, as applicable, or any of its obligations (including any Collateral Obligation) shall be deemed to be such withdrawn S&P rating, so long as S&P has not taken any rating action with respect thereto since the date on which such S&P rating was withdrawn.
“S&P Rating Condition”: With respect to any action taken or to be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer, a condition that is satisfied if S&P provides written confirmation (including by means of electronic message, facsimile transmission, press release or posting to its website) to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent (unless in the form of a press release or posted to its website) that no immediate withdrawal or reduction with respect to its then-current rating by S&P of any Class of Secured Debt will occur as a result of such action; provided that, such rating condition shall be deemed inapplicable with respect to such event or
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circumstance if (i) S&P has given notice to the effect that it will no longer review events or circumstances of the type requiring satisfaction of the S&P Rating Condition for purposes of evaluating whether to confirm the then-current ratings (or initial ratings) of obligations rated by S&P; or (ii) S&P has communicated to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Loan Agent (or their counsel) that it will not review such event or circumstance for purposes of evaluating whether to confirm the then-current ratings (or Initial Ratings) of the Secured Debt.
“S&P Rating Factor”: The meaning specified in Schedule 7.
“S&P Recovery Amount”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, an amount equal to: (a) the applicable S&P Recovery Rate; multiplied by (b) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation.
“S&P Recovery Rate”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation, the recovery rate set forth in Section 1 of Schedule 5 using the Initial Rating of the most senior Class of Secured Debt Outstanding at the time of determination.
“S&P Recovery Rating”: With respect to a Collateral Obligation for which an S&P Recovery Rate is being determined, the “Recovery Rating” assigned by S&P to such Collateral Obligation based upon the tables set forth in Schedule 5 hereto.
“S&P Region Classification”: The S&P Region Classifications set forth in Schedule 5 hereto, which region classifications may be updated at the option of the Collateral Manager if S&P publishes revised region classifications.
“S&P Weighted Average Life”: As of any date of determination with respect to all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations, the number of years following such date obtained by dividing (a) the sum of the products of (i) the number of years (rounded to the nearest one-hundredth thereof) from such date of determination to the stated maturity of each such Collateral Obligation multiplied by (ii) the outstanding Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation by (b) the aggregate remaining Principal Balance at such time of all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations.
“S&P Weighted Average Rating Factor”: The meaning specified in Schedule 7.
“S&P’s Credit Estimate Guidelines”: S&P’s “Credit FAQ: What Are Credit Estimates And How Do They Differ From Ratings” dated April 6, 2011, as such guidelines may be amended, supplemented, or updated after the date hereof.
“Sale”: The meaning specified in Section 5.17.
“Sale Proceeds”: All proceeds (excluding accrued interest, if any) received with respect to Assets as a result of sales or other dispositions of such Assets in accordance with the restrictions described in Article XII or Article V, as applicable, less any reasonable expenses incurred by the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Administrator, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent (other than amounts payable as Administrative Expenses) in connection with such sales or other disposition. Sale Proceeds will include Principal Financed Accrued Interest and Principal Financed Capitalized Interest received in respect of such sale or other disposition.
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“Schedule of Collateral Obligations”: The schedule of Collateral Obligations attached as Schedule 1 hereto, which schedule shall include the borrower and Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation included therein, as amended from time to time (without the consent of or any action on the part of any Person) to reflect the release of Collateral Obligations pursuant to Article X hereof and the inclusion of additional Collateral Obligations as provided in Section 12.2 and Section 12.3 hereof.
“Scheduled Distribution”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, each payment of principal and/or interest scheduled to be made by the related Obligor under the terms of such Collateral Obligation (determined in accordance with the assumptions specified in Section 1.3 hereof) after (a) in the case of the initial Collateral Obligations, the Closing Date or (b) in the case of Collateral Obligations added or substituted after the Closing Date, the related Cut-Off Date, as adjusted pursuant to the terms of the related Underlying Documents.
“Second Lien Loan”: Any Loan or assignment of or Participation Interest in a Loan that: (a) is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of the Loan (other than with respect to liquidation, trade claims, capitalized leases or similar obligations) but which is subordinated (with respect to liquidation preferences with respect to pledged collateral) to a Senior Secured Loan of the Obligor; and (b) is secured by a valid second-priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens, including, without limitation, any tax liens) securing the Obligor’s obligations under the Second Lien Loan the value of which is adequate (in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Collateral Manager) to repay the Loan in accordance with its terms and to repay all other Loans of equal or higher seniority secured by a lien or security interest in the same collateral.
“Section 13 Banking Entity”: A Holder of Secured Debt that (i) constitutes a “banking entity” as defined under Section 13 of the United States Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and (ii) provides written certification to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent (A) that it is a “banking entity” as defined under Section 13 of the United States Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and (B) of the Class or Classes of Secured Debt held or beneficially owned by such holder and the outstanding principal amount thereof (on which certification the Issuer, the Collateral Manager, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent may rely). Any holder that has not provided such certification prior to the day that is 10 Business Days prior to the proposed date of execution of any supplemental indenture shall be deemed for purposes of such supplemental indenture not to be a Section 13 Banking Entity. If no entity provides such certificate, then no Section 13 Banking Entities will be deemed to exist for purposes of any required consent or action under the Transaction Documents.
“Secured Debt”: The Class A-1 Loans and the Notes.
“Secured Parties”: The meaning specified in the Granting Clauses.
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“Securities Account Control Agreement”: The Securities Account Control Agreement dated as of the Closing Date among the Issuer, the Collateral Agent, the Custodian and the Document Custodian.
“Securities Act”: The United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Securities Intermediary”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(14) of the UCC.
“Securitization Regulation”: Regulation (EU) 2017/2402.
“Security Entitlement”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(17) of the UCC.
“Selling Institution”: The entity obligated to make payments to the Issuer under the terms of a Participation Interest.
“Senior Secured Loan”: Any Loan or assignment of or Participation Interest in a Loan that: (a) is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to any other obligation of the Obligor of the Loan (other than (x) any second lien on the related Obligor’s current and related assets as described in the definition of “First Lien Term Loan Behind a Revolver”, (y) customary exceptions for Loans secured by a first-priority security interest, including for Super-Priority Revolving Facilities or (z) with respect to trade claims, capitalized leases or similar obligations); (b) is secured by a valid first-priority perfected security interest or lien in, to or on specified collateral securing the Obligor’s obligations under the Loan (subject to customary exceptions for permitted liens, including, without limitation, any tax liens); and (c) the value of the collateral securing the Loan at the time of purchase together with other attributes of the Obligor (including, without limitation, its general financial condition, ability to generate cash flow available for debt service and other demands for that cash flow) is adequate (in the commercially reasonable judgment of the Collateral Manager) to repay the Loan in accordance with its terms and to repay all other Loans of equal seniority secured by a first lien or security interest in the same collateral.
“Share Register”: The meaning specified in the Fiscal Agency Agreement.
“Share Registrar”: The share registrar appointed by the Issuer pursuant to the Fiscal Agency Agreement.
“Similar Law”: Any federal, state, local, non-U.S. or other law or regulation that could cause the underlying assets of the Issuer to be treated as assets of the investor in the Preferred Shares by virtue of its interest therein and thereby subject the Issuer or the Collateral Manager (or other Persons responsible for the investment and operation of the Issuer’s assets) to Other Plan Law.
“Special Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.
“Special Redemption Amount”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.
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“Special Redemption Date”: The meaning specified in Section 9.6.
“Specified Amendment”: With respect to any Collateral Obligation, any amendment, waiver or modification which would:
(a) modify the amortization schedule with respect to such Collateral Obligation in a manner that (i) reduces the dollar amount of any Scheduled Distribution by more than the greater of (x) 25% and (y) U.S.$250,000, (ii) postpones any Scheduled Distribution by more than two payment periods or (iii) causes the Weighted Average Life of the applicable Collateral Obligation to increase by more than 25%;
(b) reduce or increase the cash interest rate payable by the Obligor thereunder by more than 100 basis points (excluding any increase in an interest rate arising by operation of a default or penalty interest clause under a Collateral Obligation or as a result of an increase in the interest rate index for any reason other than such amendment, waiver or modification);
(c) extend the stated maturity date of such Collateral Obligation by more than 24 months or beyond the Stated Maturity;
(d) contractually or structurally subordinate such Collateral Obligation by operation of a priority of payments, turnover provisions, the transfer of assets in order to limit recourse to the related Obligor or the granting of liens (other than Permitted Liens) on any of the underlying collateral securing such Collateral Obligation;
(e) release any party from its obligations under such Collateral Obligation, if such release would have a material adverse effect on the Collateral Obligation; or
(f) reduce the principal amount of the applicable Collateral Obligation.
“Specified Obligor Information”: The meaning specified in Section 14.15(b).
“STAMP”: The meaning specified in Section 2.5(a).
“Standby Directed Investment”: The investment specified from time to time in writing by the Issuer, or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, to the Collateral Agent, which investment is an Eligible Investment of the type described in clause (ii) of the definition of “Eligible Investments” maturing not later than the earlier of (i) 30 days after the date of such investment (unless putable at par to the issuer thereof) or (ii) the Business Day immediately preceding the next Payment Date (or such shorter maturities expressly provided herein).
“Stated Maturity”: With respect to any Class of Secured Debt, the date specified as such in Section 2.3.
“Step-Down Obligation”: An obligation or security which by the terms of the related Underlying Documents provides for a decrease in the per annum interest rate on such obligation or security (other than by reason of any change in the applicable index or benchmark rate used to determine such interest rate) or in the spread over the applicable index or benchmark rate, solely as a function of the passage of time; provided that an obligation or security providing for payment of a constant rate of interest at all times after the date of acquisition by the Issuer shall not constitute a Step-Down Obligation.
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“Structured Finance Obligation”: Any obligation issued by a special purpose vehicle and secured directly by, referenced to, or representing ownership of, a pool of receivables or other financial assets of any Obligor, including collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities.
“Structuring Agency Agreement”: The structuring agency agreement dated as of September 19, 2019, by and among the Co-Issuers, the Co- Structuring Agent, the Transferor and the Depositor, as amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Substitute Collateral Obligations”: Collateral Obligations conveyed by the Transferor to the Issuer as substitute Collateral Obligations pursuant to Section 12.3(a).
“Substitute Collateral Obligations Qualification Conditions”: The following conditions:
(i) the Coverage Tests, Collateral Quality Test and Concentration Limitations are satisfied, or if not satisfied, are maintained or improved (provided that, with respect to each substitution after the end of the Reinvestment Period, the Coverage Tests must be satisfied);
(ii) the Principal Balance of such Substitute Collateral Obligation (or, if more than one Substitute Collateral Obligation will be added in replacement of a Collateral Obligation or Collateral Obligations, the Aggregate Principal Balance of such Substitute Collateral Obligations) equals or exceeds the Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligation being substituted for and the Net Exposure Amount, if any, with respect thereto shall have been deposited in the Revolver Funding Account;
(iii) the Market Value of such Substitute Collateral Obligation (or, if more than one Substitute Collateral Obligation will be added in replacement of a Collateral Obligation or Collateral Obligations, the aggregate Market Value of such Substitute Collateral Obligations) equals or exceeds the Market Value of the Collateral Obligation being substituted;
(iv) (x) if any of the Collateral Obligations being substituted for are Second Lien Loans, the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Substitute Collateral Obligations that are Second Lien Loans equals or is less than the Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligation(s) being substituted for that are Second Lien Loans and (y) if none of the Collateral Obligations being substituted for are Second Lien Loans, no Substitute Collateral Obligation is a Second Lien Loan;
(v) with respect to each substitution after the end of the Reinvestment Period, the stated maturity date of each Substitute Collateral Obligation is the same or earlier than the stated maturity date of the Collateral Obligation being substituted for; and
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(vi) the Fitch Rating and the S&P Rating of each Substitute Collateral Obligation is equal to or higher than the Fitch Rating and the S&P Rating (as applicable) of the Collateral Obligation being substituted for.
“Substitution Event”: An event which shall have occurred with respect to any Collateral Obligation that:
(i) becomes a Defaulted Obligation;
(ii) has a Material Covenant Default;
(iii) becomes subject to a proposed Specified Amendment; or
(iv) becomes a Credit Risk Obligation.
“Substitution Period”: The meaning specified in Section 12.3(a)(ii).
“Successor Entity”: The meaning specified in Section 7.10(a).
“Super-Priority Revolving Facility”: With respect to a Loan, a senior secured revolving facility incurred by the Obligor of such Loan that is prior in right of payment to such Loan; provided that the outstanding principal balance and unfunded commitments of such senior secured revolving facility does not exceed 20% of the sum of (x) the outstanding principal balance and unfunded commitments of such revolving facility plus (y) the Principal Balance of the Loan plus (z) the outstanding principal balance of any other debt for borrowed money incurred by such Obligor that is pari passu with such Loan.
“Synthetic Security”: A security or swap transaction, other than a Participation Interest, that has payments associated with either payments of interest on and/or principal of a reference obligation or the credit performance of a reference obligation.
“Target Initial Par Amount”: U.S.$300,000,000.
“Target Initial Par Condition”: A condition satisfied as of the Effective Date if the Aggregate Principal Balance of Collateral Obligations (i) that are held by the Issuer and (ii) of which the Issuer has committed to purchase on such date, together (without duplication) with the amount of any proceeds of prepayments, maturities or redemptions of Collateral Obligations purchased by the Issuer prior to such date, will equal or exceed the Target Initial Par Amount; provided that, for purposes of this definition, any Collateral Obligation that either (x) becomes a Defaulted Obligation prior to the Effective Date or (y) is a Closing Date Participation Interest and has not been elevated to an assignment by the Effective Date shall be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to its S&P Collateral Value.
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“Tax”: Any tax, levy, impost, duty, charge, assessment, deduction, withholding or fee of any nature (including interest, penalties and additions thereto) imposed by any governmental taxing authority.
“Tax Event”: Any event that occurs if (i)(x) any Obligor under any Collateral Obligation being required to deduct or withhold from any payment under such Collateral Obligation to the Issuer for or on account of any Tax for whatever reason and such Obligor is not required to pay to the Issuer such additional amount as is necessary to ensure that the net amount actually received by the Issuer (free and clear of Taxes, whether assessed against such Obligor or the Issuer) will equal the full amount that the Issuer would have received had no such deduction or withholding occurred and (y) the total amount of such deductions or withholdings on the Assets results in a payment by, or charge or tax burden to, the Issuer that results or will result in the withholding of 5% or more of Scheduled Distributions for any Collection Period, or (ii) any jurisdiction imposing net income, profits or similar Tax on the Issuer (including, for this purpose, any withholding tax liability imposed under Section 1446 of the Code) in an aggregate amount in any Collection Period in excess of U.S.$1,000,000.
Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture, the Collateral Manager shall give the Collateral Agent prompt written notice of the occurrence of a Tax Event upon its discovery thereof. Until the Collateral Agent receives written notice from the Collateral Manager or otherwise, the Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge to the contrary.
“ Tax Jurisdiction”: The Bahamas, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands or the Channel Islands so long as each such tax advantaged jurisdiction is rated at least “A-” by S&P.
“Tax Redemption”: The meaning specified in Section 9.3(a) hereof.
“ Third Party Credit Exposure”: As of any date of determination, the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation that consists of a Participation Interest.
“Third Party Credit Exposure Limits”: Limits that shall be satisfied if the Third Party Credit Exposure with counterparties having the ratings below from S&P do not exceed the percentage of the Collateral Principal Amount specified below:
Aggregate | Individual | |||||||
S&P’s credit rating of | Percentage | Percentage | ||||||
Selling Institution |
Limit | Limit | ||||||
AAA |
20 | % | 20 | % | ||||
AA+ |
10 | % | 10 | % | ||||
AA |
10 | % | 10 | % | ||||
AA- |
10 | % | 10 | % | ||||
A+ |
5 | % | 5 | % | ||||
A |
5 | % | 5 | % | ||||
Below A |
0 | % | 0 | % |
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provided that a Selling Institution having an S&P credit rating of “A” must also have a short-term S&P rating of “A-1” otherwise its “Aggregate Percentage Limit” and “Individual Percentage Limit” (each as shown above) shall be 0%.
“Trading Plan”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(b).
“Trading Plan Period”: The meaning specified in Section 12.2(b).
“Transaction Documents”: This Indenture, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Master Loan Sale Agreement, the Master Participation Agreement, the Credit Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement, the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Placement Agreement, the Structuring Agency Agreement, the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Retention of Net Economic Interest Letter.
“ Transaction Parties”: The Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Fiscal Agent, the Transferor, the Depositor, the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator, the Administrator, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Custodian and the Placement Agent.
“Transfer Agent”: The Person or Persons, which may be the Issuer, authorized by the Issuer to exchange or register the transfer of Notes.
“Transfer Deposit Amount”: On any date of determination with respect to any Collateral Obligation, an amount equal to the sum of the outstanding Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation together with accrued interest thereon through such date of determination (but in no event less than the fair market value thereof).
“Transferor”: PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd., a Maryland corporation, together with its successors and assigns.
“Treasury Regulations”: The United States Department of Treasury regulations promulgated under the Code.
“Trust Officer”: When used with respect to (a) the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Loan Agent, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Bank) including any vice president, assistant vice president or officer of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Loan Agent, as applicable, customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and in each case having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, (b) the Fiscal Agent, any officer within the principal corporate trust office of the Fiscal Agent (or any successor group of the Fiscal Agent) including any vice president, assistant vice president or officer of the Fiscal Agent as applicable, customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the principal corporate trust office of the Fiscal Agent because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and in each case having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture or the Fiscal Agency Agreement and (c) the Collateral Administrator, any officer within the principal corporate trust office of the Collateral Administrator (or any successor group
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of the Collateral Administrator) including any vice president, assistant vice president or officer of the Collateral Administrator as applicable, customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred at the principal corporate trust office of the Collateral Administrator because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and in each case having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture or the Collateral Administration Agreement.
“Trustee”: The meaning specified in the first sentence of this Indenture.
“UCC”: The Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York or, if different, the political subdivision of the United States that governs the perfection of the relevant security interest, as amended from time to time.
“Uncertificated Security”: The meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(18) of the UCC.
“Underlying Document”: The indenture, loan agreement, credit agreement or other customary agreement pursuant to which an Asset has been created or issued and each other agreement that governs the terms of or secures the obligations represented by such Asset or of which the holders of such Asset are the beneficiaries.
“Unregistered Securities”: The meaning specified in Section 5.17(c).
“Unsecured Loan”: A senior unsecured Loan obligation of any Person which is not (and by its terms is not permitted to become) subordinate in right of payment to any other debt for borrowed money incurred by the Obligor under such Loan.
“USA PATRIOT Act”: Collectively, (i) the United States Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, signed into law on and effective as of October 26, 2001 and as amended, which, among other things, requires that financial institutions, a term that includes bank, broker-dealers and investment companies, establish and maintain compliance programs to guard against money laundering activities, and (ii) the laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions and money laundering.
“U.S. Person”: A “U.S. person” within the meaning specified in Regulation S.
“U.S. Retention Interest”: The “eligible horizontal residual interest” held by the Depositor in accordance with the U.S. Risk Retention Rules.
“U.S. Risk Retention Rules”: The United States federal interagency credit risk retention requirements of Section 15G of the Exchange Act, as added by Section 941 of Xxxx-Xxxxx, and promulgated at 17 C.F.R. Part 246.
“U.S. Tax Person”: A “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
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“Xxxxxxx Rule”: Section 13 of the United States Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder.
“Xxxxxxx Rule Amendment”: The meaning specified in Section 8.1(a)(xv).
“Waived Collateral Management Fee”: The meaning specified in Section 11.1(d).
“Weighted Average Coupon”: As of any Measurement Date, is the number obtained by dividing:
(a) the amount equal to the Aggregate Coupon; by
(b) an amount equal to the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Fixed Rate Obligations as of such Measurement Date (in each case including, for any Permitted Deferrable Obligation, only the required current cash interest required by the Underlying Documents).
“ Weighted Average Fitch Recovery Rate”: As of any date of determination, the rate (expressed as a percentage) determined by summing the products obtained by multiplying the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation by the Fitch Recovery Rate in relation thereto and dividing such sum by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations and rounding up to the nearest 0.1 percent. For the purposes of determining the Principal Balance and Aggregate Principal Balance of Collateral Obligations in this definition, the Principal Balance of each Defaulted Obligation shall be excluded.
“Weighted Average Floating Spread”: As of any Measurement Date, the number obtained by dividing: (a) the amount equal to (A) the Aggregate Funded Spread plus (B) the Aggregate Unfunded Spread by (b) an amount equal to the outstanding Aggregate Principal Balance of all Floating Rate Obligations as of such Measurement Date.
“Weighted Average Life”: As of any date of determination with respect to all Collateral Obligations other than Defaulted Obligations, the number of years following such date obtained by summing the products obtained by multiplying:
(a) the Average Life at such time of each such Collateral Obligation by (b) the Principal Balance of such Collateral Obligation;
and dividing such sum by:
(c) the Aggregate Principal Balance at such time of all such Collateral Obligations.
For the purposes of the foregoing, the “Average Life” is, on any date of determination with respect to any Collateral Obligation, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products of (a) the number of years (rounded to the nearest one hundredth thereof) from such date of determination to the respective dates of each successive Scheduled Distribution of principal of such Collateral Obligation and (b) the respective amounts of principal of such Scheduled Distributions by (ii) the sum of all successive Scheduled Distributions of principal on such Collateral Obligation.
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“Weighted Average Life Test”: A test satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Life of the Collateral Obligations as of such date is less than or equal to the number of years corresponding to the Closing Date or the most recent Payment Date on or preceding such date of determination as set forth in the table below:
Payment Date (or Closing Date) |
Number of Years | |||
Closing Date |
8.00 | |||
January 2020 |
7.68 | |||
April 2020 |
7.43 | |||
July 2020 |
7.18 | |||
October 2020 |
6.93 | |||
January 2021 |
6.68 | |||
April 2021 |
6.43 | |||
July 2021 |
6.18 | |||
October 2021 |
5.93 | |||
January 2022 |
5.67 | |||
April 2022 |
5.43 | |||
July 2022 |
5.18 | |||
October 2022 |
4.92 | |||
January 2023 |
4.67 | |||
April 2023 |
4.42 | |||
July 2023 |
4.17 | |||
October 2023 |
3.93 | |||
January 2024 |
3.68 | |||
April 2024 |
3.43 | |||
July 2024 |
3.18 | |||
October 2024 |
2.93 | |||
January 2025 |
2.68 | |||
April 2025 |
2.43 | |||
July 2025 |
2.18 | |||
October 2025 |
1.93 | |||
January 2026 |
1.68 | |||
April 2026 |
1.43 | |||
July 2026 |
1.18 | |||
October 2026 |
0.93 | |||
January 2027 |
0.68 | |||
April 2027 |
0.43 | |||
July 2027 |
0.18 | |||
October 2027 |
0.00 |
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“Weighted Average S&P Recovery Rate”: As of any date of determination, the number, expressed as a percentage and determined separately for each Class of Secured Debt, obtained by summing the products obtained by multiplying the Principal Balance of each Collateral Obligation by its corresponding recovery rate as determined in accordance with Section 1 of Schedule 5 hereto, dividing such sum by the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Collateral Obligations, and rounding to the nearest tenth of a percent.
Section 1.2 Usage of Terms. (a) With respect to all terms in this Indenture, the singular includes the plural and the plural the singular; words importing any gender include the other genders; references to “writing” include printing, typing, lithography and other means of reproducing words in a visible form; references to agreements and other contractual instruments include all amendments, modifications and supplements thereto or any changes therein entered into in accordance with their respective terms and not prohibited by this Indenture; references to Persons include their permitted successors and assigns; and the term “including” means “including without limitation.”
(b) With respect to any provision herein described as a right of a Holder or Holders of Preferred Shares, it shall be deemed to be a right of the Fiscal Agent acting at the direction of the applicable Holder or Holders of Preferred Shares pursuant to the terms of the Fiscal Agency Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Preferred Shares are not secured by any of the Assets and the Holders thereof are not entitled to exercise remedies under this Indenture.
(c) Unless expressly stated otherwise, references hereunder to (i) the “redemption” of Secured Debt shall be understood to refer, in the case of the Class A-1 Loans, to the repayment of the Class A-1 Loans by the Co-Issuers in accordance with the Credit Agreement, (ii) references to the “issuance” of Secured Debt or to the “execution,” “authentication” and/or “delivery” of Secured Debt shall be understood to refer, in the case of the Class A-1 Loans, to the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans by the Co-Issuers pursuant to the Credit Agreement and this Indenture and (iii) in all instances where any notice is to be delivered to the Loan Agent, there shall be implied a duty that such notice be promptly delivered or made available by the Loan Agent to Class A-1 Lenders.
