Contract
Execution Version
AMENDMENT NO. 4, dated as of June 15, 2023 (this “Amendment”), to the Credit Agreement dated as of May 1, 2019 (as amended by Amendment No. 1, dated February 3, 2020, Amendment No. 2, dated July 16, 2020, and Amendment No. 3, dated July 16, 2021, Joinder Agreement to Credit Agreement, dated as of May 5, 2021, and as modified by the Successor Agent Agreement, dated February 3, 2020, the “Credit Agreement”, the Credit Agreement as further amended by this Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”), among IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Texas corporation (the “Borrower”), IHEARTMEDIA CAPITAL I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the other Guarantors party thereto, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent (in such capacities, the “Administrative Agent”) and each lender from time to time party thereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”); capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Amended Credit Agreement.
WHEREAS, certain loans and/or other extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement denominated in Dollars incur or are permitted to incur interest, fees, commissions or other amounts based on the London Interbank Offered Rate as administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration (“LIBOR”) in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement.
WHEREAS, the Administrative Agent has determined (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that the administrator of LIBOR or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which LIBOR shall no longer be made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans and, at the time of such statement, there is no successor administrator that is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that will continue to provide LIBOR after such specific date.
WHEREAS, following such determination, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may amend the Credit Agreement to replace LIBOR with a successor rate in accordance with the Credit Agreement and, in connection therewith, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, has determined that certain LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes (as defined in the Credit Agreement) are necessary or advisable and such LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to the Credit Agreement.
WHEREAS, such changes shall become effective at 5.00 p.m. (New York time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day (the “Objection Deadline”) after the date the Administrative Agent shall have posted this Amendment to the Lenders, unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Administrative Agent written notice of objection to the Adjustment (as that term is defined under the Credit Agreement).
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1. Amendments. Effective as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (as defined below), (i) the Credit Agreement is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text) as set forth in the pages of the Credit Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto and (ii) Exhibit A to the Credit Agreement is amended and restated in its entirety in the form of Exhibit B hereto.
Section 2. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants that, as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, this Amendment has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws and by general principles of equity.
Section 3. Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the date (the “Amendment No. 4 Effective Date”) the following conditions have been satisfied:
(a)the Administrative Agent shall have received from the Borrower an executed signature page to this Amendment (which shall be originals or pdf copies or other facsimiles); and
(b)the Administrative Agent shall not have received, by the Objection Deadline, written notice of objection to the Adjustment (as defined in the Credit Agreement) from Lenders comprising the Required Lender.
Section 4. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute a single instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or other electronic transmission (including “.pdf”, “.tif” or similar format) shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart hereof. The words “execution,” “execute”, “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
Section 5. Headings. The headings of this Amendment are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
Section 6. Effect of Amendment. Except as expressly set forth herein, (i) this Amendment shall not by implication or otherwise limit, impair, constitute a waiver of or otherwise affect the rights and remedies of the Lenders or the Administrative Agent, in each case under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, and (ii) shall not alter, modify, amend or in any way affect any of the terms, conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document. Except as expressly set forth herein, each and every term, condition, obligation, covenant and agreement contained in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document is hereby ratified and re- affirmed in all respects and shall continue in full force and effect. Without limiting the foregoing, (i) the Borrower, on its own behalf and on behalf of the other Loan Parties, acknowledges and agrees that (A) each Loan Document is hereby confirmed and ratified and shall remain in full force and effect according to its respective terms (in the case of the Credit Agreement, as amended hereby) and (B) the Collateral Documents do, and all of the Collateral does, and in each case shall continue to, secure the payment of all of the Obligations on the terms and conditions set forth in the Collateral Documents, and hereby confirms and, to the extent necessary, ratifies the security interests granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents and (ii) the Borrower, on behalf of the Guarantors, hereby confirms and ratifies the continuing unconditional obligations of the Guarantors under the Guaranty with respect to all of the Guaranteed Obligations. This Amendment shall constitute a Loan Document for purposes of the Amended Credit Agreement, including without limitation for purposes of Sections 10.15, 10.16 and 10.17 thereof, and from and after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, all references to “the Credit Agreement” in any Loan Document and all references in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall, unless expressly provided otherwise, refer to the Amended Credit Agreement.
Section 7. No Novation. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as a substitution or novation of the obligations outstanding under the Credit Agreement or instruments securing the same, which shall remain in full force and effect, except to any extent modified hereby or by instruments executed concurrently herewith and except to the extent repaid as provided herein. Nothing implied in this Amendment or in any other document contemplated hereby shall discharge or release the Lien or priority of any Collateral Document or any other security therefor or otherwise be construed as a release or other discharge of any of the Loan Parties under any Loan Document from any of its obligations and liabilities as a borrower, guarantor or pledgor under any of the Loan Documents, except, in each case, to any extent modified hereby and except to the extent repaid as provided herein.
Section 8. Governing Law: Waiver of Jury Trial. Sections 10.15 and 10.16 of the Amended Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated herein by reference mutatis mutandis.
Section 9. Costs and Expenses. The Borrower hereby reconfirms its obligations pursuant to Section 10.04 of the Amended Credit Agreement to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, execution and delivery of this Amendment, including all Attorney Costs.
Section 10. Severability. Any provision of this Amendment held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such illegality, invalidity or unenforceability without affecting the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof and the illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
Section 11. Existing Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Amended Credit Agreement, any Eurocurrency Rate Loan (as defined in the Credit Agreement) outstanding immediately prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date shall (x) continue to the end of the current Interest Period (as defined in the Credit Agreement) for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan and continue to be subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement applicable thereto until the end of the applicable Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loans, after which time such provisions shall have no further force or effect and (y) be converted to a Term SOFR Loan or Base Rate Loan on the expiry of the current Interest Period, in accordance with the terms of Section 2.02 of the Amended Credit Agreement, if not prepaid prior to such date; provided that, if the Borrower fails to give timely notice of such conversion, then the applicable Term Loans shall be converted to Term SOFR Loans having an Interest Period of one month.
[Signature Pages Follow]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS INC., as Borrower

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO AMENDMENT NO. 4] |
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO AMENDMENT NO. 4] |
EXHIBIT A
EXHIBIT A
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of May 1, 2019,
as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of February 3, 2020, Amendment No. 2 dated as of July 16, 2020, and Amendment No. 3 dated as of July 16, 2021, and Amendment No. 4 dated as of June 15, 2023
Among
IHEARTMEDIA CAPITAL I, LLC,
as Holdings,
IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS, INC.,
as the Borrower,
THE OTHER GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I | ||||||||
Definitions and Accounting Terms | ||||||||
Section 1.01 | Defined Terms | 2 | ||||||
Section 1.02 | Other Interpretive Provisions | 56 | ||||||
Section 1.03 | Accounting Terms | 57 | ||||||
Section 1.04 | Rounding | 58 | ||||||
Section 1.05 | References to Agreements, Laws, Etc | 58 | ||||||
Section 1.06 | Times of Day | 58 | ||||||
Section 1.07 | Timing of Payment or Performance | 58 | ||||||
Section 1.08 | Initial Lenders. | 59 | ||||||
Section 1.09 | [Reserved] | 59 | ||||||
Section 1.10 | Currency Equivalents Generally | 59 | ||||||
Section 1.11 | Fixed Amounts and Incurrence Based Amounts | 59 | ||||||
Section 1.12 | Divisions | 59 | ||||||
Section 1.13 | Interest Rates | 60 | ||||||
ARTICLE II | ||||||||
The Commitments and Credit Extensions | ||||||||
Section 2.01 | The Loans. | 60 | ||||||
Section 2.02 | Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans | 60 | ||||||
Section 2.03 | Disbursement Agent | 62 | ||||||
Section 2.04 | Undeliverable Distributions | 62 | ||||||
Section 2.05 | Prepayments | 63 | ||||||
Section 2.06 | Termination or Reduction of Commitments | 73 | ||||||
Section 2.07 | Repayment of Loans | 73 | ||||||
Section 2.08 | Interest | 74 | ||||||
Section 2.09 | Fees. | 74 | ||||||
Section 2.10 | Computation of Interest and Fees | 74 | ||||||
Section 2.11 | Evidence of Indebtedness | 74 | ||||||
Section 2.12 | Payments Generally | 75 | ||||||
Section 2.13 | Sharing of Payments | 76 | ||||||
Section 2.14 | Incremental Credit Extensions | 77 | ||||||
Section 2.15 | Refinancing Amendments | 81 | ||||||
Section 2.16 | Extension of Term Loans | 82 | ||||||
Section 2.17 | Defaulting Lenders | 84 | ||||||
ARTICLE III | ||||||||
Taxes, Increased Costs Protection and Illegality | ||||||||
Section 3.01 | Taxes | 85 | ||||||
Section 3.02 | Illegality | 88 | ||||||
Section 3.03 | Inability to Determine Rates | 88 | ||||||
Section 3.04 | Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Term SOFR Loans | 90 | ||||||
Section 3.05 | Funding Losses | 92 | ||||||
Section 3.06 | Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation | 92 |
Section 3.07 | Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances | 93 | ||||||
Section 3.08 | Survival | 94 | ||||||
ARTICLE IV | ||||||||
Conditions Precedent to Credit Extensions | ||||||||
Section 4.01 | Conditions to Initial Credit Extension | 94 | ||||||
Section 4.02 | Conditions to All Credit Extensions | 97 | ||||||
ARTICLE V | ||||||||
Representations and Warranties | ||||||||
Section 5.01 | Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws | 97 | ||||||
Section 5.02 | Authorization; No Contravention | 98 | ||||||
Section 5.03 | Governmental Authorization; Other Consents | 98 | ||||||
Section 5.04 | Binding Effect | 98 | ||||||
Section 5.05 | Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect | 98 | ||||||
Section 5.06 | Litigation. | 99 | ||||||
Section 5.07 | Special Representations Relating to FCC Authorizations, Etc | 99 | ||||||
Section 5.08 | Ownership of Property; Liens and Real Property | 99 | ||||||
Section 5.09 | Environmental Matters | 100 | ||||||
Section 5.10 | Taxes | 100 | ||||||
Section 5.11 | ERISA Compliance | 100 | ||||||
Section 5.12 | Subsidiaries; Equity Interests | 101 | ||||||
Section 5.13 | Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act | 101 | ||||||
Section 5.14 | Disclosure | 102 | ||||||
Section 5.15 | Labor Matters. | 102 | ||||||
Section 5.16 | [Reserved] | 102 | ||||||
Section 5.17 | Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc | 102 | ||||||
Section 5.18 | Solvency | 102 | ||||||
Section 5.19 | OFAC; USA PATRIOT Act; FCPA | 103 | ||||||
Section 5.20 | [Reserved] | 103 | ||||||
Section 5.21 | Security Documents | 103 | ||||||
ARTICLE VI | ||||||||
Affirmative Covenants | ||||||||
Section 6.01 | Financial Statements | 104 | ||||||
Section 6.02 | Certificates; Other Information | 105 | ||||||
Section 6.03 | Notices | 106 | ||||||
Section 6.04 | Payment of Obligations. | 107 | ||||||
Section 6.05 | Preservation of Existence, Etc | 107 | ||||||
Section 6.06 | Maintenance of Properties | 107 | ||||||
Section 6.07 | Maintenance of Insurance | 107 | ||||||
Section 6.08 | Compliance with Laws | 108 | ||||||
Section 6.09 | Books and Records | 108 | ||||||
Section 6.10 | Inspection Rights | 108 | ||||||
Section 6.11 | Additional Collateral; Additional Guarantors | 109 | ||||||
Section 6.12 | Compliance with Environmental Laws | 110 | ||||||
Section 6.13 | Further Assurances | 110 |
Section 6.14 | Designation of Subsidiaries | 110 | ||||||
Section 6.15 | Maintenance of Ratings | 111 | ||||||
Section 6.16 | Post-Closing Covenants | 111 | ||||||
Section 6.17 | License Subsidiaries | 111 | ||||||
ARTICLE VII | ||||||||
Negative Covenants | ||||||||
Section 7.01 | Liens | 112 | ||||||
Section 7.02 | Investments | 115 | ||||||
Section 7.03 | Indebtedness | 118 | ||||||
Section 7.04 | Fundamental Changes | 122 | ||||||
Section 7.05 | Dispositions | 123 | ||||||
Section 7.06 | Restricted Payments | 125 | ||||||
Section 7.07 | Change in Nature of Business | 128 | ||||||
Section 7.08 | Transactions with Affiliates | 129 | ||||||
Section 7.09 | Burdensome Agreements | 129 | ||||||
Section 7.10 | [Reserved] | 130 | ||||||
Section 7.11 | [Reserved] | 130 | ||||||
Section 7.12 | Change in Fiscal Year | 130 | ||||||
Section 7.13 | Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness | 130 | ||||||
Section 7.14 | Permitted Activities | 131 | ||||||
ARTICLE VIII | ||||||||
Events of Default and Remedies | ||||||||
Section 8.01 | Events of Default | 131 | ||||||
Section 8.02 | Remedies Upon Event of Default | 133 | ||||||
Section 8.03 | Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries | 133 | ||||||
Section 8.04 | Application of Funds | 134 | ||||||
ARTICLE IX | ||||||||
Administrative Agent and Other Agents | ||||||||
Section 9.01 | Appointment and Authorization of Agents | 134 | ||||||
Section 9.02 | Delegation of Duties | 135 | ||||||
Section 9.03 | Liability of Agents | 136 | ||||||
Section 9.04 | Reliance by Agents | 136 | ||||||
Section 9.05 | Notice of Default | 137 | ||||||
Section 9.06 | Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents | 137 | ||||||
Section 9.07 | Indemnification of Agents | 137 | ||||||
Section 9.08 | Agents in Their Individual Capacities | 138 | ||||||
Section 9.09 | Successor Agents | 138 | ||||||
Section 9.10 | Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim | 139 | ||||||
Section 9.11 | Collateral and Guaranty Matters | 139 | ||||||
Section 9.12 | Other Agents; Lead Arrangers | 140 | ||||||
Section 9.13 | Withholding Tax Indemnity | 140 | ||||||
Section 9.14 | Appointment of Supplemental Agents | 141 | ||||||
Section 9.15 | Lender Action | 141 | ||||||
Section 9.16 | Intercreditor Agreements | 142 |
Section 9.17 | Certain ERISA Matters | 142 | ||||||
ARTICLE X | ||||||||
Miscellaneous | ||||||||
Section 10.01 | Amendments, Etc | 143 | ||||||
Section 10.02 | Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies | 145 | ||||||
Section 10.03 | No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | 147 | ||||||
Section 10.04 | Attorney Costs and Expenses | 147 | ||||||
Section 10.05 | Indemnification by the Borrower | 147 | ||||||
Section 10.06 | Payments Set Aside | 148 | ||||||
Section 10.07 | Successors and Assigns | 149 | ||||||
Section 10.08 | Confidentiality. | 154 | ||||||
Section 10.09 | Setoff. | 155 | ||||||
Section 10.10 | Interest Rate Limitation | 155 | ||||||
Section 10.11 | Counterparts | 156 | ||||||
Section 10.12 | Integration; Termination | 156 | ||||||
Section 10.13 | Survival of Representations and Warranties | 156 | ||||||
Section 10.14 | Severability | 156 | ||||||
Section 10.15 | GOVERNING LAW | 156 | ||||||
Section 10.16 | WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY | 157 | ||||||
Section 10.17 | Binding Effect | 157 | ||||||
Section 10.18 | USA PATRIOT Act | 157 | ||||||
Section 10.19 | No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility | 158 | ||||||
Section 10.20 | Electronic Execution of Assignments | 158 | ||||||
Section 10.21 | Effect of Certain Inaccuracies | 159 | ||||||
Section 10.22 | Judgment Currency | 159 | ||||||
Section 10.23 | Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions | 159 | ||||||
Section 10.24 | FCC | 160 | ||||||
Section 10.25 | Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs | 160 | ||||||
ARTICLE XI | ||||||||
Guaranty | ||||||||
Section 11.01 | The Guaranty | 161 | ||||||
Section 11.02 | Obligations Unconditional | 161 | ||||||
Section 11.03 | Reinstatement | 162 | ||||||
Section 11.04 | Subrogation; Subordination | 162 | ||||||
Section 11.05 | Remedies | 162 | ||||||
Section 11.06 | Instrument for the Payment of Money | 163 | ||||||
Section 11.07 | Continuing Guaranty | 163 | ||||||
Section 11.08 | General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations | 163 | ||||||
Section 11.09 | Information | 163 | ||||||
Section 11.10 | Release of Guarantors | 163 | ||||||
Section 11.11 | Right of Contribution | 164 | ||||||
Section 11.12 | ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT LEGEND | 164 |
SCHEDULES | ||||||||
1.01A | Commitments | |||||||
1.01B | Identified Assets | |||||||
1.01C | Unrestricted Subsidiaries | |||||||
5.05 | Certain Liabilities | |||||||
5.06 | Litigation | |||||||
5.07 | FCC Authorizations | |||||||
5.08 | Ownership of Property | |||||||
5.09(a) | Environmental Matters | |||||||
5.10 | Taxes | |||||||
5.12 | Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments | |||||||
6.16 | Post-Closing Covenants | |||||||
7.02(f) | Existing Investments | |||||||
7.02(y) | Existing Joint Ventures | |||||||
7.05(s) | Dispositions | |||||||
7.08 | Transactions with Affiliates | |||||||
7.09 | Certain Contractual Obligations | |||||||
10.02 | Administrative Agent's Office, Certain Addresses for Notices | |||||||
EXHIBITS | ||||||||
Form of | ||||||||
A | Committed Loan Notice | |||||||
B | [Reserved] | |||||||
C | Term Note | |||||||
D | [Reserved] | |||||||
E-1 | Compliance Certificate | |||||||
E-2 | Solvency Certificate | |||||||
F | Assignment and Assumption | |||||||
G | Security Agreement | |||||||
H | [Reserved] | |||||||
I | Intercompany Note | |||||||
J-1 | First Lien Intercreditor Agreement | |||||||
J-2 | Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement | |||||||
K-1 | United States Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Non-Partnership Lenders) | |||||||
K-2 | United States Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Non-Partnership Participants) | |||||||
K-3 | United States Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Partnership Lenders) | |||||||
K-4 | United States Tax Compliance Certificate (Foreign Partnership Participants) | |||||||
L | Administrative Questionnaire | |||||||
M-1 | Acceptance and Prepayment Notice | |||||||
M-2 | Discount Range Prepayment Notice | |||||||
M-3 | Discount Range Prepayment Offer | |||||||
M-4 | Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice | |||||||
M-5 | Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer | |||||||
M-6 | Specified Discount Prepayment Notice | |||||||
M-7 | Specified Discount Prepayment Response |
CREDIT AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT (as amended by that Amendment No. 1 dated as of February 3, 2020, as further amended by that Amendment No. 2 dated as of July 16, 2020, as further amended by that Amendment No. 3 dated as of July 16, 2021, as further amended by that Amendment No. 4 as of dated June 15, 2023 and as the same may be further amended, modified, refinanced and/or restated from time to time, this “Agreement”) is entered into as of May 1, 2019, among IHEARTCOMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Texas corporation (the “Borrower”), IHEARTMEDIA CAPITAL I, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Holdings”), the other Guarantors from time to time party hereto, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
1.On March 14, 2018, the Borrower, Holdings, and certain of the Subsidiary Guarantors (as defined herein) (collectively, the “iHeart Debtors”) filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas Houston Division (such court, together with any other court having exclusive jurisdiction over the Case from time to time and any Federal appellate court thereof, the “Bankruptcy Court”) and commenced cases, jointly administered under the Modified Fifth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of iHeartMedia, Inc. and its Debtor Affiliates Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court on January 22, 2019 [Docket No. 2521], Case No. 18-31274 (collectively, the “Case”), and have continued in the possession and operation of their assets and in the management of their businesses pursuant to sections 1107 and 1108 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States.
2.The iHeart Debtors are parties to (i) the certain Superpriority Secured Debtor-In-Possession Credit Agreement, dated as of June 14, 2018 (as amended, restated, supplemented, replaced or refinanced or otherwise modified prior to the Closing Date, to the extent permitted by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, the “Existing DIP Credit Agreement”), by and among the iHeart Debtors, Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent and the lending institutions from time to time parties thereto, and (ii) the certain credit agreement dated as of May 13, 2008, (as amended and restated as of February 23, 2011, amended by Amendment No. 1, dated as of October 15, 2012, Amendment No. 2, dated as of May 31, 2013 and Amendment No. 3, dated as of December 18, 2013 and as further amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified prior to the Closing Date, the “Existing CF Credit Agreement”), among the iHeart Debtors, the lenders party thereto (such lenders party thereto holding term loans thereunder being referred to herein as the “Prepetition Term Lenders”) and Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent.
