SECOND AMENDMENT
Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
SECOND AMENDMENT
SECOND AMENDMENT, dated as of May 2, 2023 (this “Amendment”), to the CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of August 18, 2021 (as amended by the First Amendment, dated as of October 27, 2021, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among XXXXXXX INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), the Guarantors (as defined therein) from time to time party thereto, the Banks from time to time party thereto (the “Banks”) and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Banks have extended credit to the Borrower on the terms set forth in the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Existing Banks have made certain Commitments to the Borrower (the “Commitments”) pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested an increase of $100,000,000 to the aggregate amount of the Commitments available under the Credit Agreement on the terms set forth in this Second Amendment;
WHEREAS, each Bank that executes and delivers a signature page to this Amendment in the capacity of an “Increasing Bank” (each, in such capacity, an “Increasing Bank”) shall provide an incremental Commitment to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount equal to its “Incremental Commitment” set forth on Annex I hereto on the Second Amendment Effective Date (as defined below) (such commitments, the “Incremental Commitments”).
WHEREAS, Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement permits the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to enter into certain amendments and/or modifications to the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Borrower and each Bank desire to amend the Credit Agreement in accordance with Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement, on the terms set forth in this Amendment, including, without limitation, to (a) implement the Incremental Commitments, (b) replace LIBOR with Term SOFR and (c) make certain other amendments thereto, in each case as further set forth below.
WHEREAS, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have agreed, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to amend the Credit Agreement as set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual covenants contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Defined Terms. Unless otherwise specifically defined herein, each capitalized term used herein that is defined in the Credit Agreement has the meaning assigned to such term in the Credit Agreement. The provisions of Section 1.04 and 1.05 of the Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference herein, mutatis mutandis.
SECTION 2. Incremental Commitments. Each Increasing Bank hereby severally agrees to provide to the Borrower Incremental Commitments on the Second Amendment Effective Date in an aggregate amount equal to such Increasing Lender’s Incremental Commitment, which Incremental
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Commitments shall constitute an increase in the Commitments under the Credit Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Incremental Commitments are being incurred with the consent of the Banks and shall not constitute usage of the Maximum Incremental Amount (as defined in the Credit Agreement as amended by this Amendment).
SECTION 3. Amendments to the Credit Agreement. 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: [single]-underlined text) as set forth in the pages attached as Exhibit A hereto.
SECTION 4. Amendment to Schedule 4 (Commitments). Schedule VIII (Commitments) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by deleting Schedule VIII in its entirety and replacing it with the revised Schedule VIII set out in Exhibit B hereof. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commitments set forth in the revised Schedule VIII set out in Exhibit B hereof are inclusive of, and not in addition to, the Incremental Commitments.
SECTION 5. Conditions to Effectiveness. The effectiveness of the amendments to the Credit Agreement set forth herein are each subject to the satisfaction (or waiver) of each of the following conditions (the date on which such conditions shall have been so satisfied or waived, the “Second Amendment Effective Date”):
(i) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received (i) a counterpart of this Amendment, executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and each Guarantor, (ii) a counterpart of this Amendment, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent and (iii) a counterpart of this Amendment, executed and delivered by each Bank.
(ii) The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date, including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel and all other out of pocket fees and expenses required to be paid or reimbursed by the Borrower (which fees, charges and disbursements of counsel and such other out of pocket fees and expenses shall be limited to those for which invoices have been submitted on or prior to the Effective Date) on or prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date.
(iii) The Administrative Agent shall have received:
(a) a favorable opinion of (1) Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, legal counsel for each of the Borrower and the Guarantors, (2) K&L Gates LLP, Illinois counsel the Guarantors, (3) Hunton Xxxxxxx Xxxxx LLP, Virginia counsel to the Borrower and the Guarantors and (4) Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx, P.C., Tennessee counsel to the Borrower and the Guarantors, each dated the Second Amendment Effective Date, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Bank;
(b) a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower certifying (A) the Borrower’s certificate of incorporation and by-laws, (B) the names and true signatures of the officers of the Borrower authorized to sign this Amendment and any Notes and (C) that a true, correct and complete copy of the resolutions of the Borrower’s Board authorizing the transactions contemplated hereby is attached thereto and that such resolutions are in full force and effect;
(c) a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Guarantor certifying (A) each Guarantor’s certificate of incorporation and by-laws, (B) the names and true
signatures of the officers of each Guarantor authorized to sign this Amendment and (C) that a true, correct and complete copy of the resolutions of each Guarantor’s Board authorizing the making and performance of this Amendment by each Guarantor is attached hereto and that such resolutions are in full force and effect;
(d) certificates, telecopy confirmation or electronic transmission, in each case, as of a date reasonably close to the date hereof from the Secretary of State of the state of incorporation of each of the Borrower and the Guarantors as to the existence and good standing of the Borrower and the Guarantors, as applicable; and
(e) a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by a Financial Officer, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraph (iv) of this Section 5.
(iv) (a) The representations and warranties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Second Amendment Effective Date before and after giving effect to this Amendment, as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date and (b) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the Second Amendment Effective Date or after giving effect to this Amendment.
(v) (a) The Borrower shall have delivered, at least five (5) days prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date, all documentation and other information regarding the Borrower requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, to the extent requested in writing of the Borrower by the Administrative Agent or any Bank at least ten (10) days prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date and (b) to the extent the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, at least five (5) days prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date, any Bank that has requested, in a written notice to the Borrower at least ten (10) days prior to the Second Amendment Effective Date, a certification regarding beneficial ownership or control as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation in relation to the Borrower shall have received such certification.
SECTION 6. Representations and Warranties. To induce the other parties hereto to enter into this Amendment, the Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent that, as of the Second Amendment Effective Date:
(i) The representations and warranties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Second Amendment Effective Date before and after giving effect to this Amendment, as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date.
(ii) No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the Second Amendment Effective Date or after giving effect to this Amendment.
SECTION 7. Payment of Fees and Expenses. The Company agrees to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates in connection with the preparation, negotiation and execution of this Amendment, including, without limitation, the reasonable and invoiced fees, charges and disbursements of counsel, as set forth in Section 10.04 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 8. Continuing Effect.
(i) Except as expressly provided herein, no term or provision of the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document shall be amended, modified or supplemented, and each term and provision of the Credit Agreement and each other Credit Document shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects, in each case as amended by this Amendment. The amendments provided for herein are limited to the specific subsections of the Credit Agreement specified herein and shall not constitute a consent, waiver or amendment of, or an indication of the Administrative Agent’s or the Banks’ willingness to consent to any action requiring consent under any other provisions of the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document or the same subsection for any other date or time period. Upon the effectiveness of the amendments set forth herein, on and after the Second Amendment Effective Date, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement,” “the Agreement,” “hereunder,” “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the other Credit Documents to “Credit Agreement,” “thereunder,” “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby on the Second Amendment Effective Date.
(ii) This Amendment shall not extinguish the obligations for the payment of money outstanding under the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document or discharge or release the Lien or priority of any Collateral Document or any other security therefor. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as a substitution or novation of the obligations outstanding under the Credit Agreement, the Collateral Documents or the other Credit Documents or a novation of the Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document. The obligations outstanding under or of the Credit Agreement and instruments securing the same shall remain in full force and effect, except to any extent expressly modified hereby. The Credit Documents, and the obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors under the Credit Documents, are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall remain in full force and effect according to their terms. Nothing implied in this Amendment or in any other document contemplated hereby shall be construed as a release or other discharge of any of the Loan Parties under any Credit Document from any of its obligations and liabilities as a borrower, guarantor, grantor or pledgor under any of the Credit Documents.
(iii) The Borrower and each Guarantor (i) acknowledges and consents to all of the terms and conditions of this Amendment, (ii) affirms all of its obligations under the Credit Documents, (iii) agrees that this Amendment and all documents executed in connection herewith do not operate to reduce or discharge its obligations under the Credit Documents, (iv) agrees that the Collateral Documents continue to be in full force and effect and are not impaired or adversely affected in any manner whatsoever, (v) confirms its grant of security interests pursuant to the Collateral Documents to which it is a party as Collateral for the Obligations, and (vi) acknowledges that all Liens granted (or purported to be granted) pursuant to the Collateral Documents remain and continue in full force and effect in respect of, and to secure, the Obligations. Each Guarantor hereby reaffirms its obligations under Article IV of the Credit Agreement and agrees that its obligation to guarantee the Obligations is in full force and effect as of the date hereof.
(iv) This Amendment shall constitute a Credit Document.
SECTION 9. Amendments; Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment, or any of the terms hereof, may not be amended, supplemented or modified, nor may any provision hereof be waived, except pursuant to a writing signed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. This Amendment may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Section 10.19 of the Credit Agreement shall apply to this Amendment mutatis mutandis.
SECTION 10. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process; Waiver of Jury Trial.
(i) The governing law, jurisdiction and service of process provisions of Section 10.07 of the Credit Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference, mutatis mutandis.
(ii) The waiver of jury trial provision of Section 10.18 of the Credit Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference, mutatis mutandis.
SECTION 11. Certain Existing LIBOR Borrowings. For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Credit Agreement, Eurodollar Rate Advances denominated in Dollars outstanding under the Credit Agreement as of the Second Amendment Effective Date may, in any event, remain outstanding as Eurodollar Rate Advances pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement (prior to giving effect to this Amendment) until the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto that is in effect on the Second Amendment Effective Date, with such Eurodollar Rate Advances permitted to then be converted to Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Advances (as defined in the Credit Agreement) on the last day of such Interest Period.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their respective proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
BORROWER: | ||||||||
XXXXXXX INTERNATIONAL, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, | ||||||||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
GUARANTORS: | ||||||||
XXXXXXX RESTAURANT CORPORATION | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary |
XXXXXXX FLORIDA, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX TEXAS, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
XXXXXXX INTERNATIONAL PAYROLL COMPANY, L.P. | ||||||||
By: | BIPC Management LLC, Its General Partner | |||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, | ||||||||
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||
XXXXXXX ARKANSAS, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX GEORGIA, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX LOUISIANA, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX PROPCO FLORIDA, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
XXXXXXX SERVICES CORPORATION | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX NORTH CAROLINA, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX OKLAHOMA, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
MAGGIANO’S HOLDING CORPORATION | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
MAGGIANO’S TEXAS, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
PEPPER DINING, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
CHILI’S, INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
MAGGIANO’S INC. | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX PROPERTY CORPORATION | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary | ||||||||
XXXXXXX PENN TRUST | ||||||||
A Pennsylvania business trust, as Guarantor | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Trustee | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, a Bank and an Increasing Bank | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXX XXXXXXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Authorized Officer | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Bank and an Increasing Bank | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXXX X. XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A., as a Bank and an Increasing Bank | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX X. XXXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Director | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
TRUIST BANK, as a Bank and an Increasing Bank | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXX XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Director | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
MUFG BANK, Ltd., as a Bank | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXX XXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxx Xxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
[U.S. Bank National Association], as a Bank [and an Increasing Bank] | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXX X XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||||
[By: | /S/ XXXX X XXXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President ] | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
COÖPERATIEVE RABOBANK U.A., NEW YORK BRANCH, as a Bank and an Increasing Bank | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXX XXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Vice President | ||||||||
By: | /S/ XXXXXXXX XXXXX | |||||||
Name: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx | ||||||||
Title: Executive Director | ||||||||
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
Annex I
Incremental Commitments
Increasing Bank | Incremental Commitment | ||||
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. | $20,000,000.00 | ||||
Bank of America, N.A. | $20,000,000.00 | ||||
Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association | $20,000,000.00 | ||||
Truist Bank | $20,000,000.00 | ||||
MUFG Bank, Ltd. | $0.00 | ||||
U.S. Bank National Association | $15,000,000.00 | ||||
Cooperative Rabobank U.A., New York Branch | $5,000,000.00 | ||||
Total | $100,000,000.00 |
Exhibit A
Amended Credit Agreement
(attached)
[Signature Page to Xxxxxxx Second Amendment]
CONFORMED VERSIONExhibit A
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of August 18, 2021
as amended by the First Amendment, dated as of October 27, 2021 and
as further amended by the Second Amendment, dated as of May 2, 2023
by and among
XXXXXXX INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
as Xxxxxxxx,
as Xxxxxxxx,
The Guarantors Party Hereto,
The Banks Party Hereto
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
as Administrative Agent
______________________________________________
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
BOFA SECURITIES, INC., XXXXX FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,
TRUIST BANK and MUFG BANK, LTD.
as Joint Lead Arrangers
and Bookrunners
and Bookrunners
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
TRUIST BANK and MUFG BANK, LTD.