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Section 1.3 Assumptions as to Assets. In connection with all calculations required to be made pursuant to this Indenture with respect to Scheduled Distributions on any Asset, or any payments on any other assets included in the Assets, with respect to the sale of and reinvestment in Collateral Obligations, and with respect to the income that can be earned on Scheduled Distributions on such Assets and on any other amounts that may be received for deposit in the Collection Account, the provisions set forth in this Section 1.3 shall be applied. The provisions of this Section 1.3 shall be applicable to any determination or calculation that is covered by this Section 1.3, whether or not reference is specifically made to Section 1.3, unless some other method of calculation or determination is expressly specified in the particular provision.
(a) All calculations with respect to Scheduled Distributions on the Assets securing the Secured Debt shall be made on the basis of information as to the terms of each such Asset and upon reports of payments, if any, received on such Asset that are furnished by or on behalf of the issuer of such Asset and, to the extent they are not manifestly in error, such information or reports may be conclusively relied upon in making such calculations.
(b) For purposes of calculating the Coverage Tests, except as otherwise specified in the Coverage Tests, such calculations will not include scheduled interest and principal payments on Defaulted Obligations unless or until such payments are actually made.
(c) For each Collection Period and as of any date of determination, the Scheduled Distribution on any Asset (including Current Pay Obligations but excluding Defaulted Obligations, which, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be assumed to have a Scheduled Distribution of zero, except to the extent any payments have actually been received) shall be the sum of (i) the total amount of payments and collections to be received during such Collection Period in respect of such Asset (including the proceeds of the sale of such Asset received and, in the case of sales which have not yet settled, to be received during the Collection Period and not reinvested in additional Collateral Obligations or Eligible Investments or retained in the Collection Account for subsequent reinvestment pursuant to Section 12.2) that, if received as scheduled, will be available in the Collection Account at the end of the Collection Period and (ii) any such amounts received in prior Collection Periods that were not disbursed on or prior to a previous Payment Date.
(d) Each Scheduled Distribution receivable with respect to an Asset shall be assumed to be received on the applicable Due Date, and each such Scheduled Distribution shall be assumed to be immediately deposited in the Collection Account to earn interest at the Assumed Reinvestment Rate. All such funds shall be assumed to continue to earn interest until the date on which they are required to be available in the Collection Account for application, in accordance with the terms hereof, to payments of principal of or interest on the Secured Debt or other amounts payable pursuant to this Indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, all amounts calculated pursuant to this Section 1.3(d) are estimates and may differ from the actual amounts available to make distributions hereunder, and no party shall have any obligation to make any payment hereunder due to the assumed amounts calculated under this Section 1.3(d) being greater than the actual amounts available. For purposes of the applicable determinations required by Section 10.7(b)(iv), Article XII and the definition of “Interest Coverage Ratio,” the expected interest on the Secured Debt and Floating Rate Obligations will be calculated using the then current interest rates applicable thereto.
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(e) References in Section 11.1(a) to calculations made on a “pro forma basis” shall mean such calculations after giving effect to all payments, in accordance with the Priority of Payments described herein, that precede (in priority of payment) or include the clause in which such calculation is made.
(f) For purposes of calculating all Concentration Limitations, in both the numerator and the denominator of any component of the Concentration Limitations, Defaulted Obligations will be treated as having a Principal Balance equal to the Defaulted Obligation Balance.
(g) If a Collateral Obligation included in the Assets would be deemed a Current Pay Obligation but for the applicable percentage limitation in the proviso to the definition of “Defaulted Obligation,” then the Current Pay Obligations with the lowest Market Value (expressed as a percentage of the Principal Balance of such Current Pay Obligations as of the date of determination) shall be deemed Defaulted Obligations. Each such Defaulted Obligation will be treated as a Defaulted Obligation for all purposes until such time as the Aggregate Principal Balance of Current Pay Obligations would not exceed, on a pro forma basis including such Defaulted Obligation, the applicable percentage of the Collateral Principal Amount as set forth in the proviso to the definition of “Defaulted Obligation.”
(h) Except where expressly referenced herein for inclusion in such calculations, Defaulted Obligations will not be included in the calculation of the Collateral Quality Test.
(i) For purposes of calculating compliance with the Investment Criteria, upon the direction of the Collateral Manager by notice to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Administrator, any Eligible Investment representing Principal Proceeds received upon the sale or other disposition of a Collateral Obligation shall be deemed to have the characteristics of such Collateral Obligation as of the date of such sale or other disposition until reinvested in an additional Collateral Obligation. Such calculations shall be based upon the principal amount of such Collateral Obligation, except in the case of Defaulted Obligations and Credit Risk Obligations, in which case the calculations will be based upon the Principal Proceeds received on the disposition or sale of such Defaulted Obligation or Credit Risk Obligation.
(j) For the purposes of calculating compliance with each of the Concentration Limitations all calculations will be rounded to the nearest 0.1%. All other calculations, unless otherwise set forth herein or the context otherwise requires, shall be rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth if expressed as a percentage, and to the nearest one-hundredth if expressed otherwise.
(k) If the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) is notified by the administrative agent or other withholding agent or otherwise for the syndicate of lenders in respect of (x) any amendment, waiver, consent or extension fees or (y) commitment fees or other similar fees in respect of Revolving Collateral Obligation or Delayed Drawdown Collateral Obligation that any amounts associated therewith are subject to withholding tax imposed by any jurisdiction, the applicable Collateral Quality Test and the Coverage Tests will be calculated thereafter net of the full amount of such withholding tax unless the related Obligor is required to make “gross-up” payments to the Issuer that cover the full amount of any such withholding tax on an after-tax basis pursuant to the Underlying Documents with respect thereto.
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(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture to the contrary, all monetary calculations under this Indenture and the Credit Agreement shall be in Dollars.
(m) Any reference herein to an amount of the Trustee’s, the Collateral Agent’s, the Loan Agent’s or the Collateral Administrator’s fees calculated with respect to a period at a per annum rate shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the applicable Interest Accrual Period divided by 360 and shall be based on the Fee Basis Amount.
(n) To the extent of any ambiguity in the interpretation of any definition or term contained herein or in the Credit Agreement or to the extent more than one methodology can be used to make any of the determinations or calculations set forth herein, the Collateral Administrator shall request direction from the Collateral Manager as to the interpretation and/or methodology to be used, and the Collateral Administrator shall follow such direction, and together with the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent, shall be entitled to conclusively rely thereon without any responsibility or liability therefor.
(o) For purposes of calculating compliance with any tests under this Indenture, the trade date (and not the settlement date) with respect to any acquisition or disposition of a Collateral Obligation or Eligible Investment shall be used to determine whether and when such acquisition or disposition has occurred.
(p) For reporting purposes and for purposes of calculating the Coverage Tests, the Investment Criteria and the requirements of this Indenture, assets held by any Equity Holder Subsidiary that constitute Equity Securities will be treated as Equity Securities owned by the Issuer (and the equity interest in such Equity Holder Subsidiary shall not be included in such calculation).
(q) For purposes of calculating compliance with the Collateral Quality Test, DIP Collateral Obligations shall be treated as having an S&P Recovery Rate equal to the S&P Recovery Rate for Senior Secured Loans.
(r) If any Collateral Obligation that is a Closing Date Participation Interest is not elevated by an assignment agreement prior to the Effective Date, such Collateral Obligation will be deemed to have a Principal Balance for purposes of determining the Adjusted Collateral Principal Amount equal to the S&P Collateral Value until the date on which such Collateral Obligation is assigned to the Issuer.
ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
Section 2.1 Forms Generally. The Notes and the Trustee’s or Authenticating Agent’s certificate of authentication thereon (the “Certificate of Authentication”) shall be in substantially the forms required by this Article, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon, as may be consistent herewith, determined by the Responsible Officer of the Issuer executing such Notes as evidenced by his or her execution of such Notes. Any portion of the text of any Note may be set forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of the Note.
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Section 2.2 Forms of Notes. (a) The forms of the Notes shall be as set forth in the applicable part of Exhibit A hereto.
(b) Notes.
(i) The Notes of each Class sold to Persons that are not U.S. Persons outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S shall each be issued initially in the form of one permanent global note per Class in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as Exhibit A-1 hereto (each, a “Regulation S Global Note”), and shall be deposited on behalf of the subscribers for such Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian for, and registered in the name of a nominee of, DTC for the respective accounts of Euroclear and Clearstream, duly executed by the Co-Issuers (or, if such Notes are not co-issued, the Issuer) and authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent as hereinafter provided.
(ii) Except as set forth in paragraph (iv) below, the Notes of each Class sold to U.S. Persons that are QIB/QPs shall each be issued initially in the form of one permanent global note per Class in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as Exhibit A-1 hereto (each, a “Rule 144A Global Note”) and shall be deposited on behalf of the subscribers for such Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as custodian for, and registered in the name of Cede & Co., a nominee of, DTC, duly executed by the Co-Issuers (or, if such Notes are not co-issued, the Issuer) and authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent as hereinafter provided.
(iii) The Notes of each Class sold to U.S. Persons that are IAI/QPs shall each be issued in the form of one or more definitive, fully registered notes, without interest coupons substantially in the applicable form attached as Exhibit A-2 hereto (a “Certificated Note”) and shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Co-Issuers (or, if such Notes are not co-issued, the Issuer) and authenticated by the Trustee or Authenticating Agent as hereinafter provided.
(iv) The Notes of each Class sold to Persons that are QIB/QPs, at the request of such Person at the time of acquisition, purported acquisition or proposed acquisition, shall be issued in the form of Certificated Notes and shall be registered in the name of the beneficial owner or a nominee thereof, duly executed by the Co-Issuers (or, if such Notes are not co-issued, the Issuer) and authenticated by the Trustee or Authenticating Agent as hereinafter provided.
(v) The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Global Notes and the Rule 144A Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee or DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, as hereinafter provided.
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(c) Book Entry Provisions. This Section 2.2(c) shall apply only to Global Notes deposited with or on behalf of DTC.
The provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” of Euroclear and the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Participants” of Clearstream, respectively, will be applicable to the Global Notes insofar as interests in such Global Notes are held by the Agent Members of Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be.
Agent Members shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Notes held on their behalf by the Trustee, as custodian for DTC, and DTC may be treated by the Co-Issuers, the Trustee, and any agent of the Co-Issuers or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all payment purposes whatsoever, and for all other purposes except as provided in Section 14.2(e). Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Co-Issuers, the Trustee, or any agent of the Co-Issuers or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by DTC, or impair, as between DTC and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Global Note.
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Section 2.3 Authorized Amount; Stated Maturity; Denominations. The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, together with any Class A-1 Loans that may be incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement, is limited to U.S.$246,000,000 (except for (i) Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 2.5, Section 2.6 or Section 8.5 of this Indenture and (ii) additional securities issued in accordance with Section 2.13 and 3.2).
The Class A-1 Loans and the Notes shall be divided into the Classes, having the designations, original principal amounts and other characteristics as follows:
Class Designation |
Class A-1 Loans |
Class A-1 Notes |
Class A-2 Notes |
Class B-1 Notes |
Class B-2 Notes |
Class C-1 Notes |
Class C-2 |
Class D Notes | ||||||||
Original Principal Amount1 |
U.S.$77,500,000 | U.S.$78,500,000 | U.S.$15,000,000 | U.S.$14,000,000 | U.S.$16,000,000 | U.S.$19,000,000 | U.S.$8,000,000 | U.S.$18,000,000 | ||||||||
Stated Maturity |
Payment Date in October 2031 | Payment Date in October 2031 | Payment Date in October 2031 | Payment Date in October 2031 | Payment Date in October 2031 | Payment Date in October 2031 | Payment Date in October 2031 |
Payment Date in October 2031 | ||||||||
Fixed Rate |
No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||||||||
Floating Rate |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | ||||||||
Interest Rate: |
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Index |
LIBOR | LIBOR | N/A | LIBOR | N/A | LIBOR | N/A | LIBOR | ||||||||
Index Maturity2 |
3 month | 3 month | N/A | 3 month | N/A | 3 month | N/A | 3 month | ||||||||
Spread/Coupon3 |
1.80% | 1.80% | 3.660% | 2.90% | 4.266% | 4.00% | 5.379% | 4.75% | ||||||||
Initial Rating(s): |
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S&P |
AAA(sf) | AAA(sf) | AAA(sf) | AA(sf) | AA(sf) | A(sf) | A(sf) | BBB-(sf) | ||||||||
Fitch |
AAAsf | AAAsf | X/X | X/X | X/X | X/X | X/X | X/X | ||||||||
Priority Classes |
None | None | A-1 Loans, A-1 Notes | X-0 Xxxxx, X-0 Notes, X-0 | X-0 Xxxxx, X-0 Notes, X-0 | X-0 Xxxxx, X-0 Xxxxx, X-0, X-0, X-0 | A-1 Loans, A-1 Notes, X-0, X-0, X- 0 | X-0 Xxxxx, X-0 Notes, X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0 | ||||||||
Xxxxxx Classes |
X-0, X-0, X-0, X- 0, X-0, D | X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0, X-0, X | X-0, X-0, C-1, X-0, X | X-0, X-0, X | X-0, X-0, X | D | D | N/A | ||||||||
Pari Passu Classes |
X-0 Xxxxx | X-0 Xxxxx | Xxxx | X-0 | B-1 | C-2 | C-1 | None | ||||||||
Interest Deferrable |
No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
Issuer(s) |
Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | Co-Issuers | ||||||||
Form |
N/A | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) | Book-Entry (Physical for IAI/QPs) |
1 | As of the Closing Date. |
2 | LIBOR shall be calculated by reference to three-month LIBOR; provided that with respect to the portion of the first Interest Accrual Period comprising the period from the Closing Date to but excluding the First LIBOR Period End Date, LIBOR shall be determined by interpolating between the rates for 1 week and 1 month. |
3 | The spread over LIBOR or the stated Interest Rate, as applicable, with respect to any Class of Secured Debt (other than the Class A-1 Debt) may be reduced in connection with a Re-Pricing of such Class of Secured Debt, subject to the conditions set forth in Section 9.7. |
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The Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of U.S.$250,000 and integral multiples of U.S.$1.00 in excess thereof. Notes shall only be transferred or resold in compliance with the terms of this Indenture.
The Issuer shall issue 55,400,000 Preferred Shares on the Closing Date pursuant to the Memorandum and Articles and subject to the terms of the Fiscal Agency Agreement.
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Section 2.4 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. (a) The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Co-Issuers (or, in the case of the Class D Notes, the Issuer) by one of its Officers. The signature of such Officer on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.
(d) Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at the time of execution Officers of the Issuer or the Co-Issuers shall bind the Issuer or Co-Issuers, as applicable, notwithstanding the fact that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of issuance of such Notes.
(e) At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Co-Issuers may deliver Notes executed by the Issuer or the Co-Issuers to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent, upon Issuer Order (which Issuer Order shall, in respect of a transfer of Notes hereunder, shall have been deemed to have been provided upon the Issuer’s delivery of an executed Note to the Trustee), shall authenticate and deliver such Notes as provided herein and not otherwise.
(f) Each Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent upon Issuer Order on the Closing Date shall be dated as of the Closing Date. All other Notes that are authenticated after the Closing Date for any other purpose under this Indenture shall be dated the date of their authentication.
(g) Notes issued upon transfer, exchange or replacement of other Notes shall be issued in authorized denominations reflecting the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes so transferred, exchanged or replaced, but shall represent only the current outstanding principal amount of the Notes so transferred, exchanged or replaced. If any Note is divided into more than one Note in accordance with this Article II, the original principal amount of such Note shall be proportionately divided among the Notes delivered in exchange therefor and shall be deemed to be the original aggregate principal amount of such subsequently issued Notes.
(h) No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a Certificate of Authentication, substantially in the form provided for herein, executed by the Trustee or by the Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of one of their authorized signatories, and such Certificate of Authentication upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.5 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. (a) (i) The Co-Issuers shall cause the Notes to be Registered and shall cause to be kept a register (the “ Note Register”) at the office of the Trustee in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of Notes. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed registrar (the “ Note Registrar”) for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of such Notes with respect to the Note Register maintained in the United States as herein provided. Upon any resignation or removal of the Note Registrar, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor or, in the absence of such appointment, assume the duties of Note Registrar.
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(ii) If a Person other than the Trustee is appointed by the Issuer as Note Registrar, the Issuer will give the Trustee prompt written notice of the appointment of a Note Registrar and of the location, and any change in the location, of the Note Register, and the Trustee shall have the right to inspect the Note Register at all reasonable times and to obtain copies thereof and the Trustee shall have the right to rely upon a certificate executed on behalf of the Note Registrar by an Officer thereof as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Notes and the principal or face amounts and numbers of such Notes. Upon written request at any time, the Note Registrar shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager or the Placement Agent a current list of Holders as reflected in the Note Register.
(iii) Subject to this Section 2.5, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Notes at the office or agency of the Co-Issuers to be maintained as provided in Section 7.2, the Issuer shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate, or cause the Authenticating Agent to authenticate, and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal or face amount. Upon written request at any time, the Trustee shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager or the Placement Agent a current list of Holders.
(iv) In addition, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any certificate of ownership provided to the Trustee by a beneficial owner of a Note (including a Beneficial Ownership Certificate or a certificate in the form of Exhibit D and the continued ownership of any Note indicated therein) and/or other forms of reasonable evidence of such ownership as to the names and addresses of such beneficial owner and the Classes, principal amounts and CUSIP numbers of Notes beneficially owned thereby and shall have no liability for relying on the same. Upon written request at any time, the Trustee shall provide to the Issuer, the Collateral Manager or the Placement Agent a copy of each Beneficial Ownership Certificate that the Trustee has received.
(v) At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for Notes of like terms, in any authorized denominations and of like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Note is surrendered for exchange, the Issuer or the Co-Issuers, as applicable, shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate, or cause the Authenticating Agent to authenticate, and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(vi) All Notes issued and authenticated upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer or the Co-Issuers, as applicable, evidencing the same debt (to the extent they evidence debt), and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
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(vii) Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Note Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act.
(viii) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Trustee or the Transfer Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. The Trustee or the Transfer Agent shall be permitted to request such evidence reasonably satisfactory to it documenting the identity, authority and/or signatures of the transferor and transferee.
(b) No Note may be sold or transferred (including, without limitation, by pledge or hypothecation) unless such sale or transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, is exempt from the registration requirements under applicable state securities laws and will not cause the Issuer to become subject to the requirement that it register as an investment company under the 1940 Act.
(c) No transfer of a beneficial interest in a Note will be effective if the transferee’s acquisition, holding or disposition of such interest would constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or violation of other applicable law, unless an exemption is available and all conditions to permit such transfer have been satisfied.
(d) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with, or for otherwise monitoring or determining compliance with, the registration provisions of or any exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or the applicable laws of any other jurisdiction, ERISA, the Code, the 1940 Act, or the terms hereof; provided that if a certificate is specifically required by the terms of this Section 2.5 to be provided to the Trustee by a prospective transferor or transferee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether or not the certificate substantially conforms on its face to the applicable requirements of this Indenture and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same and the Issuer if such certificate does not comply with such terms.
(e) Transfers of Global Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.2(b) and this Section 2.5(e).
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(i) Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note. Subject to the rules and procedures of DTC and this Section 2.5(e)(i), holder of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Note deposited with DTC may at any time exchange its interest in such Rule 144A Global Note for an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Note, or transfer its interest in such Rule 144A Global Note to a Person taking delivery thereof in the form of an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Note; provided that such exchanging holder or transferee, as applicable, is a Person that is not a U.S. Person. Upon receipt by the Trustee, the Note Registrar and the Transfer Agent of (A) instructions given in accordance with DTC’s procedures from an Agent Member directing the Transfer Agent to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Note, in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be exchanged or transferred, but not less than the Minimum Denomination applicable to such Class of Notes, (B) a written order given in accordance with DTC’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of DTC and the Euroclear or Clearstream account to be credited with such increase, (C) a duly-executed certificate in the form of Exhibit B-1 attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating that the exchange or transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Notes, including that the holder or the transferee, as applicable, is a Person that is not a U.S. Person and is purchasing such beneficial interest in reliance on Regulation S, and (D) a written certification in the form of Exhibit B-5 attached hereto given by the transferee in respect of such beneficial interest stating, among other things, that such transferee is a Person that is not a U.S. Person and is purchasing such beneficial interest outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S, then the Transfer Agent shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the principal amount of the applicable Rule 144A Global Note and to increase, or cause to be increased, the principal amount of the corresponding Regulation S Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to be exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Agent Member specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Regulation S Global Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of such Rule 144A Global Note.
(ii) Regulation S Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note. Subject to the rules and procedures of DTC and this Section 2.5(e)(ii), a holder of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note deposited with DTC may at any time exchange its interest in such Regulation S Global Note for an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note or transfer its interest in such Regulation S Global Note to a Person taking delivery thereof in the form of an equivalent beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note. Upon receipt by the Trustee, the Note Registrar and the Transfer Agent of (A) instructions from Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as the case may be, directing the Transfer Agent to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note in an amount equal to the beneficial interest the Regulation S Global Note to be exchanged or transferred, but not less than the Minimum Denomination applicable to such Class of Notes, such instructions to contain information regarding the participant account with DTC to be credited with such increase, (B) a duly-executed certificate in the form of Exhibit B-3 attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest and stating, among other things, that, in the case of a transfer, the Person transferring such interest in such Regulation S Global Note reasonably believes that the Person acquiring such interest in a Rule 144A Global Note is a QIB/QP, is obtaining such beneficial interest in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in
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accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction and (C) a written certification in the form of Exhibit B-4 attached hereto given by the transferee in respect of such beneficial interest stating, among other things, that such transferee is a QIB/QP, then the Transfer Agent shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the Regulation S Global Note and to increase or cause to be increased, the principal amount of the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note to be or exchanged or transferred and to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Agent Member specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of such Regulation S Global Note.
(iii) Global Note to Certificated Note. Subject to the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as applicable, this Section 2.5(e)(ii) and Section 2.10(a), a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note deposited with DTC may at any time transfer its interest in such Global Note to one or more Persons taking delivery thereof in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note. Upon receipt by the Trustee, the Note Registrar and the Transfer Agent of (A) one or more duly-executed certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 and (B) appropriate instructions from DTC, if required, the Transfer Agent shall approve the instructions at DTC to reduce, or cause to be reduced, the principal amount of the applicable Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred and record the transfer in the Note Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Co-Issuers (or the Issuer in the case of Class D Notes), authentication by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivery by the Transfer Agent of one or more corresponding Certificated Notes, registered in the names specified in the instructions described in clause (B) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the interest in such Global Note transferred by the transferor) but not less than the Minimum Denomination applicable to such Class of Notes.
(f) Transfers of Certificated Notes shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.2(b) and this Section 2.5(f).
(i) Certificated Notes to Rule 144A Global Notes or Regulation S Global Notes. Subject to the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and/or DTC, as applicable, and this Section 2.5(f)(i), a holder of a Certificated Note may at any time exchange all or a portion of its interest in such Certificated Note for a beneficial interest in a corresponding Rule 144A Global Notes or Regulation S Global Note or to transfer all or a portion of such Certificated Note to one or more Persons taking delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Note or the Regulation S Global Note. Upon receipt by the Note Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Note properly endorsed for assignment to one or more transferee, (B) a duly-executed certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 or Exhibit B-3 (as applicable) attached hereto executed by the transferor and a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B-4 or B-5 (as applicable) attached hereto executed by each transferee, (C) instructions given in accordance with Euroclear, Clearstream or DTC’s procedures, as
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the case may be, from an Agent Member to instruct DTC to cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Notes or Regulation S Global Notes, as applicable, in an amount equal to the Certificated Notes to be transferred to each such transferee or exchanged, and (D) a written order given in accordance with DTC’s procedures containing information regarding the Agent Member’s account at DTC and/or Euroclear or Clearstream to be credited with such increase, the Note Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Note Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and approve the instructions at DTC, concurrently with such cancellation, to credit or cause to be credited to the securities account of the Agent Member specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the corresponding Rule 144A Global Notes or Regulation S Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Certificated Note transferred to each such transferee or exchanged.