3.The iHeart Debtors filed the Fifth Amended Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization of iHeartMedia, Inc. and its Debtor Affiliates Pursuant to Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the Bankruptcy Court on October 18, 2018 [Docket No. 1632] (together with all schedules, documents and exhibits contained therein, as amended, supplemented, modified or waived from time to time, the “Bankruptcy Plan”).
4.On January 22, 2019, the Bankruptcy Court entered an order confirming the Bankruptcy Plan with respect to the iHeart Debtors [Docket No. 2525] (the “Confirmation Order”).
5.Pursuant to the Bankruptcy Plan, the Prepetition Term Lenders and the other Initial Lenders are receiving, among other things, interests in an exit term loan facility on the Closing Date in an initial aggregate principal amount of $3,487,359,200.50, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
6.The proceeds of the Initial Term Loans together with the proceeds of (i) the Senior Notes and (ii) a portion of the ABL Facility will be used on the Closing Date to (a) consummate the Transactions, (b) to pay the costs and expenses related to the Transactions and the consummation of the Bankruptcy Plan, (c) to fund distributions in connection with the consummation of, or as required by, the Bankruptcy Plan, and (d) for general corporate purposes.
7.The proceeds of the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans will be used on the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date to (i) repay in full the outstanding borrowings under the ABL Facility and related fees and (ii) for general corporate purposes.
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In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Accounting Terms Section 1.01 Defined Terms.
As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“ABL Credit Agreement” means that certain ABL Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among Holdings, the Borrower, the other borrowers and guarantors from time to time party thereto, the lenders from time to time party thereto, the ABL Facility Administrative Agent and the entities party from time to time thereto as swing line lender and L/C issuers, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time or refunded, refinanced, replaced, renewed, repaid, increased or extended from time to time (whether in whole or in part, whether with the original administrative agent and lenders or other agents and lenders or otherwise, and whether provided under the original ABL Credit Agreement or other credit agreement or otherwise, unless such agreement, instrument or document expressly provides that it is not intended to be and is not an ABL Credit Agreement), to the extent permitted by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Facility” means the collective reference to the ABL Credit Agreement, any Loan Documents (as defined therein), any notes and letters of credit issued pursuant thereto and any guarantee, security agreement, letter of credit applications and other guarantees, pledge agreements, security agreements and collateral documents, and other instruments and documents, executed and delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the foregoing, in each case as the same may be amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time or refunded, refinanced, replaced, renewed, repaid, increased or extended from time to time (whether in whole or in part, whether with the original administrative agent and lenders or other agents and lenders or otherwise, and whether provided under the original ABL Credit Agreement or other credit agreement or otherwise, unless such agreement, instrument or document expressly provides that it is not intended to be and is not an ABL Credit Agreement), to the extent permitted by the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“ABL Facility Administrative Agent” means Citibank, N.A. in its capacity as administrative agent under the ABL Credit Agreement or any successor, new or replacement administrative agent under the ABL Loan Documents.
“ABL Incremental Loans” means loans and commitments resulting from a “Revolving Commitment Increase” under (and as defined in) the ABL Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date.
“ABL Intercreditor Agreement” means the intercreditor agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among, inter alios, Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as ABL Collateral Agent, Bank of America, N.A., as Term Loan Collateral Agent and Designated Junior Priority Representative, and U.S. Bank National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent, as the same may be amended, restated, modified, supplemented, replaced or refinanced from time to time.
“ABL Lenders” means the “Lenders” under and as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement.
“ABL Loan Documents” means the “Loan Documents” as defined in the ABL Credit
Agreement.
“ABL Obligations” means the “Obligations” as defined in the ABL Credit Agreement.
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“ABL Priority Collateral” means “Intercreditor Collateral” as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Acceptable Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(2). “Acceptable Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Acceptance and Prepayment Notice” means a notice of the Borrower’s acceptance of the Acceptable Discount in substantially the form of Exhibit M-1.
“Acceptance Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(2).
“Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary (determined as if references to Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA were references to such Acquired Entity or Business and its Subsidiaries or to such Converted Restricted Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries), as applicable, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable.
“Acquired Entity or Business” has the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Additional Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c).
“Additional Refinancing Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(a).
“Administrative Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent
under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address and account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Lenders.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in the form of Exhibit L or such other form as may be supplied from time to time by the Administrative Agent.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in no event shall any Lender or Agent be deemed an Affiliate of a Loan Party solely by virtue of its capacity as a Lender or Agent hereunder.
“Agent-Related Persons” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, partners, agents, advisors, attorneys-in-fact and other representatives of such Persons and Affiliates.
“Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Supplemental Agents (if any).
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
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“All-In Yield” means, as to any Indebtedness, the yield thereof incurred or payable by the applicable borrower generally to all Lenders of such Indebtedness in an amount equal to the sum of (a) the applicable margin plus any credit spread or other similar adjustment; (b) OID and upfront fees; provided that (i) OID and upfront fees shall be equated to interest rate assuming a 4-year life to maturity on a straight line basis (or, if less, the stated life to maturity at the time of incurrence of the applicable Indebtedness); and (ii) “All-In Yield” shall not include amendment fees, arrangement fees, structuring fees, commitment fees, underwriting fees and any similar fees payable to any lead arranger (or its affiliates) in connection with the commitment or syndication of such Indebtedness, consent fees paid to consenting Lenders, ticking fees on undrawn commitments and any other fees not paid or payable generally to all Lenders in the primary syndication of such Indebtedness and (c) the interest rate (exclusive of margin) after giving effect to any Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR or Base Rate floor.
“Amendment No. 1” means Amendment No. 1 to this Agreement dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.
“Amendment No. 2” means Amendment No. 2 to this Agreement, dated as of the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date.
“Amendment No. 4” means Amendment No. 4 to this Agreement, dated as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date.
“Amendment No. 1 Effective Date” means February 3, 2020, the date of the effectiveness of Amendment No. 1.
“Amendment No. 2 Effective Date” means July 16, 2020, the date of the effectiveness of Amendment No. 2.
“Amendment No. 3 Effective Date” means July 16, 2021.
“Amendment No. 4 Effective Date” means June 15, 2023, the date of the effectiveness of Amendment No. 4.
“Applicable Asset Sale Percentage” means (a) 100.0% if the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period is greater than 3.50 to 1.00, (b) 50.0% if the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period is less than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00 and greater than 3.00 to 1.00 and (c) 0% if the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period is less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00, in each case, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Applicable Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(2).
“Applicable ECF Percentage” means, for any fiscal year, (a) 50.0% if the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such fiscal year is greater than 3.75 to 1.00, (b) 25.0% if the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such fiscal year is less than or equal to 3.75 to 1.00 and greater than 3.25 to 1.00 and (c) 0.0% if the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such fiscal year is less than or equal to 3.25 to 1.00, in each case, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Applicable Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.21. “Applicable Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(ii).
“Applicable Rate” means, (a) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, a percentage per annum equal to, (x) for Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, 3.00% and (y) for Base Rate Loans, 2.00% and (b) with respect to the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans, a percentage per annum equal to, (x) for Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, 3.25% and (y) for Base Rate Loans, 2.25%.
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“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class.
“Approval Order” shall mean the Order (I) Authorizing Debtors to Obtain Postpetition Financing Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 105, 362, 363(b), 364(c)(1), 364(d)(1) and 364(e), (II) Granting Adequate Protection to Prepetition Secured Parties Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. §§ 361, 362, 363, 364 and 507(b) and (III) Authorizing Debtors to Obtain Exit Financing entered by the Bankruptcy Court on June 7, 2018 Docket No. 918.
“Approved Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, any Fund that is administered, advised or managed by (a) such Lender, (b) an Affiliate of such Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages such Lender.
“Assignees” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
“Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
“Assignment Taxes” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(b).
“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external legal counsel.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Auction Agent” means (a) the Administrative Agent or (b) any other financial institution or advisor employed by the Borrower (whether or not an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) to act as an arranger in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v); provided that the Borrower shall not designate the Administrative Agent as the Auction Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent (it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to agree to act as the Auction Agent); provided, further, that neither the Borrower nor any of its Affiliates (other than an Initial Lender) may act as the Auction Agent.
“Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheets of Holdings as of each of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 and related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.
“Available Incremental Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d)(v).
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Bank of America” means, Bank of America, N.A.
“Bankruptcy Code” means title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101–1532, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Bankruptcy Court” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
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“Bankruptcy Plan” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the Prime Rate in effect for such day and (c) the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR plus 1.00%. The Base Rate, (x) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, shall be deemed to be 0.00% per annum if the Base Rate calculated pursuant to the foregoing provisions would otherwise be less than 0.00% per annum and (y) with respect to the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans, shall be deemed to be 1.50% per annum if the Base Rate calculated pursuant to the foregoing provisions would otherwise be less than 1.50% per annum. If the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Rate for any reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms of the definition thereof,Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 3.03 hereof, then the Base Rate shall be the greater of clauses (a), and (b) above and shall be determined without regardreference to clause (a) of the preceding sentence until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate, as the case may be.c) above.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan denominated in Dollars that bears interest based on the Base
Rate.
“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in and subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“Borrower” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement. “Borrower Materials” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.02.
“Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment” means the offer by any Company Party to make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a Specified Discount to par pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(B).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by any Company Party of offers for, and the corresponding acceptance by a Lender of, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a specified range of discounts to par pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(C).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by any Company Party of offers for, and the subsequent acceptance, if any, by a Lender of, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a discount to par pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(D).
“Borrowing” means a Term Borrowing of a particular Class, as the context may require.
“Broadcast Licenses” means the main station licenses issued by the FCC or any foreign Governmental Authority and held by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries for the Broadcast Stations operated by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Broadcast Stations” means each full-service AM or FM radio broadcast station or full-service television broadcast station now or hereafter owned and operated by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
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“Business Day” means (a) any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the State of New York, and (b) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means a day on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are conducted by and between banks in the applicable London interbank market.state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including in all events all amounts expended or capitalized under Capitalized Leases) by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as capital expenditures on the consolidated statement of cash flows of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease; provided that any obligations of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries either existing on the Closing Date or created prior to any recharacterization described below (i) that were not included on the consolidated balance sheet of Holdings as capital lease obligations and (ii) that are subsequently recharacterized as capital lease obligations or indebtedness due to a change in accounting treatment or otherwise, shall for all purposes under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the calculation of Consolidated Net Income and Consolidated EBITDA) not be treated as capital lease obligations, Capitalized Lease Obligations or Indebtedness.
“Capitalized Leases” means all leases that have been or are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided that for all purposes hereunder the amount of obligations under any Capitalized Lease shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP; provided, further, that for purposes of calculations made pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, GAAP will be deemed to treat leases in a manner consistent with its treatment under generally accepted accounting principles as of January 1, 2015, notwithstanding any modifications or interpretive changes thereto that may have occurred thereafter.
“Capitalized Software Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of licensed or purchased software or internally developed software and software enhancements that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Case” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Cash Collateral Account” means a blocked account at a commercial bank specified by the Administrative Agent in the name of the Administrative Agent and under the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, and otherwise established in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary:
(1)Dollars;
(2)such local currencies held by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary from time to time in the ordinary course of business (including without limitation Sterling, euro, AUD or any national currency of any participating member state of the Economic and Monetary Union);
(3)securities issued or directly and fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof the securities of which are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of such government with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
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(4)certificates of deposit, time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition, demand deposits, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any domestic or foreign commercial bank having capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks and $100,000,000 in the case of non-U.S. banks;
(5)repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (3), (4), (7) and (8) entered into with any financial institution or recognized securities dealer meeting the qualifications specified in clause (4) above;
(6)commercial paper and variable or fixed rate notes rated at least P-2 by Xxxxx’x or at least A-2 by S&P (or, if at any time neither Xxxxx’x nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency) and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation thereof;
(7)marketable short-term money market and similar funds having a rating of at least P-2 or A-2 from either Xxxxx’x or S&P, respectively (or, if at any time neither Xxxxx’x nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency);
(8)readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof having an investment grade rating from either Xxxxx’x or S&P (or, if at any time neither Xxxxx’x nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency) with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(9)readily marketable direct obligations issued by any foreign government or any political subdivision or public instrumentality thereof, in each case having an investment grade rating from either Xxxxx’x or S&P (or, if at any time neither Xxxxx’x nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency) with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(10)Investments with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated AAA- (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or Aaa3 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Xxxxx’x (or, if at any time neither Xxxxx’x nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency);
(11)securities with maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any financial institution or recognized securities dealer meeting the qualifications specified in clause (4) above;
(12)Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Persons with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A2” or higher from Xxxxx’x with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition; and
(13)investment funds investing at least 90% of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (1) through (12) above.
In the case of Investments by any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary or Investments made in a country outside the United States of America, Cash Equivalents shall also include (a) investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (1) through (8) and clauses (10), (11), (12) and (13) above of foreign obligors, which Investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies and (b) other short-term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in investments analogous to the foregoing investments in clauses (1) through (13) and in this paragraph.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clauses (1) and (2) above; provided that such amounts are
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converted into any currency listed in clauses (1) and (2) as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such amounts.
For the avoidance of doubt, any items identified as Cash Equivalents under this definition will be deemed to be Cash Equivalents for all purposes regardless of the treatment of such items under GAAP.
“Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, fixed assets or real property.
“CCH” means Clear Channel Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“CERCLA” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as subsequently amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.
“Change of Control” shall be deemed to occur if:
(a)any person or “group” (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Closing Date) shall have acquired beneficial ownership (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act) of 50% or more on a fully diluted basis of the voting interest in Parent’s Equity Interests;
(b)a “change of control” (or similar event) shall occur under the ABL Facility, the Senior Notes Indentures; or
(c)Holdings shall cease to own directly or indirectly 100% of the Equity Interests of
the Borrower.
Notwithstanding the preceding or any provision of Section 13d-3 of the Exchange Act,
(i) a Person or group shall not be deemed to beneficially own Equity Interests subject to a stock or asset purchase agreement, merger agreement, option agreement, warrant agreement or similar agreement (or voting or option or similar agreement related thereto) until the consummation of the acquisition of the Equity Interests in connection with the transactions contemplated by such agreement and (ii) the right to acquire Equity Interests (so long as such Person does not have the right to direct the voting of the Equity Interests subject to such right) or any veto power in connection with the acquisition or disposition of Equity Interests will not cause a party to be a beneficial owner.
“City Code” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.03(c). “Claimant Assignee” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
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“Class” (a) when used with respect to any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment with respect to a particular Class of Loans or Commitments, (b) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Initial Term Commitments, Incremental Term Commitments, Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, Refinancing Term Commitments of a given Refinancing Series or Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series and (c) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Initial Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans of a given Refinancing Series or Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series. Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, Initial Term Commitments, Incremental Term Commitments or Refinancing Term Commitments (and in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) that have different terms and conditions shall be construed to be in different Classes. Commitments (and, in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) that have the same terms and conditions shall be construed to be in the same Class. There shall be no more than an aggregate of three Classes of revolving credit facilities and five Classes of term loan facilities under this Agreement at any time outstanding. For the avoidance of doubt, the Initial Term Loans and the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans shall constitute separate Classes of Term Loans.
“Closing Date” means May 1, 2019, the first date on which all conditions precedent in Section
4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.03.
“iHeartCommunications Warrants” means the warrants issued by the Borrower to a Claimholder (as defined in the Plan of Reorganization) on the Closing Date to purchase shares of common stock of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
“CME” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited.
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Collateral” means (i) the “Collateral” as defined in the Security Agreement, (ii) all the “Collateral” or “Pledged Assets” or similar term as defined in any other Collateral Document and (iii) any other assets pledged or in which a Lien is granted or purported to be granted, in each case, pursuant to any Collateral Document.
“Collateral Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as collateral agent or pledgee in its own name under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor collateral agent.