as Syndication Agents
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Documentation Agent
as Documentation Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS 2
Section 1.01. Certain Defined Terms 2
Section 1.02. Computation of Time Periods 3738
Section 1.03. Accounting Terms 3738
Section 1.04. Miscellaneous 3839
Section 1.05. Other Interpretive Provisions 3839
Section 1.06. Interest Rates; LIBORBenchmark Notification 3940
Section 1.07. Letter of Credit Amounts 40
Section 1.08. Divisions 4041
Section 1.09. XXXX Events 41
ARTICLE II. AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT 41
Section 2.01. The Advances 41
Section 2.02. Requests for Advances 41
Section 2.03. Borrowings; Advances; Termination of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances 42
Section 2.04. Conversions and Continuations of Borrowings 45
Section 2.05. Termination and Reduction of the Commitments; Mandatory Prepayments 46
Section 2.06. Repayment and Prepayment of Advances; Notes 47
Section 2.07. Interest on Advances 48
Section 2.08. Interest Rate Determination 48
Section 2.09. Fees 48
Section 2.10. Payments; Computations; Interest on Overdue Amounts; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate 49
Section 2.11. Consequential Losses on Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances 51
Section 2.12. Increased Costs 51
Section 2.13. Replacement of Banks 52
Section 2.14. Illegality; Alternate Rate of Interest 52
Section 2.15. Taxes 5556
Section 2.16. Payments Pro Rata 58
Section 2.17. Increase in Commitments; Incremental Term Facilities 59
Section 2.18. Defaulting Banks 6062
Section 2.19. Letters of Credit 6265
ARTICLE III. CONDITIONS 6770
Section 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness 6770
Section 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Credit Event 7072
Section 3.03. Administrative Agent 7173
ARTICLE IV. GUARANTY 7173
Section 4.01. Guaranty 7173
Section 4.02. Payment 7174
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Section 4.03. Waiver 7174
Section 4.04. Acknowledgments and Representations 7274
Section 4.05. Subordination 7274
Section 4.06. Guaranty Absolute 7275
Section 4.07. No Waiver; Remedies 7375
Section 4.08. Continuing Guaranty 7375
Section 4.09. Limitation 7375
Section 4.10. Effect of Bankruptcy 7376
Section 4.11. Keepwell 7376
ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 7476
Section 5.01. Corporate Existence 7476
Section 5.02. Corporate Power 7477
Section 5.03. Enforceable Obligations 7477
Section 5.04. Financial Statements 7577
Section 5.05. Litigation 7578
Section 5.06. Xxxxxx Xxxxx; Use of Proceeds 7578
Section 5.07. Investment Company Act 7578
Section 5.08. ERISA 7678
Section 5.09. Taxes 7678
Section 5.10. Environmental Condition 7678
Section 5.11. Ownership of the Guarantors 7679
Section 5.12. Solvency 7679
Section 5.13. Disclosure 7679
Section 5.14. Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions 7779
Section 5.15. Affected Financial Institution 7779
Section 5.16. Use of Plan Assets 7779
Section 5.17. Beneficial Ownership Certificate 7779
Section 5.18. Covered Entities 7779
Section 5.19. Properties 7780
ARTICLE VI. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS 7780
Section 6.01. Compliance with Laws, Etc 7780
Section 6.02. Reporting Requirements 7880
Section 6.03. Use of Proceeds 8083
Section 6.04. Maintenance of Insurance 8183
Section 6.05. Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc 8183
Section 6.06. Payment of Taxes, Etc 8184
Section 6.07. Visitation Rights 8184
Section 6.08. Compliance with ERISA and the Code 8284
Section 6.09. Additional Material Subsidiaries 8284
Section 6.10. Further Assurances 8285
Section 6.11. Covenant to Guarantee and Give Security 8385
Section 6.12. After Acquired Property 8486
Section 6.13. Maintenance of Properties 8688
Section 6.14. Post-Closing Matters 8688
ARTICLE VII. NEGATIVE COVENANTS 8689
Section 7.01. Financial Covenants 8689
Section 7.02. Negative Pledge 8689
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Section 7.03. Merger, Sale of Assets and Sale-Leasebacks 8789
Section 7.04. Agreements to Restrict Dividends, Certain Transfers and Liens 8890
Section 7.05. Transactions with Affiliates 8891
Section 7.06. Change of Business 8991
Section 7.07. Limitation on Advances and Investments 8991
Section 7.08. Accounting Practices 8992
Section 7.09. Debt 8992
Section 7.10. Restricted Payments 9093
ARTICLE VIII. DEFAULTS 9194
Section 8.01. Defaults 9194
Section 8.02. Application of Funds 9396
ARTICLE IX. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT 9598
Section 9.01. Authorization and Action 9598
Section 9.02. Administrative Agent’s Reliance, Etc 9699
Section 9.03. Knowledge of Defaults 9699
Section 9.04. Rights of the Administrative Agent as a Bank and an Issuing Bank 97100
Section 9.05. Bank Credit Decision 97100
Section 9.06. Successor Administrative Agent 98101
Section 9.07. Joint Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners, Syndication Agents and Documentation Agents 98101
Section 9.08. INDEMNIFICATION 99101
Section 9.09. Collateral Matters 99102
Section 9.10. Certain ERISA Matters 100103
Section 9.11. Secured Cash Management Agreements, Secured Hedge Agreements, and the Secured Bilateral Letters of Credit 101104
Section 9.12. Erroneous Payments 102104
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS 103106
Section 10.01. Amendments, Etc 103106
Section 10.02. Notices, Etc 104107
Section 10.03. No Waiver; Remedies 104107
Section 10.04. Costs, Expenses and Taxes; Limitation of Liability; Indemnity 105108
Section 10.05. Right of Set-off 106109
Section 10.06. Bank Assignments and Participations 107110
Section 10.07. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process 110113
Section 10.08. Interest Rate Limitation 111113
Section 10.09. Execution in Counterparts 111114
Section 10.10. Survival of Agreements, Representations and Warranties, Etc 111114
Section 10.11. The Borrower’s Right to Apply Deposits 111114
Section 10.12. Confidentiality 111114
Section 10.13. Binding Effect 112115
Section 10.14. Entire Agreement 113116
Section 10.15. USA PATRIOT ACT 113116
Section 10.16. No Fiduciary Relationship 113116
Section 10.17. Severability 113116
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Section 10.18. Waiver of Jury Trial 114117
Section 10.19. Electronic Execution 114117
Section 10.20. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions 115118
Section 10.21. Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs 116118
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EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Note
Exhibit B Form of Notice of Borrowing
Exhibit C Form of Assignment
Exhibit D [Reserved]
Exhibit E Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate
Exhibit F Form of Notice of Prepayment
SCHEDULES:
Schedule I - Banks and Administrative Agent’s Offices; Certain Addresses for Notices
Schedule II - Borrower and Guarantors Addresses
Schedule III - Permitted Liens
Schedule IV - Agreements Restricting Dividends, Certain Transfers and Liens
Schedule V - GAAP Exceptions
Schedule VI - Investments
Schedule VII - Permitted Debt
Schedule VIII - Commitments
Schedule IX - Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule IX - Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule X - Post-Closing Matters
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of August 18, 2021 (as amended by the First Amendment, dated as of October 27, 2021 and the Second Amendment, dated as of May 2, 2023), by and among XXXXXXX INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), XXXXXXX RESTAURANT CORPORATION, a DelawareVirginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Restaurant”), XXXXXXX FLORIDA, INC., a DelawareVirginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Florida”), XXXXXXX TEXAS, INC., a DelawareVirginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Texas”), XXXXXXX INTERNATIONAL PAYROLL COMPANY, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Xxxxxxx Payroll”), XXXXXXX ARKANSAS, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Arkansas”), XXXXXXX GEORGIA, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Georgia”), XXXXXXX LOUISIANA, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Louisiana”), XXXXXXX NORTH CAROLINA, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx North Carolina”), XXXXXXX OKLAHOMA, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Oklahoma”), XXXXXXX SERVICES CORPORATION, a Virginia corporation (“Xxxxxxx Services”), MAGGIANO’S HOLDING CORPORATION, a Virginia corporation (“Maggiano’s Holding”), MAGGIANO’S TEXAS, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Maggiano’s Texas”), PEPPER DINING, INC., a Virginia corporation (“Pepper Dining”), XXXXXXX PROPERTY CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (“Xxxxxxx Property”), XXXXXXX PROPCO FLORIDA, INC. (“Xxxxxxx Propco Florida”), a Delaware corporation, CHILI’S, INC. (“Chili’s”), a Tennessee corporation, MAGGIANO’S, INC. (“Maggiano’s”), an Illinois corporation and each other Subsidiary that has executed a signature page to this Agreement as a Guarantor (together with Xxxxxxx Restaurant, Xxxxxxx Florida, Xxxxxxx Texas, Xxxxxxx Payroll, Xxxxxxx Arkansas, Xxxxxxx Georgia, Xxxxxxx Louisiana, Xxxxxxx North Carolina, Xxxxxxx Oklahoma, Xxxxxxx Services, Maggiano’s Holding, Maggiono’s Texas, Pepper Dining, Xxxxxxx Property, Xxxxxxx Propco Florida, Chili’s, Maggiano’s and all other Subsidiaries that are party hereto as guarantors or any Subsidiary that hereafter becomes a guarantor pursuant to Section 6.09, individually, a “Guarantor” and collectively, the “Guarantors”), the Banks party hereto, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., a national banking association, as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the Banks hereunder.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Borrower, Xxxxxxx Restaurant, as guarantor, the banks party thereto (the “Existing Banks”) and Bank of America, as administrative agent, entered into that certain Credit Agreement dated as of March 12, 2015 and amended on November 13, 2015, September 13, 2016, April 30, 2018, December 5, 2019, March 31, 2020, May 6, 2020 and July 23, 2020 (the “Existing Credit Agreement”), pursuant to which the Existing Banks have made available to the Borrower a revolving credit facility;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Existing Credit Agreement be replaced and refinanced in full with this Agreement, and the Banks and the Administrative Agent are willing to enter into this Agreement on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
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ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01. Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):
“2023 Notes Indenture” means, collectively, the Indenture dated as of April 30, 2013 between the Borrower and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 15, 2013 and the Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of May 15, 2013, and the notes issued thereunder.
“2024 Notes Indenture” means, collectively, the Senior Notes Indenture dated as of September 23, 2016 among the Borrower, the guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, and the notes issued thereunder.
“Accession Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17.
“Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR” means an interest rate per annum equal to (a) the Daily Simple SOFR, plus (b) 0.10%; provided that if the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR as so determined would be less than the Floor, such rate shall be deemed to be equal to the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Adjusted Term SOFR Rate” means, for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) the Term SOFR Rate for such Interest Period, plus (b) 0.10%; provided that if the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate as so determined would be less than the Floor, such rate shall be deemed to be equal to the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule I, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower and the Banks.
“Advance” means an advance made by a Bank to the Borrower pursuant to Article II.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, or is controlled by or under common control with, another Person. For the purposes of this definition, the terms “control”, “controlled by” and “under common control with”, as used with respect to any Person, means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a Subsidiary of a Person is an Affiliate of that Person.
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“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Banks. The Aggregate Commitments as of the Effective Date are $800,000,000. The Aggregate Commitments as of the Second Amendment Effective Date is $900,000,000.
“Agreement” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
“Ancillary Document” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 10.19.
“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower or the Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery, money laundering or corruption.
“Applicable Law” means, as to any Person, all applicable Laws binding upon such Person or to which such a Person is subject.
“Applicable Lending Office” means, with respectas to eachany Bank, such Bank’s Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance, and such Bank’s Eurodollar Lending Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance. the office or offices of such Bank described as such in such Bank’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Bank may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Bank or any domestic or foreign branch of such Bank or such Affiliate. Unless the context otherwise requires each reference to a Bank shall include its Applicable Lending Office.
“Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Bank at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Commitments represented by such Bank’s Commitment at such time. If the Commitment of each Bank to make Advances have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.01, or if the Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Bank in respect of the Commitments shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Bank in respect of the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments and to any Bank’s status as a Defaulting Bank at the time of determination. The initial Applicable Percentage of each Bank in respect of the Commitments is set forth opposite the name of such Bank’s name on Schedule VIII or in the Assignment pursuant to which such Bank becomes a party hereto, as applicable.
“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption “Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Spread”, “Base Rate Spread” or “Unused Fee Rate”, as the case may be, determined by reference to the Debt to Cash Flow Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(e):
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Debt to Cash Flow Ratio | Unused Fee Rate (bps per annum) | Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Spread (bps per annum) | Base Rate Spread (bps per annum) | |||||||||||
Level 1 | < 2.00:1.00 | 25.0 | 150.0 | 50.0 | ||||||||||
Level 2 | ≥ 2.00: 1.00, but < 3.00:1.00 | 25.0 | 175.0 | 75.0 | ||||||||||
Level 3 | ≥ 3.00: 1.00, but < 4.00:1.00 | 30.0 | 200.0 | 100.0 | ||||||||||
Level 4 | ≥ 4.00: 1.00 | 35.0 | 225.0 | 125.0 |
(a) Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Debt to Cash Flow Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(e); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section 6.02(e), then, upon the request of the Majority Banks, Pricing Level 4 shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and in each case shall remain in effect until the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (i) as of the Effective Date, the Applicable Rate shall be based upon Pricing Level 2 and shall continue to be based upon Pricing Level 2 until the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(e) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 and (ii) thereafter the Applicable Rate shall be based upon the Pricing Level as set forth in the table above.
“Assignment” means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Bank and an assignee, and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit C.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof), as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period for any term rate or otherwise, for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated pursuant to this Agreement as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to clause (gf) of Section 2.14.
“Availability Period” means the period of time commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the Termination Date.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
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“Bail-In Legislation” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank-Related Person” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 10.04(b).
“Banks” means the Persons with a Commitment or an outstanding Advance as of the Effective Date and each other Person that shall have become a party hereto as a “Bank” pursuant to an Assignment or an Accession Agreement, other than any such Person that shall have ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Banks” includes the Issuing Banks.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1% and (c) the EurodollarAdjusted Term SOFR Rate for a one month Interest Period onas published two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day (or if such day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the immediately preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day) plus 1%; provided that for the purpose of this definition, the EurodollarAdjusted Term SOFR Rate for any day shall be based on the LIBOR Screen Rate (or if the LIBOR Screen Rate is not available for such one month Interest Period, the LIBOR Interpolated Rate)Term SOFR Reference Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m. London5:00 a.m. Chicago time on such day (or any amended publication time for the Term SOFR Reference Rate, as specified by the CME Term SOFR Administrator in the Term SOFR Reference Rate methodology). Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the EurodollarAdjusted Term SOFR Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the EurodollarAdjusted Term SOFR Rate, respectively. If the Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 2.14 (for the avoidance of doubt, only until the Benchmark Replacement has been determined pursuant to Section 2.14(c)), then the Base Rate shall be the greater of clauses (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Base Rate as determined pursuant to the foregoing would be less than 1.00%, such rate shall be deemed to be 1.00% for purposes of this Agreement.
“Base Rate Advance” means an Advance which bears interest as provided in Section 2.07(a)(i).
“Base Rate Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Base Rate Advances.
“Benchmark” means, initially, with respect to any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance, the LIBOTerm SOFR Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event, an Early Opt-in Election or an Other Benchmark Rate Election, as
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applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the LIBOTerm SOFR Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to clause (c) or clause (d) of Section 2.14.
“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date; provided that, in the case of an Other Benchmark Rate Election, “Benchmark Replacement” shall mean the alternative set forth in (3) below:
(1) the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR; and
(1) in the case of any Advance denominated in Dollars, the sum of: (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(2) in the case of any Advance denominated in Dollars, the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(32) the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities denominated in Dollars at such time in the United States and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;.
provided that, in the case of clause (1), such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; provided further that, in the case of clause (3), when such clause is used to determine the Benchmark Replacement in connection with the occurrence of an Other Benchmark Rate Election, the alternate benchmark rate selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be the term benchmark rate that is used in lieu of a LIBOR-based rate in the relevant other Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities; provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other Credit Document, upon the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event, and the delivery of a Term SOFR Notice, on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date the “Benchmark Replacement” shall revert to and shall be deemed to be the sum of (a) Term SOFR and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, as set forth in clause (1) of this definition (subject to the first proviso above).
If the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1), or (2) or (3) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Interest Period and Available Tenor for any setting of such Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement:
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, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by (1) for purposes of clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:
(a) the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for the applicable Corresponding Tenor;
(b) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) as of the Reference Time such Benchmark Replacement is first set for such Interest Period that would apply to the fallback rate for a derivative transaction referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon an index cessation event with respect to such Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor; and
(2) for purposes of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement,” the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by thethe Administrative Agent and the Borrower for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and/or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities denominated in Dollars at such time;.
provided that, in the case of clause (1) above, such adjustment is displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such Benchmark Replacement Adjustment from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement and/or any Term Benchmark Advances, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of
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administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents).
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to such then-current Benchmark:
(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the first date on which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be no longer representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause (c3) and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date;.
(3) in the case of a Term SOFR Transition Event, the date that is thirty (30) days after the date a Term SOFR Notice is provided to the Banks and the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.14(d); or
(4) in the case of an Early Opt-in Election or an Other Benchmark Rate Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election or Other Benchmark Rate Election, as applicable, is provided to the Banks, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election or Other Benchmark Rate Election, as applicable, is provided to the Banks, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election or Other Benchmark Rate Election, as applicable, from Banks comprising the Majority Banks.
For the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination and (ii) the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to such then-current Benchmark:
(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the
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time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);
(2) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the NYFRB, the central bank for Dollars applicable to such BenchmarkCME Term SOFR Administrator, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), in each case, which states that the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or
(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are no longer, or as of a specified future date will no longer be, representative.
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, with respect to any Benchmark, the period (if any) (x) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date pursuant to clauses (1) or (2) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in accordance with Section 2.14 and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in accordance with Section 2.14.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“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 Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include “plan assets,” as defined by Section 3(42) of ERISA, of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“Board” means, as to any Person, the Board of Directors of the Person or the Executive Committee thereof.
“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
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“Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Advances of the same Type made to the Borrower by each of the Banks pursuant to Section 2.01.
“Xxxxxxx Florida” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
“Xxxxxxx Payroll” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
“Xxxxxxx Restaurant” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
“Xxxxxxx Texas” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
“Business Day” means, any day (other than a Saturday, or a Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located and, if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, means) on which banks are open for business in New York City; provided that, in addition to the foregoing, a Business Day shall be in relation to Loans referencing the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate and any interest rate settings, fundings, disbursements, settlements or payments of any such Loans referencing the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate or any other dealings of such Loans referencing the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate, any such day that is also a London Bankingonly a U.S. Government Securities Business Day.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means, with respect to any Person for any period of determination, the amount of the obligations of such Persons to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases or financing leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP. For the avoidance of doubt, Capitalized Lease Obligations shall not include operating leases.
“Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements.
“Cash Management Bank” means any Person that either (a) at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement, is the Administrative Agent, an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent, a Bank or an Affiliate of a Bank or (b) is a party to a Cash Management Agreement at the time it (or its applicable Affiliate) becomes a Bank (either on the Effective Date, prior to, or thereafter as an Eligible Assignee), or (c) prior to the time such Person became a Bank, an Affiliate of a Bank, Administrative Agent or an Affiliate thereof, such Person entered into a Cash Management Agreement that was in effect on the Effective Date, in each case in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Effective Date, of any introduction of or any change (including without limitation, but without duplication, any change by way of imposition or increase of reserve requirements included, in the case of Eurodollar Rate
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Advances, in the Statutory Reserve Rate) in or in the interpretation, application or applicability of any law, regulation, guideline or request from any central bank or other governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law); 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 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.
“CME Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited as administrator of the forward-looking term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) (or a successor administrator).
“Code” means, as appropriate, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Collateral” means
(a) all accounts (as defined in the UCC);
(b) all inventory (as defined in the UCC) and all restaurant supplies;
(c) all Intellectual Property;
(d) all Pledged Equity;
(e) all Pledged Debt;
(f) all other assets and personal property that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties;
(g) all books and records relating to any of the foregoing (including, to the extent relating to the foregoing, customer data, credit files, ledgers, computer programs, printouts, and other computer materials and records (and all media on which such data, files, programs, materials and records are or may be stored));
(h) all proceeds, products and replacements of, accessions to, and substitutions for, any of the foregoing, including without limitation proceeds of insurance policies, to the extent related to a loss related to the foregoing; and
(i) Mortgaged Property.