(ii) Certificated Notes to Certificated Notes. Subject to this Section 2.5(f)(ii), a holder of a Certificated Note may at any time exchange such Certificated Note for one or more Certificated Notes and/or transfer all or a portion of such Certificated Note to one or more Person taking delivery thereof in the form of a Certificated Note. Upon receipt by the Note Registrar of (A) a Holder’s Certificated Note properly endorsed for assignment to each transferee, and (B) a duly-executed certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 attached hereto executed by each transferee, the Note Registrar shall cancel such Certificated Note in accordance with Section 2.9, record the transfer in the Note Register in accordance with Section 2.5(a) and upon execution by the Co-Issuers (or the Issuer, in the case of Class D Notes), authentication by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivery by the Trustee, deliver one or more Certificated Notes bearing the same designation as the Certificated Note endorsed for transfer, registered in the names specified in the assignment described in clause (A) above, in principal amounts designated by the transferee (the aggregate of such principal amounts being equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Certificated Note surrendered by the transferor) but not less than the Minimum Denomination applicable to such Class of Notes.
(g) If Notes are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the applicable legends set forth in the applicable part of Exhibit A hereto, and if a request is made to remove such applicable legend on such Notes, the applicable legend shall not be removed unless there is delivered to the Trustee and the Co-Issuers such satisfactory evidence, which may include an Opinion of Counsel acceptable to them, as may be reasonably required by the Co-Issuers (and which shall by its terms permit reliance by the Trustee), to the effect that neither such applicable legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of the Securities Act, the 1940 Act, ERISA or the Code. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the Trustee or its Authenticating Agent, at the written direction of the Co-Issuers shall, after due execution by the Co-Issuers authenticate and deliver Notes that do not bear such applicable legend.
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(h) Each Person who becomes a beneficial owner of Notes represented by an interest in a Global Note will be deemed to have represented and agreed as follows (except as may be expressly agreed in writing between an initial purchaser and the Issuer, which writing shall be provided to the Trustee):
(i) In connection with the purchase of such Notes, such beneficial owner agrees that: (A) none of the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Placement Agent, the Co-Structuring Agent, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Fiscal Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Administrator, the Share Registrar, the Transferor, the Depositor or any of their respective affiliates is acting as a fiduciary or financial or investment adviser for such beneficial owner; (B) such beneficial owner is not relying (for purposes of making any investment decision or otherwise) upon any advice, counsel or representations (whether written or oral) of the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Placement Agent, the Co-Structuring Agent, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Fiscal Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Administrator, the Share Registrar, the Transferor, the Depositor or any of their respective affiliates other than any statements in the final Offering Circular for such Notes, and such beneficial owner has read and understands such final Offering Circular (including, without limitation, the descriptions therein of the structure of the transaction in which the Notes are being issued and the risks to purchasers of the Notes); (C) such beneficial owner has consulted with its own legal, regulatory, tax, business, investment, financial and accounting advisors to the extent it has deemed necessary and has made its own investment decisions (including decisions regarding the suitability of any transaction pursuant to this Indenture) based upon its own judgment and upon any advice from such advisors as it has deemed necessary and not upon any view expressed by the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Placement Agent, the Co-Structuring Agent, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Fiscal Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Administrator, the Share Registrar, the Transferor, the Depositor or any of their respective affiliates; (D) such beneficial owner is either (1) (in the case of a beneficial owner of an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note) both (a) a Qualified Institutional Buyer that is not a broker-dealer which owns and invests on a discretionary basis less than U.S.$25,000,000 in securities of issuers that are not affiliated persons of the dealer and is not a plan referred to in paragraph (a)(1)(i)(D) or (a)(1)(i)(E) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act or a trust fund referred to in paragraph (a)(1)(i)(F) of Rule 144A under the Securities Act that holds the assets of such a plan, if investment decisions with respect to the plan are made by beneficiaries of the plan and (b) a Qualified Purchaser or (2) (in the case of a beneficial owner of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note) not a U.S. Person and is acquiring the Notes in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Regulation S; (E) such beneficial owner is acquiring its interest in such Notes for its own account and not with a view to the resale, distribution or other disposition thereof in violation of the Securities Act; (F) such beneficial owner was not formed for the purpose of investing in such Notes; (G) such beneficial owner understands that the Issuer may receive a list of participants holding interests in the Notes from one or more book-entry depositories; (H) such beneficial owner will hold and transfer at least the Minimum Denomination of such Notes; (I) such beneficial owner is a sophisticated investor and is purchasing the Notes with a full understanding of all of the terms, conditions and risks thereof, and is capable of and willing to assume those risks; and (J) such beneficial owner will provide notice of the relevant transfer restrictions, representations, warranties and agreements to subsequent transferees.
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(ii) Such beneficial owner agrees that (A) if it is, or is acting on behalf of, a Benefit Plan Investor, its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Notes does not and will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, and (B) if it is a governmental, church, non-U.S. or other plan which is subject to any Other Plan Law, its acquisition, holding and disposition of such Notes will not constitute or result in a non-exempt violation of any Other Plan Law.
(iii) If the purchaser or transferee of any Note or any beneficial interest therein is a Benefit Plan Investor, it will be deemed to represent, warrant and agree that (i) none of the Transaction Parties or any of their affiliates, has provided any investment advice within the meaning of Section 3(21)(A)(ii) of ERISA to the Benefit Plan Investor or to any fiduciary or other person investing the assets of the Benefit Plan Investor (“Fiduciary”), in connection with its acquisition of Notes, and (ii) the Fiduciary is exercising its own independent judgment in evaluating the investment in the Notes.
(iv) Such beneficial owner understands that such Notes are being offered only in a transaction not involving any public offering in the United States within the meaning of the Securities Act, such Notes have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act, and, if in the future such beneficial owner decides to offer, resell, pledge or otherwise transfer its interest in such Notes, such interest in the Notes may be offered, resold, pledged or otherwise transferred only in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the legend on such Notes. Such beneficial owner acknowledges that no representation has been made as to the availability of any exemption under the Securities Act or any state securities laws for resale of such Notes. Such beneficial owner understands that neither of the Co-Issuers has been registered as an investment company under the 1940 Act, and that the Co-Issuers are exempt from registration as such by virtue of Section 3(c)(7) of the 1940 Act.
(v) Such beneficial owner is aware that, except as otherwise provided herein, any Notes (or interest therein) being sold to it in reliance on Regulation S will be represented by one or more Regulation S Global Notes and that beneficial interests therein may be held only through DTC for the respective accounts of Euroclear or Clearstream.
(vi) Such beneficial owner agrees to treat the Issuer, the Co-Issuer and the Notes as described in the “Certain U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” section of the Offering Circular for all U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes and will take no action inconsistent with such treatment unless required by law.
(vii) Such beneficial owner will timely furnish the Issuer, the Trustee or their respective agents with any tax forms or certifications (including, without limitation, IRS Form W-9, an applicable IRS Form W-8 (together with all applicable attachments), or any successors to such IRS forms) that the Issuer, the Trustee or their respective agents reasonably request in order to (A) make payments to the beneficial owner without, or at a reduced rate of, withholding, (B) qualify for a reduced rate of withholding in any jurisdiction from or through which they receive payments, and (C) satisfy reporting and other obligations under the Code, Treasury Regulations, or any other applicable law or regulation (including the Cayman FATCA Legislation), and will update or replace such tax forms or certifications in accordance with their terms or subsequent amendments. Such beneficial owner acknowledges that the failure to provide, update or replace any such tax forms or certifications may result in the imposition of withholding or back-up withholding on payments to the beneficial owner, or to the Issuer. Amounts withheld by the Issuer or their agents that are, in their sole judgment, required to be withheld pursuant to applicable tax laws will be treated as having been paid to such beneficial owner by the Issuer.
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(viii) Such beneficial owner will provide the Issuer or its agents with any correct, complete and accurate information or documentation that may be required for the Issuer to comply with FATCA and the Cayman FATCA Legislation and to prevent the imposition of U.S. federal withholding tax under FATCA on payments to or for the benefit of the Issuer. Such beneficial owner acknowledges that in the event such Holder fails to provide such information or documentation, or to the extent that its ownership of Notes would otherwise cause the Issuer to be subject to any tax under FATCA, (A) the Issuer (and any agent acting on its behalf) is authorized to withhold amounts otherwise distributable to the investor as compensation for any amounts withheld from payments to or for the benefit of the Issuer as a result of such failure or such ownership, and (B) to the extent necessary to avoid an adverse effect on the Issuer as a result of such failure or such ownership, the Issuer will have the right to compel the investor to sell its Notes and, if such person does not sell its Notes within 10 Business Days after notice from the Issuer or its agents, the Issuer will have the right to sell such Notes at a public or private sale called and conducted in any manner permitted by law, and to remit the net proceeds of such sale (taking into account, in addition to other related costs and charges, any taxes incurred by the Issuer in connection with such sale) to such person as payment in full for such Notes. The Issuer may also assign each such Note a separate securities identifier in the Issuer’s sole discretion. Each Holder agrees that the Issuer, the Trustee and/or their agents or representatives may (1) provide any information and documentation concerning its investment in its Notes to the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority, the IRS and any other relevant tax authority and (2) take such other steps as they deem necessary or helpful to ensure that the Issuer complies with FATCA and the Cayman FATCA Legislation.
(ix) Such beneficial owner represents that it is not a member of an “expanded group” (as defined in Treasury Regulations section 1.385-1(c)(4)) with respect to which a beneficial owner of Preferred Shares is a “covered member” (as defined in Treasury Regulations section 1.385-1(c)(2)), except to the extent that the Issuer or its agents have provided such beneficial owner with an express waiver of this representation.
(x) Such beneficial owner agrees that for so long as the Issuer is treated as an entity disregarded as separate from such beneficial owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, it will not transfer its interest in a Note unless it shall have obtained written advice of Dechert LLP or Cadwalader, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, or an opinion of tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters, in the form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Manager, to the effect that (A) such transfer will not cause the Issuer to be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation or to be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to its net income or subject to tax liability under Section 1446 of the Code and (B) any such Note and any other outstanding Notes of the same Class (excluding any Notes of the same Class that will continue to be held by such beneficial owner immediately after such transfer) will be fungible for U.S. federal income tax purposes immediately after such transfer.
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(xi) Such beneficial owner represents that, if it is not a United States person for U.S. federal income tax purposes, it:
(a) | is: (1) not a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business (within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code); (2) not a “10-percent shareholder” with respect to the holder or any beneficial owners of the Preferred Shares within the meaning of section 871(h)(3) or section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code; and (3) not a “controlled foreign corporation” that is related to the holder or any beneficial owners of the Preferred Shares within the meaning of section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code; |
(b) | has provided an IRS Form W-8ECI representing that all payments received or to be received by it from the Issuer are effectively connected with its conduct of a trade or business in the United States and includible in its gross income; or |
(c) | is eligible for the benefits under an income tax treaty with the United States that eliminates U.S. federal income taxation of payments on the Notes. |
(xii) Such beneficial owner agrees not to seek to commence in respect of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Equity Holder Subsidiary, or cause the Issuer or any Equity Holder Subsidiary to commence, a bankruptcy proceeding before a year and a day has elapsed since the payment in full to the holders of the Secured Debt issued pursuant to this Indenture and incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement or, if longer, the applicable preference period (plus one day) then in effect.
(xiii) Such beneficial owner agrees that (a)(i) the express terms of this Indenture govern the rights of the holders to direct the commencement of a Proceeding against any Person, (ii) this Indenture contains limitations on the rights of the holders to direct the commencement of any such Proceeding, and (iii) each beneficial owner shall comply with such express terms if it seeks to direct the commencement of any such Proceeding, (b) there are no implied rights under this Indenture to direct the commencement of any such Proceeding, and (c) notwithstanding any provision of this Indenture, or any provision of the Notes or of any other agreement, the Co-Issuers shall be under no duty or obligation of any kind to the holders of the Notes (or of any interest therein), or any of them, to institute any legal or other proceedings of any kind, against any person or entity, including, without limitation, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Fiscal Agent, the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Administrator or the Calculation Agent.
(xiv) Such beneficial owner agrees that the Issuer, or the Re-Pricing Intermediary on behalf of the Issuer, may enter into binding commitments to sell and transfer all Notes of a Re-Priced Class held by non-consenting holders pursuant to this Indenture, and if such beneficial owner is a non-consenting holder, it agrees to sell and transfer its Notes in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and hereby irrevocably appoints the Issuer, or the Re-Pricing Intermediary on behalf of the Issuer, as its true and lawful agent and attorney-in-fact (with full power of substitution) in its name, place and stead and at its expense, in connection with such sale and transfer, and agrees to cooperate with the Issuer, the Re-Pricing Intermediary on behalf of the Issuer and/or the Trustee to effect such sale and transfers.
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(xv) Such beneficial owner will provide the Issuer, the Trustee and their agents with any information and documentation required by the Issuer to achieve AML Compliance, and will update or replace such information, as necessary.
(i) Each Person who becomes an owner of a Certificated Note will be required to make the representations and agreements set forth in Exhibit B-2.
(j) Any purported transfer of a Note or interest therein not in accordance with this Section 2.5 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever.
(k) To the extent required by the Issuer, as determined by the Issuer or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer, the Issuer may, upon written notice to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent impose additional transfer restrictions on the Notes to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act or the Code and other similar laws or regulations, including, without limitation, requiring each transferee of a Note to make representations to the Issuer in connection with such compliance.
(l) The Note Registrar, the Trustee and the Issuer shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the information set forth on the face of any purchaser, transferor and transferee certificate delivered pursuant to this Section 2.5 and shall be able to presume conclusively the continuing accuracy thereof, in each case without further inquiry or investigation. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Transfer Agent shall be required to obtain any certificate specifically required by the terms of this Section 2.5 if the Trustee or the Transfer Agent is not notified of or in a position to know of any transfer requiring such a certificate to be presented by the proposed transferor or transferee.
(m) For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, the Placement Agent may hold a position in a Regulation S Global Note prior to the distribution of the applicable Notes represented by such position.
(n) Conversion of Class A-1 Loans.
(i) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary and in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.7 of the Credit Agreement, upon written notice to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, each Rating Agency and the Co-Issuers, provided in accordance with the Credit Agreement, a Class A-1 Lender may elect any Payment Date (such Payment Date, the “Conversion Date”) upon which all or a portion of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Loans held by such Converting Lender will be converted into Class A-1 Notes of an equal Aggregate Outstanding Amount in accordance with the terms hereof and the terms of the Credit Agreement; provided that (x) such Conversion Date will be no earlier than the fifth Business Day following the date such notice is delivered (or such later date as may be reasonably agreed to by such Converting Lender, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Trustee) and (y) the Conversion Date may only occur on a Payment Date.
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(ii) On each Conversion Date, (A) the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Notes will be increased by the current Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Loans so converted and (B) the Class A-1 Loans so converted will cease to be Outstanding and will be deemed to have been repaid in full for all purposes hereunder and under the Credit Agreement. Class A-1 Notes may not be converted into Class A-1 Loans.
(iii) The Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager and the Converting Lender agree to provide reasonable assistance to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent in connection with such conversion, including, but not limited to, providing applicable instructions to DTC, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Note Registrar or Loan Registrar, as applicable.
(iv) Each Class A-1 Lender may elect, in its sole discretion, to exercise the Conversion Option concurrently with an assignment of all or a portion of its Class A-1 Loans (an “Assignment/Conversion”) such that the effective date of the assignment occurs on the related Conversion Date and the assignee receives Class A-1 Notes (or an interest therein) in lieu of the portion of Class A-1 Loans being assigned. Any assignment made in connection with an Assignment/Conversion must meet the requirements for an assignment set forth in Section 3.7 of the Credit Agreement. Any Class A-1 Lender electing to make an Assignment/Conversion shall deliver to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Co-Issuers at least five Business Days prior to the Conversion Date, (A) an executed Assignment Agreement (as defined in the Credit Agreement), (B) a completed notice substantially in the form of Exhibit C to the Credit Agreement, (C) the assignment fee required under the Credit Agreement and (D) a written certification from the assignee substantially in the form of Exhibit B-4 or Exhibit B-5, as applicable.
Section 2.6 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Note. (a) If (i) any mutilated or defaced Note is surrendered to a Transfer Agent, or if there shall be delivered to the Co-Issuers, the Trustee and the relevant Transfer Agent evidence to their reasonable satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, and (ii) there is delivered to the Co-Issuers, the Trustee and such Transfer Agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Co-Issuers, the Trustee or such Transfer Agent that such Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Co-Issuers shall execute and, upon Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate, or cause the Authenticating Agent to authenticate, and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of any such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note having the same designation, of like tenor (including the same date of issuance) and equal principal or face amount, registered in the same manner, dated the date of its authentication, bearing interest from the date to which interest has been paid on the mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(b) If, after delivery of such new Note, a protected purchaser of the predecessor Note presents for payment, transfer or exchange such predecessor Note, the Co-Issuers, the Transfer Agent and the Trustee shall be entitled to recover such new Note from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking therefrom, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Co-Issuers, the Trustee and the Transfer Agent in connection therewith.
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(c) In case any such mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become due and payable, the Co-Issuers in their discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note pay such Note without requiring surrender thereof except that any mutilated or defaced Note shall be surrendered.
(d) Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.6, the Co-Issuers may require the payment by the Holder thereof of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
(e) Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.6 in lieu of any mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Co-Issuers and such new Note shall be entitled, subject to the second paragraph of this Section 2.6, to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes of the same Class duly issued hereunder.
(f) The provisions of this Section 2.6 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
Section 2.7 Payment of Principal and Interest and Other Amounts; Principal and Interest Rights Preserved. (a) The Secured Debt of each Class shall accrue interest during each Interest Accrual Period at the applicable Interest Rate and such interest will be payable in arrears on each Payment Date on the Aggregate Outstanding Amount thereof on the first day of the related Interest Accrual Period (after giving effect to payments of principal thereof on such date), except as otherwise set forth below. For purposes of determining any Interest Accrual Period, in the case of any Fixed Rate Notes, (i) for any Payment Date that is not a Redemption Date or a Re-Pricing Date, the Payment Date shall be assumed to be the 15th day of the relevant month (irrespective of whether such day is a Business Day) and (ii) for any Payment Date that is a Redemption Date or a Re-Pricing Date, the Payment Date shall be the Redemption Date or the Re-Pricing Date, as applicable. Payment of interest on each Class of Secured Debt (other than the Class A-1 Debt) will be subordinated to the payment of interest on each related Priority Class as provided in Section 11.1. So long as any Priority Class is Outstanding with respect to a Class of Deferrable Notes, any payment of interest due on such Class of Deferrable Notes that is not available to be paid in accordance with the Priority of Payments on any Payment Date (“Deferred Interest ” with respect to such Class) shall not be considered “due and payable” for the purposes of Section 5.1(a) (and the failure to pay such interest shall not be an Event of Default) until the earliest of (i) the Payment Date on which funds are available to pay such Deferred Interest in accordance with the Priority of Payments, (ii) the Redemption Date with respect to such Class of Deferrable Notes, and (iii) the Stated Maturity of such Class of Deferrable Notes. Deferred Interest on the Deferrable Notes shall be payable on the first Payment Date on which funds are available to be used for such purpose in accordance with the Priority of Payments, but in any event no later than the earlier of the Payment Date (i) that is the Redemption Date with respect to such Class of Deferrable Notes, and (ii) that is the Stated Maturity of such Class of Deferrable Notes. Regardless of whether any Priority Class is Outstanding with respect to a Class of Deferrable Notes, to the extent that funds are not available on any Payment Date (other than the Redemption Date with respect to, or Stated Maturity of, such Class of Deferrable Notes) to pay previously accrued Deferred Interest, such
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previously accrued Deferred Interest will not be due and payable on such Payment Date and any failure to pay such previously accrued Deferred Interest on such Payment Date will not be an Event of Default. Interest will cease to accrue on each Class of Secured Debt, or in the case of a partial repayment, on such repaid part, from the date of repayment. To the extent lawful and enforceable, interest on any interest that is not paid when due on any Class A-1 Notes or Class A-1 Loans, or if no Class A-1 Notes or Class A-1 Loans are Outstanding, any Class A-2 Notes, or if no Class A-1 Notes, Class A-1 Loans or Class A-2 Notes are Outstanding, any Class B Notes, or if no Class A-1 Notes, Class A-1 Loans, Class A-2 Notes or Class B Notes are Outstanding, any Class C Notes, or if no Class A-1 Notes, Class A-1 Loans, Class A-2 Notes, Class B Notes or Class C Notes are Outstanding, any Class D Notes, shall accrue at the Interest Rate for such Class until paid as provided herein.
(b) The principal of each Class of Secured Debt matures at par and is due and payable on the date of the Stated Maturity for such Class, unless such principal has been previously repaid or unless the unpaid principal of such Class becomes due and payable at an earlier date by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment of principal of each Class (and payments of Principal Proceeds to the Fiscal Agent (for payment to Holders of the Preferred Shares)) may only occur in accordance with the Priority of Payments. Payments of principal on any Class of Secured Debt that are not paid in accordance with the Priority of Payments on any Payment Date (other than the Payment Date that is the Stated Maturity of such Class of Secured Debt or any Redemption Date) because of insufficient funds therefor shall not be considered “due and payable” for purposes of Section 5.1(a) until the Payment Date on which such principal may be paid in accordance with the Priority of Payments or all Priority Classes with respect to such Class have been paid in full.
(c) Principal payments on the Secured Debt will be made in accordance with the Priority of Payments and Article IX.
(d) The Paying Agent shall require the previous delivery of properly completed and signed applicable tax certifications (generally, in the case of U.S. federal income tax, an IRS Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a U.S. Tax Person or the applicable IRS Form W-8 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a Person that is not a U.S. Tax Person) or other certification acceptable to it to enable the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and any Paying Agent to determine their duties and liabilities with respect to any taxes or other charges that they may be required to pay, deduct or withhold from payments in respect of such Secured Debt or the Holder or beneficial owner of such Secured Debt under any present or future law or regulation of the United States, any other jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein or to comply with any reporting or other requirements under any such law or regulation (including any cost basis reporting obligations) and the delivery of any information required under FATCA. The Issuer shall not be obligated to pay any additional amounts to the Holders or beneficial owners of Secured Debt as a result of deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, assessments or governmental charges with respect to the Secured Debt. Nothing herein shall be construed to obligate the Paying Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Trustee to determine the duties or liabilities of the Issuer or any other paying agent with respect to any tax certification or withholding requirements, or any tax certification or withholding requirements of any jurisdiction, political subdivision or taxing authority outside the United States.
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(e) Payments in respect of interest on and principal of Secured Debt shall be made by the Collateral Agent or by a Paying Agent in Dollars to: (1) the Loan Agent, for distribution to the Class A-1 Lenders in the case of the Class A-1 Loans; (2) DTC or its designee with respect to a Global Note; and (3) the Holder or its nominee with respect to a Certificated Note; in each case, by wire transfer, as directed by such Person, in immediately available funds to a Dollar account maintained by the Loan Agent, in the case of the Class A-1 Loans, by DTC or its nominee, in the case of Global Notes, or by the Holder or its nominee, in the case of Certificated Notes; provided that in the case of a Certificated Note (1) the Holder thereof shall have provided written wiring instructions to the Trustee on or before the related Record Date and (2) if appropriate instructions for any such wire transfer are not received by the related Record Date, then such payment shall be made by check drawn on a U.S. bank mailed to the address of such Holder, as it appears on the Note Register. Upon final payment due on the Maturity of (A) a Note, the Holder thereof shall present and surrender such Note at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at the office of any Paying Agent on or prior to such Maturity and (B) the Class A-1 Loans, the Holder thereof shall present and surrender the lender note representing such Class A-1 Loan to the Corporate Trust Office of the Loan Agent in accordance with the Credit Agreement, in each case, on or prior to such Maturity; provided that if the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Co-Issuers shall have been furnished such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless and an undertaking thereafter to surrender such certificate, then, in the absence of notice to the Co-Issuers, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent that the applicable Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, such final payment with respect to such shall be made without presentation or surrender. None of the Co-Issuers, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Agent or any Paying Agent will have any responsibility or liability for any aspects of the records (or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing such records) maintained by DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream or any of the Agent Members or any of their nominees relating to or for payments made thereby on account of beneficial interests in a Global Note. In the case where any final payment of principal and interest is to be made on any Note (other than on the Stated Maturity thereof), the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, or the Loan Agent, as applicable, in the name and at the expense of the Co-Issuers shall prior to the date on which such payment is to be made, mail (by first class mail, postage prepaid) to the Persons entitled thereto at their respective addresses as they appear on the Note Register, a notice which shall specify the date on which such payment will be made and the place where such Notes may be presented and surrendered for such payment.