“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that:
(a)the Administrative Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.01(a) or from time to time pursuant to Section
6.11 or Section 6.13, subject to the limitations and exceptions of this Agreement, duly executed by each Loan Party party thereto;
(b)all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed pursuant to the Guaranty by (i) Holdings, (ii) any Electing Guarantor and (iii) each direct and indirect wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings (other than any Excluded Subsidiary);
(c)the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a first-priority security interest in (i) all the Equity Interests of the Borrower and each Guarantor, and (ii) all Equity Interests of each other Restricted Subsidiary (that is not an Excluded Subsidiary), in each case, subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Agreement, the Collateral Documents (to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction) and the Intercreditor Agreements;
(d)the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a perfected security interest in, and Mortgages on, (i) in the case of Holdings, the Borrower and each US Guarantor, substantially all now owned or, in the case of real property, fee owned, or at any time hereafter acquired tangible and intangible assets of each such Loan Party thereof (including Equity Interests, intercompany debt, accounts, inventory, equipment, investment property, contract rights, intellectual property in the
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United States of America, other general intangibles, Material Real Property and proceeds of the foregoing), in each case, subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Agreement and the Collateral Documents (to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction) and (ii) in the case of each other Loan Party, a pledge of (x) the applicable Equity Interests referred to in clause (c) above and (y) each intercompany promissory note or similar debt instrument representing intercompany Indebtedness owed from a Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings to the applicable Loan Party, subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Agreement and the Collateral Documents (to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction), in each case with the priority required by the Collateral Documents, the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the ABL Intercreditor Agreement;
(e)subject to limitations and exceptions of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents, to the extent a security interest in and Mortgages on any Material Real Property are required pursuant to clause (d) above or under Sections 6.11 or 6.13 (each, a “Mortgaged Property”), the Administrative Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to such Mortgaged Property duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such property, together with evidence such Mortgage has been duly executed, acknowledged and delivered by a duly authorized officer of each party thereto, in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary or desirable in order to create a valid and subsisting perfected Lien (subject only to Liens described in clause (ii) below) on the property and/or rights described therein in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and evidence that all filing and recording taxes and fees have been paid or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (it being understood that if a mortgage tax will be owed on the entire amount of the indebtedness evidenced hereby, then the amount secured by the Mortgage shall, to the extent permitted pursuant to applicable law, be limited to 100% of the fair market value of the property (as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent) at the time the Mortgage is entered into if such limitation results in such mortgage tax being calculated based upon such fair market value), (ii) fully paid American Land Title Association Lender’s policies of title insurance (or marked-up title insurance commitments having the effect of policies of title insurance) on the Mortgaged Property naming the Collateral Agent as the insured for its benefit and that of the Secured Parties and their respective successors and assigns (the “Mortgage Policies”) issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent in form and substance and in an amount reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent (not to exceed 100% of the fair market value of the real properties covered thereby), insuring the Mortgages to be valid subsisting first priority Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of all Liens other than Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.01 and other Liens reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, each of which shall (A) to the extent reasonably necessary, include such coinsurance and reinsurance arrangements (with provisions for direct access, if reasonably necessary) as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, (B) contain a “tie-in” or “cluster” endorsement, if available under applicable law (i.e., policies which insure against losses regardless of location or allocated value of the insured property up to a stated maximum coverage amount), and (C) have been supplemented by such endorsements as shall be reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent (including endorsements on matters relating to usury, first loss, last dollar, zoning, contiguity, doing business, non-imputation, public road access, variable rate, environmental lien, subdivision, mortgage recording tax, separate tax lot, revolving credit and so-called comprehensive coverage over covenants and restrictions, to the extent such endorsements are available in the applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates), (iii) opinions of local counsel to the Loan Parties in states in which the Mortgaged Properties are located, with respect to the enforceability and perfection of the Mortgages and any related fixture filings, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and (iv) no later than three Business Days prior to the date on which a Mortgage is executed and delivered pursuant to this Agreement, a completed “life of the loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency standard flood hazard determination with respect to each Mortgaged Property on which any “building” (as defined in the Flood Insurance Laws) is located, duly executed and acknowledged by the appropriate Loan Parties, together with evidence of flood insurance as and to the extent required under Section 6.07 hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not enter into any Mortgage in respect of any real property acquired by the Borrower or any other Loan Party after the Closing Date until (1) the date that occurs 45 days after the Administrative Agent has delivered to the Lenders (which may be delivered electronically) the following documents in respect of such real property: (i) a completed flood hazard determination from a third party vendor; (ii) if such real property is located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, (A) a notification to the Borrower (or applicable Loan Party) of that fact and (if applicable) notification to the Borrower (or applicable Loan Party) that flood insurance
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coverage is not available and (B) evidence of the receipt by the Borrower (or applicable Loan Party) of such notice; and (iii) if such notice is required to be provided to the Borrower (or applicable Loan Party) and flood insurance is available in the community in which such real property is located, evidence of required flood insurance and (2) the Administrative Agent shall have received written confirmation from the Lenders the that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance has been completed by the Lenders (such written confirmation not to be unreasonably conditioned, withheld or delayed); and
(f)after the Closing Date, each Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is not then a Guarantor and not an Excluded Subsidiary shall become a Guarantor and signatory to this Agreement pursuant to a joinder agreement in accordance with Sections 6.11 or 6.13 and a party to the Collateral Documents in accordance with Section 6.11; provided that notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, any Subsidiary of Holdings that Guarantees (or is the borrower or issuer with respect to) the Senior Notes, the ABL Facility or any Junior Financing or any Permitted Refinancing of any of the foregoing shall be a Guarantor hereunder for so long as it Guarantees such Indebtedness.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary:
(A)the foregoing definition shall not require, unless otherwise stated in this clause (A), the creation or perfection of pledges of, security interests in, Mortgages on, or the obtaining of title insurance or taking other actions with respect to the following: (i) other than in the case of any Electing Guarantors, any property or assets owned by any Excluded Subsidiary, (ii) any lease, license or agreement or any property subject to a purchase money security interest or similar arrangement to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement or purchase money arrangement or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable Law, other than proceeds and receivables thereof, the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Uniform Commercial Code or other applicable Law notwithstanding such prohibition, (iii) any interest in fee-owned real property other than Material Real Properties, (iv) Excluded Contracts, Excluded Equipment and any interest in leased real property (it being understood that no action shall be required with respect to creation or perfection of security interests with respect to leases, including any requirement to obtain or deliver landlord waivers, estoppels or collateral access letters), (v) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title except to the extent perfection of a security interest therein may be accomplished by filing of financing statements in appropriate form in the applicable jurisdiction under the Uniform Commercial Code, (vi) Margin Stock and Equity Interests of any Person other than wholly-owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, (vii) any trademark application filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on the basis of the Borrower’s or any Guarantor’s “intent to use” such mark and for which a form evidencing use of the mark has not yet been filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, to the extent that granting a security interest in such trademark application prior to such filing would impair the enforceability or validity of such trademark application or any registration that issues therefrom under applicable federal Law, (viii) the creation or perfection of pledges of, or security interests in, any property or assets that would result in material adverse tax consequences to Holdings and any Restricted Subsidiaries of Holdings, as determined in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent, (ix) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations, to the extent a security in any such license, franchise, charter or authorization is prohibited or restricted thereby after giving effect to the anti-assignment provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Law, (x) pledges and security interests prohibited or restricted by applicable Law whether on the Closing Date or thereafter (including any requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority or third party), (xi) all commercial tort claims in an amount less than $15,000,000 in the aggregate, (xii) letter of credit rights, except to the extent constituting a supporting obligation for other Collateral as to which perfection of the security interest in such other Collateral is accomplished solely by the filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement (it being understood that no actions shall be required to perfect a security interest in letter of credit rights, other than the filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement), (xiii) any particular assets if, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, the burden, cost or consequences of creating or
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perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets or obtaining title insurance is excessive in relation to the benefits to be obtained therefrom by the Lenders under the Loan Documents, (xiv) cash and cash equivalents, deposit and securities accounts (including securities entitlements and related assets), in each case, other than proceeds of Collateral as to which perfection may be accomplished solely by the filing of a UCC financing statement, (xv) any segregated funds held in escrow for the benefit of an unaffiliated third party (including such funds in Escrow), (xvi) any FCC Authorizations to the extent (but only to the extent) that at such time the Collateral Agent may not validly possess a security interest therein pursuant to applicable Communications Laws, but the Collateral shall include, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all rights incident or appurtenant to the FCC Authorizations (except to the extent requiring approval of the FCC, unless such approval has first been secured consistent with Section 10.24), the economic value of the FCC Authorizations, and the right to receive all proceeds derived from or in connection with the direct or indirect sale, assignment or transfer of the FCC Authorizations, (xvii) the Identified Assets, (viii) any Equity Interests of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and (xix) proceeds from any and all of the foregoing assets described in the clauses above to the extent such proceeds would otherwise be excluded pursuant the clauses above;
(B)(i) the foregoing definition shall not require control agreements with respect to any cash, deposit accounts or securities accounts or any other assets requiring perfection through control agreements; (ii) other than with respect to an Electing Guarantor organized in a jurisdiction other than the U.S., no actions in any non-U.S. jurisdiction shall be required in order to create any security interests in assets located or titled outside of the U.S., or to perfect such security interests (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements, or share charge (or mortgage) agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction, other than, with respect to an Electing Guarantor organized in a jurisdiction other than the U.S., a security agreement, pledge agreement or share charge governed by the laws of such jurisdiction in which such Subsidiary is organized) and (iii) except to the extent that perfection and priority may be achieved by the filing of a financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code with respect to the Borrower or a Guarantor or delivery of possessory Collateral required to be delivered pursuant to the Collateral Documents, the Loan Documents shall not contain any requirements as to perfection or priority with respect to any assets or property described in this clause (B)
(C)the Collateral Agent in its discretion may grant extensions of time for the creation or perfection of security interests in, and Mortgages on, or obtaining of title insurance or taking other actions with respect to, particular assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date) or any other compliance with the requirements of this definition where it reasonably determines in writing, in consultation with the Borrower, that the creation or perfection of security interests and Mortgages on, or obtaining of title insurance or taking other actions, or any other compliance with the requirements of this definition cannot be accomplished without undue delay, burden or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents;
(D)Liens required to be granted from time to time pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in this Agreement and the Collateral Documents; and
(E)general statutory limitations, financial assistance, corporate benefit, capital maintenance rules, fraudulent preference, “thin capitalisation” rules, retention of title claims and similar principles may limit the ability of a Foreign Subsidiary to provide a Guaranty or Collateral or may require that the Guaranty or Collateral be limited by an amount or otherwise, in each case as reasonably determined by the Borrower, in consultation with the Administrative Agent.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, each of the Mortgages, collateral assignments, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 4.01, Section 6.11 or Section 6.13, and each of the other agreements, instruments or
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documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Commitment” means an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment, Initial Term Commitment, Incremental Term Commitment (including, a Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitment) or Refinancing Term Commitment of a given Refinancing Series as the context may require.
“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of Holdings.
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.).
“Communications Laws” means the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and the FCC’s rules, regulations, published orders and published and promulgated policy statements, all as may be amended from time to time.
“Company Parties” means the collective reference to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including the Borrower, and “Company Party” means any one of them.
“Compensation Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(c)(ii). “Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1.
“Confirmation Order” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to the use, administration of or any conventions associated with any proposed Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definitions of “Base Rate”, “SOFR”, “Term SOFR” and “Interest Period”, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definitions of “Business Day” and “U.S. Government Securities Business Day”, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such applicable rate(s) and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, determines that no market practice for the administration of such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Loan Document).
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income for such period:
(1)increased (without duplication) by the following, in each case (other than with respect to clauses (h), (k) and (p)) to the extent deducted (and not added back) in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period:
(a)provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital gains of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries, including, without limitation, federal, state, franchise and similar taxes (such as the Delaware franchise tax) and foreign withholding taxes (including any future taxes or other levies which replace or are intended to be in lieu of such taxes and any penalties and interest related to such
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taxes or arising from tax examinations), and the net tax expense associated with any adjustments made pursuant to clauses (1) through (15) of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”; plus
(b)Fixed Charges for such period (including (x) net losses on Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, (y) bank fees and other financing fees and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities, plus amounts excluded from Consolidated Interest Expense as set forth in clauses (1)(i) through (viii) in the definition thereof); plus
(c)the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of intangible assets, deferred financing costs, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and Capitalized Software Expenditures of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP; plus
(d)the amount of any restructuring charges or reserves, equity-based or non-cash compensation charges or expenses including any such charges or expenses arising from grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock or other rights, retention charges (including charges or expenses in respect of incentive plans), costs and expenses for Permitted Tax Restructurings, start-up or initial costs for any project or new production line, division or new line of business or other business optimization expenses or reserves including, without limitation, severance costs, costs relating to initiatives aimed at profitability improvement, costs or reserves associated with improvements to IT and accounting functions, integration and facilities opening costs or any one-time costs incurred in connection with acquisitions and investments and costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities; plus
(e)any other non-cash charges, including any non-cash write-offs or write-downs reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period (provided that if any such non-cash charges represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, (A) Holdings may elect not to add back such non-cash charge in the current period and (B) to the extent Holdings elects to add back such non-cash charge, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period); plus
(f)the amount of any non-controlling interest or minority interest expense consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Subsidiary; plus
(g)the amount of any fees, compensation and indemnities and expenses paid to the members of the board of directors (or the equivalent thereof) of the Borrower or any of its parent entities; plus
(h)the amount of (x) pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies related to the Transactions generated from actions that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of Holdings) within 24 months after the Closing Date (including from any actions taken in whole or in part prior to the Closing Date), net the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions and (y) pro forma “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies related to mergers and other business combinations, acquisitions, investments, dispositions, divestitures, restructurings, operating improvements, cost savings initiatives and other transactions or similar initiatives generated from actions that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken (in each case, including prior to the Closing Date) or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of Holdings) within 24 months after a merger or other business combination, acquisition, investment, disposition or divestiture is consummated or generated by actions (including restructurings, operating improvements, cost savings initiatives and other transactions or similar initiatives) that have been taken or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of Holdings), in each case, calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, and synergies had been realized on the first day of such period, as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies were realized during the entirety of such period, net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such
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period from such actions; provided that (A) such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable in the good faith judgment of Holdings and (B) no cost savings, operating expense reductions or synergies shall be added pursuant to this clause to the extent duplicative of any synergies, expenses or charges otherwise added to Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period or any period; provided further that the aggregate amount of add backs made pursuant to this clause (h)(y) shall not exceed an amount equal to 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the determination date (calculated before giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to this clause (h)(y) and excluding amounts in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act); plus
(i)[reserved]; plus
(j)any costs or expense incurred by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary or a parent entity of Holdings to the extent paid by Holdings pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such cost or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of Holdings or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interest of Holdings (other than Disqualified Equity Interest) solely to the extent that such net cash proceeds are excluded from the calculation of Cumulative Credit; plus
(k)cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Net Income in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such income were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (2) below for any previous period and not added back; plus
(l)any net losses, charges, expenses, costs or other payments (including all fees, expenses or charges related thereto) (i) from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations, (ii) in respect of facilities no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary, abandoned, closed, disposed or discontinued operations and any losses on disposal of abandoned, closed or discontinued operations and (iii) attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions (other than in the ordinary course of business) as determined in good faith by Holdings; plus
(m)100% of the increase in Deferred Revenue as of the end of such period from Deferred Revenue as of the beginning of such period (or minus 100% of any such decrease); plus
(n)amortization of development advance payments which were made with the objective of increasing the number of clients or customers; plus;
(o)[reserved]; plus
(p)the amount of net cost savings and net cash flow effect of revenue enhancements elated to New Contracts projected by Holdings in good faith to be realized as a result of specified actions taken or to be taken prior to or during such period (which cost savings or revenue enhancements shall be subject only to certification by management of Holdings and shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such cost savings or revenue enhancements had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that (A) such cost savings or revenue enhancements are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable, (B) such actions have been taken or are to be taken within 12 months after the date of determination to take such action and (C) no cost savings or revenue enhancements shall be added pursuant to this clause (p) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges relating to such cost savings or revenue enhancements that are included in clause (d) above with respect to such period; provided that the aggregate amount of add backs made relating to New Contracts in respect of which no revenues have been received during such period pursuant to this clause (p) shall not exceed an amount equal to 5% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the determination date (without giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to this clause (p)),
(2)decreased (without duplication) by the following, in each case to the extent included in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period:
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(q)non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of Holdings for such period, excluding any non-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period and any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period so long as such cash did not increase Consolidated EBITDA in such prior period; plus
(r)any net income from disposed, abandoned, closed or discontinued operations or attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions (other than in the ordinary course of business) as determined in good faith by Holdings.
There shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, (A) the Acquired EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset acquired by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, or closed or classified as discontinued operations (but if such operations are classified as discontinued due to the fact that they are subject to an agreement to dispose of such operations, only when and to the extent such operations are actually disposed of) by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset acquired and not subsequently so disposed of, an “Acquired Entity or Business”) and the Acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each, a “Converted Restricted Subsidiary”), based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or conversion) and (B) for the purposes of the definition of the term “Permitted Acquisition” and the calculation of Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio and Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio, but without limiting the adjustments included in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA, an adjustment in respect of each Acquired Entity or Business equal to the amount of the Pro Forma Adjustment with respect to such Acquired Entity or Business for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition) as specified in a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer and delivered to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent. There shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, or closed or classified as discontinued operations by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset so sold or disposed of, a “Sold Entity or Business”) and the Disposed EBITDA of any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period (each a “Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary”), based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer, disposition or conversion).
“Consolidated First Lien Net Debt” means Consolidated Total Net Debt that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with or senior to the Liens securing the Obligations or any Permitted First Priority Credit Agreement Refinancing Debt.
“Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated First Lien Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any four-quarter period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense, to the extent payable in cash, for Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period:
(1)the sum, without duplication, of consolidated interest expense of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income (including (a) amortization of OID resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (b) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit or bankers acceptances, (c) non-cash interest payments (but excluding any non-
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cash interest expense attributable to the movement in the mark to market valuation of Swap Obligations or other derivative instruments pursuant to GAAP), (d) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, (e) net payments, if any made (less net payments, if any, received), pursuant to interest rate Swap Obligations with respect to Indebtedness and (f) cash interest expense of Indebtedness for which the proceeds are held in Escrow (except, excluding the interest expense in respect thereof that is covered by such proceeds held in Escrow), and excluding (i) costs associated with obtaining Swap Obligations, (ii) any expense resulting from the discounting of any Indebtedness in connection with the application of recapitalization accounting or, if applicable, purchase accounting in connection with the Transactions or any acquisition, (iii) penalties and interest relating to taxes, (iv) any “additional interest” or “liquidated damages” with respect to the Senior Notes or other securities for failure to timely comply with registration rights obligations, (v) amortization or expensing of deferred financing fees, amendment and consent fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and discounted liabilities, (vi) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other financing fees and any other fees related to the Transactions or any acquisitions after the Closing Date including annual agency fees paid pursuant to the administrative agents and collateral agents under this Agreement or other credit facilities, (vii) [reserved] and (viii) any accretion of accrued interest on discounted liabilities and any prepayment premium or penalty); plus
(2)consolidated capitalized interest of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; less
(3)interest income of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period.
For purposes of this definition, interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by Holdings to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that, without duplication,
(1)any after-tax effect of extraordinary, non-recurring or unusual gains or losses (less all fees and expenses relating thereto), charges or expenses (including relating to any multi-year strategic initiatives), Transaction Expenses, restructuring and duplicative running costs, relocation costs, integration costs, facility consolidation and closing costs, severance costs and expenses, one-time compensation charges, costs and expenses for Permitted Tax Restructurings, costs relating to pre-opening and opening costs for facilities, signing, retention and completion bonuses, costs incurred in connection with any strategic initiatives, transition costs, costs incurred in connection with acquisitions and non-recurring product and intellectual property development, other business optimization expenses (including costs and expenses relating to business optimization programs and new systems design, retention charges, system establishment costs and implementation costs) and operating expenses attributable to the implementation of cost-savings initiatives, and curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans shall be excluded;
(2)the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles and changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period shall be excluded;
(3)any net after-tax effect of gains or losses on disposal, abandonment or discontinuance of disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations, as applicable, shall be excluded;
(4)any net after-tax effect of gains or losses (less all fees, expenses and charges relating thereto) attributable to asset dispositions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, bulk subscriber contract sales) or abandonments or the sale or other disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person other than in the ordinary course of business shall be excluded;
(5)the net income for such period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of Holdings, or is an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting shall be excluded; provided that Consolidated Net Income of Holdings shall be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments (other than Excluded Contributions) that are actually paid in cash or Cash
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Equivalents (or to the extent converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) to Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period;
(6)the net income for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrower or any Guarantor) shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of its net income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule, or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders (other than restrictions in this Agreement), unless such restriction with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions has been legally waived; provided that the Consolidated Net Income of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries will be increased by the amount of dividends or other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or to the extent converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) to Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period, to the extent not already included therein (other than Excluded Contributions);
(7)[reserved];
(8)any after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early extinguishment or conversion of
(i) Indebtedness, (ii) Swap Obligations or (iii) other derivative instruments shall be excluded;
(9)any impairment charge or asset write-off or write-down, including impairment charges or asset write-offs or write-downs related to intangible assets, long-lived assets, investments in debt and equity securities and investments recorded using the equity method or as a result of a change in law or regulation, in each case, pursuant to GAAP, and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to GAAP shall be excluded;
(10)any equity-based or non-cash compensation charge or expense including any such charge or expense arising from grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock, profits interests or other rights or equity or equity-based incentive programs (“equity incentives”), any one-time cash charges associated with the equity incentives or other long-term incentive compensation plans, roll-over, acceleration, or payout of Equity Interests by management, other employees or business partners of Holdings or any of its direct or indirect parent companies, shall be excluded;
(11)any fees, expenses or charges incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such period, in connection with any acquisition, recapitalization, Investment, disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness (including such fees, expenses or charges related to the offering and issuance of the Senior Notes, the syndication and incurrence of loans under the ABL Facility and other securities and the syndication and incurrence of any Facility), issuance of Equity Interests, refinancing transaction or amendment or modification of any debt instrument (including any amendment or other modification of the Senior Notes, the ABL Facility and other securities and any Facility) and including, in each case, any such transaction consummated on or prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed, and any charges or non-recurring merger costs incurred during such period as a result of any such transaction, in each case whether or not successful or consummated (including, for the avoidance of doubt the effects of expensing all transaction related expenses in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 805), shall be excluded;
(12)accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted within 12 months after the Closing Date that are so required to be established or adjusted as a result of the Transactions (or within twenty four months after the closing of any acquisition that are so required to be established as a result of such acquisition) in accordance with GAAP or changes as a result of modifications of accounting policies shall be excluded; provided that amounts paid in respect of such accruals and reserves shall be deducted from Consolidated Net Income when paid in cash;
(13)any expenses, charges or losses to the extent covered by insurance or indemnity and actually reimbursed, or, so long as Holdings has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer or indemnifying party and only to the extent that such amount is in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of the insurable or indemnifiable
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event (net of any amount so added back in any prior period to the extent not so reimbursed within the applicable 365-day period), shall be excluded;
(14)any non-cash compensation expense resulting from the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, shall be excluded;
(15)the following items shall be excluded:
(a)any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such period from Swap Obligations and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 815, Derivatives and Hedging,
(b)any net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such period from currency translation gains or losses including those related to currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including any net loss or gain resulting from Swap Obligations for currency exchange risk) and any other foreign currency translation gains and losses, to the extent such gains or losses are non-cash items,
(c)any adjustments resulting for the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 460, Guarantees, or any comparable regulation,
(d)effects of adjustments to accruals and reserves during a prior period relating to any change in the methodology of calculating reserves for returns, rebates and other chargebacks,
(e)earn-out and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments; and
(f)restructuring-related or other similar charges, fees, costs, commissions and expenses or other charges incurred during such period in connection with this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Case, any reorganization plan in connection with the Case, the Bankruptcy Plan, including the write-off of any receivables, the termination or settlement of executory contracts, professional and accounting costs fees and expenses, management incentive, employee retention or similar plans (in each case to the extent such plan is approved by the Bankruptcy Court to the extent required), litigation costs and settlements, asset write-downs, income and gains recorded in connection with the corporate reorganization of the iHeart Debtors;
(16)[reserved]; and
(17)if such Person is treated as a disregarded entity or partnership for U.S. federal, state and/or local income tax purposes for such period or any portion thereof, the amount of distributions actually made to any direct or indirect parent company of such Person in respect of such period in accordance with Section 7.06(i)(iii) shall be included in calculating Consolidated Net Income as though such amounts had been paid as taxes directly by such Person for such period.