In no event shall “Collateral” include any of the Excluded Assets.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, each Mortgage, each of the collateral assignments, security agreement supplements, pledge agreement supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar
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agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.10, 6.11 or 6.12 and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents, and all amendments, restatements, modifications or supplements thereof or thereto, by or between any one or more of any Loan Party that, now or hereafter, creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and all financing statements (or comparable documents now or hereafter filed in accordance with the UCC or comparable law) and Intellectual Property Security Agreements against any such Person as debtor in favor of any the Administrative Agent or a Bank for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Banks and the other Secured Parties, as secured party, as any of the foregoing may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time.
“Commitment” means, at any time, whether used or unused, the obligation of each Bank to make Advances and participate in Letters of Credit in an aggregate amount up to and including the amount set forth opposite such Bank’s name on Schedule VIII hereto under the caption “Commitments” or in an Assignment, as such amount may be terminated, reduced or increased pursuant to Section 2.05, Section 2.17, Section 8.01 or Section 10.06.
“Commitment Increase” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Compliance Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(e).
“Confidential Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.12.
“Consolidated” refers to the consolidation of the accounts of any Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
“Controlled Group” means any group of organizations within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m), or (o) of the Code of which the Borrower or its Subsidiaries is a member.
“Convertible Notes Transaction” means any issuance, incurrence or sale (as applicable) by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any Debt for borrowed money that is or by its terms may be convertible or exchangeable into or for Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof or into or for any combination of cash and Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof.
“Corporate Franchise” means the right or privilege granted by the state or government to the Person forming a corporation, and their successors, to exist and do business as a corporation and to exercise the rights and powers incidental to that form of organization or necessarily implied in the grant.
“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.
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“Covered Entity” has the meaning specified in Section 10.21(b).
“Credit Documents” means this Agreement, including schedules and exhibits hereto, the Notes, the Collateral Documents, and each other agreement, instrument or document executed by the Borrower or any Guarantor at any time in connection with this Agreement and any amendments, modifications or supplements hereto or to any other Credit Document or waivers hereof or to any other Credit Document.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, (a “SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which may include a lookback) being Rate Day”), a rate per annum equal to SOFR for the day (such day, “SOFR Determination Date”) that is five (5) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to (i) if such SOFR Rate Day is a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, such SOFR Rate Day or (ii) if such SOFR Rate Day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately preceding such SOFR Rate Day, in each case, as such SOFR is estapublished by the SOFR Administrativeor Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “on the SOFR Administrator’s Website. Any change in Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion. due to a change in SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in SOFR without notice to the Borrower.
“Debt” means, in the case of any Person, without duplication, (i) indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments (other than any customary trade or other accounts payable in the ordinary course of business evidenced by an instrument and, in each case, to the extent not past due for more than 90 days after the date on which such trade or other account payable was created, unless being properly contested in good faith), (iii) Capitalized Lease Obligations (iv) Disqualified Equity Interests and (v) obligations of such Person under or relating to letters of credit or guaranties in respect of, and obligations (contingent or otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect of, indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) of this definition. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term Debt shall not include any obligation of the Borrower or a Guarantor incurred by entering into, or by guaranteeing, any transaction that is a rate swap, basis swap, forward rate transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap or option, foreign exchange transaction, currency swap or option or any similar transaction.
“Debt to Cash Flow Ratio” means the ratio of (i) (x) Debt of the Borrower, on a Consolidated basis (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include rent expense), as of such date of determination, minus (y) unrestricted cash and Liquid Investments of the Borrower, on a Consolidated basis, as of such date of determination in an amount not to exceed $150,000,000 to (ii) EBITDA of the Borrower, on a Consolidated basis, for the immediately preceding twelve-month period.
“Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
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“Defaulting Bank” means, subject to Section 2.18(b), any Bank that, as determined by the Administrative Agent, (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including (i) in respect of its Advances or (ii) in respect of its participations in Letters of Credit, within three Business Days of the date required to be funded by it hereunder unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Bank notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Bank’s reasonable determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Bank 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 hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Bank’s obligation to fund an Advance hereunder and states that such position is based on such Bank’s reasonable determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied) (provided that such Bank shall cease to be a Defaulting Bank pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, (iii) or taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment or (iv) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Bank shall not be a Defaulting Bank solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Bank or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a governmental authority.
“Default Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 2.10(e).
“Designated Bank” means any Bank that provides written notice to the Administrative Agent of its desire to be a “Designated Bank” so long as such Bank remains a Bank hereunder until such Bank notifies the Administrative Agent in writing of its desire to no longer be a “Designated Bank.”
“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 Equity Interests not constituting Disqualified Equity Interests), pursuant to sinking fund obligations or otherwise, (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Equity Interests not constituting Disqualified Equity Interests) 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 Debt or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to the directors, officers or employees of the Borrower or a Subsidiary thereof, such Equity Interests shall not
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constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, retirement, severance, death or disability.
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Domestic Lending Office” means, with respect to any Bank, the office of such Bank specified as its “Domestic Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in an Assignment or such other office of such Bank as such Bank may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.
“Early Opt-in Election” means, if the then current Benchmark with respect to Dollars is LIBO Rate, the occurrence of:
(1) a notification by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding Dollar denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and
(2) the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from LIBO Rate and the provision, as applicable, by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Borrower and the Banks.
“EBITDA” means, for any period, the Consolidated earnings of a Person during such period from continuing operations, exclusive of (i) gains on sales of assets not in the ordinary course of business (to the extent such gains are included in earnings from continuing operations), (ii) any non-recurring, non-cash charges or losses not in the ordinary course of business (to the extent such charges or losses are included in earnings from continuing operations), (iii) any non-cash expenses for such period resulting from the grant of stock options or other equity-based incentives to any director, officer or employee of the Borrower or any Subsidiary pursuant to a written plan or agreement approved by the Board of the Borrower (to the extent such expenses are included in earnings from continuing operations) and (iv) extraordinary items, as determined under GAAP, but without deducting federal, state, foreign and local income taxes, Interest Expense, depreciation and amortization; provided, however, any items (including, without limitations, any and all costs, expenses and losses) related to the Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) pandemic shall not in any event constitute an extraordinary item or a non-recurring non-ordinary course item for purposes of this definition.
“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
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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.
“Effective Date” means the date on which the conditions set forth in Section 3.01 and Section 3.02 shall have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 10.01).
“Electronic Signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.
“Eligible Assignee” means (i) a Bank or any Affiliate of any Bank; (ii) a commercial bank or financial institution, in each case with an office in the United States of America acceptable to the Administrative Agent and, unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower (such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld and provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have provided such acceptance unless it shall specify otherwise in a written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received written notice of the proposed assignment from the Administrative Agent) and (iii) a finance company, insurance company or other financial institution (not already covered by clause (ii) of this definition) or fund (whether a corporation, partnership or other entity) which is engaged in making, purchasing or otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business, and having total assets in excess of $1,000,000,000, or any other Person, and in the case of each such Person in this clause (iii), acceptable to the Administrative Agent and, unless a Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower (provided that the Borrower shall be deemed to have provided such acceptance unless it shall specify otherwise in a written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received written notice of the proposed assignment from the Administrative Agent). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, neither a Defaulting Bank, nor the Borrower or any Guarantor or any Affiliate of either thereof shall constitute an Eligible Assignee.
“Environment” has the meaning set forth in 42 U.S.C. §9601(8) (without giving effect to those provisions of the definition imposing limitation to the United States of America) or as otherwise defined under any applicable Environmental Protection Statute.
“Environmental Protection Statute” means any local, state or federal law, statute, regulation, order, consent decree or other Governmental Requirement, domestic or foreign, arising from or in connection with or relating to the protection or regulation of the Environment or natural resources, or to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Substances or Hazardous Wastes, including, without limitation, those laws, statutes, regulations, orders, decrees and other Governmental Requirements relating to the disposal, cleanup, production, storing, refining,
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handling, transferring, processing or transporting of Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Substances or any pollutant or contaminant, wherever located.
“Equal and Ratable Assets” means, collectively, (a) any Principal Property and (b) any shares of Capital Stock or Debt issued by any Restricted Subsidiary (which capitalized terms, for purposes of this definition, shall mean and refer to the defined terms included in the 2023 Notes Indenture and the 2024 Notes Indenture as in effect on the Effective Date).
“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination; provided, that any Debt issued in connection with a Convertible Notes Transaction shall not constitute Equity Interests of any Person prior to the time such Debt is converted in accordance with its terms to shares of capital stock (or other ownership interests).
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“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.
“Eurocurrency Liabilities” has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time.
“Eurodollar Lending Office” means, with respect to any Bank, the office of such Bank specified as its “Eurodollar Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in an Assignment (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending Office) or such other office of such Bank as such Bank may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Eurodollar Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.
“Eurodollar Rate Advance” means any Advance as to which the Borrower shall have selected an interest rate based upon the Eurodollar Rate as provided in Article II.
“Eurodollar Rate Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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“Excluded Assets” means (a) solely to the extent that the notes issued pursuant to the 2023 Notes Indenture remain outstanding, any Equal and Ratable Assets; (b) assets and personal property for which a pledge thereof or a security interest therein is prohibited by Applicable Law (including any legally effective requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment clauses of the UCC and other Applicable Law, other than the proceeds and products thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the UCC or other Applicable Law notwithstanding such prohibition; (c) (i) any “margin stock”; (ii) Equity Interests of any Person to the extent, and for so long as, the pledge of such Equity Interests would be prohibited by the terms of any applicable joint venture agreement or shareholders’ agreement applicable to such Person, after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment clauses of the UCC and other Applicable Law; and (iii) voting Equity Interests (including any other interest treated as an equity interest for U.S. federal income tax purposes) in any Foreign Subsidiary or any FSHCo in excess of 65% of the total issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests of such Subsidiaries; (d) any general intangible, permit, lease, license, contract (solely to the extent the counterparty of such lease or contract is not a Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates) or other asset of such Loan Party to the extent the grant of a security interest in such asset in the manner contemplated by the Collateral Documents, under the terms thereof or under Applicable Law, is prohibited and would result in the termination thereof or give the other parties thereto the right to terminate, accelerate or otherwise alter such Loan Party’s rights, titles and interests thereunder (including upon the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both); provided, that, (i) any such limitation described in the foregoing clause (d) on the security interests granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents shall only apply to the extent that any such prohibition is not rendered ineffective pursuant to the UCC or other Applicable Law (including under any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization, receivership or other debtor relief law) or principles of equity, and (ii) in the event of the termination or elimination of any such prohibition or the requirement for any consent contained in any Applicable Law or asset (or document governing such asset), to the extent sufficient to permit any such item to become Collateral, or upon the granting of any such consent, or waiving or terminating any requirement for such consent, a security interest in such asset shall be automatically and simultaneously granted under the Collateral Documents and shall be included as Collateral; (e) any “intent-to-use” application for registration of a trademark of such Loan Party filed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Xxxxxx Act, 15 U.S.C. §1051, prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” pursuant to Section 1(d) of the Xxxxxx Act or an “Amendment to Allege Use” pursuant to Section 1(c) of the Xxxxxx Act with respect thereto, solely to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of any registration that issues from such intent-to-use application under applicable federal law; (f) any (x) leasehold interests in real property and (y) fee owned interests in real property to the extent such fee owned real property does not constitute a Material Real Property; (g) solely to the extent that granting a security interest in such debt or receivables of such Subsidiaries would be reasonably likely to result in material adverse tax consequences to any Loan Party, any debt (including any Debt or receivables) owed (or treated as owed for U.S. federal income tax purposes) by, or any property or assets of, any Subsidiary of any Loan Party that is a Foreign Subsidiary or FSHCo (or any Subsidiary of any such Foreign Subsidiary or any direct or indirect Domestic Subsidiary of any such FSHCo) to the Borrower or any other Loan Party; and (h) any other assets if and for so long as the Administrative Agent and the Borrower agree in writing that
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the cost of creating or perfecting pledges or security interests in such assets shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Excluded Assets shall not include any proceeds, replacements or substitutions of the foregoing property (unless such proceeds, replacements or substitutions otherwise constitute Excluded Assets).
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary (including any regulated entity that is subject to net worth or net capital or similar capital and surplus restrictions) that is prohibited or restricted by Applicable Law or by a contractual obligation (solely to the extent the counterparty of such contractual obligation is not a Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates) from providing a guaranty or if such guaranty would require governmental (including regulatory) or third party (other than any Loan Party or their respective Affiliates) consent, approval, license or authorization pursuant to such contractual obligation (unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been obtained or is received after commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the same, which efforts may be requested by the Administrative Agent); (b) any Domestic Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary; (c) any Real Property Holding Company; (d) any Foreign Subsidiary, (e) any FSHCo, and (f) any Subsidiary with respect to which the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing that the burden or cost (including any adverse tax consequences to the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries) of providing a guaranty will outweigh the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranteed Obligations of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranteed Obligations thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act at the time the Guaranteed Obligations of such Guarantor, or a grant by such Guarantor of a security interest, becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a Master Agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranteed Obligations or security interest is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.
“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to the Administrative Agent or any Bank or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to the Administrative Agent or any Bank, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of the Administrative Agent or such Bank being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Bank, its Applicable Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Bank U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of the Administrative Agent or any Bank with respect to an applicable interest in a Borrowing, Letter of Credit or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Bank acquires such interest in the Borrowing, Letter of Credit or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 2.13) or (ii) such Bank changes
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its Applicable Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.15, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Bank’s assignor immediately before such Bank became a party hereto or to such Bank immediately before it changed its Applicable Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to the Administrative Agent’s or such Bank’s failure to comply with Section 2.15(e) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Existing Banks” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.
“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereto.
“Existing Letter of Credit” means each letter of credit issued prior to the Effective Date by a Person that shall be an Issuing Bank and listed on Schedule IX.
“FASB ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities entered into in connection with the implementation of the foregoing.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depositary institutions, as determined in such manner as shall be set forth on the NYFRB’s Website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the effective federal funds rate; provided that if the Federal Funds Effective Rate as so determined would be less than 0%, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
“Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, the principal accounting officer, any vice president or assistant vice president with accounting or financial responsibilities, or the treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the Borrower.
“First Lien Debt to Cash Flow Ratio” means the ratio of (i) (x) Debt of the Borrower, on a Consolidated basis (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include rent expense), that is secured by any Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations, as of such date of determination, minus (y) unrestricted cash and Liquid Investments of the Borrower, on a Consolidated basis, as of such date of determination in an amount not to exceed $150,000,000 to (ii) EBITDA of the Borrower, on a Consolidated basis, for the immediately preceding twelve-month period.
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“Fixed Incremental Amount” means (i) $250,000,000 minus (ii) the sum of the aggregate amount of Commitment Increases, Incremental Term Commitments and Incremental Equivalent Debt, in each case, incurred in reliance on clause (i) prior to such date.
“Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) the 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.
“Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to the LIBO Rate.Adjusted Term SOFR Rate or the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt the initial Floor for each of the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate or the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR shall be 0.00%.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary of the Borrower organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America.
“FSHCo” means (a) any Domestic Subsidiary that has no material assets other than the Equity Interests or Debt (in the case of Debt, to the extent such Debt is treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries or FSHCos, and incidental assets related thereto, and (b) any other Domestic Subsidiary that is treated as a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes and that holds Equity Interests or Debt (in the case of Debt, to the extent such Debt is treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes) of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries or FSHCos.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles for financial reporting as in effect from time to time in the United States of America, applied on a consistent basis.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government.
“Governmental Requirements” means all judgments, orders, writs, injunctions, decrees, awards, laws, ordinances, statutes, regulations, rules, Corporate Franchises, permits, certificates, licenses, authorizations and the like and any other requirements of any government or any commission, board, court, agency, instrumentality or political subdivision thereof.
“Guaranteed Obligations” means all obligations of the Borrower to the Banks and the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the Notes and any other Credit Document to which the Borrower is a party, whether for principal, interest, fees, expenses, indemnities or otherwise, and whether now or hereafter existing.
“Guarantor” has the meaning specified in the introduction hereto.
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“Guarantor Joinder” has the meaning specified in Section 6.09.
“Hazardous Substance” has the meaning set forth in 42 U.S.C. §9601(14) and shall also include each other substance considered to be a hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant, waste or other term of similar import under any Environmental Protection Statute, including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and petroleum and petroleum products.
“Hazardous Waste” has the meaning set forth in 42 U.S.C. §6903(5) and shall also include each other substance considered to be a hazardous waste under any Environmental Protection Statute (including, without limitation, 40 C.F.R. §261.3).