(f) Payments of principal to Holders of Secured Debt of each Class shall be made in the proportion that the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Class registered in the name of each such Holder on the applicable Record Date bears to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Class on such Record Date.
(g) Interest accrued with respect to the Secured Debt (other than the Fixed Rate Notes) shall be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable Interest Accrual Period divided by 360. Interest on the Fixed Rate Notes shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve (12) 30-day months; provided that if a redemption occurs on a Business Day that would not otherwise be a Payment Date, interest on such Fixed Rate Notes will be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the applicable Interest Accrual Period divided by 360.
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(h) All reductions in the principal amount of a Note (or one or more predecessor Notes) or Class A-1 Loan effected by payments of installments of principal made on any Payment Date or Redemption Date shall be binding upon all future Holders of such Note or Class A-1 Loan, as applicable, and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof, whether or not such payment is noted on such Note.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, the obligations of the Issuer and Co-Issuer under the Notes, the Class A-1 Loans and the Transaction Documents are limited recourse obligations of the Co-Issuers and the Preferred Shares are equity interests in the Issuer payable solely from the Assets and following realization of the Assets, and application of the proceeds thereof in accordance with this Indenture and the Credit Agreement, all obligations of and any claims against the Co-Issuers hereunder or in connection herewith after such realization shall be extinguished and shall not thereafter revive. No recourse shall be had against any officer, director, manager, partner, member, employee, shared personnel, shareholder, authorized Person or incorporator of either of the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager or their respective affiliates, successors or assigns for any amounts payable under the Secured Debt, this Indenture or the Credit Agreement. It is understood that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (i) shall not (i) prevent recourse to the Assets for the sums due or to become due under any security, instrument or agreement which is part of the Assets or (ii) constitute a waiver, release or discharge of any indebtedness or obligation evidenced by the Secured Debt or the Credit Agreement or secured by this Indenture until such Assets have been realized. It is further understood that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph (i) shall not limit the right of any Person to name the Issuer or the Co-Issuer as a party defendant in any Proceeding or in the exercise of any other remedy under the Secured Debt, this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, so long as no judgment in the nature of a deficiency judgment or seeking personal liability shall be asked for or (if obtained) enforced against any such Person or entity.
(j) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.7, each Note delivered under this Indenture and upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to unpaid interest and principal (or other applicable amount) that were carried by such other Note.
(k) Payments in respect of the Preferred Shares are subordinated to the payment of interest on and principal of each Class of Secured Debt as provided in Section 11.1, except that notwithstanding the Priority of Payments, Permitted RIC Distributions may be made if the conditions specified in the definition thereof are satisfied. Payments in respect of the Preferred Shares shall be made to the Preferred Shares Payment Account maintained by the Fiscal Agent, for distribution to the Holders of the Preferred Shares in accordance with the Fiscal Agency Agreement.
Section 2.8 Persons Deemed Owners. The Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, and any agent of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent shall treat as the owner of each Note the Person in whose name such Note is registered on the Note Register on the applicable Record Date for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of and interest on such Note and on, other than as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, any other date for all other purposes whatsoever (whether or not such Note is overdue), and none of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, nor any agent of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, or the Collateral Agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
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Section 2.9 Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer, exchange or redemption, or deemed lost or stolen, shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee and may not be reissued or resold. No Note may be surrendered (including any surrender in connection with any abandonment, donation, gift or contribution thereof or other event or circumstance) except for payment as provided herein, or for registration of transfer or exchange in accordance with this Article II or redemption in accordance with Article IX hereof (and, in the case of Special Redemption, a mandatory redemption pursuant to Section 9.1, or an Optional Redemption in part by Class, only to the extent that such Special Redemption, mandatory redemption or Optional Redemption results in payment in full of the applicable Class of Notes), or for replacement in connection with any Note deemed lost or stolen. Any Notes surrendered for cancellation as permitted by this Section 2.9 shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section 2.9, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes held by the Trustee shall be destroyed or held by the Trustee in accordance with its standard retention policy unless the Co-Issuers shall direct by an Issuer Order received prior to destruction that they be returned to it.
Section 2.10 DTC Ceases to be Depository. (a) A Global Note deposited with DTC pursuant to Section 2.2 shall be transferred in the form of one or more corresponding Certificated Notes to the beneficial owners thereof only if (A) such transfer complies with Section 2.5 of this Indenture and (B) either (x) (i) DTC notifies the Co-Issuers that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depository for such Global Note, or (ii) DTC ceases to be a Clearing Agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in each case, a successor depository is not appointed by the Co- Issuers within 90 days after receiving notice of such event or (y) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such transfer is requested by any beneficial owner of an interest in such Global Note.
(b) Any Global Note that is transferable in the form of a corresponding Certificated Note to the beneficial owner thereof pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be surrendered by DTC to the Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Co-Issuers shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, or cause the Authenticating Agent to authenticate, and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of definitive physical certificates (pursuant to the instructions of DTC) in authorized denominations. Any Certificated Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.5, bear the legends set forth in the applicable Exhibit A and shall be subject to the transfer restrictions referred to in such legends.
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b), the Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action that such Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
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(d) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.10(a), the Co-Issuers will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Certificated Notes.
If Certificated Notes are not so issued by the Co-Issuers to such beneficial owners of interests in Global Notes as required by Section 2.10(a), the Issuer expressly acknowledges that the beneficial owners shall be entitled to pursue any remedy that the Holders of a Global Note would be entitled to pursue in accordance with Article V of this Indenture (but only to the extent of such beneficial owner’s interest in the Global Note) as if corresponding Certificated Notes had been issued; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any certificate of ownership provided by such beneficial owners (including a certificate in the form of Exhibit D) and/or other forms of reasonable evidence of such ownership and shall have no liability for relying on the same.
Neither the Trustee nor the Note Registrar shall be liable for any delay in the delivery of directions from the DTC, as depository, and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such direction as to the names of the beneficial owners in whose names such Certificated Notes shall be registered or as to delivery instructions for such Certificated Notes.
Section 2.11 Non-Permitted Holders. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere herein, any transfer of a beneficial interest in any Note to a U.S. Person that is not a QIB/QP (or, solely in the case of Notes issued as Certificated Notes, an IAI/QP) shall in either case be null and void and any such purported transfer of which the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent shall have notice may be disregarded by the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent for all purposes. In addition, the acquisition of Notes by a Non-Permitted Holder under Section 2.11(b) shall be null and void ab initio.
(b) If any U.S. Person that is not a QIB/QP (or, solely in the case of Notes issued as Certificated Notes, a U.S. Person that is an Institutional Accredited Investor and is also a Qualified Purchaser (or a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (other than a trust) of which each shareholder, partner, member or other equity owner is a Qualified Purchaser)) shall in either case become the Holder or beneficial owner of an interest in any Note (any such Person a “Non-Permitted Holder”), the acquisition of such Notes by such Holder shall be void ab initio. The Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall, promptly after discovery that such Person is a Non-Permitted Holder by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer (if the Co-Issuer obtains actual knowledge), or upon notice to the Issuer from the Trustee (if a Trust Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge (in which case the Trustee agrees to notify the Issuer of such discovery, if any)), send notice to such Non-Permitted Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted Holder transfer its interest in the Notes held by such Non-Permitted Holder to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted Holder within 30 days after the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted Holder fails to so transfer such Notes or interest therein, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager acting for the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the Non-Permitted Holder, to sell such Notes or interest in such Notes to a purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted Holder on such terms as the Issuer may choose. The Issuer, or the Collateral Manager acting on behalf of the Issuer, may (but is not required to) select the purchaser by soliciting one or more bids from one or more brokers or other market professionals that regularly
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deal in securities similar to the Notes and sell such Notes to the highest such bidder; provided that the Collateral Manager, its Affiliates and accounts, funds, clients or portfolios established and controlled by the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to bid in any such sale. However, the Issuer or the Collateral Manager may select a purchaser by any other means determined by it in its sole discretion. The Holder of each Note, the Non-Permitted Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the Holder to the Non-Permitted Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Notes, agrees to cooperate with the Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Manager to effect such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses and taxes due in connection with such sale shall be remitted to the Non-Permitted Holder. The terms and conditions of any such sale under this sub-section shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Issuer, and none of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Fiscal Agent or the Collateral Manager shall be liable to any Person having an interest in the Notes or Preferred Shares sold as a result of any such sale or the exercise of such discretion.
(c) If any Person shall become the beneficial owner of an interest in any Note who has made or is deemed to have made, as applicable, a prohibited transaction, Benefit Plan Investor, Controlling Person, Similar Law or Other Plan Law representation required by Section 2.5 that is subsequently shown to be false or misleading or whose beneficial ownership otherwise causes a violation of the 25% Limitation (any such Person a “Non-Permitted ERISA Holder”), the Issuer (or the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer) shall, promptly after discovery that such Person is a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder by the Issuer or upon notice to the Issuer from the Trustee (if a Trust Officer of the Trustee obtains actual knowledge or by the Co-Issuer if it obtains actual knowledge (who, in which case, agree to notify the Issuer of such discovery, if any)), send notice to such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder demanding that such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder transfer all or any portion of the Notes or Preferred Shares held by such Person to a Person that is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder within 10 days after the date of such notice. If such Non-Permitted ERISA Holder fails to so transfer such Notes or Preferred Shares, the Issuer shall have the right, without further notice to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder, to sell such Notes or interest in such Notes to a purchaser selected by the Issuer that is not a Non-Permitted ERISA Holder on such terms as the Issuer may choose. The Issuer may select the purchaser by soliciting one or more bids from one or more brokers or other market professionals that regularly deal in securities similar to the Notes or Preferred Shares and selling such Notes or Preferred Shares to the highest such bidder. However, the Issuer may select a purchaser by any other means in its sole discretion. The holder of each Note or Preferred Share, the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder and each other Person in the chain of title from the Holder to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder, by its acceptance of an interest in the Notes or Preferred Shares, agrees to cooperate with the Issuer and the Trustee to effect such transfers. The proceeds of such sale, net of any commissions, expenses and taxes due in connection with such sale shall be remitted to the Non-Permitted ERISA Holder. The terms and conditions of any sale under this subsection shall be determined in the sole discretion of the Issuer, and none of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, the Trustee, the Fiscal Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent or the Collateral Manager shall be liable to any Person having an interest in the Notes or Preferred Shares sold as a result of any such sale or the exercise of such discretion.
Section 2.12 [Reserved].
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Section 2.13 Additional Issuance. (a) At any time during the Reinvestment Period (and, solely with respect to additional Preferred Shares, after the Reinvestment Period), the Co-Issuers or the Issuer, as applicable, may incur additional loans, issue and sell additional Secured Debt of each Class and/or issue and sell additional Preferred Shares (on a pro rata basis with respect to each Class or, if additional Class A-1 Debt is not being issued, on a pro rata basis for all Classes that are subordinate to the Class A-1 Debt) (except a greater proportion of Preferred Shares may be issued) and use the proceeds to purchase additional Collateral Obligations or as otherwise permitted under this Indenture; provided that additional Class A-1 Debt may consist of additional Class A-1 Loans and/or additional Class A-1 Notes; provided, further, that the following conditions are met:
(i) the Collateral Manager, the Depositor and a Majority of the Preferred Shares consents to such issuance;
(ii) unless such issuance is being made in order for the Depositor, the Collateral Manager or an Affiliate thereof to comply with the U.S. Risk Retention Rules (based on written advice of nationally recognized counsel to the Depositor or the Collateral Manager, as applicable, experienced in such matters) (a “Risk Retention Issuance”), if additional Class A-1 Loans will be incurred, a Majority of the Class A-1 Lenders consents thereto;
(iii) the aggregate principal amount of Secured Debt of any Class issued in all additional issuances shall not exceed 100% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of such Class on the Closing Date;
(iv) the terms of the Secured Debt issued must be identical to the respective terms of previously issued Secured Debt of the applicable Class (except that the interest due on additional Secured Debt will accrue from the issue or incurrence date of such additional Secured Debt and the spread over LIBOR (or stated interest rate, in the case of Fixed Rate Notes) and price of such additional Secured Debt do not have to be identical to those of the initial Secured Debt of such Class; provided that the Interest Rate of any such additional Secured Debt must not exceed the Interest Rate applicable to the initial Secured Debt of that Class);
(v) the proceeds of any additional Secured Debt or additional Preferred Shares (net of fees and expenses incurred in connection with such issuance) will be treated as Principal Proceeds, used to purchase additional Collateral Obligations, or as otherwise permitted hereunder;
(vi) the Overcollateralization Ratio with respect to each Class is maintained or improved after giving effect to such issuance;
(vii) an opinion of tax counsel of nationally recognized standing in the United States experienced in such matters shall be delivered to the Trustee to the effect that (1) such additional issuance will not cause the Issuer (A) to be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to its net income or subject to tax liability under Section 1446 of the Code, or (B) to be treated as a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (2) any additional Class A-1 Debt, Class A-2 Notes,
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Class B Notes, Class C Notes or Class D Notes will be treated as indebtedness for U.S. federal income tax purposes; provided, however, that the opinion described in this clause (vii)(2) will not be required with respect to any additional Secured Debt that bear a different securities identifier from the Secured Debt of the same Class that were issued on the Closing Date and are outstanding at the time of the additional issuance;
(viii) such issuance is accomplished in a manner that allows the Independent accountants of the Issuer to accurately provide the tax information relating to original issue discount required to be provided to the holders of Secured Debt (including the additional Secured Debt); and
(ix) an officer’s certificate of the Issuer is delivered to the Trustee stating that the foregoing conditions (i) through (viii) have been satisfied.
(b) Except in the case of a Risk Retention Issuance, (i) any additional Class A-1 Debt issued as described above will be offered to the existing holders of Class A-1 Debt in the form of Class A-1 Loans and/or Class A-1 Notes held by each such existing holder (x) first, in such amounts as are necessary to preserve each such holder’s pro rata ownership interest in the Class A-1 Debt and (y) second, in the case of any unsold additional Class A-1 Debt, without regard to each holder’s pro rata ownership interest in the Class A-1 Debt, it being understood that additional Class A-1 Debt offered to an existing holder pursuant to this subclause (y) may be subscribed for by such holder in the form of additional Class A-1 Loans or additional Class A-1 Notes, without regard to the form of such holder’s existing holdings, (ii) any additional Secured Debt of any other Class issued as described above will, to the extent reasonably practicable, be offered first to holders of that Class in such amounts as are necessary to preserve each such holder’s pro rata ownership interest in such Class and (iii) any additional Preferred Shares issued as described above will, to the extent reasonably practicable, be offered first to holders of Preferred Shares in such amounts as are necessary to preserve each such holder’s pro rata ownership interest in the Preferred Shares. The Collateral Agent shall provide written notice to S&P of the issuance of any additional Secured Debt or Preferred Shares pursuant to this Section 2.13.
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 3.1 Conditions to Issuance of Notes on Closing Date. The Notes to be issued on the Closing Date may be executed by the Co-Issuers and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivered by the Trustee upon Issuer Order and upon receipt by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent of the following:
(a) Officers’ Certificate of the Co-Issuers Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Co-Issuers (A) evidencing the authorization by Resolution of the execution and delivery of this Indenture and the Credit Agreement, and, in the case of the Issuer, the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement and related Transaction Documents and, in each case, the execution, authentication and delivery of the Notes applied for by it and the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans, (B) specifying the Stated
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Maturity, principal amount and Interest Rate of each Class of Notes to be authenticated and delivered and the Class A-1 Loans to be incurred, (C) in the case of the Issuer, certifying that the issuance of the Preferred Shares issued on the Closing Date is in accordance with the terms of the Memorandum and Articles, and (D) certifying that (1) the attached copy of the Resolution is a true and complete copy thereof, (2) such Resolution has not been rescinded and is in full force and effect on and as of the Closing Date and (3) the Officers authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.
(b) Governmental Approvals. From each of the Co-Issuers either (A) a certificate of the Co-Issuers or other official document evidencing the due authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies, at the time having jurisdiction in the premises, together with an Opinion of Counsel of the Co-Issuers that no other authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of the Notes or (B) an Opinion of Counsel of the Co-Issuers that no such authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of such Notes except as has been given.
(c) U.S. Counsel Opinions. Opinions of Cadwalader, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, special U.S. counsel to the Co-Issuers, Dechert LLP, counsel to the Collateral Manager, the Transferor and the Depositor, and Xxxxx Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Fiscal Agent and the Collateral Administrator, in each case dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Issuer.
(d) Cayman Counsel Opinion. An opinion of Xxxxxxx (Cayman) Ltd., Cayman Islands counsel to the Issuer, dated the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Issuer.
(e) Officers’ Certificate of Co-Issuers Regarding Indenture. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Co-Issuers stating that, to the signing Officer’s knowledge, the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as the case may be, is not in default under this Indenture and that neither the issuance of the Notes applied for by it nor the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans will result in a default or a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, its organizational documents, any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which it may be subject; that all conditions precedent provided herein relating to the authentication and delivery of the Notes applied for by it have been complied with; and that all expenses due or accrued with respect to the Offering of such Notes or relating to actions taken on or in connection with the Closing Date have been paid or reserves therefor have been made. The Officer’s certificate of the Issuer shall also state that, to the signing Officer’s knowledge, all of the Issuer’s representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct as of the Closing Date.
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(f) Certificate of the Collateral Manager. An Officer’s certificate of the Collateral Manager, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that immediately before the Delivery of the Collateral Obligations on the Closing Date:
(i) the information with respect to each Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations is true and correct and such schedule is complete with respect to each such Collateral Obligation;
(ii) each Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations satisfies the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation”;
(iii) the Issuer purchased or entered into each Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations in compliance with Section 12.2; and
(iv) the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations which the Issuer has purchased, acquired in the Initial Sale and Contribution or entered into binding commitments to purchase or identified for expected purchase on or prior to the Closing Date is at least U.S.$293 million.
(g) Grant of Collateral Obligations. Contemporaneously with the issuance and sale of the Notes on the Closing Date, the Grant pursuant to the Granting Clauses of this Indenture of all of the Issuer’s right, title and interest in and to the Collateral Obligations pledged to the Collateral Agent for inclusion in the Assets on the Closing Date shall be effective, and Delivery of such Collateral Obligations (including each promissory note and all other Underlying Documents related thereto to the extent received by the Issuer) as contemplated by Section 3.3 shall have been effected.
(h) Certificate of the Issuer Regarding Assets. An Officer’s certificate of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that:
(i) in the case of each Collateral Obligation pledged to the Collateral Agent for inclusion in the Assets, on the Closing Date and immediately prior to the Delivery thereof (or immediately after Delivery thereof, in the case of clause (VI)(ii) below) on the Closing Date;
(I) the Issuer is the owner of such Collateral Obligation free and clear of any liens, claims or encumbrances of any nature whatsoever except for (i) those which are being released on the Closing Date; (ii) those Granted pursuant to this Indenture and (iii) any other Permitted Liens;
(II) the Issuer has acquired its ownership in such Collateral Obligation in good faith without notice of any adverse claim, except as described in clause (I) above;
(III) the Issuer has not assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered any interest in such Collateral Obligation (or, if any such interest has been assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered, it has been released) other than interests Granted pursuant to this Indenture and the Securities Account Control Agreement;
(IV) the Issuer has full right to Grant a security interest in and assign and pledge such Collateral Obligation to the Collateral Agent;
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(V) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(f), the information set forth with respect to such Collateral Obligation in the Schedule of Collateral Obligations is true and correct;
(VI) (i) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(f), each Collateral Obligation included in the Assets satisfies the requirements of the definition of “Collateral Obligation” and (ii) the requirements of Section 3.1(g) have been satisfied;
(VII) upon the Grant by the Issuer, the Collateral Agent has a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral Obligations and other Assets, except as permitted by this Indenture; and
(ii) based on the certificate of the Collateral Manager delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(f), the Aggregate Principal Balance of the Collateral Obligations which the Issuer has purchased, acquired in the Initial Sale and Contribution or entered into binding commitments to purchase or identified for expected purchase on or prior to the Closing Date is at least U.S.$293 million.
(i) Rating Letters. An Officer’s certificate of the Co-Issuers to the effect that attached thereto is a true and correct copy of a letter signed by S&P and a letter issued by Fitch, in each case confirming that each Class of Secured Debt rated by it has been assigned the applicable Initial Rating and that such ratings are in effect on the Closing Date.
(j) Accounts. Evidence of the establishment of each of the Accounts.
(k) Issuer Order for Deposit of Funds into Accounts. (i) An Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, authorizing the deposit of U.S.$10,697,216.09 from the proceeds of the issuance of the Notes and the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans into the Ramp-Up Account for use pursuant to Section 10.3(c); (ii) an Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, authorizing the deposit of U.S.$2,300,000.00 from the proceeds of the issuance of the Notes and the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans into the Expense Reserve Account for use pursuant to Section 10.3(d); (iii) an Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, authorizing the deposit of an amount equal to the Interest Reserve Amount from the proceeds of the issuance of the Notes and the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans into the Interest Reserve Account for use pursuant to Section 10.3(e); and (iv) an Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the Closing Date, authorizing the deposit of U.S.$0 from the proceeds of the issuance of the Notes and the incurrence of the Class A-1 Loans into the Revolving Funding Account for use pursuant to Section 10.4.
(l) Transaction Documents. An executed counterpart of the Collateral Management Agreement, the Credit Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement and the Securities Account Control Agreement and a copy of each purchaser representation letter for Certificated Notes issued on the Closing Date (if any).
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(m) Other Documents. Such other documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably require; provided that nothing in this clause (m) shall imply or impose a duty on the part of the Trustee to require any other documents.
Section 3.2 Conditions to Additional Issuance. Any additional securities to be issued in accordance with Section 2.13 may be executed by the Co-Issuers and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and thereupon the same shall be authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivered by the Trustee upon Issuer Order and upon receipt by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent of the following:
(a) Officer’s Certificate of the Co-Issuers Regarding Corporate Matters. An Officer’s certificate of each of the Co-Issuers (a) evidencing the authorization by Resolution of the execution, authentication and delivery of the Notes applied for by it, (b) specifying the Stated Maturity, principal amount and Interest Rate of each Class of Notes to be authenticated and delivered and (c) certifying that (A) the attached copy of the Resolution is a true and complete copy thereof, (B) such Resolution has not been rescinded and is in full force and effect on and as of the date of issuance and (C) the Officers authorized to execute and deliver such documents hold the offices and have the signatures indicated thereon.
(b) Governmental Approvals. From each of the Co-Issuers either (a) a certificate of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as the case may be, or other official document evidencing the due authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body or bodies, at the time having jurisdiction in the premises, together with an Opinion of Counsel of the Co-Issuers that no other authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of the additional Notes or (b) an Opinion of Counsel of the Co-Issuers that no such authorization, approval or consent of any governmental body is required for the valid issuance of such additional Notes except as has been given.
(c) Officer’s Certificate of the Co-Issuers Regarding Indenture. An Officer’s certificate of each Co-Issuer stating that, to the signing Officer’s knowledge, (a) the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as the case may be, is not in default under this Indenture; (b) the issuance of the additional Notes applied for by it will not result in a default or a breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, its organizational documents, any indenture or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound, or any order of any court or administrative agency entered in any Proceeding to which it is a party or by which it may be bound or to which it may be subject; (c) the provisions of Section 2.13 and all conditions precedent provided in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of the additional Notes applied for by it have been complied with; (d) all expenses due or accrued with respect to the Offering of such Notes or relating to actions taken on or in connection with the additional issuance have been paid or reserves therefor have been made; and (e) all of the Issuer’s or the Co-Issuer’s, as the case may be, representations and warranties contained herein are true and correct as of the date of additional issuance.
(d) Supplemental Indenture. A fully executed counterpart of the supplemental indenture making such changes to this Indenture as shall be necessary to permit such additional issuance.
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(e) Rating Agency Notice. Notice shall have been provided by the Issuer to the Rating Agencies.
(f) Issuer Order for Deposit of Funds into Accounts. An Issuer Order signed in the name of the Issuer by an Officer of the Issuer, dated as of the date of the additional issuance, authorizing the deposit of the net proceeds of the issuance into the Principal Collection Subaccount for use pursuant to Section 10.2.
(g) Evidence of Required Consents. Satisfactory evidence of the consent of the Collateral Manager, the Depositor and a Majority of the Preferred Shares to such issuance.
(h) Other Documents. Such other documents as the Trustee may reasonably require; provided that nothing in this clause (h) shall imply or impose a duty on the part of the Trustee to require any other documents.