In addition, to the extent not already included in the Consolidated Net Income of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall include the amount of proceeds received from business interruption insurance and reimbursements of any expenses and charges that are covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any acquisition, investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement to the extent such expenses and charges reduced Consolidated Net Income.
“Consolidated Secured Net Debt” means Consolidated Total Net Debt that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral or that is secured by any Lien on any other property or assets of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary.
“Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Secured Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
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“Consolidated Total Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of (i) Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, in an amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with the Transactions or any Permitted Acquisition), consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money plus (ii) purchase money indebtedness, Attributable Indebtedness and debt obligations evidenced by promissory notes, bonds, debentures, loan agreements or similar instruments (but, in each case of this clause (a), excluding for the avoidance of doubt, any obligations in respect of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock with a liquidation preference or stated value not to exceed the greater of (x) $200,000,000 and (y) 2.5% of Total Assets as of the last day of the then most recently ended Test Period), minus (b) the aggregate amount of all unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents on the balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date; provided that Consolidated Total Net Debt shall not include Indebtedness (i) in respect of letters of credit, except to the extent of unreimbursed amounts thereunder; provided that any unreimbursed amount under commercial letters of credit shall not be counted as Consolidated Total Net Debt until three Business Days after such amount is drawn, (ii) of Unrestricted Subsidiaries and (iii) incurred in advance of, and the proceeds of which are to be applied in connection with, the consummation of a transaction solely to the extent and for so long as the proceeds thereof are and continue to be held in an Escrow and are not otherwise made available to the relevant Person (it being understood that in any event, any such proceeds subject to such Escrow shall be deemed to constitute “restricted cash” for purposes of cash netting) (provided that such Escrow is secured only by proceeds of such Indebtedness and the proceeds thereof shall be promptly applied to satisfy and discharge such Indebtedness if the definitive agreement for such transaction is terminated prior to the consummation thereof); it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that obligations under Swap Contracts do not constitute Consolidated Total Net Debt.
“Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Working Capital” means, with respect to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, Current Assets at such date of determination minus Current Liabilities at such date of determination; provided that increases or decreases in Consolidated Working Capital shall be calculated without regard to any changes in Current Assets or Current Liabilities as a result of any reclassification in accordance with GAAP of assets or liabilities, as applicable, between current and noncurrent. For purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow, any changes to Consolidated Working Capital due to non-cash adjustments of Current Assets and/or Current Liabilities shall be ignored.
“Contract Consideration” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Excess Cash Flow.”
“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Control” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Affiliate.”
“Converted Restricted Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” means (a) Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, (b) Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt, (c) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt or (d) other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, in each case, issued, incurred or otherwise obtained (including by means of the extension or renewal of existing Indebtedness) in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace, repurchase, retire or refinance, in whole or part, existing Term Loans, or any then-existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (“Refinanced Debt”); provided
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that (i) such Indebtedness has a maturity no earlier, and in the case of Refinancing Term Loans, a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater, than the Refinanced Debt, (ii) such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt plus accrued interest, fees, premiums (if any) and penalties thereon and reasonable fees and expenses associated with the refinancing, (iii) the covenants and events of default are, in the good faith determination of the Borrower, not materially less favorable (when taken as a whole) to the Borrower than the covenants and events of default applicable to the Refinanced Debt being refinanced or replaced (except for (x) pricing, premiums, fees, rate floors and prepayment and redemption terms and (y) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence of such Indebtedness); provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such covenants and events of default satisfy the requirement of this clause (iii) shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy such requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five (5) Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a description of the basis upon which it disagrees) unless the Lenders of the Term Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms (it being understood that to the extent any more restrictive terms are added for the benefit of any such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, no consent shall be required from the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders to the extent that such more restrictive terms are also added for the benefit of any corresponding existing Facility), and (iv) such Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, repurchased, retired, defeased or satisfied and discharged, all accrued interest, fees, premiums (if any) and penalties in connection therewith shall be paid, and all commitments thereunder terminated, on the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or obtained.
“Credit Extension” means a Borrowing.
“Cumulative Credit” means, at any date, an amount, not less than zero in the aggregate, determined on a cumulative basis equal to, without duplication:
(a)the greater of (x) $500,000,000 and (y) 50.0% of Consolidated EBITDA for the then most recently ended Test Period; plus
(b)an amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to (i) Consolidated EBITDA minus (ii) 140% of Consolidated Interest Expense, in each case, for the period from the first day of the fiscal quarter of Holdings during which the Closing Date occurred to and including the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of Holdings for which internal consolidated financial statements of Holdings are available, plus
(c)to the extent not otherwise reflected in Consolidated Net Income, the cumulative amount of cash and Cash Equivalent proceeds (other than Excluded Contributions) from (i) the sale of Equity Interests (other than any Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings after the Closing Date and on or prior to such time (including upon exercise of warrants or options) which proceeds have been contributed as common equity to the capital of the Borrower and (ii) the common Equity Interests of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings (other than Disqualified Equity Interests of the Borrower) issued upon conversion of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness that is contractually subordinated to the Obligations) of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings owed to a Person other than a Loan Party or a Restricted Subsidiary of a Loan Party, in each case, not previously applied for a purpose other than use in the Cumulative Credit (including, for the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of Section 7.03(m)(ii)); plus
(d)to the extent not otherwise reflected in Consolidated Net Income, 100% of the aggregate amount of contributions to the common capital (other than from a Restricted Subsidiary) of Holdings received in cash and Cash Equivalents after the Closing Date (other than Excluded Contributions), in each case, not previously applied for a purpose other than use in the Cumulative Credit (including, for the avoidance of doubt, for the purposes of Section 7.03(m)(ii)); plus
(e)100% of the aggregate amount received by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings in cash and Cash Equivalents from:
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(A)the sale (other than to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary) of the Equity Interests of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any minority investments, or
(B)any dividend or other distribution by an Unrestricted Subsidiary or received in respect of any minority investment (except to the extent increasing Consolidated Net Income and excluding Excluded Contributions), or
(C)any interest, returns of principal payments and similar payments by an Unrestricted Subsidiary or received in respect of any minority investments (except to the extent increasing Consolidated Net Income), plus
(f)in the event any Unrestricted Subsidiary has been redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary or has been merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys its assets to, or is liquidated into, Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary, the fair market value of the Investments of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation, combination or transfer (or of the assets transferred or conveyed, as applicable) so long as such Investments were originally made pursuant to Section 7.02(n)(III), plus
(g)to the extent not already included in Consolidated Net Income, an amount equal to any returns in cash and Cash Equivalents (including dividends, interest, distributions, returns of principal, profits on sale, repayments, income and similar amounts) actually received by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(n)(III); plus
(h)100% of the aggregate amount of any Declined Proceeds; plus
(i)the amount of any Net Proceeds received by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary from a Disposition that would otherwise be required to be used to prepay Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.05(b) but for the Applicable Asset Sale Percentage being less than 100%; minus
(j)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to make Investments pursuant to Section 7.02(n)(y) after the Closing Date and prior to such time; minus
(k)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to pay dividends or make distributions pursuant to Section 7.06(h)(ii) after the Closing Date and prior to such time; minus
(l)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to make payments or distributions in respect of Junior Financings pursuant to Section 7.13(a) after the Closing Date and prior to such time.
“Current Assets” means, with respect to Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, all assets (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries that would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified on a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as current assets at such date of determination, other than amounts related to current or deferred Taxes based on income or profits, assets held for sale or of discontinued operations, loans (permitted) to third parties, pension assets, deferred bank fees and derivative financial instruments.
“Current Liabilities” means, with respect to Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, all liabilities of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries that would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified on a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as current liabilities at such date of determination, other than (a) the current portion of any Indebtedness, (b) accruals of Consolidated Interest Expense (excluding Consolidated Interest Expense that is past due and unpaid), (c) accruals for current or deferred Taxes based on income or profits, (d) accruals for liabilities of discontinued operations, loans (permitted) from third parties, pension liabilities, and derivative financial instruments, and (e) accruals of any costs or expenses related to restructuring reserves.
“Customary Term A Loans” means any term loans that contain provisions customary for “term A loans,” as reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith, that are syndicated primarily to
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Persons regulated as banks in the primary syndication thereof, up to an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of $480,000,000 and 50.0% of Consolidated EBITDA.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, with respect to any applicable determination date, the SOFR published on such date on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor source).
“Debt Fund Affiliate” means any Affiliate of Holdings that is a bona fide debt fund, financial institution or an investment vehicle or managed account that is engaged in the making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and with respect to which Holdings does not, directly or indirectly, possess the power to direct or cause the direction of the investment policies of such Affiliate.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally, including in case of the Borrower (a) a winding-up, administration or dissolution including, without limitation, bankruptcy, insolvency, voluntary or involuntary liquidation, composition with creditors, moratorium or reprieve from payment, general settlement with creditors, reorganization or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and/or (b) a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar officer being appointed.
“Declined Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(ix).
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (c) 2.0% per annum; provided that with respect to the overdue principal or interest in respect of a Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan, plus 2.0% per annum, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender whose acts or failure to act, whether directly or indirectly, cause it to meet any part of the definition of “Lender Default.”
“Deferred Revenue” means the amount of long or short term deferred revenue of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Disbursement Agent” means iHeartCommunications, Inc., in its capacity as Initial Lender for the benefit of the Unidentified Claimants.
“Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(2).
“Discount Range” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Discount Range Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Discount Range Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of a Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(C) substantially in the form of Exhibit M-2.
“Discount Range Prepayment Offer” means the irrevocable written offer by a Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit M-3, submitted in response to an invitation to submit offers following the Auction Agent’s receipt of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice.
“Discount Range Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
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“Discount Range Proration” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(3).
“Discounted Prepayment Determination Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Discounted Prepayment Effective Date” means in the case of a Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment, Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offer or Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offer, five (5) Business Days following the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date, the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date or the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, as applicable, in accordance with Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1), Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1) or Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1), respectively, unless a shorter period is agreed to between the Borrower and the Auction Agent.
“Discounted Term Loan Prepayment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(A).
“Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business (determined as if references to Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA (and in the component definitions used therein) were references to such Sold Entity or Business and its Subsidiaries or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries) or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction and any sale or issuance of Equity Interests in a Restricted Subsidiary) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided that (x) “Disposition” and “Dispose” shall not be deemed to include any issuance by Holdings of any of its Equity Interests to another Person and (y) no transaction or series of related transactions shall be considered a “Disposition” for purposes of Section 2.05(b)(ii) or Section 7.05 unless the Net Proceeds resulting from such transaction or series of transactions shall exceed $50,000,000.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash, or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of issuance of such Equity Interests; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof), the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because it may be required to be repurchased by Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.
“Disqualified Lenders” means (a) such Persons that have been specified in writing to the Administrative Agent prior to the Closing Date, as being “Disqualified Lenders” and made available to any Lender upon request and (b) any Person who is a bona fide competitor identified in writing to the Administrative Agent prior to the Closing Date, as such list of bona fide competitors may be updated by the Borrower (by furnishing such updates to the Administrative Agent in writing) from time to time thereafter, and (c) any Affiliate of each such Person referred to in clause (a) or (b) that is identified in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time and in each case, any Affiliate of each such Person
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that is clearly identifiable on the basis of such Affiliate’s name (in each case, other than bona fide fixed income investors or debt funds that are engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business). No updates to the list of Disqualified Xxxxxxx shall be deemed to retroactively disqualify any Person that has previously validly acquired an assignment or participation in respect of any Loans from continuing to hold or vote such previously acquired assignments and participations on the terms set forth herein for Lenders that are not Disqualified Lenders; provided that any such Person will deemed to become a Disqualified Lender as soon as such Person ceases to hold any such Loans hereunder.
“Distressed Person” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Lender-Related Distress Event.”
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent;
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Electing Guarantor” means any Excluded Subsidiary that at the option, and in the sole discretion, of Holdings has been designated as a Guarantor (solely during the time of such designation); provided that such Excluded Subsidiary shall not become a Guarantor until the Administrative Agent shall have received and be satisfied with all documentation and other information reasonably requested by it under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act.
“Eligible Assignee” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(a).
“Environment” means indoor air, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, land surface, subsurface strata and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.
“Environmental Laws” means any applicable Law relating to pollution, protection of the Environment and natural resources, pollutants, contaminants, or chemicals or any toxic or otherwise hazardous substances, wastes or materials, or the protection of human health and safety as it relates to any of the foregoing, including any applicable provisions of CERCLA.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of investigation and remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of or relating to the Loan Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of, or liability under or relating to, any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the actual or alleged presence, Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any Environmental Law.
“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit
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interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities).
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code, or solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA); (d) a written determination that a Pension Plan is in “at risk” status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (e) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate any Pension Plan, the treatment of a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, respectively, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) appointment of a trustee to administer any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) with respect to a Pension Plan, the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302, 303 or 304 of ERISA, whether or not waived; (h) any Foreign Benefit Event; or
(i) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate.
“Escrow” means an escrow, trust, collateral or similar account or arrangement holding proceeds of Indebtedness solely for the benefit of an unaffiliated third party.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“euro” means the single currency of participating member states of the economic and monetary union in accordance with the Treaty of Rome 1957, as amended by the Single European Act 1986, the Maastricht Treaty of 1992 and the Amsterdam Treaty of 1998.
“Eurocurrency Rate” means (a) for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate for Dollars for a period equal in length to such Interest Period) (“LIBOR”) as published on the applicable Bloomberg screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; (b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time determined two (2) London Banking Days prior to such date for U.S. Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day; and (c) if the Eurocurrency Rate (x) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement and (y) with respect to the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans, shall be less than 0.50%, such rate shall be deemed 0.50% for purposes of this Agreement.
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“Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the Eurocurrency Rate.
“Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount equal to (a) the sum, without duplication, of (i) Consolidated Net Income for such period, (ii) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash charges to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (iii) decreases in Consolidated Working Capital and long-term accounts receivable of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, and (iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than sales in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, minus (b) the sum, without duplication, of (i) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and cash charges included in clauses (1) through (17) of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”, (ii) the aggregate amount of (x) all principal payments of Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period and (y) any premium, make-whole or penalty payments paid (or committed to be paid) in cash by the Borrower and its respective Restricted Subsidiaries during such period or, at the option of the Borrower, paid after such period and prior to the date the Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due (it being understood that to the extent such premium, make-whole or penalty payments are not actually paid as committed in a subsequent period, such amount shall be added back in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such subsequent period) that are required to be made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness (including (A) the principal component of payments in respect of Capitalized Leases, (B) the amount of any scheduled repayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.07 and Senior Notes pursuant to the Senior Notes Indenture, and (C) any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii) to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase but excluding (X) all other prepayments of Term Loans, (Y) [reserved] and (Z) all prepayments in respect of any other loans under a revolving credit facility, except to the extent there is an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder), in each case, except to the extent financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving loans unless such revolving loans refinance such revolving loans being repaid), (iii) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash gain on Dispositions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (iv) increases in Consolidated Working Capital and long-term accounts receivable of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, (vi) without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior periods, the aggregate consideration required to be paid in cash by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to binding contracts (the “Contract Consideration”) entered into prior to or during such period relating to acquisitions that constitute Investments permitted under this Agreement or Capital Expenditures or acquisitions of intellectual property to the extent expected to be consummated or made, plus any restructuring cash expenses, pension payments or tax contingency payments that have been added to Excess Cash Flow pursuant to clause (a)(ii) above required to be made, in each case during the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings following the end of such period; provided that to the extent the aggregate amount of proceeds utilized to finance such Permitted Acquisitions, Capital Expenditures or acquisitions of intellectual property during such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters is less than the Contract Consideration, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow at the end of such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, (vii) the amount of cash taxes paid in such period to the extent they exceed the amount of tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period (provided that any such taxes were not deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income in a prior period), (viii) cash expenditures in respect of Swap Contracts during such fiscal year to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, except to the extent financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving loans) and (ix) any payment of cash to be amortized or expensed over a future period and recorded as a long-term asset, except to the extent financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving loans) (it being understood that the amortization or expense of such payment shall not reduce Excess Cash Flow in any future period). Notwithstanding anything in the definition of any term used in the definition of Excess Cash Flow to the contrary, all components of Excess Cash Flow shall be computed for Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
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“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Exchange Rate” means on any day with respect to any currency other than Dollars, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars, as set forth at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day on the Reuters World Currency Page for such currency; in the event that such rate does not appear on any Reuters World Currency Page, the Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date for the purchase of Dollars for delivery two Business Days later.
“Excluded Contract” means, at any date, any rights or interest of the Borrower or any Guarantor under any agreement, contract, license, instrument, document or other general intangible (referred to solely for purposes of this definition as a “Contract”) to the extent that such Contract by the terms of a restriction in favor of a Person who is not the Borrower or any Guarantor, or any requirement of law, then prohibits, or requires any consent, unless it is first secured, or establishes any other condition, unless it is first secured, for or would terminate because of an assignment thereof or a grant of a security interest therein by the Borrower or a Guarantor; provided that (i) rights under any such Contract otherwise constituting an Excluded Contract by virtue of this definition shall be included in the Collateral to the extent permitted thereby or by Section 9-406 or Section 9-408 of the Uniform Commercial Code and (ii) all proceeds paid or payable to any of the Borrower or any Guarantor from any sale, transfer or assignment of such Contract and all rights to receive such proceeds shall be included in the Collateral.
“Excluded Contribution” means net cash proceeds, marketable securities or Qualified Proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date from:
(1)contributions to its common equity capital;
(2)dividends, distributions, fees and other payments (A) from Unrestricted Subsidiaries and any of their Subsidiaries, (B) received in respect of any minority investments and (C) from any joint ventures that are not Restricted Subsidiaries; and
(3)the sale (other than to a Subsidiary of Holdings or to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries) of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests and preferred stock) of Holdings;
in each case to the extent designated as Excluded Contributions by Holdings within 180 days of the date such capital contributions are made, such dividends, distributions, fees or other payments are paid, or the date such Equity Interests are sold, as the case may be; provided such amounts may only be designated as Excluded Contributions by Holdings to the extent such amounts were Not Otherwise Applied prior to such date.
“Excluded Equipment” means, at any date, any equipment or other assets of the Borrower or any Guarantor which is subject to, or secured by, a Capitalized Lease Obligation or a purchase money obligation if and to the extent that (i) a restriction in favor of a Person who is not Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings contained in the agreements or documents granting or governing such Capitalized Lease Obligation or purchase money obligation prohibits, or requires any consent or establishes any other conditions for or would result in the termination of such agreement or document because of an assignment thereof, or a grant of a security interest therein, by the Borrower or any Guarantor and (ii) such restriction relates only to the asset or assets acquired by the Borrower or any Guarantor with the proceeds of such Capitalized Lease Obligation or purchase money obligation and attachments thereto, improvements thereof or substitutions therefor; provided that all proceeds paid or payable to any of the Borrower or any Guarantor from any sale, transfer or assignment or other voluntary or involuntary disposition of such assets and all rights to receive such proceeds shall be included in the
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Collateral to the extent not otherwise required to be paid to the holder of any Capitalized Lease Obligations or purchase money obligations secured by such assets.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary of Holdings that is not, directly or indirectly, a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Holdings, (b) any Subsidiary of a Guarantor that does not have total assets in excess of 5.0% of Total Assets or 5.0% of revenues for Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries in each case, individually or in the aggregate with all other Subsidiaries excluded via this clause (b), (c) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable Law or Contractual Obligations (other than any Contractual Obligation in favor of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) existing on the Closing Date (or, in the case of any newly acquired Subsidiary, in existence at the time of acquisition but not entered into in contemplation thereof) from guaranteeing the Obligations or if guaranteeing the Obligation would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization (unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been obtained), (d) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, the burden or cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax consequences) of providing a Guaranty shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, (e) [reserved], (f) any not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (g) any Unrestricted Subsidiaries, (h) any Foreign Subsidiary, (i) [reserved], (j) [reserved], (k) any captive insurance subsidiaries, and (l) special purpose entities; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, “Excluded Subsidiary” shall not include (i) the Borrower, (ii) any Electing Guarantor for so long as such Electing Guarantor constitutes an Electing Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (iii) any Subsidiary of Holdings that constitutes a guarantor under the Senior Notes Documents, the ABL Loan Documents or any Junior Financing or (iv) any Guarantor referenced in the proviso of clause (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirements”.