“Hedge Bank” means any Person that either (a) at the time it enters into a Swap Contract required or permitted under Article VI or VII, is the Administrative Agent, an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent, a Bank or an Affiliate of a Bank, (b) is a party to a Swap Contract required or permitted under Article VI or VII at the time it (or its applicable Affiliate) becomes a Bank (either on the Effective Date, prior to, or thereafter as an Eligible Assignee), or (c) prior to the time such Person became a Bank, an Affiliate of a Bank, Administrative Agent or an Affiliate thereof, such Person entered into a Swap Contract that was in effect on the Effective Date, in each case in its capacity as a party to such Swap Contract.
“Impacted LIBO Rate Interest Period” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “LIBO Rate.”
“Increasing Bank” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17.
“Incremental Equivalent Debt” means any Debt incurred by the Borrower in the form of (x) one or more series of secured bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments or (y) term loans; provided, that, (a) (i) such Debt shall be secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Obligations and shall not be secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any Subsidiary other than the Collateral, (ii) the security agreements relating to such Debt are substantially the same as the Collateral Documents (with such differences as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and (iii) the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Debt is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained acting on behalf of the holders of such Debt shall have become party to a customary pari passu intercreditor agreement with the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (b) such Debt does not mature earlier than the Latest Maturity Date in effect hereunder at the time of incurrence thereof and has a weighted average life to maturity no shorter than that of the tranche of Incremental Term Loans (to the extent any exist at such time) with the then longest weighted average life to maturity, (c) such Debt contains covenants, events of default and other terms that, when taken as a whole (other than interest rates, amortization, call premiums, fees and optional prepayment or redemption terms), are substantially identical to, or are not materially more restrictive to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries than, those set forth in the Credit Documents (other than (x) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date then in effect and (y) covenants or other provisions that are also for the benefit of the Banks and Incremental Term Lenders (if any) in respect of the Advances, Commitments, Incremental Term Loans (if any) and Incremental Term Commitments (if any)
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outstanding at the time such Debt is incurred); provided, that, a Financial Officer of the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate to the Administrative Agent at least two (2) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Debt or the modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension thereof (or such shorter period of time as may reasonably be agreed by the Administrative Agent), together with a summary of the material terms and conditions of such resulting Debt, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such material terms and conditions satisfy the requirements set forth in this clause (c), which determination shall be conclusive, (d) such Debt does not provide for any mandatory prepayment, redemption or repurchase (other than upon a change of control, fundamental change, or upon conversion or exchange in the case of convertible or exchangeable Debt, customary asset sale, excess cash flow or event of loss, mandatory offers to purchase and customary acceleration rights after an event of default) prior to the Latest Maturity Date then in effect, (e) such Debt is not guaranteed by any Person other than the Borrower and the Guarantors and (f) both before and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Debt, the Loan Parties are in compliance with Section 7.01.
“Incremental Term Commitment” means, with respect to any Incremental Term Lender, the commitment, if any, of such Incremental Term Lender, established pursuant to an Incremental Facility Amendment and Section 2.17(b), to make Incremental Term Loans of any tranche hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Incremental Term Loans of such tranche to be made by such Incremental Term Lender.
“Incremental Term Facility” means an incremental term loan facility established hereunder pursuant to an Incremental Facility Amendment providing for Incremental Term Commitments.
“Incremental Term Facility Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and one or more Incremental Term Lenders, establishing Incremental Term Commitments of any tranche and effecting such other amendments hereto and to the other Credit Documents as are contemplated by Section 2.17(b).
“Incremental Term Lender” means an institution with an Incremental Term Commitment or an outstanding Incremental Term Loan.
“Incremental Term Loan” means a Loan made by an Incremental Term Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.17(b).
“Incremental Term Maturity Date” means, with respect to Incremental Term Loans of any tranche, the scheduled date on which such Incremental Term Loans shall become due and payable in full hereunder, as specified in the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment.
“Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).
“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 the Borrower hereunder and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in (a), Other Taxes.
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“Insufficiency” means, with respect to any Plan, the amount, if any, by which the present value of the vested benefits under such Plan exceeds the fair market value of the assets of such Plan allocable to such benefits.
“Intellectual Property” means, collectively, all intellectual property of a Person, including, without limitation, (a) inventions, designs, patents, patent applications, copyrights, copyright applications, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade secrets, confidential or proprietary information, customer list, know-how, software, and databases; (b) all embodiments or fixations thereof and all related documentation, applications, registrations and franchises; (c) all licenses or other rights to use any of the foregoing; and (d) all books and records relating to the foregoing.
“Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period of determination, its interest expense determined in accordance with GAAP, including, without limitation, all interest with respect to any Capitalized Lease Obligations, all interest with respect to Debt issued in respect of any Convertible Notes Transactions and all capitalized interest, but excluding deferred financing fees.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (i) (a) as to any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance and the Termination Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance 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 Advance, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Termination Date and (ii) as to any Advance, the earliest of (a) the Termination Date, (b) the date of demand therefor with respect to interest accruing under Section 2.07(b) and Section 2.10(e), and (c) the date of any prepayment of any Advance, whether or not such prepayment is otherwise permitted hereunder.
“Interest Period” means as to each Eurodollar Rate AdvanceTerm Benchmark Borrowing, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate AdvanceTerm Benchmark Borrowing is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate AdvanceTerm Benchmark Borrowing and ending on the date one (1), three (3) or six (6) months thereafter (in each case, subject to the availability for the Benchmark applicable to the relevant Loan or Commitment), as selected by the Borrower in its Notice of Borrowing; provided that:
(a) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(b) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Rate Advance 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;
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(c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Termination Date;
(d) Interest Periods commencing on the same date for Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances comprising the same Borrowing shall be of the same duration; and
(e) no tenor that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section 2.14(gf) shall be available for specification in such Notice of Borrowing.
Interest shall accrue from and including the first day of an Interest Period to but excluding the last day of an Interest Period. The Administrative Agent shall promptly advise each Bank in writing of each Interest Period so selected by the Borrower with respect to each Borrowing.
“Investments” has the meaning specified in Section 7.07.
“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or such successor thereto.
“Issuing Bank” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Bank of America, N.A., Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, Truist Bank and MUFG Bank, Ltd. and any other Bank that agrees to act as an Issuing Bank (in each case, through itself or through one of its designated affiliates or branch offices), each in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.19(i). Any Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. Each reference herein to the “Issuing Bank” in connection with a Letter of Credit or other matter shall be deemed to be a reference to the relevant Issuing Bank with respect thereto.
“Joint Lead Arrangers” means JPMCB, BofA Securities, Inc., Xxxxx Fargo Securities, LLC, Truist Bank and MUFG Bank, Ltd., in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and bookrunners for the credit facility provided for herein.
“JPMCB” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and its successors.
“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time, plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Bank at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the LC Exposure at such time. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Article 29(a) of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits,
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International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the applicable time) or Rule 3.13 or Rule 3.14 of the International Standby Practices, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the applicable time) or similar terms of the Letter of Credit itself, or if compliant documents have been presented but not yet honored, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” and “undrawn” in the amount so remaining available to be paid, and the obligations of the Borrower and each Bank shall remain in full force and effect until the Issuing Bank and the Banks shall have no further obligations to make any payments or disbursements under any circumstances with respect to any Letter of Credit.
“Latest Maturity Date” shall mean, at any date of determination, the latest maturity or termination date (including the Termination Date) applicable to any Advance, Commitment, Incremental Term Loan or Incremental Term Commitment hereunder at such time, including any maturity or termination date that has been extended from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement and shall include each Existing Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit may be issued in Dollars.
“Letter of Credit Agreement” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 2.19(b).
“Letter of Credit Commitment” means, with respect to each Issuing Bank, the commitment of such Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder. The initial amount of each Issuing Bank’s Letter of Credit Commitment is set forth on Schedule VIII, or if an Issuing Bank has entered into an Assignment or has otherwise assumed a Letter of Credit Commitment after the Effective Date, the amount set forth for such Issuing Bank as its Letter of Credit Commitment in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent. The Letter of Credit Commitment of an Issuing Bank may be modified from time to time by agreement between such Issuing Bank and the Borrower, and notified to the Administrative Agent.
“Liabilities” means any losses, claims (including intraparty claims), demands, damages or liabilities of any kind.
“LIBO Interpolated Rate” means, at any time, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing denominated in Dollars and for any Interest Period, the rate per annum (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the LIBO Screen Rate) determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the LIBO Screen Rate for
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the longest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available for Dollars) that is shorter than the Impacted LIBO Rate Interest Period; and (b) the LIBO Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which the LIBO Screen Rate is available for Dollars) that exceeds the Impacted LIBO Rate Interest Period, in each case, at such time; provided that if any LIBO Interpolated Rate shall be less than 0%, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for the purposes of this Agreement.
“LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing denominated in Dollars and for any Interest Period, the LIBO Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such Interest Period (an “Impacted LIBO Rate Interest Period”) with respect to Dollars then the LIBO Rate shall be the LIBO Interpolated Rate.
“LIBO Screen Rate” means, for any day and time, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing denominated in Dollars and for any Interest Period, 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 as displayed on such day and time on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion); provided that if the LIBO Screen Rate as so determined would be less than 0%, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for the purposes of this Agreement.
“LIBOR” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 1.06.
“Lien” means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, deed of trust, security interest, encumbrance or other type of preferential arrangement to secure or provide for the payment of any obligation of any Person, whether arising by contract, operation of law or otherwise (including, without limitation, the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or other title retention agreement).
“Liquid Investments” means:
(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are guaranteed or insured by, the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof;
(b) (i) negotiable or nonnegotiable certificates of deposit, time deposits, bankers’ acceptances or other similar banking arrangements maturing within twelve (12) months from the date of acquisition thereof (“bank debt securities”), issued by (A) any Bank or any Affiliate of any Bank or (B) any other foreign or domestic bank, trust company or financial institution which has a combined capital surplus and undivided profit of not less than $100,000,000 or the U.S. Dollar equivalent thereof, if at the time of deposit or purchase, such bank debt securities are rated not less than “BB” (or the then equivalent) by the rating service of S&P or of Xxxxx’x, (ii) commercial paper issued by (A) any Bank or any Affiliate of any
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Bank or (B) any other Person if at the time of purchase such commercial paper is rated not less than “A-2” (or the then equivalent) by the rating service of S&P or not less than “P-2” (or the then equivalent) by the rating service of Xxxxx’x, or upon the discontinuance of both of such services, such other nationally recognized rating service or services, as the case may be, as shall be selected by the Borrower or a Guarantor, (iii) debt or other securities issued by (A) any Bank or Affiliate of any Bank or (B) or any other Person, if at the time of purchase such Person’s debt or equity securities are rated not less than “BB” (or the then equivalent) by the rating service of S&P or of Moody’s, or upon the discontinuance of both such services, such other nationally recognized rating service or services, as the case may be, as shall be selected by the Borrower or a Guarantor and (iv) marketable securities of a class registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or (g) of the Exchange Act;
(c) repurchase agreements relating to investments described in clauses (a) and (b) above with a market value at least equal to the consideration paid in connection therewith, with any Person who has a combined capital surplus and undivided profit of not less than $100,000,000 or the U.S. Dollar equivalent thereof, if at the time of entering into such agreement the debt securities of such Person are rated not less than “BBB” (or the then equivalent) by the rating service of S&P or of Moody’s, or upon the discontinuance of both such services, such other nationally recognized rating service or services, as the case may be, as shall be selected by the Borrower or a Guarantor; and
(d) shares of any mutual fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 which invests solely in underlying securities of the types described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above.
“Loan Party” means, collectively, the Borrower and each Guarantor.
“LOC Bank” means any Person that has issued (or issues) a performance or financial letter of credit for the account of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party. For the avoidance of doubt (i) at any point that a Bank ceases to be a Bank then such Person (and any Affiliate of such Person) shall cease to be an LOC Bank and (ii) at such time the issuer of any performance or financial letter of credit for the account of the Borrower and/or any (or one or more) Subsidiary of the Borrower becomes a Bank (or becomes an Affiliate of a Bank) such Person shall automatically become an LOC Bank until such time that such Person (or Affiliate of such Person) ceases to be a Bank.
“London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market.
“Majority Banks” means, subject to Section 2.18, (a) at any time prior to the earlier of the Advances becoming due and payable pursuant to Section 8.01 or the Commitments terminating or expiring, Banks having Revolving Credit Exposures and Unfunded Commitments representing more than 50% of the sum of the Total Revolving Credit Exposure and Unfunded Commitments at such time; provided that, solely for purposes of declaring the Advances to be
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due and payable pursuant to Section 8.01, the Unfunded Commitment of each Bank shall be deemed to be zero; and (b) for all purposes after the Advances become due and payable pursuant to Section 8.01 or the Commitments expire or terminate, Banks having Revolving Credit Exposures representing more than 50% of the Total Revolving Credit Exposure at such time.
“Majority Revolving Banks” means, subject to Section 2.18, (a) at any time prior to the earlier of the Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility becoming due and payable pursuant to Section 8.01 or the Commitments in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility terminating or expiring, Banks under the Revolving Credit Facility having Revolving Credit Exposures and Unfunded Commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility representing more than 50% of the sum of the Total Revolving Credit Exposure and Unfunded Commitments under Revolving Credit Facility at such time; provided that, solely for purposes of declaring the Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility to be due and payable pursuant to Section 8.01, the Unfunded Commitment of each Bank shall be deemed to be zero; and (b) for all purposes after the Advances under the Revolving Credit Facility become due and payable pursuant to Section 8.01 or the Commitments in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility expire or terminate, Banks under the Revolving Credit Facility having Revolving Credit Exposures representing more than 50% of the Total Revolving Credit Exposure at such time.
“Master Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract”.
“Material Adverse Effect” means, relative to any occurrence whatsoever, any effect which (a) is material and adverse to the financial condition or business operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a Consolidated basis, or (b) adversely affects the legality, validity or enforceability of the Credit Documents, taken as a whole or (c) causes a Default.
“Material Real Property” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13.
“Material Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination, each Subsidiary of the Borrower (a) whose gross revenues for the trailing four consecutive fiscal quarter period (when taken together with the gross revenues of the Subsidiaries of such Subsidiary for such period) were equal to or greater than 2.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries for such Period, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP, (b) whose assets (including Equity Interests in other Subsidiaries) were equal to or greater than 2.0% of the consolidated total assets of the Borrower and its wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries, in each case determined in accordance with GAAP, or (c) who owns or holds any Intellectual Property that is material to the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; provided, however, that if at any time and from time to time Domestic Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties solely because they do not meet the threshold set forth in the preceding clause (a), (b) or (c), comprise in the aggregate more than (when taken together with the gross revenues of the Subsidiaries of such Subsidiaries for the relevant period) (x) 10.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries or (y) 10.0% of the consolidated total assets (including Equity Interests in other Subsidiaries) of the Borrower and its wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries for such period, then the Borrower shall, not later than sixty (60) days after the date by which financial statements for such period were required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion), (i) designate in writing to the
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Administrative Agent one or more such wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries as “Material Subsidiaries” to the extent required such that the foregoing condition of this proviso ceases to be true and (ii) comply with the provisions of Section 6.09 with respect to any such wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries.
“Maximum Incremental Amount” means, on any date of determination, the sum of (a) the Fixed Incremental Amount plus (b) an unlimited amount so long as, in the case of this clause (b), on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the period of four fiscal quarters most recently completed for which financial statements have been (or were required to be) delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) or (c), after giving effect to the incurrence of the Commitment Increase, Incremental Term Facility or Incremental Equivalent Debt (calculated as if any Commitment Increase or any Incremental Term Commitments or Incremental Equivalent Debt in respect of delayed drawn term loans were fully drawn as of such date of calculation) and the application of the proceeds thereof (without netting the cash proceeds thereof, but giving effect to any related transaction), the First Lien Debt to Cash Flow Ratio does not exceed 2.50 to 1.00. It is understood and agreed that any Incremental Term Facility or Incremental Equivalent Debt, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have been incurred pursuant to clause (b) (to the extent the maximum First Lien Debt to Cash Flow Ratio therein shall not be violated by such incurrence) prior to clause (a).
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage” means a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt, trust deed or other security document entered into by the owner of a Mortgaged Property in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties creating a Lien on such Mortgaged Property, substantially in such form as reasonably agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. For the avoidance of doubt the Mortgaged Property should include all Material Real Property.
“Mortgaged Property” means all real property owned in fee with respect to which a Mortgage is required to be granted pursuant to Section 6.12. For the avoidance of doubt, there are no Mortgaged Properties as of the Effective Date.
“Non-U.S. Bank” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(e).
“Notes” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Bank, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, evidencing the aggregate indebtedness of the Borrower to such Bank resulting from Advances.