Section 3.3 Custodianship; Delivery of Collateral Obligations and Eligible Investments. (a) The Collateral Manager, on behalf of the Issuer, shall deliver or cause to be delivered, on or prior to the Closing Date (with respect to the Initial Collateral Obligations) and within five (5) Business Days after the related Cut-Off Date (with respect to any additional Collateral Obligations) to the Custodian or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, all Assets in accordance with the definition of “Deliver.” The Custodian appointed hereby shall act as custodian for the Issuer and as custodian and agent for the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties for purposes of perfecting the Collateral Agent’s security interest in those Assets in which a security interest is perfected by Delivery of the related Assets to the Custodian. Initially, the Custodian shall be the Bank. Any successor custodian shall be a state or national bank or trust company that (i) has (A) capital and surplus of at least U.S.$200,000,000, (B) a rating of at least “BBB+” by S&P and (C) to the extent that Fitch is rating any Class of Secured Debt then Outstanding, a short-term credit rating of at least “F1” and a long-term credit rating of at least “A” by Fitch and (ii) is a Securities Intermediary. Subject to the limited right to relocate Assets as provided in Section 7.5(b), the Custodian shall hold (i) all Collateral Obligations, Eligible Investments, Cash and other investments purchased in accordance with this Indenture and (ii) any other property of the Issuer otherwise Delivered to the Collateral Agent or the Custodian, as applicable, by or on behalf of the Issuer, and subject to the Securities Account Control Agreement, in the relevant Account established and maintained pursuant to Article X as to which in each case the Collateral Agent shall have entered into the Securities Account Control Agreement with the Custodian providing, inter alia, that the establishment and maintenance of such Account will be governed by a law of a jurisdiction satisfactory to the Issuer and the Collateral Agent.
(b) Each time that the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer directs or causes the acquisition of any Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment, the Collateral Manager (on behalf of the Issuer) shall, if the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment is required to be, but has not already been, transferred to the relevant Account, cause the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment to be Delivered to the Custodian to be held in the Custodial Account (or in the case of any such investment that is not a Collateral Obligation, in the Account in which the funds used to purchase the investment are held in accordance with Article X) for the benefit of the Collateral Agent in accordance with this Indenture. The security interest of the Collateral Agent in the funds or other property used in
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connection with the acquisition shall, immediately and without further action on the part of the Collateral Agent, be released. The security interest of the Collateral Agent shall nevertheless come into existence and continue in the Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment so acquired, including all interests of the Issuer in to any contracts related to and proceeds of such Collateral Obligation, Eligible Investment or other investment.
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect except as to (i) rights of registration of transfer and exchange, (ii) substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal thereof and interest thereon, (iv) the rights, obligations, protections, indemnities and immunities of the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, (v) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Collateral Manager hereunder and under the Collateral Management Agreement, (vi) the rights, obligations, protections, indemnities and immunities of the Collateral Administrator hereunder and under the Collateral Administration Agreement and (vii) the rights of Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the property deposited with the Collateral Agent and payable to all or any of them (and the Collateral Agent, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture) when either:
(a) (i) either:
(A) (x) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered to Holders other than (1) Notes which have been mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.6 and (2) Notes for whose payment Money has theretofore irrevocably been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 7.3 have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation and (y) the Class A-1 Loans have been repaid in full in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement (other than the Class A-1 Loans for whose payment Money has theretofore irrevocably been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuer or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 7.3); or
(B) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation and all Class A-1 Loans not prepaid in full in accordance with the Credit Agreement (1) have become due and payable, or (2) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (3) are to be called for redemption pursuant to Article IX (and, in the case of the Class A-1 Loans, prepaid in accordance with the Credit Agreement) under an arrangement satisfactory to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent for the giving of notice of redemption by the Co-Issuers pursuant to Section 9.4 and either (x) the Issuer has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Collateral Agent, in trust for such purpose, Cash or non-callable direct obligations of the United States of America (provided that such obligations are entitled to the full faith and credit of the United States of America or are debt
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obligations that are rated “AAA” by S&P) in an amount sufficient, as recalculated by a firm of Independent certified public accountants that are nationally recognized, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on any unpaid Class A-1 Loans and on any Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Secured Debt that has become due and payable), or to the respective Stated Maturity or the respective Redemption Date, as the case may be, and shall have Granted to the Collateral Agent a valid perfected security interest in such Eligible Investment that is of first priority or free of any adverse claim, as applicable, and shall have furnished to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent an Opinion of Counsel with respect thereto or (y) in the event all of the Assets are liquidated following the satisfaction of the conditions specified in Section 5.5(a), the Issuer shall have paid or caused to be paid all proceeds of such liquidation of the Assets in accordance with the Priority of Payments; and
(ii) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums then due and payable hereunder and under the Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, any amounts then due and payable pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement and the Collateral Management Agreement, in each case, without regard to the Administrative Expense Cap) by the Issuer and no other amounts are scheduled to be due and payable by the Issuer other than Dissolution Expenses (it being understood that the requirements of this clause (a)(ii) may be satisfied as set forth in Section 5.7); and
(iii) the Co-Issuers have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with; or
(b) (i) the Collateral Agent confirms to the Issuer that:
(A) the Collateral Agent is not holding any Assets (other than (x) the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement and the Securities Account Control Agreement and (y) Cash in an amount not greater than the Dissolution Expenses); and
(B) no funds (other than Cash in an amount not greater than the Dissolution Expenses) are on deposit in or to the credit of any Accounts, and the Custodian has not established any other securities accounts or deposit accounts in the name of the Issuer (or the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Issuer or any Secured Party in connection with this Indenture);
(ii) each of the Co-Issuers has delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent a certificate stating that (1) there are no Assets (other than (x) the Collateral Management Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement and the Securities Account Control Agreement and (y) Cash in an amount not greater than the Dissolution Expenses) that remain subject to the lien of this Indenture, and (2) all funds (other than Cash in an amount not greater than the Dissolution Expenses) on deposit in or to the credit of the Accounts have been distributed in accordance with the terms of this Indenture or have otherwise been irrevocably deposited with the Collateral Agent for such purpose; and
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(iii) the Co-Issuers have delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent an Officer’s certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the rights and obligations of the Co-Issuers, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Manager and, if applicable, the Holders, as the case may be, under Sections 2.7, 4.2, 5.4(d), 5.9, 5.18, 6.1, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 7.1, 7.3, 13.1, 14.10, 14.11, and 14.12 shall survive.
Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. All Cash and obligations deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it in accordance with the provisions of the Secured Debt and this Indenture, including, without limitation, the Priority of Payments, to the payment of principal and interest (or other amounts with respect to the Preferred Shares), either directly or through any Paying Agent (including, in the case of distributions of the Preferred Shares, the Fiscal Agent), as the Collateral Agent may determine; and such Cash and obligations shall be held in a segregated account identified as being held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Section 4.3 Repayment of Monies Held by Paying Agent. In connection with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to the Secured Debt, all Monies then held by any Paying Agent other than the Collateral Agent under the provisions of this Indenture shall, upon demand of the Co-Issuers, be paid to the Collateral Agent to be held and applied pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof and in accordance with the Priority of Payments and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such Monies.
Section 4.4 Limitation on Obligation to Incur Administrative Expenses. If at any time when this Indenture is eligible to be discharged pursuant to Section 4.1, the sum of (i) Eligible Investments, (ii) Cash and (iii) amounts reasonably expected to be received by the Issuer in Cash during the current Collection Period (as certified by the Collateral Manager in its reasonable judgment) is less than the sum of Dissolution Expenses and any accrued and unpaid Administrative Expenses, then notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Issuer shall no longer be required to incur Administrative Expenses as otherwise required by this Indenture to any Person other than the Trustee, the Collateral Administrator, the Fiscal Agent, the Collateral Manager, the Administrator, the Share Registrar and their respective Affiliates, and failure to pay such amounts shall not constitute a Default hereunder.
ARTICLE V
EVENTS OF DEFAULT; REMEDIES
Section 5.1 Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
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(a) a default in the payment, when due and payable, of (i) any interest on any Class A-1 Loan, any Class A-1 Note, any Class A-2 Note or any Class B Note or, if there are no Class A-1 Loans Outstanding, Class A-1 Notes Outstanding, Class A-2 Notes Outstanding or Class B Notes Outstanding, any Note or Notes of the Class that is the Controlling Class at such time and, in each case, the continuation of any such default for three Business Days after a Trust Officer of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent has actual knowledge or receives written notice from any holder of Secured Debt of such payment default, or (ii) any principal of, or interest or Deferred Interest on, or any Redemption Price in respect of, any Class of Secured Debt at its Stated Maturity or any Redemption Date with respect to such Secured Debt; provided that the failure to effect any Optional Redemption which is withdrawn by the Co-Issuers in accordance with this Indenture or with respect to which any Refinancing fails to occur shall not constitute an Event of Default or a Failed Optional Redemption and provided, further, that, solely with respect to clause (i) above, in the case of a failure to disburse funds due to an administrative error or omission by the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, the Collateral Administrator or any Paying Agent, such failure continues for five Business Days after a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission;
(b) the failure on any Payment Date to disburse amounts available in the Payment Account in excess of U.S.$1,000 in accordance with the Priority of Payments and continuation of such failure for a period of three Business Days or, in the case of a failure to disburse due to an administrative error or omission by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Administrator or any Paying Agent, such failure continues for five Business Days after a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission;
(c) either of the Co-Issuers or the Assets becomes an investment company required to be registered under the 1940 Act;
(d) except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.1, a default in a material respect in the performance, or breach in a material respect, of any other covenant of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer herein or in the Credit Agreement (it being understood, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, that (i) any failure to meet any Concentration Limitation, Collateral Quality Test or Coverage Test is not an Event of Default, except to the extent provided in clause (e) below, and (ii) the failure of the Issuer to satisfy the requirements of Section 7.18 will not constitute an Event of Default unless such failure constitutes an Event of Default under this clause (d) and the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, or the Collateral Manager acting on behalf of the Issuer, has acted in bad faith), or the failure of any material representation or warranty of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer made herein or in the Credit Agreement or in any certificate or other writing delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith to be correct in each case in all material respects when the same shall have been made and such default, breach or failure has a material adverse effect on the Holders, and the continuation of such default, breach or failure for a period of 45 days after notice to the Issuer or the Co-Issuers, as applicable, and the Collateral Manager by registered or certified mail or overnight delivery service, by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Loan Agent at the direction of the Holders of at least a Majority of the Controlling Class, specifying such default, breach or failure and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
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(e) on any Measurement Date as of which any Class A-1 Debt is Outstanding, failure of the percentage equivalent of a fraction, (i) the numerator of which is equal to (1) the Collateral Principal Amount plus (2) the aggregate Market Value of all Defaulted Obligations on such date and (ii) the denominator of which is equal to the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Class A-1 Debt, to equal or exceed 102.5%;
(f) the entry of a decree or order by a court having competent jurisdiction adjudging the Issuer or the Co-Issuer as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, or sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, respectively, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(g) the institution by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer of Proceedings to have the Issuer or Co-Issuer, as the case may be, adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency Proceedings against the Issuer or Co-Issuer, or the filing by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar applicable law, or the consent by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment in a Proceeding of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer or of any substantial part of its property, respectively, or the making by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of any action by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer in furtherance of any such action.
Upon a Responsible Officer’s obtaining knowledge of the occurrence of an Event of Default, each of (i) the Co-Issuers, (ii) the Trustee (iii) the Collateral Agent, and (iv) the Collateral Manager shall notify each other. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default known to a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent shall promptly (and in no event later than three Business Days thereafter) notify the Holders (as their names appear on the Note Register, the Loan Register or the Share Register, as applicable), each Paying Agent and each of the Rating Agencies of such Event of Default in writing (unless such Event of Default has been waived as provided in Section 5.14).
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. (a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(f) or (g)), the Collateral Agent may, and shall, upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, by notice to the Co-Issuers and each Rating Agency, declare the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Secured Debt to be immediately due and payable, and upon any such declaration such principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, and other amounts payable hereunder, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(f) or (g) occurs, all unpaid principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, of all the Secured Debt, and other amounts payable thereunder and hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Collateral Agent or any Holder.
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(b) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration of maturity has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the Money due has been obtained by the Collateral Agent as hereinafter provided in this Article V, a Majority of the Controlling Class, by written notice to the Issuer, the Collateral Agent and each Rating Agency, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) The Issuer or the Co-Issuer has paid or deposited with the Collateral Agent a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all unpaid installments of interest and principal then due on the Secured Debt (other than any principal amounts due to the occurrence of an acceleration);
(B) to the extent that the payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon any Deferred Interest at the applicable Interest Rate; and
(C) all unpaid taxes and Administrative Expenses of the Co-Issuers and other sums paid or advanced by the Collateral Agent hereunder, by the Loan Agent under the Credit Agreement or by the Collateral Administrator under the Collateral Administration Agreement or hereunder, accrued and unpaid Aggregate Collateral Management Fees then due and owing (excluding any Waived Collateral Management Fee) and any other amounts then payable by the Co-Issuers hereunder prior to such Administrative Expenses and such Aggregate Collateral Management Fees; or
(ii) It has been determined that all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the interest on or principal of the Secured Debt that has become due solely by such acceleration, have:
(A) been cured; and
(I) in the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(e), the Holders of at least a Majority of the Class A-1 Debt, by written notice to the Collateral Agent, have agreed with such determination (which agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld); or
(II) in the case of any other Event of Default, the Holders of at least a Majority of each Class of Secured Debt (voting separately by Class), in each case, by written notice to the Collateral Agent, have agreed with such determination (which agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld); or
(B) been waived as provided in Section 5.14.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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(c) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.2 to the contrary, the Secured Debt will not be subject to acceleration by the Collateral Agent solely as a result of the failure to pay any amount due on a Class of Secured Debt other than the Controlling Class other than any failure to pay interest due on the Class B Notes.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Collateral Agent. The Co-Issuers covenant that if a default shall occur in respect of the payment of any principal of or interest when due and payable on any Secured Debt, the Co-Issuers will, upon demand of the Collateral Agent, pay to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Holder of such Secured Debt, the whole amount, if any, then due and payable on such Secured Debt for principal and interest with interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payments of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the applicable Interest Rate, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Collateral Agent and its agents, experts and counsel.
If the Issuer or the Co-Issuer fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Collateral Agent, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)) upon direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, institute a Proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such Proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Co-Issuers or any other obligor upon the Secured Debt and collect the Monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the Assets.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Collateral Agent may in its discretion, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Sections 6.1(c)(iv) and 6.3(e)) upon written direction of the Majority of the Controlling Class, proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Secured Parties by such appropriate Proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual (if no such direction is received by the Collateral Agent) or as the Collateral Agent may be directed by the Majority of the Controlling Class, to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement herein or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy or legal or equitable right vested in the Collateral Agent by this Indenture or by law.
In case there shall be pending Proceedings relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Secured Debt under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, their respective property or such other obligor or their property, or in case of any other comparable Proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or other obligor upon the Secured Debt, or the creditors or property of the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or such other obligor, the Collateral Agent, regardless of whether the principal of the Secured Debt shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and regardless of whether the Collateral Agent shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.3, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such Proceedings or otherwise:
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(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Secured Debt upon direction by a Majority of the Controlling Class and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Collateral Agent (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Collateral Agent and each predecessor Collateral Agent, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Collateral Agent and each predecessor Collateral Agent, except as a result of negligence or bad faith) and of the Holders allowed in any Proceedings relative to the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or to the creditors or property of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer;
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the Holders upon the direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency Proceedings or Person performing similar functions in comparable Proceedings; and
(c) to collect and receive any Monies or other property payable to or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received with respect to the claims of the Noteholders, the Class A-1 Lenders and of the Collateral Agent on their behalf; and any trustee, receiver or liquidator, custodian or other similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Noteholders and the Class A-1 Lenders to make payments to the Collateral Agent, and, if the Collateral Agent shall consent to the making of payments directly to the Noteholders (or, in the case of Class A-1 Loans, to the Loan Agent) to pay to the Collateral Agent such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Collateral Agent, each predecessor Collateral Agent and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other reasonable expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Collateral Agent and each predecessor Collateral Agent except as a result of negligence or bad faith.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Collateral Agent to authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holders of Secured Debt, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Secured Debt or any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Collateral Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any such Holders, as applicable, in any such Proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar Person.
In any Proceedings brought by the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Holders of the Secured Debt (and any such Proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Collateral Agent shall be a party), the Collateral Agent shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Secured Debt.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.3 to the contrary, the Collateral Agent may not sell or liquidate the Assets or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.3 except according to the provisions specified in Section 5.5(a).
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Section 5.4 Remedies. (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and the Secured Debt has been declared due and payable and such declaration and its consequences have not been rescinded and annulled, the Co-Issuers agree that the Trustee may, and shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)), upon written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class, to the extent permitted by applicable law, exercise one or more of the following rights, privileges and remedies:
(i) institute Proceedings for the collection of all amounts then payable on the Secured Debt or otherwise payable under this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, whether by declaration or otherwise, enforce any judgment obtained, and collect from the Assets any Monies adjudged due;
(ii) sell or cause the sale of all or a portion of the Assets or rights or interests therein, at one or more public or private sales called and conducted in any manner permitted by law and in accordance with Section 5.17 hereof;
(iii) institute Proceedings from time to time for the complete or partial foreclosure of this Indenture and/or the Credit Agreement with respect to the Assets;
(iv) exercise any remedies of a secured party under the UCC and take any other appropriate action to protect and enforce the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Holders of Secured Debt hereunder (including exercising all rights of the Trustee under the Securities Account Control Agreement); and
(v) exercise any other rights and remedies that may be available at law or in equity;
provided that the Collateral Agent may not sell or liquidate the Assets or institute Proceedings in furtherance thereof pursuant to this Section 5.4 except according to the provisions of Section 5.5(a).
The Collateral Agent may, but need not, obtain and rely upon an opinion of an Independent investment banking firm of national reputation (the reasonable cost of which shall be payable as an Administrative Expense) in structuring and distributing securities similar to the Notes, which may be the Placement Agent, as to the feasibility of any action proposed to be taken in accordance with this Section 5.4 and as to the sufficiency of the proceeds and other amounts receivable with respect to the Assets to make the required payments of principal of and interest on the Secured Debt, which opinion shall be conclusive evidence as to such feasibility or sufficiency.
(b) If an Event of Default as described in Section 5.1(d) hereof shall have occurred and be continuing the Collateral Agent may, and at the direction of the Holders of not less than 25% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class shall, subject to the terms of this Indenture (including Section 6.3(e)), institute a Proceeding solely to compel performance of the covenant or agreement or to cure the representation or warranty, the breach of which gave rise to the Event of Default under such Section, and enforce any equitable decree or order arising from such Proceeding.
(c) Upon any sale, whether made under the power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, any Secured Party or any Affiliate of the Issuer may bid for and purchase the Assets or any part thereof and, upon compliance with the terms of sale, may hold, retain, possess or dispose of such property in its or their own absolute right without accountability.
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Upon any sale, whether made under the power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, the receipt of the Collateral Agent, or of the Officer making a sale under judicial Proceedings, shall be a sufficient discharge to the purchaser or purchasers at any sale for its or their purchase Money, and such purchaser or purchasers shall not be obliged to see to the application thereof.
Any such sale, whether under any power of sale hereby given or by virtue of judicial Proceedings, shall bind the Co-Issuers, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the Holders of the Notes, shall operate to divest all right, title and interest whatsoever, either at law or in equity, of each of them in and to the property sold, and shall be a perpetual bar, both at law and in equity, against each of them and their successors and assigns, and against any and all Persons claiming through or under them.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, none of the Trustee, the Secured Parties or the Holders may, prior to the date which is one year and one day (or if longer, any applicable preference period plus one day) after the payment in full of all the Secured Debt, institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Equity Holder Subsidiary any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium or liquidation Proceedings, or other similar Proceedings under Cayman Islands, United States federal or state bankruptcy or similar laws. Nothing in this Section 5.4 shall preclude, or be deemed to stop, the Collateral Agent (i) from taking any action prior to the expiration of the aforementioned period in (A) any case or Proceeding voluntarily filed or commenced by the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Equity Holder Subsidiary or (B) any involuntary insolvency Proceeding filed or commenced by a Person other than the Collateral Agent, or (ii) from commencing against the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Equity Holder Subsidiary or any of its properties any legal action which is not a bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium, liquidation or similar Proceeding.
Section 5.5 Optional Preservation of Assets. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein (but subject to the right of the Collateral Manager to direct the Collateral Agent to sell Collateral Obligations or Equity Securities in compliance with Section 12.1), if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Collateral Agent shall retain the Assets securing the Secured Debt intact, collect and cause the collection of the proceeds thereof and make and apply all payments at the date or dates fixed by the Collateral Agent and deposit and maintain all accounts in respect of the Assets and the Secured Debt in accordance with the Priority of Payments and the provisions of Article X, Article XII and Article XIII unless:
(i) the Collateral Agent, pursuant to Section 5.5(c) and in consultation with the Collateral Manager, determines that the anticipated proceeds of a sale or liquidation of all or any portion of the Assets (after deducting the reasonable expenses of such sale or liquidation) would be sufficient to discharge in full the amounts then due (or, in the case of interest, accrued) and unpaid on the Secured Debt for principal and interest (including accrued and unpaid Deferred Interest), and all other amounts that, pursuant to the Priority of Payments, are required to be paid prior to such payments on such Secured Debt (including amounts due and owing as Administrative Expenses (without regard to the Administrative Expense Cap) and due and unpaid Aggregate Collateral Management Fees (excluding any Waived Collateral Management Fee)) and a Majority of the Controlling Class agrees with such determination;
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(ii) in the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(e), the Holders of at least a Majority of the Class A-1 Debt direct the sale and liquidation of the Assets (without regard to whether another Event of Default has occurred prior, contemporaneously or subsequent to such Event of Default); or
(iii) in the case of any Event of Default, the Holders of at least a Majority of each Class of Secured Debt (voting separately by Class) direct the sale and liquidation of the Assets.
So long as such Event of Default is continuing, any such retention pursuant to this Section 5.5(a) may be rescinded at any time when the conditions specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) exist.
(b) Nothing contained in Section 5.5(a) shall be construed to require the Collateral Agent to sell the Assets securing the Secured Debt if the conditions set forth in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of Section 5.5(a) are not satisfied. Nothing contained in Section 5.5(a) shall be construed to require the Collateral Agent to preserve the Assets securing the Secured Debt if prohibited by applicable law. The Collateral Agent shall provide written notice to S&P if it commences the sale of the Assets pursuant to this Section 5.5.
(c) In determining whether the condition specified in Section 5.5(a)(i) exists, the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to obtain, with the cooperation of the Collateral Manager, bid prices with respect to each Asset from two nationally recognized dealers (as specified by the Collateral Manager to the Trustee in writing) at the time making a market in such Assets and shall compute the anticipated proceeds of sale or liquidation on the basis of the lower of such bid prices for each such Asset. In the event that the Collateral Agent, with the cooperation of the Collateral Manager, is only able to obtain bid prices with respect to each Asset from one nationally recognized dealer at the time making a market in such Assets, the Collateral Agent shall compute the anticipated proceeds of the sale or liquidation on the basis of such one bid price for each such Asset. If the Collateral Agent is unable to obtain any bids, the condition in Section 5.5(a)(i) shall be deemed to not exist. In addition, for the purposes of determining issues relating to the execution of a sale or liquidation of the Assets and the execution of a sale or other liquidation thereof in connection with a determination whether the condition specified in Section 5.5(a)(i) exists, the Collateral Agent may retain and rely on an opinion of an Independent investment banking firm of national reputation (the cost of which shall be payable as an Administrative Expense).
The Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Noteholders, the Class A-1 Lenders and the Collateral Manager a report stating the results of any determination required pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(i) no later than 10 days after such determination is made. The Collateral Agent shall make the determinations required by Section 5.5(a)(i) within 30 days after an Event of Default and at the request of a Majority of the Controlling Class at any time during which the Collateral Agent retains the Assets pursuant to Section 5.5(a)(i).
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Section 5.6 Trustee and Collateral Agent May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or under any of Secured Debt may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any trial or other Proceeding relating thereto, and any such action or Proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be applied as set forth in Section 5.7 hereof.
Section 5.7 Application of Money Collected. Any Money collected by the Collateral Agent with respect to the Secured Debt pursuant to this Article V and any Money that may then be held or thereafter received by the Collateral Agent with respect to the Secured Debt hereunder shall be applied, subject to Section 13.1 and in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.1(a)(iii), at the date or dates fixed by the Collateral Agent. Upon the final distribution of all proceeds of any liquidation effected hereunder, the provisions of Section 4.1(a) and Section 4.1(b) shall be deemed satisfied for the purposes of discharging this Indenture pursuant to Article IV.