“Excluded Taxes” means with respect to any Agent, Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder, (i) Taxes imposed on or measured by its net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes imposed in lieu of net income Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (A) imposed as a result of such recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office (or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable Lending Office) in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof), or (B) as a result of any present or former connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than any connections arising from executing, delivering, becoming a party to, engaging in any transaction pursuant to, performing its obligations under, receiving payments under, receiving or perfecting a security interest under, or enforcing, any Loan Document, or selling or assigning an interest in any Loan or Loan Document), (ii) Taxes attributable to the failure by any Agent, Lender or any other recipient to deliver the documentation required to be delivered pursuant to Section 3.01(d), (iii) in the case of any Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 3.07), any U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender that is in effect on the date such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement, or designates a new Lending Office, except to the extent such Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled immediately prior to the time of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment) to receive additional amounts with respect to such Tax pursuant to Section 3.01 and (iv) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Existing CF Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Existing DIP Credit Agreement” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Existing Term Loan Tranche” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a). “Extended Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a). “Extending Term Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(c).
“Extension” means the establishment of a Term Loan Extension Series by amending a Loan pursuant to Section 2.16 and the applicable Extension Amendment.
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“Extension Amendment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(d). “Extension Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(c).
“Facility” means the Initial Term Loans, a given Class of Incremental Term Loans, a given Refinancing Series of Refinancing Term Loans, a given Term Loan Extension Series of Extended Term Loans, or a given Class of Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, as the context may require.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (and any amended or successor version thereof that is to the extent substantively comparable), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, and any current or future fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreements, treaties, or conventions among Governmental Authorities entered into in connection with the implementation thereof.
“FCC” means the Federal Communications Commission of the United States or any Governmental Authority succeeding to the functions of such commission in whole or in part.
“FCC Authorizations” means all Broadcast Licenses and other licenses, permits and other authorizations issued by the FCC and held by Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers on such day, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.
“First Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means the pari passu intercreditor agreement, dated as of the Closing Date and substantially in the form of Exhibit J-1, among the Borrower and the Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, U.S. Bank, National Association, as trustee under the Senior Secured Notes and the other parties thereto (including, one or more collateral agents or representatives for the holders of Indebtedness that is permitted under Section
7.03 to be, and intended to be, secured on a pari passu basis with the Liens securing the Obligations), as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the requirements thereof and of this Agreement, and which shall also include any replacement intercreditor agreement entered into in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Fixed Amounts” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.11.
“Fixed Charges” means, with respect to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for any period, the sum of, without duplication:
(1)Consolidated Interest Expense for such period;
(2)all cash dividends or other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of preferred stock during such period; and
(3)all cash dividends or other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Equity Interests during such period.
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“Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (which comprehensively revised the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973) as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (iii) the Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.
“Foreign Benefit Event” means, with respect to any Foreign Pension Plan, (a) the existence of unfunded liabilities in excess of the amount permitted under any applicable Law or in excess of the amount that would be permitted absent a waiver from applicable Governmental Authority or (b) the failure to make the required contributions or payments, under any applicable Law, on or before the due date for such contributions or payments.
“Foreign Disposition” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(xi).
“Foreign Pension Plan” means any benefit plan established or maintained outside of the United States that under applicable Law is required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle other than a trust or funding vehicle maintained exclusively by a Governmental Authority.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a US Subsidiary.
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Free and Clear Incremental Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d)(v).
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that (i) if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith and (ii) GAAP shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under FASB ASC Topic 825 (or any other Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries at “fair value,” as defined therein, and Indebtedness shall be measured at the aggregate principal amount thereof.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
“Granting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(i).
“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or
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performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.01.
“Guarantors” means, collectively, (i) Holdings, (ii) the direct and indirect wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaries of Holdings (other than any Excluded Subsidiary), (iii) any Electing Guarantors and (iv) those Restricted Subsidiaries of Holdings that issue a Guaranty of the Obligations after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 6.11 or otherwise, at the option of the Borrower, issues a Guaranty of the Obligations after the Closing Date.
“Guaranty” means, collectively, the guaranty of the Obligations by the Guarantors pursuant to this Agreement.
“Hazardous Materials” means all materials, pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, compounds, constituents, substances or wastes, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, lead, radon gas, pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, or toxic mold that are regulated pursuant to, or which could give rise to liability under, applicable Environmental Law.
“Holdings” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement. “Identified Assets” mean the assets specified on Schedule 1.01B.
“Identified Participating Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(3). “Identified Qualifying Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“iHeartCommunications Warrants” means the warrants issued by the Borrower to a Claimholder (as defined in the Plan of Reorganization) on the Closing Date to purchase shares of common stock of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
“iHeart Debtors” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“iHeart Operations” means iHeart Operations, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
“iHeart Operations Preferred Stock” means the preferred Equity Interests issued by iHeart Operations to the holders thereof in accordance with the Bankruptcy Plan.
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“Immaterial Subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.03. “Incremental Amendment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(f).
“Incremental Base Amount” means the greater of (1) $960,000,000 and (2) 100.0% of Consolidated EBITDA for the then most recently ended Test Period.
“Incremental Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a). “Incremental Equivalent Debt” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(q). “Incremental Equivalent First Lien Debt” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(q).
“Incremental Equivalent Junior Lien Debt” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(q). “Incremental Equivalent Unsecured Debt” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.03(q). “Incremental Facility” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d). “Incremental Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c). “Incremental Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b).
“Incremental Loan Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a). “Incremental Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c). “Incremental Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b). “Incremental Revolving Facility” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Facility” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c).
“Incremental Term Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b).
“Incurrence Based Amounts” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.11.
“Incurrence Based Incremental Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d)(v).
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following:
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(a)all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b)the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all outstanding letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;
(c)net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d)all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and (iii) accruals for payroll and other liabilities accrued in the ordinary course);
(e)indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f)all Attributable Indebtedness;
(g)all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests;
if and to the extent that the foregoing would constitute indebtedness or a liability in accordance with GAAP; provided that Indebtedness of any direct or indirect parent of Holdings appearing upon the balance sheet of Holdings solely by reason of push-down accounting under GAAP shall be excluded; and
(h)to the extent not otherwise included above, all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall (A) include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise expressly limited and only to the extent such Indebtedness would be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Net Debt, (B) in the case of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, exclude (i) all intercompany Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms), (ii) intercompany transfer pricing and marketing re-charge fees and (iii) intercompany royalty and/or licensing agreements (including, cash collection arrangements in respect of airline revenue), in each case made in the ordinary course of business or for cash management purposes and (C) exclude obligations under or in respect of operating leases or sale lease-back transactions (except any resulting Capitalized Lease Obligations). The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith. Notwithstanding anything in this definition to the contrary, Indebtedness shall be calculated without giving effect to the effects of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 815 and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose hereunder as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness.
“Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.05.
“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and
(b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.
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“Indemnitees” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.05.
“Information” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.08.
“Initial Lenders” means the financial institutions named on Schedule 1.01A. Each Initial Lender is deemed to be a party to this Agreement on the Closing Date pursuant to the Bankruptcy Plan and the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
“Initial Term Commitment” means, as to each Initial Lender, its obligation to accept Initial Term Loans pursuant to the Bankruptcy Plan in an aggregate amount set forth opposite such Term Lender’s name in Schedule 1.01A under the caption “Initial Term Commitment”. The aggregate amount of the Initial Term Commitments is $3,487,359,200.50.
“Initial Term Loans” means the term loans deemed made by the Initial Lenders on the Closing Date to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Intellectual Property Security Agreements” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“Intercompany Note” means a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit I.
“Intercreditor Agreements” means the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, collectively, in each case to the extent in effect.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter or, to the extent agreed by each Lender of such Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan and the Administrative Agent, twelve months or less than one month thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice; provided that:
(i)any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall, subject to clause (iii) below, be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(ii)any Interest Period (other than an Interest Period having a duration of less than one month)pertaining to Term SOFR that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and
(iii)no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
“Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or debt or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan (including by way of a listed Eurobond), advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture
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interest in such other Person excluding, in the case of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (i) intercompany loans, advances, or Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms), (ii) intercompany transfer pricing and marketing re-charge fees and (iii) intercompany royalty and/or licensing agreements (including, cash collection arrangements in respect of airline revenue), in each case made in the ordinary course of business or for cash management purposes or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment at any time shall be the amount actually invested (measured at the time made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.
“IP Rights” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.17. “IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Junior Financing” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.13(a).
“Junior Financing Documentation” means any documentation governing any Junior Financing.
“Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means an intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit J-2 hereto (which agreement in such form or with immaterial changes thereto the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are hereby authorized to enter into) among the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and one or more collateral agents or representatives for the holders of permitted Indebtedness issued or incurred pursuant to Sections 7.03 that is intended to be secured on a basis junior to the Obligations. Wherever in this Agreement, an Other Debt Representative is required to become party to the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, if the related Indebtedness is the initial Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary to be secured by a Lien on a basis junior to the Liens securing the Obligations, then the Borrower, Holdings, the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Collateral Agent and the Other Debt Representative for such Indebtedness shall execute and deliver the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
“Latest Maturity Date” means, at any date of determination, the latest Maturity Date applicable to any Loan or Commitment hereunder at such time, including the latest maturity date of any Refinancing Term Loan, any Refinancing Term Commitment or any Extended Term Loan, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.
“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, constitutions, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes, common law and administrative or judicial precedents, orders, decrees, injunctions or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.
“LCA Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.03(c). “LCA Test Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.03(c).
“Lender” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a “Lender.” Each Initial Lender is a Lender on the Closing Date.
“Lender Default” means (i) the refusal (which may be given verbally or in writing and has not been retracted) or failure of any Lender to make available its portion of any incurrence of revolving loans hereunder or reimbursement obligations required to be made by it hereunder, which refusal or failure is not cured within one Business Day after the date of such refusal or failure; (ii) the failure of any Lender to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two Business Days of the date when due, unless subject to a good faith dispute; (iii) a
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Lender has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations, or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations under agreements generally in which it commits to extend credit; (iv) [reserved]; (v) a Lender has admitted in writing that it is insolvent or such Lender becomes subject to a Lender-Related Distress Event or (vi) a Lender has become the subject of a Bail-In Action. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender Default has occurred under any one or more of clauses (i) through above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and the applicable Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.17(b)) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower and each Lender.
“Lender-Related Distress Event” means, with respect to any Lender or any person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender (each, a “Distressed Person”), as the case may be, a voluntary or involuntary case with respect to such Distressed Person under any Debtor Relief Law, or a custodian, conservator, receiver or similar official is appointed for such Distressed Person or any substantial part of such Distressed Person’s assets, or such Distressed Person or any person that directly or indirectly controls such Distressed Person is subject to a forced liquidation, or such Distressed Person makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or is otherwise adjudicated as, or determined by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such Distressed Person or its assets to be, insolvent or bankrupt; provided that a Lender-Related Distress Event shall not be deemed to have occurred solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interests in any Lender or any person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender by a Governmental Authority or an instrumentality thereof, so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender.
“Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Xxxxxx’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“LIBOR” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate.”
“LIBOR Successor Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(b).
“LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower to reflect the adoption and implementation of such LIBOR Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such LIBOR Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines, is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).
“License Subsidiary” means a direct or indirect wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower substantially all of the assets of which consist of Broadcast Licenses and related rights.
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to Real Property, and any Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Limited Condition Transaction” means (a) any acquisition, investment of or in any assets, business or Person permitted by this Agreement, in each case, whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing, (b) any prepayment of Indebtedness for which irrevocable notice has been given and/or (c) distributions that have been publically declared by one or more of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
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“Loan” means an extension of credit by (or deemed made by) a Lender to the Borrower under Article II in the form of a Term Loan (and including any Incremental Term Loan and any extensions of credit under any Incremental Revolving Commitment).
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Collateral Documents, (iv) each Intercreditor Agreement to the extent then in effect and (v) any Refinancing Amendment, Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor. “Margin Stock” has the meaning set forth in Regulation U issued by the FRB.
“Master Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Swap Contract.”
“Material Adverse Effect” means a (a) material adverse effect on the business, operations, assets, liabilities (actual or contingent) or financial condition of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) material adverse effect on the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to fully and timely perform any of their payment obligations under any Loan Document to which any of the Loan Parties is a party or (c) material adverse effect on the rights and remedies available to the Lenders or any Agent under any Loan Document.
“Material IP” means the intellectual property rights that are (i) material (individually or in the aggregate) to the business of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) owned by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Material Real Property” means any fee owned Real Property located in the United States that is owned by any Loan Party with a fair market value in excess of $15,000,000 (at the Closing Date or, with respect to Real Property acquired after the Closing Date, at the time of acquisition, in each case, as reasonably estimated by the Borrower in good faith).
“Maturity Date” means (i) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, the date that is seven years after the Closing Date, (ii) with respect to any tranche of Extended Term Loans, the final maturity date applicable thereto as specified in the applicable Term Loan Extension Request accepted by the respective Lender or Lenders, (iii) with respect to any Refinancing Term Loans, the final maturity date applicable thereto as specified in the applicable Refinancing Amendment, (iv) with respect to the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans, May 1, 2026 and (v) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, the final maturity date applicable thereto as specified in the applicable Incremental Amendment; provided, in each case, that if such date is not a Business Day, then the applicable Maturity Date shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.10. “MFN Protection” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(e)(iii).
“MFN Trigger Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(e)(iii). “Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage Policies” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
“Mortgaged Property” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
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“Mortgages” means collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, hypothecs and mortgages made by the Loan Parties in favor or for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent with such terms and provisions as may be required by the applicable Laws of the relevant jurisdiction, and any other mortgages executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 6.11 and 6.13, in each case, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Loan Parties or any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding six years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Net Proceeds” means:
(vi)100% of the cash proceeds actually received by Holdings or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise and including casualty insurance settlements and condemnation awards, but in each case only as and when received) from any Disposition or Casualty Event, net of (i) attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees actually incurred in connection therewith, (ii) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien (other than a Lien that ranks pari passu with or subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations) on the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid (and is timely repaid) in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (iii) in the case of any Disposition or Casualty Event by a non-wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary, the pro rata portion of the Net Proceeds thereof (calculated without regard to this clause (iii)) attributable to minority interests and not available for distribution to or for the account of Holdings or a wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary as a result thereof, (iv) Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof, and (v) the amount of any reasonable reserve established in accordance with GAAP against any adjustment to the sale price or any liabilities (other than any Taxes deducted pursuant to clause (iv) above) (x) related to any of the applicable assets and (y) retained by Holdings or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations (however, the amount of any subsequent reduction of such reserve (other than in connection with a payment in respect of any such liability) shall be deemed to be Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Casualty Event occurring on the date of such reduction); provided that Holdings may reinvest any portion of such proceeds in assets used or useful for its business (which shall include any Investment permitted by this Agreement) within 450 days of such receipt and such portion of such proceeds shall not constitute Net Proceeds except to the extent not, within 450 days of such receipt, so reinvested or contractually committed to be so reinvested (it being understood that if any portion of such proceeds are not so used within such 450 day period but within such 450 day period are contractually committed to be used, then upon the termination of such contract or if such Net Proceeds are not so used within 180 days after the end of such 450 day period, such remaining portion shall constitute Net Proceeds as of the date of such termination or expiry without giving effect to this proviso; it being further understood that such proceeds shall constitute Net Proceeds notwithstanding any investment notice if there is a Specified Default at the time of a proposed reinvestment unless such proposed reinvestment is made pursuant to a binding commitment entered into at a time when no Specified Default was continuing); provided, further, that no proceeds realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Proceeds (x) unless such proceeds shall exceed $15,000,000 and (y) the aggregate net proceeds excluded under clause (x) exceeds $30,000,000 in any fiscal year (and thereafter only net cash proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Proceeds under this clause (a)), and
(b)100% of the cash proceeds from the incurrence, issuance or sale by Holdings or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness, net of all Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof and fees (including investment banking fees and discounts), commissions, costs and other expenses, in each case incurred in connection with such incurrence, issuance or sale.
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For purposes of calculating the amount of Net Proceeds, fees, commissions and other costs and expenses payable to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary shall be disregarded.
“New Contracts” means binding new agreements or amendments to existing agreements with customers.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.07(d).
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender. “Non-Permitted Claimant” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
“Non-Permitted Claimant Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
“Non-Permitted Claimant Payment Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
“Not Otherwise Applied” means, with reference to any amount of Net Proceeds of any transaction or event, that such amount (a) was not required to be applied to prepay the Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) or to make a mandatory prepayment or redemption of any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or any pari passu Indebtedness, and (b) was not previously (and is not concurrently being) applied in determining the permissibility of a transaction under the Loan Documents where such permissibility was or is (or may have been) contingent on receipt of such amount or utilization of such amount for a specified purpose. “Note” means a Term Note.
“Obligations” means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party and its Restricted Subsidiaries arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (and of their Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent they have obligations under the Loan Documents) include (a) the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party.
“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
“Offered Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1). “Offered Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1). “OID” means original issue discount.
“Organization Documents” means (a) with respect to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the
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jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
“Other Applicable Indebtedness” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(ii).
“Other Debt Representative” means, with respect to any series Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder on a pari passu or junior Lien basis to the Lien securing the Obligations, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
“Other Taxes” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(b).
“Outstanding Amount” means with respect to the Term Loans on any date, the aggregate outstanding Principal Amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date.
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, the Federal Funds Rate. “Parent” means iHeartMedia, Inc., a Delaware corporation. “Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(f). “Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(f).
“Participating Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(2). “PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or with respect to which a Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary has any liability (contingent or otherwise).
“Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.02(i).
“Permitted First Lien Ratio Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Ratio Debt.”
“Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt” means any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Notes and any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Loans.
“Permitted First Priority Refinancing Loans” means any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in the form of secured loans incurred by Holdings in the form of one or more tranches of loans not under this Agreement; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Liens securing the Obligations and is not secured by any property or assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Loan Parties or (iii) such Indebtedness does not mature or have scheduled amortization or payments of principal (other than customary offers to repurchase upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and a customary acceleration right after an event of default) on or prior to the date that is the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred or issued.
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“Permitted First Priority Refinancing Notes” means any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in the form of secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrower and/or the other Loan Parties in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes (whether issued in a public offering, Rule 144A, private placement or otherwise); provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Liens securing the Obligations and is not secured by any property or assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Subsidiaries other than Loan Parties, (iii) such Indebtedness does not mature or have scheduled amortization or payments of principal (other than customary offers to repurchase upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and a customary acceleration right after an event of default) on or prior to the date that is the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred or issued, (iv) the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same as or more favorable to the Loan Parties than the Collateral Documents (with such differences as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and (v) an Other Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to each Intercreditor Agreement. Permitted First Priority Refinancing Notes will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.
“Permitted Junior Secured Ratio Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Ratio Debt”.
“Permitted Other Debt Conditions” means that such applicable debt (i) does not mature or have scheduled amortization payments of principal or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligations (except customary asset sale or change of control provisions that provide for the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations), in each case on or prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (ii) is not at any time guaranteed by any Person other than the Loan Parties, and (iii) to the extent secured, the security agreements relating to such Indebtedness are substantially the same as or more favorable to the Loan Parties than the Collateral Documents (with such differences as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent).