“Notice of Borrowing” has the meaning specified in Section 2.02.
“Notice of Prepayment” means a notice of prepayment with respect to an Advance, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit F or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer.
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“NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
“NYFRB’s Website” means the website of the NYFRB at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, or any successor source.
“NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the term “NYFRB Rate” means the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m. on such day received by the Administrative Agent from a federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates as so determined be less than 0%, such rate shall be deemed to be 0% for purposes of this Agreement.
“Obligated Party” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03.
“Obligations” means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Credit Document or otherwise with respect to any Advance, Letter of Credit, Secured Cash Management Agreement, Secured Hedge Agreement or Secured Bilateral Letter of Credit 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 of any proceeding under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided, however, that the “Obligations” of a Loan Party shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Loan Party. Without limiting the foregoing, the Obligations include (a) the obligation to pay principal, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, Secured Bilateral Letter of Credit commissions, charges, expenses, fees, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party under any Credit Document and (b) the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that the Administrative Agent or any Bank, in each case in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of the Borrower.
“Organization Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the charter or 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 or limited liability 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 jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
“Other Benchmark Rate Election” means, with respect to any Advance denominated in Dollars, if the then-current Benchmark is the LIBO Rate, the occurrence of:
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(a) a request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify each of the other parties hereto that, at the determination of the Borrower, Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed), in lieu of a LIBOR-based rate, a term benchmark rate as a benchmark rate, and
(b) the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and the Borrower jointly elect to trigger a fallback from the LIBO Rate and the provision, as applicable, by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Borrower and the Banks.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent or any Bank, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Administrative Agent or Bank and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Administrative Agent or Bank having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any provision hereof, or sold or assigned an interest in any Advance, Letter of Credit or Borrowing or in this Agreement or any Note or other Credit Document).
“Other Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(b).
“Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eeurodollar Rate borrowingstransactions denominated in Dollars by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on the NYFRB’s Website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate.
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the NYFRB Rate.
“Payment” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 9.12.
“Payment Notice” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 9.12.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (and any successor thereto).
“Patriot Act” means the USA Patriot Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law on October 26, 2001.
“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(e).
“Permitted Liens” means, with respect to any Person, Liens:
(a) for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on property of such Person incurred in the ordinary course of business to the extent the failure to pay such taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies would not be in breach of Sections 6.01 and 6.06;
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(b) imposed by law, such as landlords’, carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations not yet delinquent or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(c) arising in the ordinary course of business (i) out of pledges or deposits under workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance, old age pensions or other social security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations of such Person or (ii) which were not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money and do not in the aggregate materially detract from the value or use of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the operation of their business;
(d) securing Debt existing on the Effective Date and listed on the attached Schedule III; provided that the Debt secured by such Liens shall not be renewed, refinanced or extended if the amount of such Debt so renewed is greater than the outstanding amount of such Debt on the Effective Date;
(e) constituting easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of zoning restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions on the use of property or minor imperfections in title thereto which, in the aggregate, are not material in amount, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of such Person;
(f) securing judgments against such Person which are being appealed;
(g) on real property acquired by such Person after the Effective Date and securing only Debt of such Person incurred to finance the purchase price of such property and, in connection with a Sale-Leaseback Transaction, any related assets simultaneously acquired with the property, provided that any such Lien is created within one hundred eighty (180) days of the acquisition of such property;
(h) other than those Liens otherwise permitted above, Liens on the Collateral securing Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (including, for the avoidance of doubt, Incremental Equivalent Debt), so long as such Liens and Debt are subject to subordination and intercreditor terms (or a Subordination Agreement or intercreditor agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent), in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Loan Parties comply with the requirements of; provided that such Debt is permitted to be so secured by the Collateral pursuant to Section 2.05(b)7.09;
(i) Liens existing on property owned by a Person whose Equity Interests, or all or substantially all of whose assets, were acquired by the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries after the Effective Date at the time of such acquisition; provided that such Liens are not created in connection with or in contemplation of such
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acquisition and do not attach to any other assets or assets of any other Person, as applicable;
(j) Xxxxx granted pursuant to the terms of the Credit Documents;
(k) Liens granted in cash collateral (including any associated deposit or securities accounts) to secure obligations incurred in connection with the issuance of letters of credit, bank guaranties, bankers acceptances and similar instruments;
(l) all Liens and other matters shown on a Title Policy delivered in connection with a Mortgage, and any replacement, extension or renewal of such Liens or other matters; or
(m) Xxxxx granted in Principal Properties to secure obligations incurred in connection with Sale-Leaseback Transactions otherwise permitted to be consummated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall create, assume, incur or suffer to exist, any Lien on or in respect of any of its Intellectual Property or any of its Principal Properties, in each case, except as permitted under this Agreement.
“Permitted Refinancing Debt” any refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of the Debt incurred pursuant to Section 7.09(vi)(a); provided that to the extent such Permitted Refinancing Debt refinances (a) Subordinated Debt, such Permitted Refinancing Debt is subordinated to the Obligations at least to the same extent as the applicable Debt being refinanced, (b) Debt that is secured on a junior basis to the Liens securing the Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Debt is unsecured or secured by Liens that are subordinated to the Liens that secure the Obligations at least to the same extent as the applicable Debt being refinanced, (c) Debt that is unsecured, such Permitted Refinancing Debt is unsecured, (d) other secured Debt, such Permitted Refinancing Debt is secured by Liens that are pari passu to the Liens that secure the Obligations at least to the same extent as the applicable Debt being refinanced and (e) Disqualified Equity Interests, such Permitted Refinancing Debt must constitute Disqualified Equity Interests or unsecured Debt.
“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision or agency thereof.
“Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Plan” means an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA which is either (a) maintained for employees of the Borrower, of any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or of any member of the Controlled Group, or (b) maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or any other arrangement under which more than one employer makes contributions and to which the Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group is at the time in question making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding five plan years made contributions.
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“Pledge Agreement” means the Securities Pledge Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, between the Borrower, each other Loan Party and the Administrative Agent.
“Pledged Debt” means all of the payment and other rights with respect to Debt that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Pledged Equity” means all of the Equity Interests that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.
“Principal Property” means all restaurant or related equipment and real property, in each case which is owned by the Borrower or a Subsidiary and which constitutes all or part of any restaurant located within the United States or Canada.
“Private Bank” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Projections” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13.
“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 Bank” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” shall mean, at any time, each Loan Party with total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or that qualifies at such time as an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time under §1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Real Property Holding Company” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower designated as such by the Borrower in a writing delivered to the Administrative Agent, which writing shall include a certification that the principal business of such Subsidiary consists of owning, leasing, dealing in or developing real property that does not constitute Material Real Property.
“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is LIBOthe Term SOFR Rate, 11:00 a.m. (London5:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on the day that is two London bankingU.S. Government Securities Business dDays preceding the date of such setting or (2) if such Benchmark is not the LIBOTerm SOFR Rate, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
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“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the FRB, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors, consultants, service providers and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means, with respect to a Benchmark Replacement in respect of Advances denominated in Dollars, the Federal Reserve Board and/or the NYFRB, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the NYFRB or, in each case, any successor thereto.
“Relevant Rate” means (i) with respect to any Term Benchmark Borrowing, the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate or (ii) with respect to any RFR Borrowing, the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, as applicable.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, the president, the chief financial officer, any executive, senior or other vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of a Loan Party, and solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party and, solely for purposes of notices given pursuant to Article II, any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a notice to the Administrative Agent or any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Borrower’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Person thereof).
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution a UK Resolution Authority.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Bank at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Bank’s Advances and its LC Exposure at such time.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means, collectively, the Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder (for the avoidance of doubt, not including any Incremental Term Commitment or Incremental Term Loan).
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“RFR Advance” means an Advance that bears interest at a rate based on the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR.
“RFR Borrowing” means, as to any Borrowing, the RFR Advances comprising such Borrowing.
“Sale-Leaseback Transactions” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(c).
“Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, territory or region which is itself, or whose government is, the subject or target of any applicable full-scope Sanctions (at the date of this Agreement, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Crimea).
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any European Union member state, Her Majesty’sHM Treasury of the United Kingdom or other relevant sanctions authority (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person 50% or more owned by any such Person or Persons described in clause (a) and (b).
“Sanctions” means applicable economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any European Union member state, Her Majesty’sHM Treasury of the United Kingdom or other relevant sanctions authority.
“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (and any successor thereto).
“SEC Filing” means a report or statement filed with the SEC pursuant to Section 13, 14, or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder.
“Second Amendment” means that certain Second Amendment to Credit Agreement, dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrower, the Banks party thereto and the Administrative Agent.
“Second Amendment Effective Date” means the date on which all of the conditions set forth in Section 5 of the Second Amendment are satisfied or waived, which date is May 2, 2023.
“Secured Bilateral Letter of Credit” means any performance or financial letter of credit that is issued by a LOC Bank for the account of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party; provided that the aggregate amount of all such Secured Bilateral Letters of Credit shall not exceed $10,000,000.
“Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party and any Cash Management Bank.
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“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract required or permitted under Article VI or VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of a Loan Party and any Hedge Bank.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Banks, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, the LOC Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.01, and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.
“Security Agreement” means the Security Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, between the Borrower, each other Loan Party and the Administrative Agent.
“Senior Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in Section 10.01.
“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary which is a “significant subsidiary” of the Borrower within the meaning of Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.
“SOFR” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day publishedas administered by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website on the immediately succeeding Business Day.
“SOFR Administrator” means the NYFRB (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the NYFRB’s website, currently at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.
“SOFR Determination Date” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Daily Simple SOFR”.
“SOFR Rate Day” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Daily Simple SOFR”.
“Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, that, as of any date of determination, (a) the amount of the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, exceed the amount of all liabilities of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as of such date, as such terms are determined in accordance with applicable federal and state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the liability of such Person on its debts as such debts become absolute and matured, (c) such Person will not have, as of such date, an unreasonably small capital with which to conduct its business, and (d) such Person will be able to pay its debts as they mature. For purposes of this definition, (i) “debt” means liability on a “claim”, and (ii) “claim” means any (x) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured or (y) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment,
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whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured or unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.
“Specified Loan Party” means any Loan Party that is not an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act (determined prior to giving effect to Section 1).
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Stated Termination Date” means August 18, 2026.
“Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentage (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the Federal Reserve Board to which the Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Eurodollar Rate for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency liabilities” in Regulation D) or any other reserve ratio or analogous requirement of any central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Advances. Such reserve percentage shall include those imposed pursuant to Regulation D. Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Bank under Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
“Subordinated Debt” means Debt for borrowed money of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party which is subordinated to the Obligations as to right and time of payment and as to other rights and remedies thereunder pursuant to a Subordination Agreement, and having such other terms as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Subordination Agreement” means any subordination agreement by and between the Administrative Agent and the lenders (or representative for such lenders) providing Subordinated Debt, having terms as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as the same may be amended, restated and/or modified from time to time subject to the terms thereof.
“Subsidiary” means, as to any Person, any corporation, limited liability company, association or other business entity in which such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries owns sufficient equity or voting interests to enable it or them (individually or as a group) ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, to elect a majority of the directors (or Persons performing similar functions) of such entity, and any partnership or joint venture if more than a fifty percent (50%) interest in the profits or capital thereof is owned directly or indirectly by such Person, or by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or collectively by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries (unless such partnership can and does ordinarily take major business actions without the prior approval of such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries). Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, any reference to a “Subsidiary” is a reference to a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower.
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“Survey” has the meaning specified in Section 6.13(c).
“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; provided, however, “Swap Contracts” shall not include any equity based derivative or similar transaction whether documented pursuant to a Master Agreement or otherwise.
“Swap Obligation” means with respect to any Guarantor any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes
“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).
“Term B Lender” shall mean, at any time, any institution that holds any Term B Loans.
“Term B Loans” shall mean any Incremental Term Loan which has terms that are customary market terms for “B” term loans at the time of incurrence thereof (as determined in good faith by the Borrower and so designated in the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment).
“Term Benchmark” when used in reference to any Advance or Borrowing, refers to whether such Advance, or the Advances comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted Term SOFR Rate.
“Term Lender” shall mean, at any time, any institution that holds any Incremental Term Loans.
“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable Corresponding Tenor as of the applicable Reference Time, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body. Determination Day” has the meaning assigned to it under the definition of Term SOFR Reference Rate.
“Term SOFR Notice” means a notification by the Administrative Agent to the Banks and the Borrower of the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event.Rate” means, with respect to any Term Benchmark Borrowing and for any tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period, the Term SOFR Reference Rate at approximately 5:00 a.m., Chicago time, two U.S. Government
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Securities Business Days prior to the commencement of such tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period, as such rate is published by the CME Term SOFR Administrator.
“Term SOFR Transition Event” means the determination by the Administrative Agent that (a) Term SOFR has been recommended for use by the Relevant Governmental Body, (b) the administration of Term SOFR is administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent and (c) a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Election, as applicable (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not in the case of an Other Benchmark Rate Election), has previously occurred resulting in a Benchmark Replacement in accordance with Section 2.14 that is not Term SOFR.
“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means, for any day and time (such day, the “Term SOFR Determination Day”), with respect to any Term Benchmark Borrowing denominated in Dollars and for any tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period, the rate per annum published by the CME Term SOFR Administrator and identified by the Administrative Agent as the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR. If by 5:00 pm (New York City time) on such Term SOFR Determination Day, the “Term SOFR Reference Rate” for the applicable tenor has not been published by the CME Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Rate has not occurred, then, so long as such day is otherwise a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such Term SOFR Determination Day will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate as published in respect of the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate was published by the CME Term SOFR Administrator, so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than five (5) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such Term SOFR Determination Day.
“Termination Date” means the earliest of (i) Stated Termination Date, (ii) (a) the date of termination in whole of all of the Commitments in accordance with Section 2.05 and (b) the repayment of all of the aggregate Advances of all Banks in accordance with Section 2.05 and Section 2.06, and (iii) the termination of the Total Commitment of all Banks pursuant to Section 8.01, provided that if such date shall not be a Business Day, the Termination Date shall be the immediately preceding Business Day.
“Termination Event” means (i) a “reportable event”, as such term is described in Section 4043 of ERISA (other than a “reportable event” not subject to the provision for 30 day notice to the PBGC), or an event described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA, or (ii) the withdrawal of the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group from a Plan during a plan year in which it was a “substantial employer”, as such term is defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA, or the incurrence of liability by the Borrower or any member of the Controlled Group under Section 4064 of ERISA upon the termination of a Plan or Plan, or (iii) the distribution of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA or the treatment of a Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 of ERISA, or (iv) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Plan by the PBGC under Section 4042 of ERISA, or (v) any other event or condition which might constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan.
“Third Party Funds” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
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“Title Company” means a nationally recognized and financially stable title insurance company reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent retained to issue the Title Policies pursuant to Section 6.12(b).
“Title Policy” has the meaning specified in Section 6.12(b).
“Total Commitment” means, with respect to a Bank, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Commitments (whether used or unused) of such Bank, and with respect to all the Banks, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Commitments (whether used or unused) of all Banks, in each case, as in effect at such time.
“Total Revolving Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of the Advances at such time and (b) the total LC Exposure at such time.
“Type” means, with respect to any Advance, its character as either a EurodollarAdjusted Term SOFR Rate Advance or Base Rate Advance.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code of any applicable jurisdiction and, if the applicable jurisdiction shall not have any Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York.
“UFCA” means the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act.
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Unfunded Commitment” means, with respect to each Bank, the Commitment of such Bank less its Revolving Credit Exposure.
“Unused Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(a).
“United States” means the United States of America.
“UFTA” means the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.
“U.S. Dollars” and “$” mean the lawful currency of the United States of America.
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“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (i) a Saturday, (ii) a Sunday or (iii) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write- down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers
Section 1.02. Computation of Time Periods. In this Agreement in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including” and the words “to” and “until” each means “to but excluding.”
Section 1.03. Accounting Terms. All accounting and financial terms not specifically defined herein and the compliance with each covenant contained herein with respect to financial matters (unless a different procedure is otherwise set forth herein) shall be construed in accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and FASB ASC 470-20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded. If subsequent to the date hereof any change shall occur in GAAP or in the application thereof and such change shall affect the calculation of any financial covenant, or any other provision, set forth herein, then if the Borrower, by notice to the Administrative Agent, shall request an amendment to any such financial covenant or other provision to eliminate the effect of such change on such financial covenant or other provision (or if the Administrative Agent or the Majority Banks, by notice to the Borrower, shall request an amendment to any such financial covenant or other provision for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then the parties hereto shall enter into negotiations in an effort to agree upon such an amendment and, until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such amendment shall have become effective in accordance herewith, such financial covenant or other provision shall be calculated or interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective.