Section 5.8 Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Secured Debt shall have any right to institute any Proceedings, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder has previously given to the Collateral Agent written notice of an Event of Default;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% of the then Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Secured Debt of the Controlling Class shall have made written request to the Collateral Agent to institute Proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as the Collateral Agent hereunder and such Holder or Holders have provided the Collateral Agent indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities which might reasonably be incurred by it in compliance with such request;
(c) the Collateral Agent, for 30 days after its receipt of such notice, request and provision of such indemnity, has failed to institute any such Proceeding; and
(d) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Collateral Agent during such 30-day period by a Majority of the Controlling Class; it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Secured Debt shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Secured Debt of the same Class or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders of the Secured Debt of the same Class or to enforce any right under this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders of Secured Debt of the same Class subject to and in accordance with Section 13.1 and the Priority of Payments.
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In the event the Collateral Agent shall receive conflicting or inconsistent requests and indemnity pursuant to this Section 5.8 from two or more groups of Holders of the Controlling Class, each representing less than a Majority of the Controlling Class, the Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with the request specified by the group of Holders with the greatest percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement. If all such groups represent the same percentage, the Collateral Agent, in its sole discretion, may determine what action, if any, shall be taken.
The Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as applicable, shall, so long as any Secured Debt remaining Outstanding and for a year and a day thereafter, and subject to the proviso below, timely file an answer and any other appropriate pleading objecting to (i) the institution of any proceeding to have the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as the case may be, adjudicated as bankrupt or insolvent, or (ii) the filing of any petition seeking relief, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, liquidation, winding up or composition of or in respect of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer, as the case may be, under any bankruptcy law or any other applicable law; provided that the obligations set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above shall be subject to the availability of funds therefor under the Priority of Payments. The reasonable fees, costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Issuer or Co-Issuer (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) in connection with taking any such action shall be paid as Administrative Expenses.
Section 5.9 Unconditional Rights of Holders of Secured Debt to Receive Principal and Interest. Subject to Section 2.7(i), but notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, any Holder of Secured Debt shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest on such Secured Debt, as such principal, interest and other amounts become due and payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments and Section 13.1, as the case may be, and, subject to the provisions of Section 5.8, to institute proceedings for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Holders of Secured Debt ranking junior to Secured Debt still Outstanding shall have no right to institute Proceedings or to request the Collateral Agent to institute proceedings for the enforcement of any such payment until such time as no Secured Debt ranking senior to such Secured Debt remains Outstanding, which right shall be subject to the provisions of Section 5.8, and shall not be impaired without the consent of any such Holder.
Section 5.10 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Collateral Agent or any Holder has instituted any Proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such Proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Collateral Agent or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Agent and the Holder shall, subject to any determination in such Proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Issuer, Collateral Agent and the Holder shall continue as though no such Proceeding had been instituted.
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Section 5.11 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Collateral Agent or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.12 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Collateral Agent or any Holder of Secured Debt to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein or of a subsequent Event of Default. Every right and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Collateral Agent or to the Holders of Secured Debt may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Collateral Agent or by the Holders of Secured Debt.
Section 5.13 Control by Majority of Controlling Class. A Majority of the Controlling Class shall have the right following the occurrence, and during the continuance of, an Event of Default to cause the institution of and direct the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Collateral Agent or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Collateral Agent under this Indenture; provided that:
(a) such direction shall not conflict with any rule of law or with any express provision of this Indenture;
(b) the Collateral Agent may take any other action deemed proper by the Collateral Agent that is not inconsistent with such direction; provided that subject to Section 6.1, the Collateral Agent need not take any action that it determines might involve it in liability or expense (unless the Collateral Agent has received the indemnity as set forth in (c) below);
(c) the Collateral Agent shall have been provided with an indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against all costs, expenses (including reasonable and documented attorney’s fees and expenses) and liabilities anticipated to be incurred by it in connection with such request; and
(d) notwithstanding the foregoing, any direction to the Collateral Agent to undertake a Sale of the Assets shall be by the Holders of Secured Debt representing the requisite percentage of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of Secured Debt specified in Section 5.4 and/or Section 5.5.
Section 5.14 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the time a judgment or decree for payment of the Money due has been obtained by the Collateral Agent, as provided in this Article V, a Majority of the Controlling Class may on behalf of the Holders of all Secured Debt waive any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default:
(a) in the payment of the principal of any Secured Debt (which may be waived only with the consent of the Holder of such Secured Debt);
(b) in the payment of interest on any Secured Debt (which may be waived only with the consent of the Holder of such Secured Debt);
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(c) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Section 8.2 cannot be modified or amended without the waiver or consent of each Holder of Outstanding Secured Debt materially and adversely affected thereby (which may be waived only with the consent of each such Holder); or
(d) in respect of a representation contained in Section 7.19 (which may be waived only by a Majority of the Controlling Class if the S&P Rating Condition is satisfied).
In the case of any such waiver, the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Agent and the Holders of Secured Debt shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereto. The Collateral Agent shall promptly give written notice of any such waiver to each Rating Agency, the Collateral Manager and each Holder. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture.
Section 5.15 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder by such Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Collateral Agent for any action taken, or omitted by it as Collateral Agent, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.15 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Collateral Agent, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Controlling Class, or to any suit instituted by any Noteholder or Class A-1 Lender for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Secured Debt on or after the applicable Stated Maturity (or, in the case of redemption which has resulted in an Event of Default, on or after the applicable Redemption Date).
Section 5.16 Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. Each of the Co-Issuers covenant (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any valuation, appraisement, redemption or marshalling law or rights, in each case wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants set forth in, the performance of, or any remedies under this Indenture; and each of the Co-Issuers (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law or rights, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Collateral Agent, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted or rights created.
Section 5.17 Sale of Assets. (a) The power to effect any sale (a “Sale”) of any portion of the Assets pursuant to Sections 5.4 and 5.5 shall not be exhausted by any one or more Sales as to any portion of such Assets remaining unsold, but shall continue unimpaired until the entire Assets shall have been sold or all amounts secured by the Assets shall have been paid. The Collateral Agent may upon notice to the Holders, and shall, upon direction of a Majority of the
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Controlling Class, from time to time postpone any Sale by public announcement made at the time and place of such Sale. The Collateral Agent hereby expressly waives its rights to any amount fixed by law as compensation for any Sale; provided that the Collateral Agent shall be authorized to deduct the reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable costs and expenses of counsel) incurred by it in connection with such Sale from the proceeds thereof notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.7 or other applicable terms hereof.
(b) The Collateral Agent may bid for and acquire any portion of the Assets in connection with a public Sale thereof, and may pay all or part of the purchase price by crediting against amounts owing on the Secured Debt in the case of the Assets or other amounts secured by the Assets, all or part of the net proceeds of such Sale after deducting the reasonable costs, charges and expenses (including, but not limited to, reasonable costs and expenses of counsel) incurred by the Trustee in connection with such Sale notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6.7 hereof or other applicable terms hereof. The Notes need not be produced in order to complete any such Sale, or in order for the net proceeds of such Sale to be credited against amounts owing on the Secured Debt. The Collateral Agent may hold, lease, operate, manage or otherwise deal with any property so acquired in any manner permitted by law in accordance with this Indenture.
(c) If any portion of the Assets consists of securities issued without registration under the Securities Act (“Unregistered Securities”), the Collateral Agent may seek an Opinion of Counsel, or, if no such Opinion of Counsel can be obtained and with the consent of a Majority of the Controlling Class, seek a no action position from the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other relevant federal or State regulatory authorities, regarding the legality of a public or private Sale of such Unregistered Securities.
(d) The Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate instrument of conveyance transferring its interest in any portion of the Assets in connection with a Sale thereof, without recourse, representation or warranty. In addition, the Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably appointed the agent and attorney in fact of the Issuer to transfer and convey its interest in any portion of the Assets in connection with a Sale thereof, and to take all action necessary to effect such Sale. No purchaser or transferee at such a sale shall be bound to ascertain the Collateral Agent’s authority, to inquire into the satisfaction of any conditions precedent or see to the application of any Monies.
Section 5.18 Action on the Notes. The Collateral Agent’s right to seek and recover judgment on the Secured Debt or under this Indenture or the Credit Agreement shall not be affected by the seeking or obtaining of or application for any other relief under or with respect to this Indenture or the Credit Agreement. Neither the lien of this Indenture nor any rights or remedies of the Collateral Agent or the Holders shall be impaired by the recovery of any judgment by the Collateral Agent against the Issuer or by the levy of any execution under such judgment upon any portion of the Assets or upon any of the assets of the Co-Issuers.
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ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT
Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default known to the Trustee:
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth herein, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; provided that in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they substantially conform on their face to the requirements of this Indenture and shall promptly, but in any event within three Business Days in the case of an Officer’s certificate furnished by the Collateral Manager, notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not conform. If a corrected form shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 15 days after such notice from the Trustee, the Trustee shall so notify the Noteholders and the Loan Agent.
(b) In case an Event of Default known to the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from a Majority of the Controlling Class, or such other percentage as permitted by this Indenture, exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such Person’s own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture or any other Transaction Documents shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section 6.1;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it shall be proven that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Co-Issuers or the Collateral Manager in accordance with this Indenture and/or a Majority (or such other percentage as may be required by the terms hereof) of the Controlling Class (or other Class if required or permitted by the terms hereof), relating to the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;
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(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial or other liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers contemplated hereunder, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it unless such risk or liability relates to the performance of its ordinary services, including mailing of notices under this Indenture; and
(v) in no event shall the Trustee be liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage (including but not limited to lost profits) even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such damages and regardless of such action.
(d) For all purposes under this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default described in Sections 5.1(c), (d), (e), or (f) unless a Trust Officer assigned to and working in the Corporate Trust Office has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such an Event of Default or Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office, and such notice references the Notes generally, the Co-Issuers or this Indenture. For purposes of determining the Trustee’s responsibility and liability hereunder, whenever reference is made herein to such an Event of Default or a Default, such reference shall be construed to refer only to such an Event of Default or Default of which the Trustee is deemed to have notice as described in this Section 6.1.
(e) Upon the Trustee receiving written notice from the Collateral Manager that an event constituting “Cause” as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement has occurred, the Trustee shall, not later than two Business Days thereafter, forward such notice to the Noteholders (as their names appear in the Note Register) and to the Loan Agent (for delivery to the Class A-1 Lenders).
(f) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.1 or Section 6.3.
(g) [Reserved].
(h) In order to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act, including Section 326 thereof, the Trustee is required to obtain, verify, record and update certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Trustee. Accordingly, the Co-Issuers and each of the parties to the other Transaction Documents agree to provide to the Trustee upon its request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available for such party in order to enable the Trustee to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act.
Section 6.2 Notice of Event of Default. Promptly (and in no event later than three Business Days) after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Trust Officer of the Trustee or after any declaration of acceleration has been made or delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.2, the Trustee shall provide notice to the Collateral Manager, each Rating Agency, each Noteholder (as their respective names and addresses appear on the Note Register) and to the Loan Agent (for delivery to the Class A-1 Lenders), notice of all Event of Defaults hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
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Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request or Issuer Order, as the case may be;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall (i) deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s certificate or Issuer Order or (ii) be required to determine the value of any Assets or funds hereunder or the cash flows projected to be received therefrom, the Trustee may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely on reports of nationally recognized accountants, investment bankers or other Persons qualified to provide the information required to make such determination, including nationally recognized dealers in Assets of the type being valued, securities quotation services, loan pricing services and loan valuation agents;
(d) as a condition to the taking or omitting of any action by it hereunder, the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise or to honor any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have provided to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities which might reasonably be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report (including any Accountants’ Certificate), notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may, and upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class or of a Rating Agency shall (subject to the right hereunder to be reasonably satisfactorily indemnified for associated expense (including the reasonable fees and expenses of agents, experts and counsel) and liability), make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit or as it shall be directed, and the Trustee shall be entitled, on reasonable prior notice to the Co-Issuers and the Collateral Manager, to examine the books and records relating to the Notes and the Assets, personally or by agent or attorney, during the
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Co-Issuers’ or the Collateral Manager’s normal business hours; provided that the Trustee shall, and shall cause its agents to, hold in confidence all such information, except (i) to the extent disclosure may be required by law by any regulatory, administrative or Governmental Authority, (ii) as otherwise required pursuant to this Indenture and (iii) to the extent that the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder; provided further that, the Trustee may disclose on a confidential basis any such information to its agents, attorneys and auditors in connection with the performance of its responsibilities hereunder;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys; provided that the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed, with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers hereunder, including actions or omissions to act at the direction of the Collateral Manager;
(i) nothing herein shall be construed to impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee to monitor, recalculate, evaluate or verify or independently determine the accuracy of any report, certificate or information received from the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Transferor or any other Person (unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth herein);
(j) to the extent any defined term hereunder, or any calculation required to be made or determined by the Trustee hereunder, is dependent upon or defined by reference to generally accepted accounting principles (as in effect in the United States) (“GAAP”), the Trustee shall be entitled to request and receive (and conclusively rely upon) instruction from the Issuer or the accountants identified in the Accountants’ Certificate (and in the absence of its receipt of timely instruction therefrom, shall be entitled to obtain from an Independent accountant at the expense of the Issuer) as to the application of GAAP in such connection, in any instance;
(k) the Trustee shall not be liable for the actions or omissions of, or any inaccuracies in the records of, the Collateral Manager, the Transferor, the Co-Issuers, any Paying Agent (other than the Trustee), DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream, or any other clearing agency or depository and without limiting the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to monitor, evaluate or verify compliance by the Collateral Manager with the terms hereof, of the Collateral Management Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party, or by the Transferor with the terms hereof or the Master Loan Sale Agreement, or to verify or independently determine the accuracy of information received by the Trustee from the Collateral Manager (or from any selling institution, agent bank, trustee or similar source), the Transferor or any other Person with respect to the Assets;
(l) notwithstanding any term hereof (or any term of the UCC that might otherwise be construed to be applicable to a “securities intermediary” as defined in the UCC) to the contrary, none of the Trustee, the Custodian or the Securities Intermediary shall be under a duty or obligation in connection with the acquisition or Grant by the Issuer to the Collateral Agent of any item constituting the Assets, or to evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Issuer in connection with its Grant or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Underlying Document, in each case, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer in respect of such Assets;
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(m) in the event the Bank is acting in the capacity of Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Transfer Agent, Authenticating Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent, Collateral Agent, Loan Agent, Collateral Administrator or Securities Intermediary, the rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded to the Bank acting in such capacities; provided that such rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities shall be in addition to any rights, immunities and indemnities provided in the Securities Account Control Agreement, the Collateral Administration Agreement or any other documents to which the Bank in such capacity is a party;
(n) any permissive right of the Trustee to take or refrain from taking actions enumerated herein shall not be construed as a duty;
(o) to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of this Indenture or otherwise;
(p) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any matter unless a Trust Officer has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice thereof is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office and such notice references the Notes generally, the Issuer or this Indenture. Whenever reference is made herein to a Default or an Event of Default such reference shall, insofar as determining any liability on the part of the Trustee is concerned, be construed to refer only to a Default or an Event of Default of which the Trustee is deemed to have knowledge in accordance with this paragraph;
(q) the Trustee shall not be responsible for delays or failures in performance resulting from circumstances beyond its control (such circumstances include but are not limited to acts of God, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications services);
(r) to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, the Trustee shall request, verify and record information that identifies individuals or entities that establish a relationship or open an account with the Trustee. The Trustee shall ask for the name, address, tax identification number and other information that will allow the Trustee to identify the individual or entity who is establishing the relationship or opening the account. The Trustee may also ask for formation documents such as organizational documents, an offering memorandum, or other identifying documents to be provided by the Issuer. Nothing herein shall be construed to impose any liability or obligation on the part of the Trustee to monitor AML Compliance by any person;
(s) neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Administrator shall have any obligation or duty to determine or otherwise monitor the Co-Issuers’, the Collateral Manager’s, the Depositor’s or the EU Retention Holder’s compliance with the U.S. Risk Retention Rules, the EU Securitization Laws, or the risk retention regulations of any other jurisdiction;
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(t) in making or disposing of any investment permitted by this Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to deal with itself (in its individual capacity) or with any one or more of its Affiliates, in each case on an arm’s-length basis, whether it or such Affiliate is acting as a subagent of the Trustee or for any third party or dealing as principal for its own account. If otherwise qualified, obligations of the Bank or any of its Affiliates shall qualify as Eligible Investments hereunder;
(u) the Trustee or its Affiliates are permitted to receive additional compensation that could be deemed to be in the Trustee’s economic self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser, administrator, shareholder, servicing agent, custodian or subcustodian with respect to certain of the Eligible Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect transactions in certain Eligible Investments and (iii) effecting transactions in certain Eligible Investments. Such compensation is not payable or reimbursable under Section 6.7 of this Indenture;
(v) the Trustee shall have no duty (i) to cause any recording, filing relating to the perfection of any security interest in the Assets, or depositing of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security interest, or to cause the maintenance of any such recording, filing or depositing or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any thereof or (ii) to maintain any insurance; and
(w) none of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or the Collateral Administrator shall have any obligation to determine (i) if a Collateral Obligation meets the criteria or eligibility restrictions imposed by this Indenture and shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the Collateral Manager’s classification, characterization, designation or categorization of each Collateral Obligation to the extent such classification, characterization or categorization is subjective or judgmental in nature or based on information not readily available to the Trustee or the Collateral Administrator; (ii) if the Collateral Manager has not provided it with the information necessary for making such determination, whether the conditions specified in the definition of “Deliver” have been complied with or (iii) the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Issuer in connection with the Grant by the Issuer to the Collateral Agent of any items constituting Assets or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Underlying Documents, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer of a Collateral Obligation.
Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Secured Debt. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, other than the Certificate of Authentication thereon, shall be taken as the statements of the Co-Issuers; and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture (except as may be made with respect to the validity of the Trustee’s obligations hereunder), the Assets or the Secured Debt. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Co-Issuers of the Secured Debt or the proceeds thereof or any Money paid to the Co-Issuers pursuant to the provisions hereof.
Section 6.5 May Hold Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Note Registrar or any other agent of the Co-Issuers, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and/or additional Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.13 and 3.2, if any, and may otherwise deal with the Co-Issuers or any of their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Note Registrar or such other agent.
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Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee hereunder shall be held in trust to the extent required herein. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any Money received by it hereunder except to the extent of income or other gain on investments which are deposits in or certificates of deposit of the Bank in its commercial capacity and income or other gain actually received by the Trustee on Eligible Investments.
Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement. (a) The Issuer agrees:
(i) to pay the Bank in each of its capacities under the Transaction Documents on each Payment Date reasonable compensation, as set forth in a separate fee schedule, for all services rendered by the Bank in each of its capacities hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Bank in each of its capacities under the Transaction Documents in a timely manner upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Bank in each of its capacities under the Transaction Documents in accordance with any provision of this Indenture or other Transaction Document (including, without limitation, securities transaction charges and the reasonable compensation and expenses and disbursements of its agents, experts and legal counsel and of any accounting firm or investment banking firm employed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.4, 5.5, 6.3(c) or 10.7, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) but with respect to securities transaction charges, only to the extent any such charges have not been waived during a Collection Period due to the Trustee’s receipt of a payment from a financial institution with respect to certain Eligible Investments, as specified by the Collateral Manager;
(iii) to indemnify the Bank in each of its capacities under the Transaction Documents (other than as Collateral Agent) and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable fees and expenses of their agent, experts and counsel) incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on their part, arising out of or in connection with acting or serving in each such capacity under the Transaction Documents, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves (including reasonable fees and expenses of agents, experts and attorneys) against any claim (whether such claim involves the Issuer or is brought by any third party) or liability in connection with the administration, exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder and under any other agreement or instrument related hereto and of enforcing this Indenture and any indemnification rights hereunder; and
(iv) to pay the Trustee reasonable additional compensation together with its expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) for any collection or enforcement action taken pursuant to Section 6.13 or Article V, respectively.
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(b) The Trustee shall receive amounts pursuant to this Section 6.7 and any other amounts payable to it under this Indenture or in any of the Transaction Documents to which the Trustee is a party only as provided in Sections 11.1(a)(i), (ii) and (iii) (or such other manner in which Administrative Expenses are permitted to be paid under this Indenture) but only to the extent that funds are available for the payment thereof. Subject to Section 6.9, the Trustee shall continue to serve as Trustee under this Indenture notwithstanding the fact that the Trustee shall not have received amounts due it hereunder; provided that nothing herein shall impair or affect the Trustee’s rights under Section 6.9. No direction by the Noteholders shall affect the right of the Trustee to collect amounts owed to it under this Indenture. If, on any date when a fee or an expense shall be payable to the Trustee pursuant to this Indenture, insufficient funds are available for the payment thereof, any portion of a fee or an expense not so paid shall be deferred and payable on such later date on which a fee or an expense shall be payable and sufficient funds are available therefor.
(c) The Trustee hereby agrees not to cause the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any Equity Holder Subsidiary for the non-payment to the Trustee of any amounts provided by this Section 6.7 until at least one year and one day, or, if longer, the applicable preference period then in effect plus one day, after the payment in full of all Secured Debt issued under this Indenture and incurred pursuant to the Credit Agreement.
(d) The Issuer’s obligations to the Trustee under this Section 6.7 shall be secured by the lien of this Indenture payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments, and shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(e) To the extent the entity acting as Trustee is acting as Note Registrar, Calculation Agent, Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent or Custodian, the rights, privileges, immunities and indemnities set forth in this Article VI shall also apply to it acting in each such capacity.
Section 6.8 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall (a) be an Independent organization or entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$200,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority, and having an office within the United States, and who makes the representations contained in Section 6.17 and (b) have a rating of at least “BBB+” by S&P and (to the extent that Fitch is rating any Secured Debt then Outstanding) a short-term credit rating of at least “F1” or a long-term credit rating of at least “A” by Fitch. If such organization or entity publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.8, the combined capital and surplus of such organization or entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent published report of condition. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.8, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI.
Section 6.9 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee under Section 6.10.
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(b) Subject to Section 6.9(a), the Trustee may resign at any time by giving not less than 30 days’ written notice thereof to the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Holders of Secured Debt and each Rating Agency. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Co-Issuers shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8 by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by a Responsible Officer of the Co-Issuers, one copy of which shall be delivered to the Trustee so resigning and one copy to the successor trustee or trustees, together with a copy to each Holder and the Collateral Manager; provided that such successor trustee shall be appointed only upon the Act of a Majority of each Class of Secured Debt or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class. If no successor trustee shall have been appointed and an instrument of acceptance by a successor trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee or any Holder, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.8.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time upon 30 days’ prior written notice by Act of a Majority of each Class of Secured Debt or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class, delivered to the Trustee and to the Co-Issuers.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Co-Issuers or by any Holder; or
(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case (subject to Section 6.9(a)), (A) the Co-Issuers, by Issuer Order, may remove the Trustee, or (B) subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee for any reason (other than resignation), the Co-Issuers, by Issuer Order, shall promptly appoint a successor trustee. If the Co-Issuers shall fail to appoint a successor trustee within 60 days after such removal or incapability or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor trustee may be appointed by a Majority of the Controlling Class by written instrument delivered to the Issuer and the retiring Trustee. The successor trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor trustee and supersede any successor trustee proposed by the Co-Issuers. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed by the Co-Issuers or a Majority of the Controlling Class and shall have accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee.
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(f) The Co-Issuers shall give prompt notice of each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor trustee by mailing written notice of such event by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Collateral Manager, the Collateral Agent, each Rating Agency, each Noteholder (as their names and addresses appear on the Note Register) and the Loan Agent (for delivery to the Class A-1 Lenders). Each notice shall include the name of the successor trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office. If the Co-Issuers fail to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the Co-Issuers.
(g) If the Bank shall resign or be removed as Trustee, the Bank shall also resign or be removed as Custodian and as Document Custodian under the Securities Account Control Agreement, Fiscal Agent under the Fiscal Agency Agreement, Paying Agent, Collateral Agent, Loan Agent, Calculation Agent, Note Registrar and any other capacity in which the Bank is then acting pursuant to this Indenture or any other Transaction Document.