“Permitted Ratio Debt” means Indebtedness of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary so long as immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto and to the use of the proceeds thereof (but without netting the proceeds thereof) (i) no Event of Default shall be continuing or result therefrom, and (ii) (x) if such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Liens securing the Obligations (such Indebtedness, the “Permitted First Lien Ratio Debt”), the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio is no greater than either (1) 4.50 to 1.00 determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period or (2) if such Permitted First Lien Ratio Debt is incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio in effect immediately prior to the making of such Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment, (y) if such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a junior lien basis with the Liens securing the Obligations (such Indebtedness, the “Permitted Junior Secured Ratio Debt”), the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio is no greater than either (1) 4.50 to 1.00 determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period or (2) if such Permitted Junior Secured Ratio Debt is incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio in effect immediately prior to the making of such Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment and (z) if such Indebtedness is unsecured or secured by assets that are not Collateral (such Indebtedness, the “Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt”), solely at the election of the Borrower, either (I)(1) the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio is no less than 2.00 to 1.00 or (2) if such Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt is incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio in effect immediately prior to the making of such Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment or (II) the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio is no greater than (1) 6.25 to 1.00 determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most recently ended period of four consecutive fiscal quarters or (2) if such Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt is incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other similar Investment permitted hereunder, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio in effect immediately prior to the making of such Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment, in each case, determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most recently ended period of four consecutive fiscal quarters; provided that, such Indebtedness shall (A) in the case of
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Permitted First Lien Ratio Debt, have a maturity date that is after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, and in the case of Permitted Junior Secured Ratio Debt or Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt, have a maturity date that is at least ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred (in each case, other than with respect to Permitted Ratio Debt that constitutes Customary Term A Loans); provided that the foregoing requirements of this clause (A) shall not apply to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which such customary bridge facility is to be converted or exchanged satisfies the requirements of this clause (A) and such conversion or exchange is subject only to conditions customary for similar conversions or exchange, (B) in the case of Permitted First Lien Ratio Debt, have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity not shorter than the longest remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Facilities (other than with respect to Permitted Ratio Debt that constitutes Customary Term A Loans); provided that the foregoing requirements of this clause (B) shall not apply to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a customary bridge facility, so long as the long-term Indebtedness into which such customary bridge facility is to be converted or exchanged satisfies the requirements of this clause (B) and such conversion or exchange is subject only to conditions customary for similar conversions or exchange, and, in the case of Permitted Junior Secured Ratio Debt or Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt, shall not be subject to scheduled amortization prior to maturity, (C) if such Indebtedness is incurred or guaranteed on a secured basis by a Loan Party on a junior Lien basis to the Liens securing the Obligations, an Other Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and, if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis to the Liens securing the Obligations, and the Other Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (D) have covenants and events of default that in the good faith determination of the Borrower are not materially less favorable (when taken as a whole) to the Borrower than the covenants and events of default of the Loan Documents (when taken as a whole); provided that a certificate of the Borrower as to the satisfaction of the conditions described in this clause (D) delivered at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirements of this clause (D), shall be conclusive evidence) and (E) in the case of Permitted First Lien Ratio Debt in the form of term loans, be subject to the MFN Protection (but subject to the MFN Trigger Amount and other exceptions and qualifications to such MFN Protection specified in Section 2.14(e)(iii)) as if such Indebtedness were an Incremental Term Loan; provided, further, that any Permitted Ratio Debt incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, together with any Indebtedness incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party pursuant to Sections 7.03(g), 7.03(q) or 7.03(v), may not exceed in the aggregate at any time outstanding the greater of (i) $200,000,000 and (ii) 2.5% of Total Assets as of the last day of the then most recently ended Test Period,
in each case determined at the time of incurrence.
“Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that (a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e), such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended, (c) at the time thereof, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (d) if such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended is Junior Financing, (i) to the extent such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended, (ii) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension is incurred by the Person who is the obligor of the Indebtedness being modified,
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refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended and (iii) if the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended was subject to an Intercreditor Agreement, the holders of such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended Indebtedness (if such Indebtedness is secured) or their representative on their behalf shall become party to such Intercreditor Agreement.
“Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt” means Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness constituting secured Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower in the form of one or more series of second lien (or other junior lien) secured notes or second lien (or other junior lien) secured loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt and is not secured by any property or assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) such Indebtedness may be secured by a Lien on the Collateral that is junior to the Liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness,” (iii) an Other Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement as a “Second Priority Representative” thereunder, and (iv) such Indebtedness meets the Permitted Other Debt Conditions. Permitted Second Priority Refinancing Debt will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.
“Permitted Tax Restructuring” means any reorganizations and other activities related to tax planning and tax reorganization entered into prior to, on or after the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date so long as such Permitted Tax Restructuring is not materially adverse to the Lenders (as determined by the Borrower in good faith).
“Permitted Unsecured Ratio Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Permitted Ratio Debt”.
“Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in the form of unsecured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrower in the form of one or more series of senior unsecured notes or loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (ii) meets the Permitted Other Debt Conditions.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Plan” means any “employee benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, sponsored, maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary or, with respect to any such Plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.
“Platform” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.02.
“Pledged Debt” means, collectively, (a) “Pledged Debt” (as defined in the Security Agreement) and (b) any other Collateral constituting “Pledged Debt,” “Receivables,” “Intercompany Debt Documents” or terms of similar import (as defined in any other Collateral Document).
“Pledged Equity” means, collectively, (a) “Pledged Equity” (as defined in the Security Agreement) and (b) any other Collateral consisting of Equity Interests. For the avoidance of doubt, Pledged Equity shall not include any Equity Interests included in the definition of “Excluded Assets” (as defined in the Security Agreement).
“Post-Acquisition Period” means, with respect to any Permitted Acquisition or the conversion of any Unrestricted Subsidiary into a Restricted Subsidiary, the period beginning on the date such Permitted Acquisition or conversion is consummated and ending on the first anniversary of the date on which such Permitted Acquisition or conversion is consummated.
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“Prepetition Term Lenders” shall have the meaning provided in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest announced publicly by Bank of America in New York from time to time, as Bank of America’s prime rate. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. The Administrative Agent or any other Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate.
“Principal Amount” means the stated or principal amount of each Loan.
“Pro Forma Adjustment” means, for any Test Period that includes all or any part of a fiscal quarter included in any Post-Acquisition Period, with respect to the Acquired EBITDA of the applicable Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary or the Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings, the pro forma increase or decrease in such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, projected by Holdings in good faith as a result of (a) actions that have been taken during such Post-Acquisition Period or with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of Holdings) within 24 months after the date such Permitted Acquisition or conversion is consummated for the purposes of realizing reasonably identifiable and factually supportable cost savings or (b) any additional costs incurred during such Post-Acquisition Period, in each case in connection with the combination of the operations of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary with the operations of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that (i) at the election of Holdings, such Pro Forma Adjustment shall not be required to be determined for any Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary to the extent the aggregate consideration paid in connection with such acquisition or the fair market value of such Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, was less than $40,000,000, and (ii) so long as such actions are taken during such Post-Acquisition Period or such revenue is accrued or costs are incurred during such Post-Acquisition Period, as applicable, for purposes of projecting such pro forma increase or decrease to such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, it may be assumed that such cost savings will be realizable during the entirety of such Test Period, or such additional revenue or costs, as applicable, will be accrued or incurred during the entirety of such Test Period; provided, further, that any such pro forma increase or decrease to such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, shall be without duplication for cost savings or additional costs already included in such Acquired EBITDA or such Consolidated EBITDA, as the case may be, for such Test Period.
“Pro Forma Basis”, “Pro Forma Compliance” and “Pro Forma Effect” mean, with respect to compliance with any test hereunder, that (A) to the extent applicable, the Pro Forma Adjustment shall have been made and (B) all Specified Transactions and the following transactions in connection therewith shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement:
(a) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or Person subject to such Specified Transaction, (i) in the case of a Disposition of all or substantially all Equity Interests in any Subsidiary of Holdings or any division, product line, or facility used for operations of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, shall be excluded, and (ii) in the case of a Permitted Acquisition or Investment described in the definition of “Specified Transaction”, shall be included, (b) any retirement of Indebtedness, and (c) any Indebtedness incurred or assumed by Holdings or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection therewith (without giving effect to the netting of any cash proceeds of such Indebtedness to the extent such proceeds are being utilized in connection with any such Specified Transaction), and if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination; provided that (I) without limiting the application of the Pro Forma Adjustment pursuant to (A) above, the foregoing pro forma adjustments may be applied to any such test solely to the extent that such adjustments are consistent with the definition of Consolidated EBITDA and give effect to events (including operating expense reductions) that are (as determined by Holdings in good faith) (i) (x) directly attributable to such transaction, (y) expected to have a continuing impact on Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries and (z) factually supportable or (ii) otherwise consistent with the definition of Pro Forma Adjustment and (II) that when calculating the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of (i) the Applicable ECF Percentage and (ii) Applicable Asset Sale Percentage, the events that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period shall not be given pro forma effect; and (III) in
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determining Pro Forma Compliance with the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio or any other incurrence test, in connection with the incurrence (including by assumption or guarantee) of any Indebtedness, the incurrence of any Indebtedness in respect of the ABL Facility included in the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio or such other incurrence test calculation immediately prior to, or simultaneously with, the event for which the Pro Forma Compliance determination of such ratio or other test is being made, shall be disregarded. In the event any fixed “baskets” are intended to be utilized together with any incurrence-based “baskets” in a single transaction or series of related transactions (including utilization of the Free and Clear Incremental Amount and the Incurrence Based Incremental Amount), (i) compliance with or satisfaction of any applicable financial ratios or tests for the portion of Indebtedness or any other applicable transaction or action to be incurred under any incurrence-based “baskets” shall first be calculated without giving effect to amounts being utilized pursuant to any fixed “baskets”, but giving full pro forma effect to all applicable and related transactions (including, subject to the foregoing with respect to fixed “baskets”, any incurrence and repayments of Indebtedness) and all other permitted Pro Forma Adjustments (except that the incurrence of any Indebtedness under the ABL Facility immediately prior to or in connection therewith shall be disregarded), and (ii) thereafter, incurrence of the portion of such Indebtedness or other applicable transaction or action to be incurred under any fixed “baskets” shall be calculated.
“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to each Lender, at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments and, if applicable and without duplication, Term Loans of such Lender under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments under the applicable Facility or Facilities and, if applicable and without duplication, Term Loans under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time.
“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Public Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.02.
“Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.
“Qualified Proceeds” means the fair market value of assets that are used or useful in, or Equity Interests of any Person engaged in, a Similar Business.
“Qualifying Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned or leased by any Person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.
“Refinanced Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness.
“Refinancing” means the deemed repayment or replacement in full of the Existing CF Credit Agreement in accordance with the Bankruptcy Plan.
“Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement executed by each of (a) the Borrower, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each Additional Refinancing Lender and (d) each Lender that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Term Loans, incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.15.
“Refinancing Series” means all Refinancing Term Loans and Refinancing Term Commitments that are established pursuant to the same Refinancing Amendment (or any subsequent Refinancing
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Amendment to the extent such Refinancing Amendment expressly provides that the Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments provided for therein are intended to be a part of any previously established Refinancing Series) and that provide for the same All-In Yield and, in the case of Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments, amortization schedule.
“Refinancing Term Commitments” means one or more Classes of Term Commitments hereunder that are established to fund Refinancing Term Loans of the applicable Refinancing Series hereunder pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing Term Loans” means one or more Classes of Term Loans hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(d).
“Registered Equivalent Notes” means, with respect to any notes originally issued in an offering pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act of 1933, substantially identical notes (having the same guarantees) issued in a dollar-for-dollar exchange therefor pursuant to an exchange offer registered with the SEC.
“Related Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) such Lender, (b) an Affiliate of such Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages such Lender.
“Release” means any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing or migrating into, onto or through the Environment.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the purpose of recommending a benchmark rate to replace LIBOR in loan agreements similar to this Agreement, or any successor thereto.
“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.
“Repricing Transaction” means (a) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, the prepayment, refinancing, substitution or replacement of all or a portion of the Initial Term Loans with the net cash proceeds of issuances, offerings or placement of debt obligations, or refinancing or repayment pursuant to Section 3.07(a)(y)(I) of Initial Term Loans substantially concurrently with the incurrence of, or conversion of the loans thereunder into, new senior secured term loans that have an effective All-In Yield (with the comparative determinations to be made by the Administrative Agent consistent with generally accepted financial practices) that is less than the All-In Yield of such Initial Term Loans so repaid, refinanced, substituted or replaced, including without limitation, as may be effected through any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modifications to this Agreement relating to the interest rate for, or weighted average yield of, such Term Loans or the incurrence of any Replacement Term Loans and (b) with respect to the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans, the prepayment, refinancing, substitution or replacement of all or a portion of the Second Amendment Term Loans with the net cash proceeds of issuances, offerings or placement of debt obligations, or refinancing or repayment pursuant to Section 3.07(a)(y)(I) of the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans substantially concurrently with the incurrence of, or conversion of the loans thereunder into, new senior secured term loans that have an effective All-In Yield (with the comparative determinations to be made by the Administrative Agent consistent with generally accepted financial practices) that is less than the All-In Yield of such Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans so repaid, refinanced, substituted or replaced, including without limitation, as may be effected through any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modifications to this Agreement relating to the interest rate for, or weighted average yield of, such Term Loans or the incurrence of any Replacement Term Loans, but excluding, in each case, any prepayment, refinancing, substitution or replacement, in connection with a Change of Control or a Transformative Transaction.
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“Request for Credit Extension” means with respect to a Borrowing, continuation or conversion of Term Loans, a Committed Loan Notice.
“Required Class Lenders” means, with respect to any Class on any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of (i) the outstanding Loans under such Class and (ii) the aggregate unused Commitments under such Facility.
“Required Consenting Senior Creditors” has the meaning set forth in the Bankruptcy Plan.
“Required Facility Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to any Facility, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of (a) the Total Outstandings under such Facility and (b) the aggregate unused Commitments under such Facility; provided that the unused Commitments of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings under such Facility held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of the Required Facility Lenders.
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings, and (b) aggregate unused Term Commitments; provided that the unused Term Commitment, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Response Deadline” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer or other similar officer of a Loan Party and, as to any document delivered on the Closing Date, any secretary or assistant secretary of such Loan Party and any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party whose signature is included on an incumbency certificate or similar certificate, attaching resolutions authorizing such officer or employee to sign such documents and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, limited liability company, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restricted Investment” means any Investment that is not otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 7.02.
“Restricted Payment” means (1) any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to Holdings’ or a Restricted Subsidiary’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof) and (2) any Restricted Investment.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of Holdings other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Restricted Subsidiary” or to “Restricted Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiaries of Holdings.
“Reversion Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Financial Services, LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Same Day Funds” means immediately available funds.
“Sanction(s)” means any international economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes or other comprehensive prohibitions against transaction activity pursuant to anti-terrorism laws or export control laws administered or enforced by the United States government (including without limitation, OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury.
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“Scheduled Unavailability Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(b)(ii).
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Second Amendment Incremental Lenders” means any Lender with a Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitment or a Second Amendment Incremental Term Loan.
“Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitment” means the commitments of the Second Amendment Incremental Lenders to make a Second Amendment Incremental Term Loan on the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date. The amount of each Second Amendment Incremental Term Lender’s Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitment on the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date shall be the amount set forth on Schedule I of Amendment No. 2.
“Second Amendment Incremental Term Facility” means, (a) on or prior to the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date, the aggregate amount of the Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitments and (b) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans.
“Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans” means the term loans made by a Second Amendment Incremental Term Lender pursuant to a Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitment.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the Supplemental Agents and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.02.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Security Agreement” means the US Security Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit G, dated as of the Closing Date, among Holdings, the Borrower, the US Guarantors and the Collateral Agent.
“Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement. “Senior Notes” means the Senior Secured Notes and the Senior Unsecured Notes.
“Senior Notes Documents” means the Senior Secured Notes Documents and the Senior Unsecured Notes Documents.
“Senior Notes Indentures” means the Senior Secured Notes Indenture and the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture.
“Senior Secured Notes” means $799,999,940 in aggregate principal amount of the Borrower’s 6.375% senior secured notes due 2026 issued pursuant to the Senior Secured Notes Indenture on the Closing Date.
“Senior Secured Notes Documents” means the Senior Secured Notes Indenture and the other transaction documents referred to therein (including the related guarantee, each Intercreditor Agreement to the extent then in effect, the notes, the purchase agreement, mortgages, collateral assignments, security agreements, pledge agreements, intellectual property security agreements or other similar agreements).
“Senior Secured Notes Indenture” means the indenture, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Borrower, as issuer, the guarantors party thereto and the trustee referred to therein pursuant to which the Senior Secured Notes are issued, as such indenture may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
“Senior Unsecured Notes” means $1,449,999,997 in aggregate principal amount of the Borrower’s 8.375% senior unsecured notes due 2027 issued pursuant to the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture on the Closing Date.
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“Senior Unsecured Notes Documents” means the Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture and the other transaction documents referred to therein (including the related guarantee, the notes, the purchase agreement or other similar agreements).
“Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture” means the indenture, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Borrower, as issuer, the guarantors party thereto and the trustee referred to therein pursuant to which the Senior Unsecured Notes are issued, as such indenture may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
“Similar Business” means (1) any business conducted or proposed to be conducted by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing Date, and any reasonable extension thereof, or (2) any business or other activities that are reasonably similar, ancillary, incidental, complementary or related to, or a reasonable extension, development or expansion of, the businesses in which Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged or propose to be engaged on the Closing Date.
“SOFR” with respect to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day means the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s website (or any successor source) and, in each case, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
“SOFR Adjustment” means, with respect to Daily Simple SOFR, 0.11448% (11.448 basis points); and with respect to Term SOFR, 0.11448% (11.448 basis points) for an Interest Period of one-month’s duration, 0.26161% (26.161 basis points) for an Interest Period of three-month’s duration, and 0.42826% (42.826 basis points) for an Interest Period of six-months’ duration.
“SOFR-Based Rate” means SOFR or Term SOFR.
“Sold Entity or Business” has the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Solicited Discount Proration” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of the Borrower of Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(D) substantially in the form of Exhibit M-4.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer” means the irrevocable written offer by each Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit M-5, submitted following the Administrative Agent’s receipt of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1).
“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the assets of such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, exceeds, on a consolidated basis, their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability, on a consolidated basis, of
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their debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured, (c) such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are able to pay their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such liabilities become absolute and matured and (d) such Person and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are not engaged in, and are not about to engage in, business for which they have unreasonably small capital. The amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that would reasonably be expected to become an actual and matured liability.
“SPC” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(i).
“Special Flood Hazard Area” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.07(b). “Specified Default” means a Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g). “Specified Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of the Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(B) substantially in the form of Exhibit M-6.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response” means the irrevocable written response by each Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit M-7, to a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1).
“Specified Discount Proration” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(3). “Specified Representations” means those representations and warranties made by any Loan
Party (after giving effect to the applicable Permitted Acquisition) in Sections 5.01(a), 5.01(b)(ii), 5.02(a),
5.02(b)(i), 5.02(b)(iii) (to the extent such conflict has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect (as such term or similar definition is defined in the main transaction agreement governing the applicable Permitted Acquisition), 5.04, 5.13, 5.18 and 5.21).
“Specified Transaction” means any Investment, Disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, Restricted Payment, Subsidiary designation, Incremental Term Loan or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment in respect of which the terms of this Agreement require any test to be calculated on a “Pro Forma Basis” or after giving “Pro Forma Effect”; provided that Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, at the time of incurrence thereof, for purposes of this “Specified Transaction” definition, shall be deemed to be fully drawn.
“Sterling” or “£” means freely transferable lawful money of the United Kingdom (expressed in pounds sterling).
“Submitted Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1). “Submitted Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability
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company or other business entity of which (i) a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, (ii) more than half of the issued share capital is at the time beneficially owned or (iii) the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Holdings. For the avoidance of doubt, any entity that is owned at a 50.0% or less level (as described above) shall not be a “Subsidiary” for any purpose under this Agreement, regardless of whether such entity is consolidated on Holdings’ or any Restricted Subsidiary’s financial statements.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means any Guarantor other than Holdings. “Successor Company” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(d). “Successor Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(b).
“Supplemental Agent” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.14(a) and “Supplemental Agents” shall have the corresponding meaning.
“Swap” means, any agreement, contract, or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and
(b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation to pay or perform under any Swap.
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Tax Group” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.06(i)(iii).
“Tax Matters Agreement” means the Tax Matters Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2019, by and among Parent, the Company, iHeart Operations, Clear Channel Holdings, Inc. and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., as amended from time to time.
“Taxes” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(a).
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“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Class and Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, having the same Interest Period made (or deemed made) by each of the Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01, an Incremental Amendment, a Refinancing Amendment or an Extension.
“Term Commitment” means a Commitment.
“Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has an Initial Term Commitment, a Term Commitment or a Term Loan (including, for avoidance of doubt, a Second Amendment Incremental Term Loan) at such time.
“Term Loan Extension Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a). “Term Loan Extension Series” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a).