Without limiting the foregoing, leases shall continue to be, for all purposes of this Agreement, classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with that reflected in the audited financial statements of the Borrower last delivered to the Administrative Agent prior to the Effective Date, notwithstanding any change in GAAP relating thereto, unless the parties hereto shall enter into a mutually acceptable amendment addressing such changes, as provided for above.
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Section 1.04. Miscellaneous. The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Article, Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to Articles and Sections of and Schedules and Exhibits to this Agreement, unless otherwise specified. Unless the context requires otherwise, references herein or in any Credit Document or any other agreement or document to this Agreement shall be construed to refer to this Agreement as may be further amended, amended and restated, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
Section 1.05. Other Interpretive Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and each other Credit Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Credit Document:
(a) The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.” The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.” The word “or” is used in the inclusive sense of “and/or.” Unless the context requires otherwise, (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Credit Document), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “hereto,” “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Credit Document, shall be construed to refer to such Credit Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (d) all references in a Credit Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Credit Document in which such references appear, (e) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (f) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
(b) Section headings herein and in the other Credit Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Credit Document.
(c) Any reference herein to a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a division of or by a limited liability company, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company (or the unwinding of such a division or allocation), as if it were a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, as applicable, to, of or with a separate Person. Any division of a limited liability company shall constitute a separate Person hereunder (and each division of any limited liability
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company that is a Subsidiary, joint venture or any other like term shall also constitute such a Person or entity).
Section 1.06. Interest Rates; LIBORBenchmark Notification. The interest rate on an Advancea Loan denominated in Ddollars may be derived from an interest rate benchmark that may be discontinued or is, or may in the future become, the subject of regulatory reform. Regulators have signaled the need to use alternative benchmark reference rates for some of these interest rate benchmarks and, as a result, such interest rate benchmarks may cease to comply with applicable laws and regulations, may be permanently discontinued, and/or the basis on which they are calculated may change. The London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”) is intended to represent the rate at which contributing banks may obtain short-term borrowings from each other in the London interbank market. On March 5, 2021, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) publicly announced that: (a) immediately after December 31, 2021, publication of all seven euro LIBOR settings, all seven Swiss Franc LIBOR settings, the spot next, 1-week, 2-month and 12-month Japanese Yen LIBOR settings, the overnight, 1-week, 2-month and 12-month British Pound Sterling LIBOR settings, and the 1-week and 2-month U.S. Dollar LIBOR settings will permanently cease; immediately after June 30, 2023, publication of the overnight and 12-month U.S. Dollar LIBOR settings will permanently cease; immediately after December 31, 2021, the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month Japanese Yen LIBOR settings and the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month British Pound Sterling LIBOR settings will cease to be provided or, subject to consultation by the FCA, be provided on a changed methodology (or “synthetic”) basis and no longer be representative of the underlying market and economic reality they are intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored; and immediately after June 30, 2023, the 1-month, 3-month and 6-month U.S. Dollar LIBOR settings will cease to be provided or, subject to the FCA’s consideration of the case, be provided on a synthetic basis and no longer be representative of the underlying market and economic reality they are intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored. There is no assurance that dates announced by the FCA will not change or that the administrator of LIBOR and/or regulators will not take further action that could impact the availability, composition, or characteristics of LIBOR or the currencies and/or tenors for which LIBOR is published. Each party to this agreement should consult its own advisors to stay informed of any such developments. Public and private sector industry initiatives are currently underway to identify new or alternative reference rates to be used in place of LIBOR. Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event, an Early Opt-in Election or an Other Benchmark Rate Election, Section 2.14(c) and (d) provides a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, pursuant to Section 2.14(f), of any change to the reference rate upon which the interest rate on Eurodollar Rate Advances is based. However, the Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission, performance or any other matter related to LIBOR or other rates in the definition of “LIBO Rate”any interest rate used in this Agreement, or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof (including, without limitation, (i) any such alternative, successor or replacement rate implemented pursuant to Section 2.14(c) or (d), whether upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, a Term SOFR Transition Event, an Early Opt-in Election or an Other Benchmark Rate Election, and (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes pursuant to Section 2.14(e)), including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate will be similar to, or produce the same value
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or economic equivalence of, the LIBOexisting interest Rrate being replaced or have the same volume or liquidity as did the London interbank offeredany existing interest rate prior to its discontinuance or unavailability. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates and/or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of any interest rate used in this Agreement or any alternative, successor or alternative rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) and/or any relevant 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 the Eurodollarany interest Rrate used in this Agreement, any component thereof, or rates referenced in the definition thereof, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Bank 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 calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.
Section 1.07. Letter of Credit Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of such Letter of Credit available to be drawn at such time; provided that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Letter of Credit Agreement related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the available amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum amount is available to be drawn at such time.
Section 1.08. Divisions. For all purposes under the Credit 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, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized and acquired on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
Section 1.09. XXXX Events. Each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that, if there are any Mortgaged Properties, any increase, extension or renewal of any of the Commitments or Advances (including pursuant to Section 2.17, but excluding (i) any continuation or conversion of borrowings, (ii) the making of any Advances or (iii) the issuance, renewal or extension of Letters of Credit) shall be subject to (and conditioned upon): (1) the prior delivery of all flood hazard determination certifications, acknowledgements and evidence of flood insurance and other flood-related documentation with respect to such Mortgaged Properties as required by Flood Insurance Laws and as otherwise reasonably required by the Administrative Agent and (2) the Administrative Agent shall have received written confirmation from the Designated Banks that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance has been completed by the Designated Banks (such written confirmation not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).
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ARTICLE II.
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
Section 2.01. The Advances. Each Bank, severally and for itself alone, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, hereby agrees to make Advances to the Borrower from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Bank’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Bank’s Commitment. Each Borrowing of Advances shall be in an aggregate amount of not less than $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (provided that Base Rate Advances may be in an aggregate amount that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.19(e)), and shall consist of Advances of the same Type made to the Borrower on the same day by the Banks ratably according to their respective Commitments and in the case of Advances that are Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, having the same Interest Period. Within the limits of each Bank’s Commitment, the Borrower may borrow, prepay pursuant to Section 2.06(b) and reborrow.
Section 2.02. Requests for Advances. During the applicable Availability Period, each Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) (a) in the case of a proposed Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, at least three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing (or, with respect to any Borrowing made on the Effective Date, one (1) Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Borrowing), and (b) in the case of a proposed Borrowing comprised of Base Rate Advances, on the Business Day of the proposed Borrowing, by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Bank prompt notice thereof by telecopy. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a “Notice of Borrowing”) shall be in writing (including by telecopy), in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each Notice of Borrowing shall refer to this Agreement and shall specify (i) the requested date of such Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (ii) the requested Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing, (iii) the requested aggregate principal amount of such Borrowing, and (iv) in the case of a Borrowing of a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, the requested Interest Period for such Borrowing.
Section 2.03. Borrowings; Advances; Termination of Xxxxxxxxxx XxxxXxxx Xxxxxxxxx Advances.
(a) Advances shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Advances of the same Type made by the applicable Banks ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments on the borrowing date of the Borrowing of Advances. The failure of any Bank to make any Advance shall not in itself relieve any other Bank of its obligation to lend hereunder.
(b) Each Borrowing shall be a Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing. Each Bank may at its option make any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance by causing the EurodollarApplicable Lending Office of such Bank to make such Advance;
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provided, however, that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Advance in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the applicable Note, if any. Advances of more than one (1) interest rate option may be outstanding at the same time; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be entitled to request any Advances which, if made, would result in Advances, an aggregate of more than ten (10) separate Advances of any Bank being outstanding hereunder at any one time. For purposes of the foregoing, (i) Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances having different Interest Periods, regardless of whether they commence on the same date, shall be considered separate Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances and (ii) Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances and Base Rate Advances, regardless of whether they commence on the same date, shall be considered separate Advances.
(c) Each Bank shall, before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the borrowing date of each requested Borrowing make available at its Applicable Lending Office for the account of the Administrative Agent at its address referred to in Section 10.02, in immediately available funds, such Bank’s ratable portion of such requested Borrowing in accordance with its applicable Commitment. Except in respect of the provisions of this Agreement covering the reimbursement of Letters of Credit, after the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds and upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of JPMCB with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower at such account of the Borrower maintained at one of the Banks as the Borrower shall from time to time designate in a notice delivered to the Administrative Agent that is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided that Base Rate Advances made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.19(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank. If the applicable conditions set forth in Article III to any such Borrowing are not met, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Banks making the Advances comprising such Borrowing and return the funds so received to the respective Banks as soon as practicable.
(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary:
(i) if any Bank shall, at least one (1) Business Day before the date of any requested Borrowing to be made, notify the Administrative Agent that the introduction of or any change in or the interpretation of any Law or regulation makes it unlawful, or that any central bank or other governmental authority asserts that it is unlawful, for such Bank or its EurodollarApplicable Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances or to fund Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances hereunder, the right of the Borrower to select Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances for such Borrowing or any subsequent Borrowing shall be suspended until such Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist, and except as provided in clause (iv) below, each Advance comprising such Borrowing shall be a Base Rate Advance;
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(ii) if the Majority Banks shall, on or before the date any requested Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances is to be made, notify the Administrative Agent that the EurodollarTerm SOFR Rate for such Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances will not adequately reflect the cost to such Banks of making their respective Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, the right of the Borrower to select the EurodollarTerm SOFR Rate for such Borrowing or any subsequent Borrowing shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Majority Banks, shall notify the Borrower and the Banks that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist, and except as provided in clause (iv) below, each Advance comprising such Borrowing shall be a Base Rate Advance;
(iii) if the Administrative Agent determines that in connection with any request for a Eurodollar Rate Advance or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank Eurodollar market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurodollar Rate Advances or (b) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Advance or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Advance, (A) the Administrative Agent shall forthwith notify the Borrower and the Banks that the interest rate cannot be determined for such Eurodollar Rate Advances, (B) the right of the Borrower to select Eurodollar Rate Advances for such Borrowing or any subsequent Borrowing shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Banks that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist, and (C) each Advance comprising such Borrowings shall be a Base Rate Advance;[reserved];
(iv) if the Borrower has requested a proposed Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances and as a result of circumstances referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, such Borrowing would not consist of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, the Borrower may, by notice given reasonably prior to the time of such proposed Borrowing, cancel such Borrowing, in which case such Borrowing shall be canceled and no Advances shall be made as a result of such requested Borrowing; and
(v) if the Borrower shall fail to select the duration or continuation of any Interest Period for any Advances consisting of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, in accordance with the provisions contained in Section 2.04(b) and in this Section 2.03(d), the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and the Banks and such Advances will be made available to the Borrower on the date of such Borrowing as Base Rate Advances.
(e) Each Notice of a Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower, except as set forth in Section 2.03(d)(iv). In the case of any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance requested by the Borrower in a Notice of Borrowing, the Borrower shall, unless the second following sentence shall be applicable, indemnify each Bank against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Bank if such Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance is not made, including as a result of any failure to fulfill, on or before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing, the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by
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reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Bank to fund such Advance to be made by such Bank as part of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such date. A certificate in reasonable detail as to the basis for and the amount of such loss, cost or expense submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Bank shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of such loss, cost or expense. If a Borrowing requested by the Borrower to be comprised of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances is not made as a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances as a result of Section 2.03(d), the Borrower shall indemnify each Bank against any loss (excluding loss of profits), cost or expense incurred by such Bank by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Bank (prior to the time such Bank is actually aware that such Borrowing will not be so made), to fund the Advance to be made by such Bank as part of such Borrowing. A certificate in reasonable detail as to the basis for and the amount of such loss, cost or expense submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Bank shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of such loss, cost or expense.
(f) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Bank prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Bank will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Bank’s ratable portion of such Borrowing in accordance with its applicable Commitment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Bank has made such portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower requesting such Borrowing on such date a corresponding amount. If, and to the extent that, such Bank shall not have so made such ratable portion of such Borrowing in accordance with its applicable Commitment available to the Administrative Agent, such Bank and the Borrower severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at the time to Advances comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Bank, the greater of the Overnight Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing. If such Bank shall repay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such Bank’s Advance as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement.
(g) The failure of any Bank to make any Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Bank of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Bank shall be responsible for the failure of any other Bank to make any Advance to be made by such other Bank on the date of any Borrowing.
Section 2.04. Conversions and Continuations of Borrowings. (a) Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.03(b) and Section 2.03(d), the Borrower shall have the right at any time upon prior irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) three (3) U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the date of conversion or continuation, to convert any Borrowing which constitutes a Base Rate Borrowing into a Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing, to convert any Borrowing which constitutes a
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Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing into a Base Rate Borrowing or, to continue any Borrowing constituting a Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing for an additional Interest Period, subject in each case to the following:
(A) each conversion or continuation shall be made based on the pro rata Commitment of the Banks in accordance with the respective principal amounts of the applicable Advances comprising the converted or continued Borrowing;
(B) if less than all the outstanding principal amount of any Borrowing shall be converted or continued, the aggregate principal amount of such Borrowing converted or continued shall be in an amount of $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof;
(C) accrued interest on any Advance (or portion thereof) being converted or continued shall be paid by the Borrower at the time of conversion or continuation;
(D) if any Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing is converted at a time other than the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower shall pay, upon demand, any amounts due to the Banks pursuant to Section 2.03(e) and Section 2.06(d) as a result of such conversion;
(E) no Interest Period may be selected for any Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing that would end later than the applicable Termination Date;
(F) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of, or result from, such conversion or continuation; and
(G) each such conversion or continuation shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower and the Guarantors that no Default (i) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such conversion or continuation, or (ii) would result from such conversion or continuation.
(b) Each notice pursuant to Section 2.04(a) shall be irrevocable, shall be in writing (or telephone notice promptly confirmed in writing) and shall refer to this Agreement and specify (i) the identity and amount of the Borrowing that the Borrower requests be converted or continued, (ii) whether such Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing or a Base Rate Borrowing, (iii) if such notice requests a conversion, the date of such conversion (which shall be a Business Day) and (iv) if such Borrowing is to be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing, the Interest Period with respect thereto. If no Interest Period is specified in any such notice with respect to any conversion to or continuation as a Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing, the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one (1) month’s duration. The Administrative Agent shall promptly advise the Banks of any notice given pursuant to Section 2.04(a) and of each applicable Bank’s portion of any converted or continued Borrowing. If the Borrower shall not have given notice in accordance with Section 2.04(a) to continue any Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing into a subsequent Interest Period (and shall not otherwise have given notice in accordance with Section 2.04(a) to convert such Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing), such
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Eurodollar RateTerm SOFR Borrowing shall, at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto (unless repaid pursuant to the terms hereof), automatically be continued as a Base Rate Borrowingdeemed to have an Interest Period of one (1) month’s duration. For the avoidance of doubt, no notice shall be required for a Base Rate Borrowing to continue as a Base Rate Borrowing.
Section 2.05. Termination and Reduction of the Commitments; Mandatory Prepayments.
(a) Optional. The Borrower shall have the right, upon at least three (3) Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce in part the unused portions of the Total Commitments, provided that (i) each partial reduction shall be in the aggregate amount of at least $10,000,000 and in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Advances in accordance with Section 2.06, any Bank’s Revolving Credit Exposure would exceed its Commitment, and (iii) no Notice of Borrowing or Letter of Credit request has been delivered and is in effect that would result in the outstanding Total Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding the Total Commitment thereafter. Such notice shall specify the date and the amount of the reduction or termination of the Total Commitment. Such notice may be conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, indentures or similar agreements or other transactions, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any such reduction or termination of the Total Commitment shall be made ratably among the Banks in accordance with their respective Commitments and shall be permanent. Simultaneously with any termination of the Total Commitment, in whole or in part, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the accounts of the Banks the accrued and unpaid Unused Fee as set forth in Section 2.09(a).
(b) Mandatory Prepayments. If for any reason the Total Revolving Credit Exposure at any time exceed the Aggregate Commitments at such time, the Borrower shall immediately prepay Advances in an aggregate amount equal to such excess, together with accrued interest to the date of such repayment on the principal amount repaid and all fees and amounts, if any, required to be paid under this Agreement.
(c) Termination of Total Commitments. Unless previously terminated, the Total Commitments shall terminate on the Termination Date. Simultaneously with the termination of the Total Commitments, the Borrower shall also pay to the Administrative Agent for the accounts of the Banks the accrued and unpaid Unused Fee as set forth in Section 2.09(a).