Section 6.10 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. Every successor trustee appointed hereunder shall meet the requirements of Section 6.8, shall make the representations and warranties contained in Section 6.17, and shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent and the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment. In addition, so long as the retiring Trustee is the same institution as the Collateral Administrator, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by the Issuer, the successor and the retiring institutions, upon the appointment of the successor trustee, the Collateral Administrator shall immediately resign and such successor trustee shall automatically become the Collateral Administrator pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Collateral Administration Agreement and shall be required to agree to assume the duties of the Collateral Administrator under the terms and conditions of the Collateral Administration Agreement in its acceptance of appointment as successor trustee until such time, if any, as it is replaced as Collateral Administrator by the Issuer pursuant to the Collateral Administration Agreement. Upon delivery of the required instruments, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the Co-Issuers or a Majority of any Class of Secured Debt or the successor trustee or successor Collateral Administrator, as applicable, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor trustee all property and Money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Co-Issuers shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
Section 6.11 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Trustee. Any organization or entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any organization or entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any organization or entity succeeding to
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all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder; provided that such organization or entity shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any of the Notes have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.
Section 6.12 Co-Trustees. At any time or times, the Co-Issuers and the Trustee shall have power to appoint one or more Persons to act as co-trustee (subject to satisfaction of the S&P Rating Condition), jointly with the Trustee, of all or any part of the Assets, with the power to file such proofs of claim and take such other actions pursuant to Section 5.6 herein and to make such claims and enforce such rights of action on behalf of the Holders, as such Holders themselves may have the right to do, subject to the other provisions of this Section 6.12.
The Co-Issuers shall join with the Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint a co-trustee. If the Co-Issuers does not join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by them of a request to do so, the Trustee shall have the power to make such appointment.
Should any written instrument from the Co-Issuers be required by any co-trustee so appointed, more fully confirming to such co-trustee such property, title, right or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Co-Issuers. The Co-Issuers agree to pay, to the extent funds are available therefor under Section 11.1(a)(i)(A), for any reasonable fees and expenses in connection with such appointment.
Every co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms:
(a) the Notes shall be authenticated and delivered and all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, Cash and other personal property held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Trustee hereunder, shall be exercised solely by the Trustee;
(b) the rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Trustee in respect of any property covered by the appointment of a co-trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee or by the Trustee and such co-trustee jointly as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee;
(c) the Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the concurrence of the Co-Issuers evidenced by an Issuer Order, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee appointed under this Section 6.12, and in case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall have the power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee without the concurrence of the Co-Issuers. A successor to any co-trustee so resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section 6.12;
(d) no co-trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Trustee hereunder;
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(e) the Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act or omission of a co-trustee; and
(f) any Act of the Holders delivered to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been delivered to each co-trustee.
The Issuer shall notify each Rating Agency of the appointment of a co-trustee hereunder.
Section 6.13 Certain Duties of Trustee Related to Delayed Payment of Proceeds and the Assets. If the Trustee shall not have received a payment with respect to any Asset on its Due Date, (a) the Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer and the Collateral Manager in writing or electronically and (b) unless within three Business Days (or the end of the applicable grace period for such payment, if any) after such notice (x) such payment shall have been received by the Trustee or (y) the Issuer, in its absolute discretion (but only to the extent permitted by Section 10.2(a)), shall have made provision for such payment satisfactory to the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.2(a), the Trustee shall, not later than the Business Day immediately following the last day of such period and in any case upon request by the Collateral Manager, request the issuer of such Asset, the trustee under the related Underlying Document or a paying agent designated by either of them, as the case may be, to make such payment not later than three Business Days after the date of such request. If such payment is not made within such time period, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of clause (iv) of Section 6.1(c), shall take such action as the Collateral Manager shall direct. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture. If the Issuer or the Collateral Manager requests a release of an Asset and/or delivers an additional Collateral Obligation or a Substitute Collateral Obligation in connection with any such action under the Collateral Management Agreement or under this Indenture, such release and/or substitution shall be subject to Section 10.8 and Article XII of this Indenture, as the case may be. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Trustee shall deliver to the Issuer or its designee any payment with respect to any Asset or any additional Collateral Obligation or Substitute Collateral Obligation received after the Due Date thereof to the extent the Issuer previously made provisions for such payment satisfactory to the Trustee in accordance with this Section 6.13 and such payment shall not be deemed part of the Assets.
Reasonably promptly after receipt thereof, the Trustee will notify and provide to the Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer a copy of any documents, financial reports, legal opinions or any other information reasonably available to it without undue cost or burden, including, without limitation, any notices, reports, requests for waiver, consent requests or any other requests or communications relating to the Assets or any Obligor or to actions affecting the Assets or any Obligor. Upon reasonable request by the Collateral Administrator or the Collateral Manager, the Trustee further agrees to provide to the requesting Person from time to time, on a timely basis, any information in its possession and reasonably available to it relating to the Collateral Obligations, the Equity Securities and the Eligible Investments as requested so as to enable the requesting Person to perform its duties hereunder, under the Collateral Administration Agreement or under the Collateral Management Agreement, as applicable.
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Section 6.14 Authenticating Agents. Upon the request of the Co-Issuers, the Trustee shall, and if the Trustee so chooses the Trustee may, appoint one or more Authenticating Agents, which shall initially be the Bank, with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication of Notes in connection with issuance, transfers and exchanges under Sections 2.4, 2.5, 2.6 and 8.5, as fully to all intents and purposes as though each such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized by such Sections to authenticate such Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication of Notes by an Authenticating Agent pursuant to this Section 6.14 shall be deemed to be the authentication of Notes by the Trustee.
Any Person into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, without the execution or filing of any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent or such successor Person.
Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and the Issuer. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and the Co-Issuers. Upon receiving such notice of resignation or upon such a termination, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Issuer, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent and shall give written notice of such appointment to the Co-Issuers.
Unless the Authenticating Agent is also the same entity as the Trustee, the Issuer agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services, and reimbursement for its reasonable expenses relating thereto as an Administrative Expense. The provisions of Sections 2.8, 6.4 and 6.5 shall be applicable to any Authenticating Agent.
Section 6.15 Withholding. If any withholding or deduction of Tax is imposed on the Issuer’s payment (or allocations of income) under the Notes, such Tax withholding or deduction shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to the relevant Holder. The Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to any Holder sufficient funds for the payment of any Tax that is legally owed or required to be deducted or withheld by the Issuer (but such authorization shall not prevent the Trustee from contesting any such Tax in appropriate proceedings and withholding payment of such Tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings) or may be withheld because of a failure by a Holder to provide any information required under FATCA or Sections 1441, 1445 and 1446 of the Code or any other provisions of any applicable law and to timely remit such amounts to the appropriate taxing authority. The amount of any withholding Tax imposed with respect to any Note shall be treated as Cash distributed to the relevant Holder at the time it is withheld by the Trustee. If there is a possibility that withholding Tax is payable with respect to a distribution, the Trustee or the Paying Agent may, in its sole discretion, withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 6.15. If any Holder or beneficial owner wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Trustee shall reasonably cooperate with such Person in providing readily available information so long as such Person agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred. Nothing herein shall impose an obligation on the part of the Trustee to determine the amount of any tax or withholding obligation on the part of the Issuer or in respect of the Notes.
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Section 6.16 Representative for Noteholders Only; Agent for each other Secured Party. With respect to the security interest created hereunder, the delivery of any item of Asset to the Trustee is to the Trustee as representative of the Noteholders and agent for each other Secured Party. In furtherance of the foregoing, the possession by the Trustee of any Asset, and the endorsement to or registration in the name of the Trustee of any Asset (including without limitation as entitlement holder of the Custodial Account) are all undertaken by the Trustee in its capacity as representative of the Noteholders, and agent for each other Secured Party.
Section 6.17 Representations and Warranties of the Bank. The Bank (and any Person that becomes a successor trustee pursuant to Sections 6.9, 6.10, or 6.11 or a co-trustee pursuant to Section 6.12, or a successor Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Transfer Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent or Securities Intermediary pursuant to Sections 2.5, 3.3, 7.2, or 7.16, as applicable) represents and warrants as follows:
(a) Organization. The Bank has been duly organized and is validly existing as a national banking association with trust powers under the laws of the United States and has the power to conduct its business and affairs as a trustee, paying agent, registrar, transfer agent, custodian, calculation agent, collateral administrator and securities intermediary, as applicable.
(b) Authorization; Binding Obligations. The Bank has the corporate power and authority to perform the duties and obligations of Trustee, Paying Agent, Collateral Agent, Loan Agent, Note Registrar, Transfer Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent and Securities Intermediary, as applicable, under this Indenture. The Bank has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture and the Credit Agreement, and all of the documents required to be executed by it pursuant hereto. This Indenture and the Credit Agreement have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Bank and the Co-Issuers and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of each such Person enforceable in accordance with its terms subject, as to enforcement, (i) to the effect of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, liquidation or similar laws affecting generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights as such laws would apply in the event of any bankruptcy, receivership, insolvency or similar event applicable to such Person and (ii) to general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding at law or in equity) and except that certain of such obligations may be enforceable solely against the Assets.
(c) Eligibility. The Bank is eligible under Section 6.8 to serve as Trustee hereunder.
(d) No Conflict. Neither the execution, delivery and performance of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement, nor the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture and the Credit Agreement, (i) is prohibited by, or requires the Bank to obtain any consent, authorization, approval or registration under, any law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ, injunction or decree that is binding upon the Bank or any of its properties or assets, or (ii) will violate any provision of, result in any default or acceleration of any obligations under, result in the creation or imposition of any lien pursuant to, or require any consent under, any material agreement to which the Bank is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
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Section 6.18 Certain Duties and Responsibilities of Collateral Agent.
(a) The Collateral Agent undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and the Credit Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Collateral Agent and, in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Collateral Agent may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Collateral Agent from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this Section 6.18;
(ii) the Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it shall be proven that the Collateral Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Collateral Agent shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Co-Issuers or the Collateral Manager in accordance with this Indenture and/or a Majority (or such other percentage or Class as may be required by the terms hereof) of the Controlling Class (or other Class if required or permitted by the terms hereof), relating to the time, method and place of conducting any Proceeding for any remedy available to the Collateral Agent, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Collateral Agent, under this Indenture;
(iv) no provision of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement shall require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or under the Credit Agreement, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers contemplated hereunder or under the Credit Agreement, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it unless such risk or liability relates to the performance of its ordinary services, including mailing of notices under this Indenture; and
(v) in no event shall the Collateral Agent be liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage (including lost profits) even if the Collateral Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such damages and regardless of such action.
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(c) For all purposes under this Indenture and the Credit Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any Default or Event of Default described in Sections 5.1(c), (d), (e) or (f) unless a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent assigned to and working in the Corporate Trust Office has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such an Event of Default or Default is received by the Collateral Agent at the Corporate Trust Office, and such notice references the Secured Debt generally, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or this Indenture. For purposes of determining the Collateral Agent’s responsibility and liability hereunder, whenever reference is made in this Indenture to such an Event of Default or a Default, such reference shall be construed to refer only to such an Event of Default or Default of which the Collateral Agent is deemed to have notice as described in this Section 6.18.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture and the Credit Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Collateral Agent shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 6.18.
(e) In addition to its other obligations set forth herein, the Collateral Agent shall provide any information actually in its possession and readily available to it by reason of acting as Collateral Agent hereunder to the Collateral Manager related to the Assets or the Secured Debt, promptly after the Collateral Manager’s reasonable request therefor; provided that, the Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to provide any information that it may be restricted from doing so by legal, regulatory or contractual reasons, or attorney-client privilege, or that may only be available to the Collateral Agent at undue burden or expense. The Collateral Agent shall have no liability for such disclosure or, subject to its duties herein, the accuracy thereof.
(f) The Collateral Agent shall, upon reasonable (but no less than three Business Days’) prior written notice to the Collateral Agent, permit any representative of a Holder, during the Collateral Agent’s normal business hours, to examine all books of account, records, reports and other papers of the Collateral Agent (other than items protected by attorney-client privilege or information contained in documents received from Independent accountants subject to restrictions on disclosure pursuant to an engagement letter entered into in accordance with Section 10.8) relating to the Secured Debt, to make copies and extracts therefrom (the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in making any such copies or extracts to be reimbursed to the Collateral Agent by such Holder) and to discuss the Collateral Agent’s actions, as such actions relate to the Collateral Agent’s duties with respect to the Secured Debt, with the Collateral Agent’s Officers and employees responsible for carrying out the Collateral Agent’s duties with respect to the Secured Debt. The Collateral Agent shall have no liability for such disclosure or, subject to its duties herein, the accuracy thereof.
(g) The Collateral Agent shall, upon reasonable request, provide the Issuer (and any applicable intermediary or agent thereof) with (a) the identity of any Holder listed in the Note Register or the Loan Register and (b) any available information as may be necessary or helpful (in the sole determination of the Issuer or its agents) to assist the Issuer to achieve FATCA Compliance that the Collateral Agent has received from or on behalf of any beneficial owner; provided that, the Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to provide any information that it may be restricted from doing so by legal, regulatory or contractual reasons, or attorney-client privilege.
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(h) The Collateral Agent is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Credit Agreement.
(i) The Collateral Agent shall have no duty to monitor or verify whether any Holder (or beneficial owner) is a Section 13 Banking Entity.
Section 6.19 Notice of Event of Default by the Collateral Agent. Promptly (and in no event later than three Business Days) after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent or after any declaration of acceleration has been made or delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 5.2, the Collateral Agent shall give notice to the Co-Issuers, the Trustee, the Collateral Manager, DTC, each Rating Agency, each Paying Agent and each Holder, as their names and addresses appear on the Note Register, the Loan Register or the Share Register, as applicable, of all Events of Defaults hereunder actually known to the Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived. Upon the Collateral Agent receiving written notice from the Collateral Manager that an event constituting “cause” as defined in the Collateral Management Agreement has occurred, the Collateral Agent shall, not later than two Business Days thereafter, forward such notice to each Holder (as their names appear in the Note Register, the Loan Register or the Share Register, as applicable).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (i) until so notified or until a Trust Officer of the Collateral Agent obtains actual knowledge that a Collateral Obligation has become a Defaulted Obligation, the Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have any notice or knowledge that a Collateral Obligation has become a Defaulted Obligation and (ii) the Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for determining or overseeing compliance with the definition of “Eligible Investments”.
Section 6.20 Certain Rights of Collateral Agent. Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.18:
(a) the Collateral Agent may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Issuer or the Co-Issuer mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Issuer Request or Issuer Order, as the case may be;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture or the Credit Agreement the Collateral Agent shall (i) deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Collateral Agent (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s certificate or Issuer Order, or (ii) be required to determine the value of any Assets or funds hereunder or the cash flows projected to be received therefrom, the Collateral Agent may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely on reports of nationally recognized accountants (which may or may not be the Independent accountants appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.9), investment bankers or other Persons qualified to provide the information required to make such determination, including nationally recognized dealers in securities of the type being valued, securities quotation services, loan pricing services and loan valuation agents;
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(d) as a condition to the taking or omitting of any action by it hereunder or under the Credit Agreement, the Collateral Agent may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Collateral Agent shall be under no obligation to exercise, enforce or to honor any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have provided to the Collateral Agent security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities which might reasonably be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Collateral Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report (including any Accountants’ Certificate), notice, request, direction, consent, order, note or other paper or document, but the Collateral Agent, in its discretion, may, and upon the written direction of a Majority of the Controlling Class or of a Rating Agency shall (subject to the right hereunder to be indemnified to its reasonable satisfaction for associated expense and liability), make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit or as it shall be directed, and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled, on reasonable prior notice to the Co-Issuers and the Collateral Manager, to examine the books and records relating to the Secured Debt and the Assets, personally or by agent or attorney, during the Co-Issuers’ or the Collateral Manager’s normal business hours; provided that, the Collateral Agent shall, and shall cause its agents to, hold in confidence all such information, except (i) to the extent disclosure may be required by law or by any regulatory, administrative or governmental authority and (ii) to the extent that the Collateral Agent, in its sole discretion, may determine that such disclosure is consistent with its obligations hereunder; provided further, that the Collateral Agent may disclose on a confidential basis any such information to its agents, attorneys and auditors in connection with the performance of its responsibilities hereunder;
(g) the Collateral Agent may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder or under the Credit Agreement either directly or by or through agents or attorneys; provided that, the Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers hereunder, including actions or omissions to act at the direction of the Collateral Manager;
(i) nothing herein shall be construed to impose an obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to monitor, recalculate, evaluate, verify or independently determine the accuracy of any report, certificate or information received from the Issuer, the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Transferor or any other Person (unless and except to the extent otherwise expressly set forth herein);
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(j) to the extent any defined term hereunder, or any calculation required to be made or determined by the Collateral Agent hereunder, is dependent upon or defined by reference to GAAP, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to request and receive (and conclusively rely upon) instruction from the Issuer or the accountants, which may or may not be the Independent accountants appointed by the Issuer pursuant to Section 10.8, (and in the absence of its receipt of timely instruction therefrom, shall be entitled to obtain from an Independent accountant at the expense of the Issuer) as to the application of GAAP in such connection, in any instance;
(k) the permissive rights of the Collateral Agent to take or refrain from taking any actions enumerated in this Indenture or under the Credit Agreement shall not be construed as a duty;
(l) to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Collateral Agent shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of this Indenture or otherwise;
(m) the Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any matter unless a Responsible Officer of the Bank has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice thereof is received by the Collateral Agent at the Corporate Trust Office and such notice references the Secured Debt generally, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or this Indenture; whenever reference is made herein to a Default or an Event of Default such reference shall, insofar as determining any liability on the part of the Collateral Agent is concerned, be construed to refer only to a Default or an Event of Default of which the Collateral Agent is deemed to have knowledge in accordance with this paragraph;
(n) the Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for delays or failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its control and shall not be responsible or liable for any inaccuracies in the records of the Collateral Manager, any Clearing Agency, Euroclear, Clearstream or any other intermediary (other than the Bank in its individual or other capacities hereunder), or for the actions or omissions of any such Person hereunder (including compliance with the procedures relating to compliance with Rule 17g-5 in accordance with and to the extent set forth in Section 14.17) or under any document executed in connection herewith;
(o) unless the Collateral Agent receives written notice of an error or omission related to financial information or disbursements provided to Holders within 90 days of Holders’ receipt of the same, the Collateral Agent shall have no liability in connection with such and, absent direction by the requisite percentage of Holders entitled to direct the Collateral Agent, no further obligations in connection therewith;
(p) the Collateral Agent or its Affiliates are permitted to receive additional compensation that could be deemed to be in the Collateral Agent’s economic self-interest for (i) serving as investment adviser, administrator, shareholder, servicing agent, custodian or sub-custodian with respect to certain of the Eligible Investments, (ii) using Affiliates to effect transactions in certain Eligible Investments and (iii) effecting transactions in certain Eligible Investments. Such compensation is not payable or reimbursable under Section 6.24;
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(q) the Collateral Agent shall not be liable for the actions or omissions of the Collateral Manager, the Issuer, the Co-Issuer, any Paying Agent (other than the Collateral Agent), DTC, Euroclear, Clearstream, or any other clearing agency or depository, or any Authenticating Agent (other than the Trustee) and without limiting the foregoing, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to monitor, evaluate or verify compliance by the Collateral Manager with the terms hereof or the Collateral Management Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which it is a party, or by the Transferor with the terms hereof or the Master Loan Sale Agreement, or to verify or independently determine the accuracy of information received by it from the Collateral Manager (or from any selling institution, agent bank, trustee or similar source), Transferor or any other Person with respect to the Assets;
(r) notwithstanding any term hereof (or any term of the UCC that might otherwise be construed to be applicable to a Securities Intermediary) to the contrary, the Collateral Agent shall not be under a duty or obligation in connection with the acquisition or Grant by the Issuer to the Collateral Agent of any item constituting the Assets, or to evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Issuer in connection with its Grant or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Underlying Document, in each case, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer in respect of such Assets;
(s) the Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to determine, verify or monitor whether a Retention Deficiency has occurred or whether the EU Securitization Laws, the U.S. Risk Retention Rules or the risk retention regulations of any other jurisdiction have been or will be complied with;
(t) the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the Collateral Manager with respect to whether or not a Collateral Obligation meets the criteria specified in the definition thereof and for the characterization, classification, designation or categorization of each Collateral Obligation;
(u) in the event the Bank is also acting in the capacity of Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Transfer Agent, Authenticating Agent, Custodian, Calculation Agent, Loan Agent, Trustee or Securities Intermediary, the rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded to the Bank acting in such capacities; provided that such rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities are in addition to such rights, protections, benefits, immunities and indemnities otherwise provided;
(v) in making or disposing of any investment permitted by this Indenture, the Collateral Agent is authorized to deal with itself (in its individual capacity) or with any one or more of its Affiliates, in each case on an arm’s length basis, whether it or such Affiliate is acting as a subagent of the Collateral Agent or for any third person or dealing as principal for its own account. If otherwise qualified, obligations of the Bank or any of its Affiliates shall qualify as Eligible Investments hereunder;
(w) the Collateral Agent shall have no duty (i) to see to any recording, filing relating to the perfection of any security interest in the Assets, or depositing of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or any financing statement or continuation statement evidencing a security interest, or to see to the maintenance of any such recording, filing or depositing or to any rerecording, refiling or redepositing of any thereof or (ii) to maintain any insurance;
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(x) the Collateral Administrator shall have the same rights, privileges and indemnities afforded to the Collateral Agent in Sections 6.20, 6.21 and 6.22; provided that, such rights, immunities and indemnities shall be in addition to, and not in limitation of, any rights, immunities and indemnities provided in the Collateral Administration Agreement;
(y) the Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for delays or failures in performance resulting from circumstances beyond its control (such circumstances include but are not limited to acts of God, strikes, lockouts, riots, acts of war, loss or malfunctions of utilities, computer (hardware or software) or communications services);
(z) to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, the Collateral Agent shall request, verify and record information that identifies individuals or entities that establish a relationship or open an account with the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall ask for the name, address, tax identification number and other information that will allow the Collateral Agent to identify the individual or entity who is establishing the relationship or opening the account. The Collateral Agent may also ask for formation documents such as organizational documents, an offering memorandum, or other identifying documents to be provided by the Issuer. Nothing herein shall be construed to impose any liability or obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent to monitor AML Compliance by any person;
(aa) the Collateral Agent will be under no obligation to (i) confirm or verify whether the conditions to the Delivery of the Assets have been satisfied or to determine whether or not a Collateral Obligation is eligible for purchase hereunder or meets the criteria in the definition thereof or whether the conditions for an Exchange Transaction as provided in Section 12.5 have been satisfied or (ii) evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Issuer in connection with the Grant by the Issuer to the Collateral Agent of any item constituting an Asset or otherwise, or in that regard to examine any Underlying Documents, in order to determine compliance with applicable requirements of and restrictions on transfer of an Asset and neither the Collateral Agent nor the Collateral Administrator shall have any obligation to determine: (x) if a Collateral Obligation meets the criteria specified in the definition of “Collateral Obligation,” or the eligibility restrictions herein or (y) whether a Tax Event has occurred;
(bb) notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any and all email communications (both text and attachments) by or from the Collateral Agent that the Collateral Agent deems to contain confidential, proprietary, and/or sensitive information may be encrypted. The recipient of the encrypted email communication will be required to complete a registration process. Instructions on how to register and/or retrieve an encrypted message will be included in the first secure email sent by the Collateral Agent to such recipient; and
(cc) if within 80 calendar days of delivery of financial information or disbursements (which delivery may be via posting to the Collateral Agent’s website) the Bank receives written notice of an error or omission related thereto and within ten calendar days of the Bank’s receipt of such notice the Collateral Manager and Issuer confirm such error or omission, the Bank agrees to use reasonable efforts to correct such error or omission and such use of reasonable efforts shall be the only obligation of the Bank in connection therewith. The Bank shall not be required to take any action beyond such period and shall have no responsibility for the same. In no event shall the Bank be obligated to take any action at any time at the request or direction of any Person unless such Person shall have offered to the Bank indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it.
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Section 6.21 Collateral Agent Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Secured Debt. The recitals contained herein and in the Secured Debt, other than the Certificate of Authentication thereon, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer or the Co-Issuers, as applicable, and the Collateral Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Collateral Agent makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture (except as may be made with respect to the validity of the Collateral Agent’s obligations hereunder), the Credit Agreement, the Assets or the Secured Debt. The Collateral Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Co-Issuers of the Secured Debt or the proceeds thereof or any Money paid to the Co-Issuers pursuant to the provisions hereof.