“Term Loans” means any Initial Term Loan, any Second Amendment Incremental Term Loan or any Incremental Term Loan, Refinancing Term Loan or Extended Term Loan designated as a “Term Loan”, as the context may require.
“Term Loan Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Term Lender resulting from the Term Loans of each Class made by such Term Lender.
“Term Priority Collateral” means “Non-Intercreditor Collateral” as defined in the ABL Intercreditor Agreement.
“Term SOFR” means:
(a)for any Interest Period with respect to a Term SOFR Loan, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided that if the rate is not published prior to 11:00 a.m. on such determination date then Term SOFR means the Term SOFR Screen Rate on the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately prior thereto, in each case, plus the SOFR Adjustment for such Interest Period; and
(b)for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate with a term of one month commencing that day plus the SOFR Adjustment for an Interest Period of one month;
provided that if the Term SOFR determined in accordance with either of the foregoing provisions (a) or
(b) of this definition would otherwise be less than zero, the Term SOFR shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Term SOFR Loan” means a Committed Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of Term SOFR.
“Term SOFR Replacement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(b).
“Term SOFR Screen Rate” means the forward-looking SOFR term rate for any period that is approximately (as determined byadministered by CME (or any successor administrator satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) as long as any of the Interest Period options set forth in the definition of “Interest Period” and that is based on SOFR and that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body, in each case as published on an information service as selected and published on the
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applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion).
“Test Period” means, for any date of determination under this Agreement, the latest four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Closing Date and/or for which financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable.
“Threshold Amount” means $100,000,000.
“Total Assets” means the total assets of Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of Holdings delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) or (b).
“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans.
“Transactions” means, collectively, the transactions contemplated by or in connection with the Bankruptcy Plan or necessary to effectuate the Bankruptcy Plan, including, without limitation, (a) the deemed making of the Initial Term Loans and the execution and delivery of Loan Documents entered into on the Closing Date, (b) the Refinancing, (c) the issuance of the Senior Notes and the execution and delivery of Senior Notes Documents entered into on the Closing Date, (d) the issuance of the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock and the entry into documentation governing the iHeart Operations Preferred Stock, (e) the payment of Transaction Expenses, (f) the incurrence of any loans under the ABL Facility on the Closing Date and the execution and delivery of the ABL Loan Documents entered into on the Closing Date, (g) the execution, delivery and performance of the Tax Matters Agreement, the Transition Services Agreement, any employee matters agreement contemplated by the Bankruptcy Plan or other agreement as contemplated by the Bankruptcy Plan, (h) any and all transactions referred to in Bankruptcy Plan or necessary to effectuate the Bankruptcy Plan, (i) the issuance of the iHeartCommunications Warrants, and (j) in each case, the other transactions contemplated by or entered into in connection with the foregoing clauses (a) through (j).
“Transaction Expenses” means any fees or expenses incurred or paid by Holdings, the Borrower or any of its (or their) Subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions (including expenses in connection with hedging transactions related to the Facilities), this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
“Transferred Guarantor” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.10.
“Transformative Transaction” means any acquisition, dissolution, merger or consolidation that is either (a) not permitted by this Agreement immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction or (b) if permitted by this Agreement immediately prior to the consummation of such transaction, would not provide Holdings and its Subsidiaries with adequate flexibility under this Agreement for the continuation and/or expansion of their combined operations following such consummation, as determined by the Borrower acting in good faith.
“Transition Services Agreement” means the Transition Services Agreement, dated as of May 1, 2019, by and among iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., Parent, the Company and Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., as amended from time to time.
“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan.
“Unaudited Financial Statements” means the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of Holdings as of March 31, 2019 and related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings as of March 31, 2019.
“Unidentified Claimant Term Loan Amount” means $10,821,073.59.
“Unidentified Claimants” means each Person entitled to an Initial Term Loan pursuant to the Bankruptcy Plan on account of an Allowed Claim or Allowed Interest (each as defined in the Bankruptcy
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Plan) that, as of the Closing Date, has not responded to a request from the Disbursement Agent for information necessary to facilitate the distributions to which it is entitled in accordance with the Bankruptcy Plan.
“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“United States Tax Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibits K-1, K-2, K-3 and K-4 hereto, as applicable.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (a) as of the Closing Date, each Subsidiary of Holdings listed on Schedule 1.01C, (b) any Subsidiary of Holdings designated by Holdings as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14 subsequent to the Closing Date and (c) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“US Guarantor” means each US Subsidiary that constitutes a Guarantor.
“US Person” means any Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“US Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is organized under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any Business Day, except any Business Day on which any of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the New York Stock Exchange or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is not open for business because such day is a legal holiday under the federal laws of the United States or the laws of the State of New York, as applicable.
“USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 10756, as amended or modified from time to time.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“wholly owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Yield Differential” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(e)(iii).
Section 1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions.
With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
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(a)The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
(b)The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
(c)Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.
(d)The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.
(e)The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
(f)In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including”; the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”; and the word “through” means “to and including.”
(g)Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Section 1.03 Accounting Terms.
(a)All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b)For purposes of determining whether Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries comply with any exception to Article VII where compliance with any such exception is based on a financial ratio or metric being satisfied as of a particular point in time, it is understood that (a) compliance shall be measured at the time when the relevant event is undertaken, as such financial ratios and metrics are intended to be “incurrence” tests and not “maintenance” tests and (b) correspondingly, any such ratio and metric shall only prohibit Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries from creating, incurring, assuming, suffering to exist or making, as the case may be, any new, for example, Liens, Indebtedness or Investments, but shall not result in any previously permitted, for example, Liens, Indebtedness or Investments ceasing to be permitted hereunder.
(c)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, for purposes of determining compliance with any test or covenant contained in this Agreement with respect to any period during which any Specified Transaction occurs, the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio and Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be calculated with respect to such period and such Specified Transaction on a Pro Forma Basis; provided that, for any Specified Transaction that is consummated in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction, at the option of the Borrower (the Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Transaction, an “LCA Election”) the date of determination for calculation of any such ratios shall be deemed to be either (a) the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Transaction are entered into, or (b) solely in connection with an acquisition to which the United Kingdom City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the “City Code”) applies, the date on which a “Rule 2.7 announcement” of a firm intention to make an offer in respect of such target company is made in compliance with the City Code (the “LCA Test Date”) and if, after giving pro forma effect to the
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Limited Condition Transaction and the Specified Transactions to be entered into in connection therewith as if they had occurred at the beginning of the most recent date of determination ending prior to the LCA Test Date, the Borrower could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratio or basket, such ratio or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made an LCA Election and any of the ratios or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCA Test Date are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio or basket, including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets of the Borrower or the Person subject to such Limited Condition Transaction, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets or ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether the relevant transaction or action is permitted to be consummated or taken. If the Borrower has made an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or basket availability with respect to any other Specified Transaction on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement for, or “Rule 2.7 announcement” in respect of, as applicable, such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, any such ratio or basket shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and any associated Lien) have been consummated. In connection with any action being taken in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires that no Default or Event of Default, as applicable, has occurred, is continuing or would result from any such action, as applicable, such condition shall, at the option of the Borrower, be deemed satisfied, so long as no Default or Event of Default, as applicable, exists on the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Transaction are entered into. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has exercised its option under this clause (c), and any Default or Event of Default occurs following the date the definitive agreements for the applicable Limited Condition Transaction were entered into and prior to the consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction, any such Default or Event of Default (other than an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a) or (f)) shall be deemed to not have occurred or be continuing for purposes of determining whether any action being taken in connection with such Limited Condition Transaction is permitted hereunder.
Section 1.04 Rounding.
Any financial ratios required to be maintained by Holdings pursuant to this Agreement (or required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement) shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding up if there is no nearest number).
Section 1.05 References to Agreements, Laws, Etc.
Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are permitted by the Loan Documents; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
Section 1.06 Times of Day.
Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
Section 1.07 Timing of Payment or Performance.
When the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment
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(other than as described in the definition of Interest Period) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day.
Section 1.08 Initial Lenders.
By accepting the benefits under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, each Initial Lender acknowledges and agrees that it shall be bound by all provisions of this Agreement (including for the avoidance of doubt, Section 9.07) and shall have all of the rights and obligations of a Lender hereunder.
Section 1.09 [Reserved].
Section 1.10 Currency Equivalents Generally.
(a)Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Articles II, IX and X or as set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section 1.10) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined at the rate of exchange quoted by the Reuters World Currency Page for the applicable currency at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day (or, in the event such rate does not appear on any Reuters World Currency Page, by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agents and the Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement, such rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agents in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date for the purchase of Dollars for delivery two Business Days later). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with Sections 7.01, 7.02 and 7.03 with respect to any amount of Indebtedness or Investment in a currency other than Dollars, no Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness or Investment is incurred; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.10 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness or Investment may be incurred at any time under such Sections.
(b)For purposes of determining compliance under Sections 7.02, 7.05, 7.06 or 7.13 or for calculating the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio and Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, any amount in a currency other than Dollars will be converted to Dollars based on the average Exchange Rate for such currency for the most recent twelve-month period immediately prior to the date of determination determined in a manner consistent with that used in calculating Consolidated EBITDA for the applicable period.
Section 1.11 Fixed Amounts and Incurrence Based Amounts.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, with respect to any amounts incurred (including the incurrence of any Free and Clear Incremental Amount) or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement that does not require compliance with a financial ratio or test (including, without limitation, pro forma compliance with any Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio test, any Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio test, any Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio test, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio test, and/or any other financial ratio or test) (any such amounts, the “Fixed Amounts”) substantially concurrently with any amounts incurred (including the incurrence of any Incurrence Based Incremental Amount) or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement that requires compliance with any such financial ratio or test (any such amounts, the “Incurrence Based Amounts”), it is understood and agreed that the Fixed Amounts (and any cash proceeds thereof) shall, in each case, be disregarded in the calculation of the financial ratio or test applicable to the Incurrence Based Amounts in connection with such substantially concurrent incurrence.
Section 1.12 Divisions.
For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person
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pursuant to such division transaction, then such asset, right, obligation or liability shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence as a result of such division transaction, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
Section 1.13 Interest Rates. The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate”any reference rate referred to herein or with respect to any rate (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the selection of such rate and any related spread or other adjustment) that is an alternative or replacement for or successor to any of such rate (including, without limitation, any LIBOR Successor Rate) (or any component of any of the foregoing) or the effect of any of the foregoing, or of any LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions or other activities that affect any reference rate referred to herein, or any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including, without limitation, any Successor Rate) (or any component of any of the foregoing) or any related spread or other adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain any reference rate referred to herein or any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including, without limitation, any Successor Rate) (or any component of any of the foregoing), in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or other action or omission related to or affecting the selection, determination, or calculation of any rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
ARTICLE II
The Commitments and Credit Extensions Section 2.01 The Loans.
(a)The Initial Term Loan Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in accordance with the Bankruptcy Plan, each Initial Lender (i) is deemed to have made, on the Closing Date, a term loan to the Borrower denominated in Dollars in the amount of such Initial Lender’s Initial Term Commitment and (ii) is deemed to have executed and delivered, on the Closing Date, this Agreement, regardless of whether such Initial Lender has executed and delivered a signature page hereto to the Borrower on the Closing Date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Initial Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, as further provided herein; provided that, on the Closing Date, the Initial Term Loans shall be deemed made as Eurocurrency Rate Loans (as defined immediately prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date) with an initial Interest Period of three months (it being understood and agreed that this Section 2.01(a) shall be in lieu of a Committed Loan Notice on the Closing Date).
(b)The Second Amendment Incremental Term Loan Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Amendment No. 2, each Second Amendment Incremental Lender severally agrees to make, on the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date, a term loan to the Borrower denominated in Dollars in the amount equal to its Second Amendment Incremental Term Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, as further provided herein.
Section 2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a)Each Term Borrowing (other than a Borrowing of Initial Term Loans), each conversion of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable written notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone, or (B) a Committed Loan Notice; provided that any telephone notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Committed Loan
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Notice. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. New York City time (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, and (ii) 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Business Day of a requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Except as provided in Section 2.14(a), each Borrowing of (other than a Borrowing of Initial Term Loans), conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000,000, or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Section 2.14(a), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing of a particular Class, a conversion of Term Loans of any Class or a continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans of a Class are to be converted, (v) [reserved] and (vi) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term Loans shall be made as or converted to Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans having an Interest Period of one month, as applicable. Any such automatic conversion to one-month Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month.
(b)Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement of the applicable Class of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion or continuation described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Each Lender may, at its option, make any Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect in any manner the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.
(c)Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan unless the Borrower pays the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith.
(d)The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans upon determination of such interest rate. The determination of the Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in the Prime Rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the announcement of such change.
(e)After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than ten (10) Interest Periods in effect.
(f)The failure of any Lender to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
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(g)With respect to SOFR or Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that, with respect to any such amendment effected, the Administrative Agent shall post each such amendment implementing such Conforming Changes to the Borrower and the Lenders reasonably promptly after such amendment becomes effective.
Section 2.03 Disbursement Agent.
The Disbursement Agent shall hold Initial Term Loans in an amount equal to the Unidentified Claimant Term Loan Amount for the benefit of the Unidentified Claimants until the earlier of (x) the Reversion Date, at which time all remaining Initial Term Loans held by the Disbursement Agent shall be cancelled, terminated and discharged pursuant to Section 2.04(b) and (y) the date on which all of the Disbursement Agent’s rights and obligations hereunder are assigned to Claimant Assignees and/or discharged, terminated and cancelled, in each case, in accordance with the last paragraph of Section 10.07(b). In connection with any vote, consent or other instruction that the Disbursement Agent shall be entitled to deliver with respect to the Initial Term Loans it holds for the benefit of the Unidentified Claimants, the Disbursement Agent shall vote such Initial Term Loans (or shall give instructions with respect to such Initial Term Loans) in the same proportion as the other Loans entitled to vote or give such instruction have voted or given such instruction. For the avoidance of doubt, iHeartCommunications, Inc. shall be deemed to be acting in its capacity as Disbursement Agent and Initial Lender with respect to the relevant provisions in this Agreement relating to Unidentified Claimants, and not in its capacity as the Borrower; provided that, acting in such capacity as Disbursement Agent shall not otherwise affect its rights and obligations under this Agreement in its capacity as Borrower, except as expressly set forth herein.
Section 2.04 Undeliverable Distributions.
(a)If, on the date that is six months after the Closing Date (the “Reversion Date”), an Initial Lender has failed to comply with its obligations hereunder to provide a completed Administrative Questionnaire and any applicable tax forms required pursuant to Section 3.01(d) with respect to itself, then, without any further action by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, on the Reversion Date each such Initial Lender’s Initial Term Loans deemed made pursuant to Section 2.01 shall be deemed unclaimed property or interests in property pursuant to Section 347(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and an “Unclaimed Distribution” under and as defined in the Bankruptcy Plan and shall revert to the Borrower and be automatically discharged, terminated and cancelled (and the Administrative Agent shall update the Register to reflect such discharge, termination and cancellation).
(b)If, on the Reversion Date (or, if later with respect to any Unidentified Claimant that has become a Claimant Assignee on or prior to the Reversion Date, the Response Deadline), the Disbursement Agent holds Initial Term Loans for the benefit of any Unidentified Claimant, such Initial Term Loans shall be deemed unclaimed property or interests in property pursuant to Section 347(b) of the Bankruptcy Code and an “Unclaimed Distribution” under and as defined in the Bankruptcy Plan and shall revert to the Borrower and be automatically discharged, terminated and cancelled (and the Administrative Agent shall update the Register to reflect such discharge, termination and cancellation). For the avoidance of doubt, the Disbursement Agent shall cease to be a Lender and a party to this Agreement on and from the earlier of (x) the later of (A) the Reversion Date and (B) the date on which the last Claimant Assignee completes the documentation required under Section 10.07(b) and (y) the latest Response Deadline for any Unidentified Claimant that shall have become a Claimant Assignee identified prior to the Reversion Date (if any), which date shall be no later than eight months from the Closing Date. The Disbursement Agent shall provide written notice to the Administrative Agent no later than five (5) Business Days prior to the Reversion Date of the principal amount of Initial Term Loans held by the Disbursement Agent for the benefit of Unidentified Claimants which are subject to discharge, termination and cancellation on the Reversion Date pursuant to this Section 2.04(b).
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Section 2.05 Prepayments.
(a)Optional. (i) The Borrower, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, may voluntarily prepay at any time or from time to time Term Loans of any Class in whole or in part without premium or penalty (subject to Section 2.05(a)(iv)); provided that (1) such notice must be signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. New York City time (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans and (B) one (1) Business Day prior to any prepayment of Base Rate Loans in each case, unless the Administrative Agent agrees to a shorter period in its discretion; (2) any prepayment of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans shall be in a minimum Principal Amount of $2,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; and (3) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a minimum Principal Amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire Principal Amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon to such date, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. In the case of each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a), the Borrower may in its sole discretion select the Borrowing or Borrowings (and the application of such prepayment to scheduled maturities of principal payments) to be repaid, and such payment shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares or other applicable share as provided for under this Agreement.
(ii)At any time prior to the Reversion Date, the Borrower, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, may voluntarily prepay, on a non-pro rata basis, all (but not less than all) Initial Term Loans of any Initial Lender that, together with its Affiliates and Related Funds, has Initial Term Loans outstanding not exceeding $100,000, without premium or penalty (subject to Section 2.05(a)(iv)); provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. New York City time (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loans and (B) one (1) Business Day prior to any prepayment of Base Rate Loans in each case, unless the Administrative Agent agrees to a shorter period in its discretion; (2) any prepayment of Loans of any Initial Lender shall not exceed $100,000 (plus any accrued interest thereon to such date, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05) and shall be for the entire Principal Amount of the Initial Term Loans of such Initial Lender; (3) notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any such prepayment may be made on a non-pro rata basis to each applicable Initial Lender (without requiring any pro rata payment to any other Initial Lender); and (4) the aggregate amount of all such prepayments of Initial Term Loans made pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(ii) shall not exceed $25,000,000. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Initial Lender being prepaid along with the amount each lender is being prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the applicable Initial Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the date of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the entire Principal Amount of such Initial Term Loans specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency RateTerm SOFR Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon to such date, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. In the case of each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(ii), the Borrower may in its sole discretion select the Initial Lenders to be repaid, and such payment shall be paid to such Initial Lender.
(iii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, subject to the payment of any amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.05, the Borrower may rescind any notice of prepayment under Sections 2.05(a)(i) if such prepayment is conditioned on the consummation of another concurrent transaction, which such transaction shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed. Each prepayment of any Class of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) (other than Section 2.05(a)(ii)) shall be applied in an order of priority to repayments thereof as directed by the Borrower and, absent such direction, shall be applied in direct order of maturity to repayments thereof required pursuant to Section 2.07(a).
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(iv)In the event that,
(A)prior to the date that is six (6) months following the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, the Borrower (x) prepays, refinances, substitutes or replaces any Initial Term Loans pursuant to a Repricing Transaction (including, for avoidance of doubt, any prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii) that constitutes a Repricing Transaction), or (y) effects any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modification of this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Transaction, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each of the applicable Term Lenders, (I) in the case of clause (x), a prepayment premium of 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term Loans incurred on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date so prepaid, refinanced, substituted or replaced and (II) in the case of clause (y), a fee equal to 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Initial Term Loans amended or otherwise modified pursuant to such amendment. If, prior to six months following the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, any Term Lender that is a Non-Consenting Lender and is replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) in connection with any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modification of this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Transaction, such Term Lender (and not any Person who replaces such Term Lender pursuant to Section 3.07(a)) shall receive its pro rata portion (as determined immediately prior to it being so replaced) of the prepayment premium or fee described in the preceding sentence. Such amounts shall be due and payable on the date of effectiveness of such Repricing Transaction; or
(B)prior to the date that is six (6) months following the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, the Borrower (x) prepays, refinances, substitutes or replaces any Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans pursuant to a Repricing Transaction (including, for avoidance of doubt, any prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii) that constitutes a Repricing Transaction), or (y) effects any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modification of this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Transaction, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each of the applicable Second Amendment Incremental Lenders, (I) in the case of clause (x), a prepayment premium of 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans incurred on the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date so prepaid, refinanced, substituted or replaced and (II) in the case of clause (y), a fee equal to 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans amended or otherwise modified pursuant to such amendment. If, prior to six (6) months following the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, any Second Amendment Incremental Lender that is a Non-Consenting Lender and is replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) in connection with any amendment, amendment and restatement or other modification of this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Transaction, such Second Amendment Incremental Lender (and not any Person who replaces such Second Amendment Incremental Term Lender pursuant to Section 3.07(a)) shall receive its pro rata portion (as determined immediately prior to it being so replaced) of the prepayment premium or fee described in the preceding sentence. Such amounts shall be due and payable on the date of effectiveness of such Repricing Transaction.