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 10.01, on the effective date of any reduction in the Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.05, the parties hereto shall implement such arrangements as may be agreed upon by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to ensure that the proportion between the Banks’ respective Commitments, after giving effect to such reduction, will be re-established and Schedule VIII restated to reflect the new Total Commitments among the Banks in accordance with their respective Commitments.
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Section 2.06. Repayment and Prepayment of Advances; Notes.
(a) The Borrower agrees to repay the Banks all of the Advances in full on the Termination Date.
(b) The Borrower may, upon at least one (1) Business Day’s notice in respect of Base Rate Advances, and, in respect of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, upon at least three (3) Business Days’ notice, to the Administrative Agent pursuant to delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Prepayment stating the proposed date (which shall be a Business Day), the Type of Advances to be prepaid and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and if such notice is given, the Borrower shall, prepay the outstanding principal amounts of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in accordance with the Commitments of the applicable Banks, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid and all fees and amounts, if any, required to be paid under this Agreement, including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 2.06(d), Section 2.09(a) and Section 2.11 as a result of such prepayment, provided, however, that each partial prepayment of Advances pursuant to this Section 2.06(b) shall be in an aggregate principal amount not less than $10,000,000 for each Advance so prepaid and increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and in an aggregate principal amount such that after giving effect thereto no Borrowing of Advances comprised of Base Rate Advances shall have a principal amount outstanding of less than $5,000,000 and no Borrowing of Advances comprised of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances shall have a principal amount outstanding of less than $10,000,000.
(c) Each notice of prepayment shall specify the prepayment date, the Type of Borrowing to be prepaid and the aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing to be prepaid, shall be irrevocable and shall commit the Borrower to prepay such Borrowing by the amount stated therein.
(d) In the event that any Bank shall incur any loss or expense (including, without limitation, any loss or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by the Bank to fund or maintain all or any portion of the outstanding principal amount of any Advance) as a result of any repayment occurring prior to the last day of any Interest Period, or prepayment, of a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance or conversion of any EurodollarTerm SOFR Borrowing, on a date other than the last day of any Interest Period applicable thereto, then the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank, on demand, such amount as will reimburse the Bank for such loss or expense. A certificate as to the amount of such loss or expense setting forth the calculation thereof, submitted by such Bank to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes in the absence of error.
(e) The records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the Banks shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of the Borrower in respect of the Advances, interest and fees due or accrued hereunder, provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or any Bank to maintain such records or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to pay any amounts due hereunder in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Any Bank may request that Advances made by it be
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evidenced by a Note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Bank each such Note payable to such Bank.
(f) All voluntary and mandatory repayments under this Section 2.06 and under this Agreement (including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 2.05 and Section 7.03(b)) shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the principal amount being repaid or prepaid to the date of prepayment, if any, and all other fees and amounts required under this Section 2.06 and under this Agreement (including, without limitation, pursuant to Section 2.06(d), Section 2.09(a) and Section 2.11).
Section 2.07. Interest on Advances. (a) Interest on Advances. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Advance made by each Bank from the date of such Advance until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum (but subject to the provisions of Section 10.08):
(i) if such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a rate per annum, commencing on the applicable borrowing date, equal to the Base Rate in effect from time to time for such Advance plus the Applicable Rate (as such rate is set forth under the caption “Base Rate Spread” in the definition of the Applicable Rate) in effect from time to time for such Advance, payable on each Interest Payment Date; and
(ii) if such Advance is a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during the Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of the EurodollarAdjusted Term SOFR Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate (as such rate is set forth under the caption “Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Spread” in the definition of the Applicable Rate) in effect from time to time for such Advance, payable on each Interest Payment Date.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Payment of Interest. All accrued but unpaid interest on all Advances shall be due and payable in arrears on the Interest Payment Dates related thereto.
Section 2.08. Interest Rate Determination. The Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Banks of the applicable interest rate for each Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes of Section 2.07.
Section 2.09. Fees. (a) Unused Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Bank in accordance with its Applicable Percentage, an unused fee (the “Unused Fee”) on the unused portion of the Total Commitments of the Banks from the date hereof until the applicable Termination Date in an amount equal to the Unused Fee Rate therefor (as such rate is set forth under the definition of the Applicable Rate) multiplied by the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Commitments exceeds the aggregate outstanding Revolving Credit Exposure, payable in arrears in quarterly installments on the last day of each calendar quarter so long as any Advance or Letter of Credit is outstanding or any Bank has any Commitment, on the effective date of any reduction or termination of the Total Commitment pursuant to Section 2.05 and on the applicable Termination Date.
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(b) Administrative Agent’s Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its sole account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(c) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Bank a participation fee with respect to its participations in each outstanding Letter of Credit, which shall accrue on the daily maximum stated amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit at the same Applicable Rate used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances, during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such Bank’s Commitment terminates and the date on which such Bank ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to each Issuing Bank for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, which shall accrue at the rate of 0.125% per annum on the daily maximum stated amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit, during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination of the Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, as well as such Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment or extension of any Letter of Credit and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such Issuing Bank relating the Letters of Credit as from time to time in effect. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the fifteenth day following such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to an Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
Section 2.10. Payments; Computations; Interest on Overdue Amounts; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment hereunder and under the Notes to be made by it not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the day when due in U.S. Dollars to the Administrative Agent at its address referred to in Section 10.02 in same day funds, without setoff, recoupment or counterclaim. The Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the payment of principal, interest or fees ratably (other than amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.06(d), 2.07(b), 2.11, 2.12, 2.14 or 2.15, which shall not necessarily be paid ratably to the Banks in accordance with their respective Total Commitment and other than amounts pursuant to Section 2.09(b) which shall be for the Administrative Agent’s sole account) to the Banks in accordance with their respective Total Commitment for the account of their respective Applicable Lending Offices, and like funds relating to the payment of any other amount payable to any Bank to such Bank for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. In no event shall any Bank be entitled to share any fees paid to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.09(b).
(b) All interest and fees hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Base Rate at times when the Base Rate is
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based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), in each case for the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest or fees are payable. Each determination by the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of Section 2.07(b), by a Bank) of an interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent error.
(c) Whenever any payment hereunder or under the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or fees, as the case may be, provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due by the Borrower to any Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each such Bank on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Bank. If and to the extent the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each such Bank shall repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Bank together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such Bank until the date such Bank repays such amount to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Overnight Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Default, the Applicable Rate shall automatically be increased by 2% per annum (the “Default Rate”).
(f) If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Borrower or for any other reason, the Borrower or the Banks determine that (i) the Debt to Cash Flow Ratio as calculated by the Borrower as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Debt to Cash Flow Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, the Borrower shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Banks promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent or any Bank), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period. This clause (f) shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Bank, as the case may be, under Section 2.07(b), 2.10, 2.11 or 2.12 or under Article VIII. The Borrower’s obligations under this clause (f) shall survive the
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termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
Section 2.11. Consequential Losses on Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances. If (a) any payment (or purchase pursuant to Section 2.13) of principal of any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance made to the Borrower is made other than on an Interest Payment Date relating to such Advance, as a result of a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.06(b) or 2.14 or acceleration of the maturity of the Advances pursuant to Section 8.01 or for any other reason or as a result of any such purchase; (b) a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance is converted pursuant to Section 2.04 at a time other than the end of an Interest Period; or (c) the Borrower fails to make a principal or interest payment with respect to any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance on the date such payment is due and payable, the Borrower shall, upon demand by any Bank (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank any amounts required to compensate such Bank for any additional losses, costs or expenses which it may reasonably incur as a result of any such payment or purchase, including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of reasonably anticipated profits, except in the case of such a purchase pursuant to Section 2.13), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Bank to fund or maintain such Advance.
Section 2.12. Increased Costs. (a) If, due to any Change in Law, there shall be any increase in the cost to any Bank of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance to the Borrower or participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit, then the Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such Bank (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Bank for such increased cost. A certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Bank, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of such increased cost. Promptly after any Bank becomes aware of any such introduction, change or proposed compliance, such Bank shall notify the Borrower thereof, provided that the failure to provide such notice shall not affect such Bank’s rights hereunder, except that such Bank’s right to recover such increased costs from the Borrower for any period prior to such notice shall be limited to the period of ninety (90) days immediately prior to the date such notice is given to the Borrower.
(b) If any Bank determines that any Change in Law affects or would affect the amount of capital or liquidity required or expected to be maintained by such Bank or any corporation controlling such Bank and that the amount of such capital or liquidity is increased by or based upon the existence of such Bank’s Advances or commitment to lend to the Borrower or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder, or the Issuing Bank’s commitment to issue or maintain Letters of Credit hereunder, and other commitments of this type, then, upon receipt of a demand by such Bank (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall, within ten (10) days of such demand, notify such Bank and the Administrative Agent if the Borrower desires to replace such Bank in accordance with Section 2.13. If the Borrower either fails to notify such Bank and the Administrative Agent in accordance with the prior sentence or fails to replace such Bank within the time periods specified in Section 2.13, the Borrower shall promptly pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank, from time to time as
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specified by such Bank, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Bank or such corporation in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Bank reasonably determines such increase in capital or liquidity to be allocable to the existence of such Bank’s commitment to lend to the Borrower or participate in Letters of Credit hereunder, or the Issuing Bank’s commitment to issue or maintain Letters of Credit hereunder. A certificate as to such amounts submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Bank shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent error.
Section 2.13. Replacement of Banks. In the event that (a) any Bank makes a demand for payment under Section 2.07(b) or Section 2.12, (b) the Borrower is required to make any payment in respect of Taxes or Other Taxes pursuant to Section 2.15, (c) any Bank becomes a Defaulting Bank or (d) any Bank does not consent to any proposed amendment, supplement, modification, consent or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Credit Document that requires the consent of each of the Banks or each of the Banks affected thereby (so long as the consent of the Majority Banks has been obtained), the Borrower may within ninety (90) days of the applicable event, if no Default then exists, replace such Bank with another commercial bank, financial institution or other Person in accordance with all of the provisions of Section 10.06(a) (including execution of an appropriate Assignment), provided that (i) all obligations of such Bank to lend hereunder shall be terminated and the Advances payable to such Bank, its participations in LC Disbursements and all other obligations owed to such Bank hereunder shall be purchased in full without recourse at par plus accrued interest at or prior to such replacement, (ii) such replacement shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (iii) if such replacement bank is not already a Bank hereunder, the Borrower (and, for avoidance of doubt, not the replacement bank) shall pay to the Administrative Agent an assignment fee of $3,500 in connection with such replacement, (iv) such replacement shall, from and after such replacement, be deemed for all purposes to be a “Bank” hereunder with a Commitment in the amount of the respective Commitment of the assigning Bank immediately prior to such replacement (plus, if such replacement bank is already a Bank prior to such replacement, the respective Commitment of such Bank prior to such replacement), as such amount may be changed from time to time pursuant hereto, and shall have all of the rights, duties and obligations hereunder of the Bank being replaced, and (v) such other actions shall be taken by the Borrower, such Bank and such replacement bank as may be appropriate to effect the replacement of such Bank with such replacement bank on terms such that such replacement bank has the same rights, duties and obligations hereunder as such Bank (including, without limitation, execution and delivery of new Notes to such replacement bank if such replacement bank shall so request, redelivery to the Borrower in due course of any Notes payable to such Bank and specification of the information contemplated by Schedule I as to such replacement bank).
Section 2.14. Illegality; Alternate Rate of Interest. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent that the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any Law or regulation shall make it unlawful, or any central bank or other governmental authority shall assert that it is unlawful, for such Bank or its Applicable Lending Office to make any Advance whose interest is determined by reference to the EurodollarTerm SOFR Rate or to continue to fund or maintain any Advance hereunder whose interest is determined by reference to the EurodollarTerm SOFR Rate or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Bank to
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purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars in the Londonapplicable offshore interbank market, then, on notice thereof to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent,
(i) the obligation of such Bank to make or continue any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance or to convert Base Rate Advance to Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Bank that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist,
(ii) the Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances then outstanding of such Bank, together with all accrued interest thereon and all amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.11, shall be automatically converted to Base Rate Advances, or, at the option of the Borrower, prepaid in full, unless such Bank shall determine in good faith in its sole opinion that it is lawful to maintain such Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances made by such Bank to the end of the Interest Period then applicable thereto, and
(iii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Bank making or maintaining Base Rate Advances the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the EurodollarTerm SOFR Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on which Base Rate Advances of such Bank shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the EurodollarTerm SOFR Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Bank notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist.
(b) Subject to clauses (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) and (h) of this Section 2.14:
(i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) (A) prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Borrowing, that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate or the LIBOAdjusted Term SOFR Rate (including because the LIBO ScreenTerm SOFR Reference Rate is not available or published on a current basis), for Dollars and such Interest Period or (B) at any time, that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR; or
(ii) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Majority Banks that (A) prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Borrowing, the Eurodollar Rate or the LIBOAdjusted Term SOFR Rate for Dollars and such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Banks (or Bank) of making or maintaining their Advances (or its Advances) included in such Borrowing for Dollars and such Interest Period or (B) at any time, Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Banks (or Bank) of making or maintaining their Advances (or its Advance) included in such Borrowing;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Banks by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until (x) the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Banks that the circumstances giving rise to
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such notice no longer exist, (A) with respect to the relevant Benchmark and (y) the Borrower delivers a new notice in accordance with the terms of Section 2.04(a) or a new Notice of Borrowing in accordance with the terms of Section 2.02, any notice pursuant to Section 2.04(a) that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Borrowing shall be ineffective and (B) if any Notice of Borrowing that requests a Eurodollar Rate Advance, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR BorrowingTerm Benchmark Borrowing shall instead be deemed to be a notice pursuant to Section 2.04(a) or a Borrowing Request, as applicable, for (x) an RFR Borrowing so long as the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR is not also the subject of Section 2.14(b)(i) or (ii) above or (y) an ABR Borrowing if the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR also is the subject of Section 2.14(b)(i) or (ii) above; provided that if the circumstances giving rise to such notice affect only one Type of Borrowings, then all other Types of Borrowings shall be permitted. Furthermore, if any Eurodollar Rate BorrowingTerm Benchmark Advance or RFR Advance is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of the notice from the Administrative Agent referred to in this Section 2.14(b) with respect to the LIBO Ratea Relevant Rate applicable to such Term Benchmark Advance or RFR Advance, then until (x) the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Banks that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, then with respect to the relevant Benchmark and (y) the Borrower delivers a new notice in accordance with the terms of Section 2.04(a) or a new Notice of Borrowing in accordance with the terms of Section 2.02, (1) any Term Benchmark Advance shall on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Advance (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day), such Advance shall, be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, an Base Rate Advance denominated in Dollars on such day.(x) an RFR Borrowing so long as the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR is not also the subject of Section 2.14(b)(i) or (ii) above or (y) an ABR Advance if the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR also is the subject of Section 2.14(b)(i) or (ii) above, on such day and (2) any RFR Advance shall on and from such day be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute an ABR Advance.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document (and any Swap Contract shall be deemed not to be a “Credit Document” for purposes of this Section 2.14), if a Benchmark Transition Event, an Early Opt-in Election or an Other Benchmark Rate Election, as applicable, and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Credit Document and (y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (32) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Credit Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Banks without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Credit Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Banks comprising the Majority Banks.
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(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document and subject to the proviso below in this paragraph, with respect to an Advance denominated in Dollars, if a Term SOFR Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then the applicable Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder or under any Credit Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings, without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Credit Document; provided that, this clause (d) shall not be effective unless the Administrative Agent has delivered to the Banks and the Borrower a Term SOFR Notice. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver a Term SOFR Notice after the occurrence of a Term SOFR Transition Event and may do so in its sole discretion.
(ed) In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark ReplacementNotwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Credit Document.
(fe) The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Banks of (1i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, an Early Opt-in Election or an Other Benchmark Rate Election, as applicable, (2ii) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (3iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (4iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to clause (gf) below and (5v) the commencement or conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Bank (or group of Banks) pursuant to this Section 2.14, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Credit Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 2.14.
(gf) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Credit Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (6i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR or LIBO Rate) and either (aA) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (bB) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (7ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i) above either (aA) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (bB) is not, or is no longer, subject to an
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announcement that it is or will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor.
(hg) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Borrowing or RFR Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advances to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any request for a Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Borrowing denominated in Dollars into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Advances(A) an RFR Borrowing so long as the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR is not the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event or (B) an ABR Borrowing if the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR is the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Base RateABR based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of Base RateABR. Furthermore, if any Eurodollar RateTerm Benchmark Advance or RFR Advance is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period with respect to the LIBO Ratea Relevant Rate applicable to such Term Benchmark Advance or RFR Advance, then until such time as a Benchmark Replacement is implemented pursuant to this Section 2.14, then(1) any Term Benchmark Advance shall on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Advance (or the next succeeding Business Day if such day is not a Business Day), such Advance shall, be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, a Base Rate Advance denominated in Dollars on such day.(x) an RFR Borrowing so long as the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR is not the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event or (y) an ABR Advance if the Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR is the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event, on such day and (2) any RFR Advance shall on and from such day be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute an ABR Advance.