Section 6.22 Collateral Agent May Hold Secured Debt. The Collateral Agent, any Paying Agent, Registrar or any other agent of the Co-Issuers, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Secured Debt and may otherwise deal with the Co-Issuers or any of their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Collateral Agent, Paying Agent, Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.23 Money Held in Trust by the Collateral Agent. Money held by the Collateral Agent hereunder shall be held in trust to the extent required herein. The Collateral Agent shall be under no liability for interest on any Money received by it hereunder, except in its capacity as the Bank to the extent of income or other gain on investments which are deposits in or certificates of deposit of the Bank in its commercial capacity and income or other gain actually received by the Collateral Agent on Eligible Investments.
Section 6.24 Compensation and Reimbursement of the Collateral Agent
(a) The Issuer agrees:
(i) to pay the Collateral Agent on each Payment Date reasonable compensation as set forth in a separate fee schedule dated on or before the Closing Date between the Collateral Agent and the Issuer for all services rendered by it hereunder;
(ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Collateral Agent in a timely manner upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Collateral Agent in accordance with any provision of this Indenture or other Transaction Document (including, without limitation, expenses in connection with FATCA Compliance and securities transaction charges and the reasonable compensation and expenses and disbursements of its agents and legal counsel and of any accounting firm or investment banking firm employed by the Collateral Agent pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 6.20(c), 10.7 or any other term of this Indenture, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith) but with respect to securities transaction charges, only to the extent any such charges have not been waived during a Collection Period due to the Collateral Agent’s receipt of a payment from a financial institution with respect to certain Eligible Investments, as specified by the Collateral Manager in writing;
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(iii) to indemnify the Collateral Agent and its officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including reasonable fees and expenses of its agents, experts and attorneys) incurred without gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on their part, and arising out of or in connection with acting or serving as Collateral Agent under this Indenture and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves (including reasonable attorney’s fees and costs) against any claim (whether brought by the Issuer or any third party) or liability in connection with the administration, exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder and under any other agreement or instrument related hereto and of enforcing this Indenture, such other Transaction Documents and/or any indemnification rights hereunder or thereunder; and
(iv) to pay the Collateral Agent reasonable additional compensation together with its expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) for any collection action taken pursuant to Section 6.30 or the exercise or enforcement of remedies pursuant to Article V.
(b) The Collateral Agent shall receive amounts pursuant to this Section 6.24 and any other amounts payable to it under this Indenture or in any of the Transaction Documents to which the Collateral Agent is a party in accordance with the Priority of Payments but only to the extent that funds are available for the payment thereof. Subject to Section 6.26, the Collateral Agent shall continue to serve as Collateral Agent under this Indenture notwithstanding the fact that the Collateral Agent shall not have received amounts due it hereunder; provided that, nothing herein shall impair or affect the Collateral Agent’s rights under Section 6.26. No direction by the Holders shall affect the right of the Collateral Agent to collect amounts owed to it under this Indenture. If on any date when a fee or expense shall be payable to the Collateral Agent pursuant to this Indenture insufficient funds are available for the payment thereof, any portion of a fee or expense not so paid shall be deferred and payable on such later date on which a fee or expense shall be payable and sufficient funds are available therefor. The Issuer’s obligations under this Section 6.24 shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 6.26.
(c) The Collateral Agent hereby agrees not to cause the filing against the Issuer, the Co-Issuer or any of their subsidiaries of a petition in bankruptcy for the non-payment to the Collateral Agent of any amounts provided by this Section 6.24 until at least one year and one day, or if longer the applicable preference period then in effect and one day, after the payment in full of all Secured Debt issued under this Indenture or incurred under the Credit Agreement. The Issuer’s payment obligations to the Trustee under this Section 6.24 shall be secured by the lien of this Indenture payable in accordance with the Priority of Payments, and shall survive the discharge of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee. When the Trustee incurs expenses after the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.1(e) or Section 5.1(f), the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law.
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(d) To the extent that the entity acting as Collateral Agent is acting as Registrar, Calculation Agent, Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent, Securities Intermediary or Custodian, the rights, privileges, immunities and indemnities set forth in this Article VI shall also apply to it acting in each such capacity.
Section 6.25 Corporate Collateral Agent Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Collateral Agent hereunder which shall be an organization or entity organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$200,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority, having a counterparty risk assessment of at least “BBB+” by S&P and having an office within the United States. If such organization or entity publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.25, the combined capital and surplus of such organization or entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent published report of condition. If at any time the Collateral Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.25, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI.
Section 6.26 Resignation and Removal of the Collateral Agent; Appointment of Successor Collateral Agent.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent and no appointment of a successor Collateral Agent pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Collateral Agent under Section 6.27.
(b) The Collateral Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Co-Issuers, the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Loan Agent, the Holders of the Secured Debt and the Rating Agency not less than 30 days prior to such resignation. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Co-Issuers shall promptly appoint a successor collateral agent or collateral agents satisfying the requirements of Section 6.25 by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer and a Responsible Officer of the Co-Issuer, one copy of which shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent so resigning and one copy to the successor collateral agent or collateral agents, together with a copy to each Holder and the Collateral Manager; provided that, the Issuer shall provide prior written notice to the Rating Agency of any such appointment; provided, further, that the Issuer shall not appoint such successor collateral agent or collateral agents without the consent of a Majority of the Secured Debt of each Class (or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or when a successor Collateral Agent has been appointed pursuant to Section 6.26(e), by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class). If no successor Collateral Agent shall have been appointed and an instrument of acceptance by a successor Collateral Agent shall not have been delivered to the Collateral Agent within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Collateral Agent or any Holder, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent satisfying the requirements of Section 6.25.
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(c) The Collateral Agent may be removed at any time upon 30 days’ written notice by Act of a Majority of each Class of Secured Debt voting separately or, at any time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, by an Act of a Majority of the Controlling Class, delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Trustee, the Loan Agent and to the Co-Issuers.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Collateral Agent shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.25 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Co-Issuers or any Holder; or
(ii) the Collateral Agent shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver or liquidator of the Collateral Agent or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Collateral Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case (subject to Section 6.26(i)), (A) the Co-Issuers, by Issuer Order, may remove the Collateral Agent, or (B) subject to Section 5.15, any Holder may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Collateral Agent and the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent.
(e) If the Collateral Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Collateral Agent for any reason (other than resignation), the Co-Issuers, by Issuer Order, shall promptly appoint a successor Collateral Agent. If the Co-Issuers shall fail to appoint a successor Collateral Agent within 30 days after such resignation, removal or incapability or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Collateral Agent may be appointed by a Majority of the Controlling Class by written instrument delivered to the Issuer and the retiring Collateral Agent. The successor Collateral Agent so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Collateral Agent and supersede any successor Collateral Agent proposed by the Co-Issuers. If no successor Collateral Agent shall have been so appointed by the Co-Issuers or a Majority of the Controlling Class and shall have accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, subject to Section 5.15, the retiring Collateral Agent may, or any Holder may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Collateral Agent.
(f) The Co-Issuers shall give prompt notice of each resignation and each removal of the Collateral Agent and each appointment of a successor Collateral Agent by providing written notice of such event to the Collateral Manager, the Trustee, the Loan Agent, to the Holders of the Secured Debt as their names and addresses appear in the Note Register or the Loan Register, as applicable, and to each Rating Agency. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Collateral Agent and the address of its Corporate Trust Office. If the Co-Issuers fail to provide such notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Collateral Agent, the successor Collateral Agent shall cause such notice to be given at the expense of the Co-Issuers.
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(g) Any resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent under this Section 6.26 shall be an effective resignation or removal of the Bank in all capacities under this Indenture.
Section 6.27 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Collateral Agent. Every successor Collateral Agent appointed hereunder shall meet the requirements of Section 6.25 and shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Co-Issuers and the retiring Collateral Agent an instrument accepting such appointment. Upon delivery of the required instruments, the resignation or removal of the retiring Collateral Agent shall become effective and such successor Collateral Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of the retiring Collateral Agent; but, on request of the Co-Issuers or a Majority of any Class of Secured Debt or the successor Collateral Agent, such retiring Collateral Agent shall, upon payment of its charges then unpaid, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Collateral Agent all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Collateral Agent, and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Collateral Agent all property and Money held by such retiring Collateral Agent hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Collateral Agent, the Co- Issuers shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Collateral Agent all such rights, powers and trusts.
Section 6.28 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business of Collateral Agent. Any organization or entity into which the Collateral Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any organization or entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Collateral Agent shall be a party, or any organization or entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Collateral Agent, shall be the successor of the Collateral Agent hereunder; provided that, such organization or entity shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any of the Secured Debt has been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Collateral Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Collateral Agent may adopt such authentication and deliver the Secured Debt so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Collateral Agent had itself authenticated such Secured Debt.
Section 6.29 Certain Duties of Collateral Agent Related to Delayed Payment of Proceeds. In the event that in any month the Collateral Agent receives notice from the Collateral Manager or the Collateral Administrator that a payment has not been received with respect to any Asset on its Due Date, (a) the Collateral Agent shall promptly notify the Issuer, the Trustee and the Collateral Manager in writing or electronically and (b) unless within three Business Days (or the end of the applicable grace period for such payment, if longer) after such notice such payment shall have been received by the Collateral Agent, or the Issuer, in its absolute discretion (but only to the extent permitted by Section 10.2(a)), shall have made provision for such payment satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 10.2(a), the Collateral Agent shall request the issuer of such Asset, the trustee under the related Underlying Document or paying agent designated by either of them, as the case may be, to make such payment as soon as practicable after such request but in no event later than three Business Days after the date of such request. In the event that such payment is not made within such time period, the Collateral Agent, subject to the provisions of clause (iv) of Section 6.18(c), shall take such reasonable action as the Collateral Manager shall direct in writing. Any such action shall be without prejudice to any right
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to claim a Default or Event of Default under this Indenture. In the event that the Issuer or the Collateral Manager requests a release of an Asset and/or delivers an additional Collateral Obligation in connection with any such action under the Collateral Management Agreement or under this Indenture, such release and/or substitution shall be subject to Section 10.7 and Article XII of this Indenture, as the case may be. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Issuer or its designee any payment with respect to any Asset or any additional Collateral Obligation received after the Due Date thereof to the extent the Issuer previously made provisions for such payment satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in accordance with this Section 6.29 and such payment shall not be deemed part of the Assets.
Section 6.30 Withholding. If any withholding tax is imposed on the Issuer’s payment (or allocations of income) under the Notes to any Holder, such tax shall reduce the amount otherwise distributable to such Holder. The Collateral Agent or any Paying Agent is hereby authorized and directed to retain from amounts otherwise distributable to any Holder sufficient funds for the payment of any tax that is legally owed by the Issuer (but such authorization shall not prevent the Collateral Agent or such Paying Agent from contesting any such tax in appropriate proceedings and withholding payment of such tax, if permitted by law, pending the outcome of such proceedings). The amount of any withholding tax imposed with respect to any Holder shall be treated as cash distributed to such Holder at the time it is withheld by the Collateral Agent or any Paying Agent and remitted to the appropriate taxing authority. If there is a possibility that withholding tax is payable with respect to a distribution and the Collateral Agent or any Paying Agent has not received documentation from such Holder showing an exemption from withholding, the Collateral Agent or such Paying Agent shall withhold such amounts in accordance with this Section 6.30. If any Holder wishes to apply for a refund of any such withholding tax, the Collateral Agent or such Paying Agent shall reasonably cooperate with such Holder in making such claim so long as such Holder agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent or such Paying Agent for any out-of-pocket expenses incurred. Nothing herein shall impose an obligation on the part of the Collateral Agent or any Paying Agent to determine the amount of any tax or withholding obligation on the part of the Issuer or in respect of the Secured Debt.
Section 6.31 Collateral Agent as Representative for Secured Holders Only; Collateral Agent as Agent for each other Secured Party. With respect to the security interest created hereunder, the delivery of any Asset to the Collateral Agent is to the Collateral Agent as representative of the Holders of Secured Debt and agent for each other Secured Party. In furtherance of the foregoing, the possession by the Collateral Agent of any Asset, the endorsement to or registration in the name of the Collateral Agent of any Asset are all undertaken by the Collateral Agent in its capacity as representative of the Holders of Secured Debt and agent for each other Secured Party.
Section 6.32 Communication with the Rating Agency. Subject to Section 14.18, any written communication, including any confirmation, from a Rating Agency provided for or required to be obtained by the Collateral Agent or the Trustee hereunder shall be sufficient in each case when such communication or confirmation is received by the Collateral Agent or the Trustee, as applicable, including by electronic message, facsimile, press release, posting to such Rating Agency’s website, or other written communication.
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ARTICLE VII
COVENANTS
Section 7.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Co-Issuers will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Secured Debt, in accordance with the terms of such Class of Secured Debt and this Indenture and the Credit Agreement pursuant to the Priority of Payments. The Issuer will, to the extent funds are available pursuant to the Priority of Payments, duly and punctually pay all required distributions on the Preferred Shares to the Fiscal Agent, in accordance with the Fiscal Agency Agreement and this Indenture.
Amounts properly withheld under the Code or other applicable law by any Person from a payment under a Note shall be considered as having been paid by the Issuer to the relevant Holder for all purposes of this Indenture.
Section 7.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Co-Issuers hereby appoint the Collateral Agent as a Paying Agent for payments on the Notes, and appoint the Bank as Transfer Agent at its applicable Corporate Trust Office or its agent designated for purposes of surrender, transfer or exchange as the Co-Issuers’ agent where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Co-Issuers hereby appoint The Corporation Trust Company, as their agent upon whom process or demands may be served in any action arising out of or based on this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby.
The Co-Issuers may at any time and from time to time vary or terminate the appointment of any such agent or appoint any additional agents for any or all of such purposes and no paying agent shall be appointed in a jurisdiction which subjects payments on the Notes to withholding tax solely as a result of such Paying Agent’s activities. The Co-Issuers shall at all times maintain a duplicate copy of the Note Register and the Loan Register at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. The Co-Issuers shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Loan Agent, each Rating Agency then rating a Class of Secured Debt and the Holders of the appointment or termination of any such agent and of the location and any change in the location of any such office or agency.
If at any time the Co-Issuers shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency, or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, presentations and surrenders may be made (subject to the limitations described in the preceding paragraph) at, notices and demands may be served on the Co-Issuers, and Notes may be presented and surrendered for payment to the appropriate Paying Agent at its main office, and the Co-Issuers hereby appoints the same as their agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Section 7.3 Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust. All payments of amounts due and payable with respect to any Secured Debt that are to be made from amounts withdrawn from the Payment Account shall be made on behalf of the Co-Issuers by the Collateral Agent or a Paying Agent with respect to payments on the Secured Debt.
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When the Co-Issuers shall have a Paying Agent that is not also the Note Registrar, the Issuer shall furnish, or cause the Note Registrar to furnish, no later than the fifth calendar day after each Record Date a list, if necessary, in such form as such Paying Agent may reasonably request, of the names and addresses of the Holders and of the certificate numbers of individual Notes held by each such Holder.
Whenever the Co-Issuers shall have a Paying Agent other than the Collateral Agent, the Issuer shall, on or before the Business Day next preceding each Payment Date and on any Redemption Date, as the case may be, direct the Collateral Agent to deposit on such Payment Date or such Redemption Date, as the case may be, with such Paying Agent, if necessary, an aggregate sum sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due (to the extent funds are then available for such purpose in the Payment Account), such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless such Paying Agent is the Collateral Agent) the Co-Issuers shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent of its action or failure so to act. Any Monies deposited with a Paying Agent (other than the Collateral Agent) in excess of an amount sufficient to pay the amounts then becoming due on the Notes with respect to which such deposit was made shall be paid over by such Paying Agent to the Collateral Agent for application in accordance with Article XI.
The initial Paying Agent shall be as set forth in Section 7.2. Any additional or successor Paying Agents shall be appointed by Issuer Order with written notice thereof to the Trustee; provided that so long as the Notes of any Class are rated by a Rating Agency, with respect to any additional or successor Paying Agent, either (i) such Paying Agent has a long-term debt rating of “A+” or higher by S&P or a short-term debt rating of “A-1” by S&P and (to the extent that Fitch is rating any Secured Debt then Outstanding) a short-term credit rating of at least “F1” or a long-term rating of at least “A” by Fitch or (ii) the Global Rating Agency Condition is satisfied. If such successor Paying Agent ceases to have a long-term debt rating of “A+” or higher by S&P or a short-term debt rating of “A-1” by S&P and (to the extent that Fitch is rating any Secured Debt then Outstanding) a short-term credit rating of at least “F1” or a long-term rating of at least “A” by Fitch, the Co-Issuers shall promptly remove such Paying Agent and appoint a successor Paying Agent. The Co-Issuers shall not appoint any Paying Agent that is not, at the time of such appointment, a depository institution or trust company subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state and/or national banking authorities. The Co-Issuers shall cause each Paying Agent other than the Collateral Agent to execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Collateral Agent and if the Collateral Agent acts as Paying Agent, it hereby so agrees, subject to the provisions of this Section 7.3, that such Paying Agent will:
(a) allocate all sums received for payment to the Holders of Notes for which it acts as Paying Agent on each Payment Date and any Redemption Date among such Persons in the proportion specified in the applicable Distribution Report to the extent permitted by applicable law;
(b) hold all sums held by it for the payment of amounts due with respect to the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and pay such sums to such Persons as herein provided;
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(c) if such Paying Agent is not the Collateral Agent, immediately resign as a Paying Agent and forthwith pay to the Collateral Agent all sums held by it in trust for the payment of Notes if at any time it ceases to meet the standards set forth above required to be met by a Paying Agent at the time of its appointment;
(d) if such Paying Agent is not the Collateral Agent, immediately give the Collateral Agent notice of any default by the Issuer or the Co-Issuer (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment required to be made; and
(e) if such Paying Agent is not the Collateral Agent, during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Collateral Agent, forthwith pay to the Collateral Agent all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Co-Issuers may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Issuer Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Collateral Agent all sums held in trust by the Co-Issuers or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Collateral Agent upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Co-Issuers or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Collateral Agent, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such Money.
Except as otherwise required by applicable law, any Money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for any payment on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such amount has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer on Issuer Order; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for payment of such amounts (but only to the extent of the amounts so paid to the Issuer) and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust Money shall thereupon cease. The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such release of payment, may, but shall not be required to, adopt and employ, at the expense of the Issuer any reasonable means of notification of such release of payment, including, but not limited to, mailing notice of such release to Holders whose Notes have been called but have not been surrendered for redemption or whose right to or interest in Monies due and payable but not claimed is determinable from the records of any Paying Agent, at the last address of record of each such Holder.
Section 7.4 Existence of Co-Issuers. (a) The Issuer and the Co-Issuer each shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, maintain in full force and effect its existence and rights, in the case of the Issuer, as an exempted company incorporated with limited liability under the laws of the Cayman Islands and, in the case of the Co-Issuer, as a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, and in each case shall obtain and preserve its qualification to do business as a company, in each jurisdiction in which such qualifications are or shall be necessary to protect the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Credit Agreement, the Secured Debt, or any of the Assets; provided that the Issuer shall be entitled to change its jurisdiction of organization from the Cayman Islands to any other jurisdiction reasonably selected by the Issuer at the direction of a Majority of the Preferred Shares so long as (i) the Issuer has received a legal opinion (upon which the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent may conclusively rely) to the effect that such change is not disadvantageous in any
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material respect to the Holders, (ii) written notice of such change shall have been given to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Loan Agent by the Issuer, which notice shall be promptly forwarded by the Trustee to the Holders, the Collateral Manager and each Rating Agency, (iii) the S&P Rating Condition is satisfied and (iv) on or prior to the 15th Business Day following receipt of such notice the Collateral Agent shall not have received written notice from a Majority of the Controlling Class objecting to such change.
(b) Each of the Issuer and the Co-Issuer (i) shall ensure that all limited liability company or other formalities regarding its existence are followed, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes, or any of the Assets, and (ii) shall not have any employees (other than its directors or managers to the extent they are employees). Neither the Issuer nor the Co-Issuer shall take any action, or conduct its affairs in a manner, that is likely to result in its separate existence being ignored or in its assets and liabilities being substantively consolidated with any other Person in a bankruptcy, reorganization or other insolvency proceeding. Without limiting the foregoing, (i) the Issuer shall not have any subsidiaries other than the Co-Issuer and any Equity Holder Subsidiary, and (ii) except to the extent contemplated in the Administration Agreement (x) the Issuer and the Co-Issuer shall not (A) except as contemplated by the Offering Circular, any Transaction Document, the Memorandum and Articles or the Administration Agreement, engage in any transaction with any affiliate that would constitute a conflict of interest or (B) the Issuer shall not make distributions other than in accordance with the applicable terms of this Indenture, the Fiscal Agency Agreement and the Memorandum and Articles, and (y) the Issuer shall, except when otherwise required for consolidated accounting purposes or tax purposes, (A) maintain books and records separate from any other Person, (B) maintain its accounts separate from those of any other Person, (C) not commingle its assets with those of any other Person, (D) conduct its own business in its own name, (E) maintain separate financial statements, (F) pay its own liabilities out of its own funds, (G) maintain an arm’s length relationship with its Affiliates, (H) use separate stationery, invoices and checks, (I) hold itself out as a separate Person and (J) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity.
Section 7.5 Protection of Assets. (a) The Collateral Manager on behalf of the Issuer will cause the taking of such action within the Collateral Manager’s control as is reasonably necessary in order to maintain the perfection and priority of the security interest of the Collateral Agent in the Assets; provided that the Collateral Manager shall be entitled to rely on any Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 7.6 and any Opinion of Counsel with respect to the same subject matter delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(c) to determine what actions are reasonably necessary, and shall be fully protected in so relying on such an Opinion of Counsel, unless the Collateral Manager has actual knowledge that the procedures described in any such Opinion of Counsel are no longer adequate to maintain such perfection and priority. The Issuer shall from time to time execute and deliver all such supplements and amendments hereto and file or authorize the filing of all such Financing Statements, continuation statements, instruments of further assurance and other instruments, and shall take such other action as may be necessary or advisable or desirable to secure the rights and remedies of the Holders of Secured Debt hereunder and to:
(i) Grant more effectively all or any portion of the Assets;
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(ii) maintain, preserve and perfect any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture including, without limitation, the first priority nature of the lien or carry out more effectively the purposes hereof;
(iii) perfect, publish notice of or protect the validity of any Grant made or to be made by this Indenture (including, without limitation, any and all actions necessary or desirable as a result of changes in law or regulations);
(iv) enforce any of the Assets or other instruments or property included in the Assets;
(v) preserve and defend title to the Assets and the rights therein of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Assets against the claims of all Persons and parties; or
(vi) pay or cause to be paid any and all taxes levied or assessed upon all or any part of the Assets.
The Issuer hereby designates the Collateral Agent as its agent and attorney in fact to prepare and file and hereby authorizes the filing of any Financing Statement, continuation statement and all other instruments, and take all other actions, required pursuant to this Section 7.5. Such designation shall not impose upon the Collateral Agent, or release or diminish, the Issuer’s and the Collateral Manager’s obligations under this Section 7.5. The Issuer further authorizes and shall cause the Issuer’s counsel to file an initial Financing Statement on the Closing Date that names the Issuer as debtor and U.S. Bank National Association, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as secured party and that describes “all personal property of the Debtor now owned or hereafter acquired” as the Assets in which the Collateral Agent has a Grant.
(b) The Collateral Agent shall not, except in accordance with Section 5.5 or Section 10.8(a), (b) and (c), as applicable, permit the removal of any portion of the Assets or transfer any such Assets from the Account to which it is credited, or cause or permit any change in the Delivery made pursuant to Section 3.3 with respect to any Assets, if, after giving effect thereto, the jurisdiction governing the perfection of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in such Assets is different from the jurisdiction governing the perfection at the time of delivery of the most recent Opinion of Counsel pursuant to Section 7.6 (or, if no Opinion of Counsel has yet been delivered pursuant to Section 7.6, the Opinion of Counsel delivered at the Closing Date pursuant to Section 3.1(c)) unless the Collateral Agent shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect to such property and the priority thereof will continue to be maintained after giving effect to such action or actions.
(c) The Issuer shall make an entry with respect to the security interest created under this Indenture in the Issuer’s register of mortgages and charges maintained at the Issuer’s registered office in the Cayman Islands.
Section 7.6 Opinions as to Assets. At least 30 days prior to each five- year anniversary of the Closing Date, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and each Rating Agency an Opinion of Counsel relating to the continued perfection of the security interest granted by the Issuer to the Collateral Agent, stating that, as of the date of such opinion, the lien and security interest created by this Indenture with respect t