(v)Notwithstanding anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, any Company Party may prepay the outstanding Term Loans (which shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be automatically and permanently canceled immediately upon such prepayment) (or Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries may purchase such outstanding Term Loans and immediately cancel them) on the following basis:
(A)Any Company Party shall have the right to make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a discount to par pursuant to a Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment, Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers or Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers (any such prepayment, the “Discounted Term Loan Prepayment”), in each case made in accordance with this Section 2.05(a)(v); provided that no Company Party shall initiate any action under this Section 2.05(a)(v) in order to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment unless (I) at least ten
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(10) Business Days shall have passed since the consummation of the most recent Discounted Term Loan Prepayment as a result of a prepayment made by a Company Party on the applicable Discounted Prepayment Effective Date; or (II) at least three Business Days shall have passed since the date the Company Party was notified that no Term Lender was willing to accept any prepayment of any Term Loan at the Specified Discount, within the Discount Range or at any discount to par value, as applicable, or in the case of Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers, the date of any Company Party’s election not to accept any Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers.
(B)(1) Subject to the proviso to subsection (A) above, any Company Party may from time to time offer to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment by providing the Auction Agent with five (5) Business Days’ notice in the form of a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice; provided that (I) any such offer shall be made available, at the sole discretion of the Company Party, to (x) each Term Lender and/or (y) each Term Lender with respect to any Class of Term Loans on an individual tranche basis, (II) any such offer shall specify the aggregate principal amount offered to be prepaid (the “Specified Discount Prepayment Amount”) with respect to each applicable tranche, the tranche or tranches of Term Loans subject to such offer and the specific percentage discount to par (the “Specified Discount”) of such Term Loans to be prepaid (it being understood that different Specified Discounts and/or Specified Discount Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different tranches of Term Loans and, in such event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)), (III) the Specified Discount Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $10,000,000 and whole increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (IV) each such offer shall remain outstanding through the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each Appropriate Lender with a copy of such Specified Discount Prepayment Notice and a form of the Specified Discount Prepayment Response to be completed and returned by each such Term Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m. (New York City time), on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to such Lenders (the “Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date”).
(2)Each Term Lender receiving such offer shall notify the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date whether or not it agrees to accept a prepayment of any of its applicable then outstanding Term Loans at the Specified Discount and, if so (such accepting Lender, a “Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender”), the amount and the tranches of such Lender’s Term Loans to be prepaid at such offered discount. Each acceptance of a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment by a Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender shall be irrevocable. Any Term Lender whose Specified Discount Prepayment Response is not received by the Auction Agent by the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept the applicable Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment.
(3)If there is at least one Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender, the relevant Company Party will make a prepayment of outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this paragraph (B) to each Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender in accordance with the respective outstanding amount and tranches of Term Loans specified in such Lender’s Specified Discount Prepayment Response given pursuant to subsection (2) above; provided that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans accepted for prepayment by all Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders exceeds the Specified Discount Prepayment Amount, such prepayment shall be made pro rata among the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders in accordance with the respective principal amounts accepted to be prepaid by each such Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender and the Auction Agent (in consultation with such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Specified Discount Proration”). The Auction Agent shall promptly, and in any case within three Business Days following the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date, notify (I) the relevant Company Party of the respective Term Lenders’ responses to such offer, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and the aggregate principal amount of the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the
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tranches to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, and the aggregate principal amount and the tranches of Term Loans to be prepaid at the Specified Discount on such date and (III) each Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender of the Specified Discount Proration, if any, and confirmation of the principal amount, tranche and Type of Term Loans of such Lender to be prepaid at the Specified Discount on such date. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to the Company Party and such Term Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The payment amount specified in such notice to the Company Party shall be due and payable by such Company Party on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in accordance with subsection (F) below (subject to subsection (J) below).
(C)(1) Subject to the proviso to subsection (A) above, any Company Party may from time to time solicit Discount Range Prepayment Offers by providing the Auction Agent with five (5) Business Days’ notice in the form of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice; provided that (I) any such solicitation shall be extended, at the sole discretion of such Company Party, to (x) each Term Lender and/or (y) each Term Lender with respect to any Class of Term Loans on an individual tranche basis, (II) any such notice shall specify the maximum aggregate principal amount of the relevant Term Loans (the “Discount Range Prepayment Amount”), the tranche or tranches of Term Loans subject to such offer and the maximum and minimum percentage discounts to par (the “Discount Range”) of the principal amount of such Term Loans with respect to each relevant tranche of Term Loans willing to be prepaid by such Company Party (it being understood that different Discount Ranges and/or Discount Range Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different tranches of Term Loans and, in such event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)), (III) the Discount Range Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $10,000,000 and whole increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (IV) each such solicitation by a Company Party shall remain outstanding through the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each Appropriate Lender with a copy of such Discount Range Prepayment Notice and a form of the Discount Range Prepayment Offer to be submitted by a responding Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m. (New York City time), on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to such Lenders (the “Discount Range Prepayment Response Date”). Each Term Lender’s Discount Range Prepayment Offer shall be irrevocable and shall specify a discount to par within the Discount Range (the “Submitted Discount”) at which such Lender is willing to allow prepayment of any or all of its then outstanding Term Loans of the applicable tranche or tranches and the maximum aggregate principal amount and tranches of such Lender’s Term Loans (the “Submitted Amount”) such Term Lender is willing to have prepaid at the Submitted Discount. Any Term Lender whose Discount Range Prepayment Offer is not received by the Auction Agent by the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment of any of its Term Loans at any discount to their par value within the Discount Range.
(2)The Auction Agent shall review all Discount Range Prepayment Offers received on or before the applicable Discount Range Prepayment Response Date and shall determine (in consultation with such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) the Applicable Discount and Term Loans to be prepaid at such Applicable Discount in accordance with this subsection (C). The relevant Company Party agrees to accept on the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date all Discount Range Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date, in the order from the Submitted Discount that is the largest discount to par to the Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par, up to and including the Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par within the Discount Range (such Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par within the Discount Range being referred to as the “Applicable Discount”) which yields a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment in an aggregate principal amount equal to the lower of (I) the Discount Range Prepayment Amount and (II) the sum of all Submitted Amounts. Each Term Lender that has submitted a Discount Range
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Prepayment Offer to accept prepayment at a discount to par that is larger than or equal to the Applicable Discount shall be deemed to have irrevocably consented to prepayment of Term Loans equal to its Submitted Amount (subject to any required proration pursuant to the following subsection (3)) at the Applicable Discount (each such Term Lender, a “Participating Lender”).
(3)If there is at least one Participating Lender, the relevant Company Party will prepay the respective outstanding Term Loans of each Participating Lender in the aggregate principal amount and of the tranches specified in such Lender’s Discount Range Prepayment Offer at the Applicable Discount; provided that if the Submitted Amount by all Participating Lenders offered at a discount to par greater than or equal to the Applicable Discount exceeds the Discount Range Prepayment Amount, prepayment of the principal amount of the relevant Term Loans for those Participating Lenders whose Submitted Discount is a discount to par greater than or equal to the Applicable Discount (the “Identified Participating Lenders”) shall be made pro rata among the Identified Participating Lenders in accordance with the Submitted Amount of each such Identified Participating Lender and the Auction Agent (in consultation with such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Discount Range Proration”). The Auction Agent shall promptly, and in any case within five (5) Business Days following the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date, notify (I) the relevant Company Party of the respective Term Lenders’ responses to such solicitation, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Applicable Discount, and the aggregate principal amount of the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the tranches to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Applicable Discount, and the aggregate principal amount and tranches of Term Loans to be prepaid at the Applicable Discount on such date, (III) each Participating Lender of the aggregate principal amount and tranches of such Term Lender to be prepaid at the Applicable Discount on such date, and (IV) if applicable, each Identified Participating Lender of the Discount Range Proration. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to the relevant Company Party and Term Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The payment amount specified in such notice to the Company Party shall be due and payable by such Company Party on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in accordance with subsection (F) below (subject to subsection (J) below).
(D)(1) Subject to the proviso to subsection (A) above, any Company Party may from time to time solicit Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers by providing the Auction Agent with five (5) Business Days’ notice in the form of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice; provided that (I) any such solicitation shall be extended, at the sole discretion of such Company Party, to (x) each Term Lender and/or (y) each Lender with respect to any Class of Loans on an individual tranche basis, (II) any such notice shall specify the maximum aggregate amount of the Term Loans (the “Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount”) and the tranche or tranches of Term Loans the Borrower is willing to prepay at a discount (it being understood that different Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different tranches of Term Loans and, in such event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)), (III) the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $10,000,000 and whole increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (IV) each such solicitation by a Company Party shall remain outstanding through the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each Appropriate Lender with a copy of such Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice and a form of the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer to be submitted by a responding Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m. (New York City time), on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to such Term Lenders (the “Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date”). Each Term Lender’s Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer shall (x) be irrevocable, (y) remain outstanding until the Acceptance Date, and (z) specify both a discount to par (the “Offered Discount”) at which such Term Lender is willing to allow prepayment of its then outstanding Term Loan and the maximum aggregate principal
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amount and tranches of such Term Loans (the “Offered Amount”) such Term Lender is willing to have prepaid at the Offered Discount. Any Term Lender whose Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer is not received by the Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined prepayment of any of its Term Loans at any discount.
(2)The Auction Agent shall promptly provide the relevant Company Party with a copy of all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received on or before the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date. Such Company Party shall review all such Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers and select the largest of the Offered Discounts specified by the relevant responding Term Lenders in the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers that is acceptable to the Company Party (the “Acceptable Discount”), if any. If the Company Party elects to accept any Offered Discount as the Acceptable Discount, then as soon as practicable after the determination of the Acceptable Discount, but in no event later than by the third Business Day after the date of receipt by such Company Party from the Auction Agent of a copy of all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers pursuant to the first sentence of this subsection (2) (the “Acceptance Date”), the Company Party shall submit an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice to the Auction Agent setting forth the Acceptable Discount. If the Auction Agent shall fail to receive an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice from the Company Party by the Acceptance Date, such Company Party shall be deemed to have rejected all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers.
(3)Based upon the Acceptable Discount and the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, within three Business Days after receipt of an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice (the “Discounted Prepayment Determination Date”), the Auction Agent will determine (in consultation with such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) the aggregate principal amount and the tranches of Term Loans (the “Acceptable Prepayment Amount”) to be prepaid by the relevant Company Party at the Acceptable Discount in accordance with this Section 2.05(a)(v)(D). If the Company Party elects to accept any Acceptable Discount, then the Company Party agrees to accept all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, in the order from largest Offered Discount to smallest Offered Discount, up to and including the Acceptable Discount. Each Term Lender that has submitted a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer with an Offered Discount that is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount shall be deemed to have irrevocably consented to prepayment of Term Loans equal to its Offered Amount (subject to any required pro rata reduction pursuant to the following sentence) at the Acceptable Discount (each such Lender, a “Qualifying Lender”). The Company Party will prepay outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this subsection (D) to each Qualifying Lender in the aggregate principal amount and of the tranches specified in such Lender’s Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer at the Acceptable Discount; provided that if the aggregate Offered Amount by all Qualifying Lenders whose Offered Discount is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount exceeds the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount, prepayment of the principal amount of the Term Loans for those Qualifying Lenders whose Offered Discount is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount (the “Identified Qualifying Lenders”) shall be made pro rata among the Identified Qualifying Lenders in accordance with the Offered Amount of each such Identified Qualifying Lender and the Auction Agent (in consultation with such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Solicited Discount Proration”). On or prior to the Discounted Prepayment Determination Date, the Auction Agent shall promptly notify (I) the relevant Company Party of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and Acceptable Prepayment Amount comprising the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the tranches to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Acceptable Discount, and the Acceptable Prepayment Amount of all Term Loans and the tranches to be prepaid to be prepaid at the Applicable Discount on such date, (III) each Qualifying Lender of the aggregate principal amount and the tranches of such Term Lender to be
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prepaid at the Acceptable Discount on such date, and (IV) if applicable, each Identified Qualifying Lender of the Solicited Discount Proration. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to such Company Party and Term Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The payment amount specified in such notice to such Company Party shall be due and payable by such Company Party on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in accordance with subsection (F) below (subject to subsection (J) below).
(E)In connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment, the Company Parties and the Term Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Auction Agent may require as a condition to any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment, the payment of customary fees and expenses from a Company Party in connection therewith.
(F)If any Term Loan is prepaid in accordance with paragraphs (B) through
(D) above, a Company Party shall prepay such Term Loans on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date. The relevant Company Party shall make such prepayment to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders, Participating Lenders, or Qualifying Lenders, as applicable, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in immediately available funds not later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and all such prepayments shall be applied to the remaining principal installments of the relevant tranche of Loans on a pro rata basis across such installments. The Term Loans so prepaid shall be accompanied by all accrued and unpaid interest on the par principal amount so prepaid up to, but not including, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date. Each prepayment of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v) shall be paid to the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders, Participating Lenders, or Qualifying Lenders, as applicable, and shall be applied to the relevant Loans of such Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share. The aggregate principal amount of the tranches and installments of the relevant Term Loans outstanding shall be deemed reduced by the full par value of the aggregate principal amount of the tranches of Term Loans prepaid on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment. In connection with each prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v), the relevant Company Party shall waive any right to bring any action against the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as such, in connection with any such Discounted Term Loan Prepayment.
(G)To the extent not expressly provided for herein, each Discounted Term Loan Prepayment shall be consummated pursuant to procedures consistent with the provisions in this Section 2.05(a)(v), established by the Auction Agent acting in its reasonable discretion and as reasonably agreed by the Borrower.
(H)Notwithstanding anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, for purposes of this Section 2.05(a)(v), each notice or other communication required to be delivered or otherwise provided to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) shall be deemed to have been given upon Auction Agent’s (or its delegate’s) actual receipt during normal business hours of such notice or communication; provided that any notice or communication actually received outside of normal business hours shall be deemed to have been given as of the opening of business on the next Business Day.
(I)Each of the Company Parties and the Term Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Auction Agent may perform any and all of its duties under this Section 2.05(a)(v) by itself or through any Affiliate of the Auction Agent and expressly consents to any such delegation of duties by the Auction Agent to such Affiliate and the performance of such delegated duties by such Affiliate. The exculpatory provisions pursuant to this Agreement shall apply to each Affiliate of the Auction Agent and its respective activities in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment provided for in this Section 2.05(a)(v) as well as activities of the Auction Agent.
(J)Each Company Party shall have the right, by written notice to the Auction Agent, to revoke in full (but not in part) its offer to make a Discounted Term Loan
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Prepayment and rescind the applicable Specified Discount Prepayment Notice, Discount Range Prepayment Notice or Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice therefor at its discretion at any time on or prior to the applicable Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date (and if such offer is revoked pursuant to the preceding clauses, any failure by such Company Party to make any prepayment to a Lender, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v) shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default under Section 8.01 or otherwise).
(b)Mandatory. (i) Within five (5) Business Days after financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a), the Borrower shall cause to be offered to be prepaid in accordance with clause (b)(ix) below, an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to (A) the Applicable ECF Percentage of Excess Cash Flow, if any, for the fiscal year covered by such financial statements minus (B) the sum of (1) all voluntary prepayments, repurchases or redemptions of Term Loans made during such fiscal year or after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is made (including, in the case of Term Loans prepaid pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v), the actual purchase price paid in cash pursuant to a “Dutch Auction”, (2) all voluntary prepayments, repurchases or redemptions of loans under the ABL Facility during such fiscal year or after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due to the extent the commitments under the ABL Facility are permanently reduced by the amount of such payments and (3) all voluntary prepayments, repurchases or redemptions of Senior Notes and any Incremental Equivalent First Lien Debt, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, Permitted Ratio Debt, incurred Indebtedness under Section 7.03(g) and any other Indebtedness (in the case of any revolving credit facilities, to the extent accompanied by a permanent reduction of the corresponding commitment), in each case secured on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans and the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans, and repurchased or redeemed on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis with the Initial Term Loans and the Second Amendment Incremental Term Loans (except to the extent financed with proceeds of long-term funded Indebtedness (other than revolving loans)) during such fiscal year or after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due, (4) the amount of Capital Expenditures or acquisitions of intellectual property to the extent not expensed and Capitalized Software Expenditures accrued or made (or committed to be made) in cash during such period or, at the option of the Borrower, made after such period and prior to the date the Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due (it being understood that to the extent such Capital Expenditures or acquisitions are not actually made as committed in a subsequent period, such amount shall be added back in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such subsequent period, to the extent financed with internally generated cash or borrowings under the ABL Facility), (5) cash payments by the Borrower and its respective Restricted Subsidiaries made (or committed to be made) during such period or, at the option of the Borrower, made after such period and prior to the date the Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due (it being understood that to the extent such payments are not actually made as committed in a subsequent period, such amount shall be added back in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such subsequent period) in respect of long-term liabilities of the Borrower and its respective Restricted Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness, to the extent financed with internally generated cash or borrowings under the ABL Facility, (6) the amount of Investments and acquisitions made (or committed to be made) by the Borrower and its respective Restricted Subsidiaries during such period or, at the option of the Borrower, made after such period and prior to the date the Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due (it being understood that to the extent such Investments and acquisitions are not actually made as committed in a subsequent period, such amount shall be added back in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such subsequent period) and paid (or committed to be paid) in cash pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(a), (c), or (x)), to the extent financed with internally generated cash or borrowings under the ABL Facility and (7) the amount of Restricted Payments paid in cash (or committed to be paid) during such period or, at the option of the Borrower, paid after such period and prior to the date the Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due (it being understood that to the extent such payments are not actually paid as committed in a subsequent period, such amount shall be added back in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such subsequent period) pursuant to Section 7.06(i) (clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) only) or Section 7.06(g), to the extent financed with internally generated cash or borrowings under the ABL Facility, in the case of each of the immediately preceding clauses (1) through (7), without duplication of any deduction from Excess Cash Flow in any prior period; provided that repayments pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) shall only be required if the amount of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year is greater than the greater of $100,000,000 and 10% of Consolidated EBITDA (and only such excess amount shall be applied to the payment thereof).
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(ii)If (x) Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries Disposes of any property or assets pursuant to Sections 7.05 (j) or (m), or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, which results in the realization or receipt by Holdings or Restricted Subsidiary of Net Proceeds, the Borrower shall cause to be offered to be prepaid in accordance with clause (b)(ix) below, on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the date of the realization or receipt by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Net Proceeds, subject to clause (b)(xi) below, an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to the Applicable Asset Sale Percentage of all Net Proceeds received (such amount, the “Applicable Proceeds”); provided that no such prepayment shall be required if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrower is required to offer to repurchase any Senior Secured Notes or other Indebtedness outstanding at such time that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Term Loans pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing the Senior Secured Notes or such other Indebtedness with the Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Casualty Event (such Indebtedness together with the Senior Secured Notes required to be offered to be so repurchased, “Other Applicable Indebtedness”), in which case the Borrower may apply the Applicable Proceeds (on a pro rata basis determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans and Other Applicable Indebtedness at such time) and the remaining Net Proceeds so received to the prepayment of such Other Applicable Indebtedness; provided, further, that (A) the portion of the Applicable Proceeds (but not the other Net Proceeds received) allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of Applicable Proceeds required to be allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof, and the remaining amount, if any, of the Applicable Proceeds shall be allocated to the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof to the prepayment of the Term Loans and to the repurchase or prepayment of Other Applicable Indebtedness, and the amount of prepayment of the Term Loans that would have otherwise been required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii) shall be reduced accordingly and (B) to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of such rejection) be applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.
(iii)If Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary incurs or issues any Indebtedness after the Closing Date (other than Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03 (excluding Section 7.03(t)), the Borrower shall cause to be offered to be prepaid in accordance with clause (b)(x) below an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Proceeds received therefrom on or prior to the date which is five (5) Business Days after the receipt by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Net Proceeds.
(iv)[Reserved].
(v)[Reserved].