Section 2.15. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by the Borrower or a Guarantor hereunder or under the Notes or any other Credit Document shall be made in accordance with Section 2.10, and subject to Applicable Law and Sections 2.15(c), 2.15(e) and 2.16, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings (including backup withholding) with respect thereto, and all liabilities with respect thereto, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto (all such taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being hereinafter referred to as “Taxes”). If the Borrower or a Guarantor shall be required by Law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable by it hereunder or under any Note or other Credit Document to any Bank or the Administrative Agent, (y) the Borrower or such Guarantor, as the case may be, shall make such deductions and (z) the Borrower or such Guarantor, as the case may be, shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with Applicable Law, rules and regulations, and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Borrower or such Guarantor, as the case may be, shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) such Bank or the
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Administrative Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
(b) In addition, the Borrower or a Guarantor, as the case may be, agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other charges or similar levies which arise from any payment made by the Borrower or such Guarantor hereunder or under any Note or other Credit Document executed by it or from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any Note or other Credit Document (hereinafter referred to as “Other Taxes”).
(c) Within thirty (30) days after the date of the payment of Taxes by or at the direction of the Borrower or such Guarantor, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section 10.02, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof. If a Bank receives from the relevant jurisdiction imposing such Tax a refund of a specific Tax item for which it has been indemnified by the Borrower with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.15, it shall pay the Borrower an amount equal to such refund, together with any interest paid by such jurisdiction with respect to such refund, provided that the Borrower, upon the request of such Bank, agrees to promptly repay the amount (or portion thereof) paid over to the Borrower by such Bank in the event such Bank is required to repay the refund (or portion thereof) to such jurisdiction.
(d) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Borrower or the Guarantors hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the parties contained in this Section 2.15 shall survive the payment in full of principal and interest hereunder and under the Notes and other Credit Documents.
(e) Each Bank that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States of America or any state or political subdivision thereof (for purposes of this Section 2.15(e), each a “Non-U.S. Bank”) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to Effective Date or upon the effectiveness of any Assignment, or at such other times prescribed by Applicable Law, (i) two (2) properly completed and signed originals of United States of America Internal Revenue Service form W-8BEN-E, W-BEN or W-8ECI, as appropriate, or any successor applicable form, as the case may be, certifying that such Bank is entitled to benefits under an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party that eliminates or reduces the rate of withholding tax on payments under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents or certifying that the income receivable pursuant to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States, or (ii) if such Non-U.S. Bank is not a “bank” or other Person described in Code Section 881(c)(3), two properly completed and signed originals of a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit E hereto, together with two properly completed and signed originals of Internal Revenue Service form W-8BEN-E (or W-BEN if applicable), upon which the Borrower is entitled to rely, from any such Non-U.S. Bank or any successor applicable form, together with any other certificate or statement of exemption or reduction required under the Code, in order to establish that such Non-U.S. Bank is entitled to treat the interest payments under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents as portfolio interest that is exempt from withholding tax under the Code. Thereafter, upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, each such Non-U.S. Bank shall (A) upon the obsolescence of any form previously delivered by
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such Non-U.S. Bank, promptly submit to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower such additional properly completed and signed originals of such forms (or such successor forms as shall be adopted from time to time by the relevant United States taxing authorities) as may then be available under then current United States laws and regulations to qualify for a deduction in United States withholding taxes, or such evidence as is reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of an available exemption from United States withholding taxes, in respect of all payments to be made to such Non-U.S. Bank by the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Documents, and (B) promptly notify the Administrative Agent of any change in circumstances which would modify or render invalid any claimed exemption. If a payment made to a Bank hereunder or under any Note or other Credit Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Bank were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Bank shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Bank has complied with such Bank’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this paragraph (e), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement. A Non-U.S. Bank shall not be required to deliver any form or statement pursuant to this Section 2.15 that such Non-U.S. Bank is not legally able to deliver. The Borrower shall not be required to pay additional amounts to any Bank pursuant to this Section 2.15 to the extent that such Bank did not qualify for a complete exemption from United States withholding taxes at the time such Bank became a party to this Agreement and to the extent that the obligation to pay additional amounts would not have arisen but for the failure of such Bank to comply with this paragraph (e), except to the extent such Bank is not able to comply as a result of a change in law. Any assignee of all or any portion of any Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement shall be subject to this Section 2.15(e). For purposes of this Section 2.15, Applicable Law includes FATCA.
(f) Upon the reasonable request of the Borrower, any Bank claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall use its reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policies and requirements of Law) to change the jurisdiction of its Applicable Lending Office if such a change would reduce any such additional amounts (or any similar amount that may thereafter accrue) and would not, in the sole determination of such Bank, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Bank
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(g) The Borrower or the applicable Guarantor shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Bank, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or such Bank, as applicable, or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to the Administrative Agent or such Bank, as applicable, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment
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or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Bank, shall be conclusive absent error.
(h) Each Bank shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Bank (but only to the extent that the Borrower or the applicable Guarantor has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower and such Guarantor to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Bank’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.06(e) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Bank, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Credit Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Bank by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent error. Each Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Bank under any Credit Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Bank from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (h).
Section 2.16. Payments Pro Rata. Except as provided in Sections 2.06(d), 2.07(b), 2.09(b), 2.11, 2.12, 2.14 or 2.15, each of the Banks agrees that if it should receive any payment (whether by voluntary payment, by realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of setoff or banker’s lien, by counterclaim or cross action, by the enforcement of any right under this Agreement or the Notes or other Credit Documents, or otherwise) in respect of any obligation of the Borrower or the Guarantors hereunder or under the Notes or other Credit Documents of a sum which with respect to the related sum or sums received by other Banks in accordance with their respective applicable Commitments is in a greater proportion than the total amount of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest, fees or any other obligation incurred hereunder, as the case may be, then owed and due to such Bank bears to the total amount of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest, fees or any such other obligation then owed and due to all of the Banks in accordance with their respective applicable Commitments immediately prior to such receipt, then such Bank receiving such excess payment shall purchase for cash without recourse from the other Banks an interest in the obligations of the Borrower to such Banks in such amount as shall result in a proportional participation by all of the Banks in accordance with their respective applicable Commitments in the aggregate unpaid amount of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest, fees or any such other obligation, as the case may be, owed to all of the Banks in accordance with their respective applicable Commitments, provided that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Bank, such purchase from each other Bank in accordance with their respective Commitments shall be rescinded and each such other applicable Bank shall repay to the purchasing Bank the purchase price to the extent of such other Bank’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of the participation purchased from such other Bank as a result of such excess payment to (ii) the total amount of such excess payment) of such recovery together with an amount equal to such other Bank’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (a) the amount of such other Bank’s required repayment to (b) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Bank) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the
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purchasing Bank in respect of the total amount so recovered. The Borrower agrees that any Bank so purchasing a participation from another Bank pursuant to this Section 2.16 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Bank were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.
Section 2.17. Increase in Commitments; Incremental Term Facilities.
(a) Commitment Increases. The Borrower may at any time and from time to time, by written notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver a copy to the Banks) executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and one or more financial institutions (any such financial institution referred to in this Section being called an “Increasing Bank”), which may include any Bank, cause the Commitments of the Increasing Banks to be increased (or cause the Increasing Banks to extend new Commitments) (each such increase and/or new Commitment, a “Commitment Increase”) in an amount for each Increasing Bank (which shall not be less than $10,000,000) set forth in such notice, provided that (i) no Bank shall have any obligation to increase its Commitment pursuant to this paragraph, (ii) all new Commitments and increases in existing Commitments becoming effective under this paragraph during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $350,000,000 in the aggregate,the sum of the cumulative aggregate amount of all the Commitment Increases established under this Section 2.17(a), the cumulative aggregate original amount of all the Incremental Term Commitments established pursuant to the Fixed Incremental Amount under Section 2.17(b), and the aggregate original amount of all Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred pursuant to the Fixed Incremental Amount under Section 7.09(vii) shall not, on the date of effectiveness of any Commitment Increase under this Section 2.17(a), exceed the Fixed Incremental Amount in effect on such date, (iii) each Increasing Bank, if not already a Bank hereunder, shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) and (iv) each Increasing Bank, if not already a Bank hereunder, shall become a party to this Agreement by completing and delivering to the Administrative Agent a duly executed accession agreement in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “Accession Agreement”). New Commitments and increases in Commitments shall become effective on the date specified in the applicable notices delivered pursuant to this Section 2.17. Upon the effectiveness of any Accession Agreement to which any Increasing Bank is a party, such Increasing Bank shall thereafter be deemed to be a party to this Agreement and shall be entitled to all rights, benefits and privileges accorded a Bank hereunder and subject to all obligations of a Bank hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no increase in the Total Commitments (or in the Commitment of any Bank) pursuant to this paragraph shall become effective unless (i) the Administrative Agent shall have received documents consistent with those delivered under Section 3.01(a)(ii) through (v), giving effect to such increase, (ii) on the effective date of such increase, the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects and no Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, and the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed by a Financial Officer of the Borrower, and (iii) (x) upon the reasonable request of any Bank made at least five (5) days prior to the effectiveness of any Accession Agreement, the Borrower shall have provided to such Bank, and such Bank shall be reasonably satisfied with, the documentation and other information so requested in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations,
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including, without limitation, the PATRIOT Act, in each case at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effectiveness of any Accession Agreement and (y) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effectiveness of any Accession Agreement, any Loan Party that qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall have delivered, to each Bank that so requests, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Loan Party. On the effective date of any increase in the Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.17, to the extent there are outstanding Advances, the parties hereto shall implement such arrangements as may be agreed upon by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to ensure that the proportion between the Banks’ outstanding Advances, after giving effect to such increase, and their respective Commitments, after giving effect to such increase, will be re-established, and the effectiveness of such increase shall be conditioned on the implementation of such arrangements.
(b) Incremental Term Facilities.
(i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time, by written notice to the Administrative Agent, request the establishment of Incremental Term Commitments (it being agreed that the Borrower shall not be obligated to offer to any Bank the opportunity to participate in any Incremental Term Facility); provided that the sum of the cumulative aggregate original amount of all the Incremental Term Commitments established under this Section 2.17(b), the cumulative aggregate amount of all the Commitment Increases established under Section 2.17(a) and the aggregate original amount of all Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred under Section 7.09(vii) shall not, on the date of effectiveness of any Incremental Term Commitments under this Section 2.17(b), exceed the Maximum Incremental Amount in effect on such date. Each such notice shall specify (A) the date on which the Borrower proposes that the Incremental Term Commitments, as applicable, shall be effective, which shall be a date not less than five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed to by the Administrative Agent) after the date on which such notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent and (B) the amount of the Incremental Term Commitments, as applicable, being requested (it being agreed that (x) any Bank approached to provide any Incremental Term Commitment may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such Incremental Term Commitment and (y) any Person that the Borrower proposes to become an Incremental Term Lender, if such Person is not then a Bank, must be an Eligible Assignee.
(ii) The terms and conditions of any Incremental Term Facility and the Incremental Term Loans to be made thereunder shall be, except as otherwise set forth herein or in the applicable Incremental Term Facility Amendment, substantially identical to those of (x) if any Incremental Term Loans then exist, such existing Incremental Term Loans or (y) if no Incremental Term Loans then exist, the Commitments and Advances (with appropriate modifications to reflect nature of such Incremental Term Facility and the Incremental Term Loans to be made thereunder as term loans); provided that (i) the fees, interest rates, call protection, mandatory prepayments and amortization schedule applicable to any Incremental Term Facility and Incremental Term Loans shall be determined by the Borrower and the Incremental Term Lenders providing the relevant Incremental Term Commitments, (ii) the weighted average life to maturity of any such
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Incremental Term Loans shall be no shorter than the remaining weighted average life to maturity of the tranche of existing Incremental Term Loans (if any) with the longest remaining weighted average life to maturity at such time (or, in the case of Incremental Term Loans which are Term B Loans, the weighted average life to maturity of any then-existing tranche of Term B Loans with the longest remaining weighted average life to maturity at such time), (iii) any such Incremental Term Facility will mature no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date at such time (or, in the case of Incremental Term Loans which are Term B Loans, the latest maturity date then applicable to any then-existing tranche of Term B Loans), (iv) the terms and conditions of any Incremental Term Facility and the Incremental Term Loans to be made thereunder shall not be materially more favorable, taken as a whole (other than fees, interest rates, call protection, mandatory prepayments and amortization schedule applicable to any such Incremental Term Facility and such Incremental Term Loans), to the lenders providing such Incremental Term Facility than (x) if any Incremental Term Loans then exist, the terms applicable to such existing Incremental Term Loans (or, in the case of any such Incremental Term Loans which are Term B Loans, the terms and conditions applicable to any such Term B Loans) or (y) if no Incremental Term Loans then exist, the terms applicable to the Commitments and Advances (in each case as determined by the Borrower in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), other than (A) (I) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date at such time and (II) covenants or other provisions that are also for the benefit of the Banks and Incremental Term Lenders in respect of the Advances, Commitments, Incremental Term Loans and Incremental Term Commitments outstanding at the time such Incremental Term Facility is incurred and (B) to the extent required by the lenders providing such Incremental Term Facility, customary “most-favored-nation” protection, call protection, and mandatory prepayments, in each case, which may be applicable solely with respect to such Incremental Term Facility (it being understood that to the extent a mandatory prepayment is required in connection with the establishment of an Incremental Term Facility, such mandatory prepayment (to the extent set forth in the applicable Incremental Term Facility Amendment establishing such Incremental Term Facility) shall be applied ratably to all then-existing Incremental Term Loans; provided, that, a Financial Officer of the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate to the Administrative Agent at least two (2) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Incremental Term Facility (or such shorter period of time as may reasonably be agreed by the Administrative Agent), together with a summary of the material terms and conditions of such Incremental Term Facility, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such material terms and conditions satisfy the requirements set forth in this clause (iv), which determination shall be conclusive, (v) in the case of any Incremental Term Loans that are Term B Loans, such Incremental Term Loans that are Term B Loans may, to the extent so provided in the applicable Incremental Term Facility Amendment, specify whether (x) the applicable Term B Lenders shall have any voting rights in respect of the covenant set forth in Section 7.01 (it being agreed that if any Term B Loans are incurred at a time when a tranche of Term B Loans already exists, and such subsequently incurred Term B Loans shall have such voting rights, all then outstanding Term B Loans shall also have similar voting rights) and (y) any breach of the covenant set forth in Section 7.01 would result in a Default or Event of Default for such Term B Lenders prior to an acceleration of the
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Commitments and/or Advances by the applicable Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof as a result of such breach (it being agreed that if any Term B Loans are incurred at a time when a tranche of Term B Loans already exists, and such subsequently incurred Term B Loans shall have such a default, all then outstanding Term B Loans shall also have a similar default), (vi) all Incremental Term Facilities shall be secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the other Obligations and (vii) no Incremental Term Facility shall be secured by any property or assets of the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries other than the Collateral or be guaranteed by any Person other than the Borrower and the Guarantors. Any Incremental Term Commitments established pursuant to an Incremental Facility Amendment that have identical terms and conditions, and any Incremental Term Loans made thereunder, shall be designated as a separate tranche of Incremental Term Commitments and Incremental Term Loans for all purposes of this Agreement.
(iii) The Incremental Term Commitments and Incremental Term Facilities relating thereto shall be effected pursuant to one or more Incremental Term Facility Amendments executed and delivered by the Borrower, each Incremental Term Lender providing such Incremental Term Commitments and Incremental Term Facilities and the Administrative Agent; provided that no Incremental Term Commitments shall become effective unless, subject to customary Sungard-style limited conditionality provisions to the extent agreed by the Incremental Term Lenders providing such Incremental Commitments, (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing immediately before and after giving effect to such Incremental Term Commitments and the making of Incremental Term Loans thereunder to be made on such date, (ii) on the date of effectiveness thereof, the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors set forth in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects and (iii) both before and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Debt, the Loan Parties are in compliance with Section 7.01; provided further that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower to the effect set forth in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, each Incremental Term Facility Amendment may, without the consent of any Bank or any other Incremental Term Lender (for the avoidance of doubt, other than any Incremental Term Lender providing such Incremental Term Facility), effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to give effect to the provisions of this Section 2.17.
(c) This Section 2.17 shal