Dated:
June 2003
BETWEEN:-
(1) |
NORSK TEEKAY HOLDINGS LTD which is a company incorporated according to
the law of the Xxxxxxxx Islands with its registered office at c/o Trust Company
Complex, Ajeltake Road, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX-00000 and
its principal place of business at TK House, Bayside Executive Park West Bay
Street & Blake Road, Nassau, The Bahamas (the “Borrower”);
and |
(2) |
the banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1, each acting through
its office at the address indicated against its name in Schedule 1 (together
“the Banks” and each a “Bank”); and |
(3) |
DEN NORSKE BANK ASA, acting as facility agent and security trustee
through its office at Stranden 21, P.O. Box 1171 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo, Norway
(in that capacity “the Agent”); and |
(4) |
the banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 2, each acting as a lead
arranger and an underwriter through its office at the address indicated against
its name in Schedule 2 (together in that capacity “the
Arrangers” and each an “Arranger”). |
WHEREAS:-
Each of the Banks has agreed to
advance to the Borrower its respective Commitment of an aggregate principal amount not
exceeding five hundred and fifty million Dollars ($550,000,000) (i) in order to assist the
Borrower in refinancing the Bridge Facility and all other sums due and payable under or
pursuant to the Bridge Facility Agreement and (ii) for other general corporate purposes.
IT IS AGREED
as follows:-
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Definitions
and Interpretation |
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1.1.1 |
“the
Address for Service” means c/o Teekay Shipping (UK) Ltd of 00 Xx Xxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx XX0 X00, Xxxxxxx or, in relation to any of the Security Parties, such other
address in England and Wales as that Security Party may from time to time designate by no
fewer than ten Business Days’ written notice to the Agent. |
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1.1.2 |
the
“Advance Date”, in relation to any Drawing, means the date on which that
Drawing is advanced by the Banks to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 2. |
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1.1.3 |
“Approved
Brokers” means X. Xxxxxxxx & Co. Ltd, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Shipbrokers Ltd,
Fearnley AS, X. X. Xxxxxx AS and P. Bassoe AS. |
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1.1.4 |
“Assignment” means
the deed of assignment of Intercompany Indebtedness referred to in Clause 8.1. |
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1.1.5 |
“Borrower’s
Accounts” means either the annual consolidated financial statements of the
Borrower prepared in accordance with GAAP comprising a profit and loss account, balance
sheet and cash flow statement and audited by Ernst & Young or such other first class
firm of accountants as may be acceptable to the Agent or (as the context may require) the
quarterly consolidated financial statements of the Borrower which shall be unaudited but
shall also be prepared in accordance with GAAP. |
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1.1.6 |
“the
Borrower’s Obligations” means all of the liabilities and obligations of the
Borrower to the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Borrower’s Security
Documents, whether actual or contingent, present or future, and whether incurred alone or
jointly or jointly and severally with any other and in whatever currency, including
(without limitation) interest, commission and all other charges and expenses. |
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1.1.7 |
“the
Borrower’s Security Documents” means those of the Security Documents to
which the Borrower is or is to be a party. |
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1.1.8 |
“Break
Costs” means all documented costs, losses, premiums or penalties incurred by any
of the Finance Parties in the circumstances contemplated by Clause 17.4 or as a result of
any of them receiving any prepayment of all or any part of the Facility (whether pursuant
to Clause 5.2 or otherwise) or any other payment under or in relation to the Security
Documents on a day other than the due date for payment of the sum in question, and
includes (without limitation) any losses or costs incurred in liquidating or re-employing
deposits from third parties acquired to effect or maintain the Facility, and any
liabilities, expenses or losses incurred by any of the Finance Parties in terminating or
reversing, or otherwise in connection with, any interest rate and/or currency swap,
transaction or arrangement entered into by any of the Finance Parties to hedge any
exposure arising under this Agreement, or in terminating or reversing, or otherwise in
connection with, any open position arising under this Agreement. |
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1.1.9 |
“Bridge
Facility” means the five hundred million Dollar ($500,000,000) short term
facility made available by the Bridge Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to the Bridge
Facility Agreement. |
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1.1.10 |
“Bridge
Facility Agreement” means the USD500,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement
dated 27 March 2003 made between the Borrower as borrower, the Bridge Lenders, and the
Agent as agent on behalf of the Bridge Lenders pursuant to which the Bridge Lenders made
the Bridge Facility available to the Borrower subject to and upon the terms and
conditions contained therein |
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1.1.11 |
“Bridge
Lenders” means the banks listed in Exhibit 1 of the Bridge Facility Agreement. |
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1.1.12 |
“Business
Day” means a day on which banks are open for the transaction of business of the
nature contemplated by this Agreement (and not authorised by law to close) in Xxx Xxxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx xx Xxxxxxx; Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx; Oslo, Norway; and any other financial
centre which the Agent may consider appropriate for the operation of the provisions of
this Agreement. |
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1.1.13 |
“Cash
Call Amount” means an amount equal to sixty one million, one hundred and eleven
thousand Dollars ($61,111,000) less the aggregate (as at the time of issue of the Cash
Call Guarantee) of Free Liquidity and undrawn sums available for drawing under the
Facility (to the extent not already cancelled, reduced or required to be repaid under the
terms of this Agreement). |
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1.1.14 |
“Cash
Call Guarantee” means a guarantee to be issued (in form and content acceptable
to the Agent) by the Guarantor in the Cash Call Amount. |
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1.1.15 |
“Certificate
of Compliance” means a certificate materially in the form set forth in Schedule
3, issued quarterly throughout the Facility Period and signed by a director or
officer of the Borrower. |
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1.1.16 |
“Change
of Control” means that the Guarantor shall cease, for any reason whatsoever, to
own or control directly or indirectly, all of the shares of Navion. |
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1.1.17 |
“Commitment” means,
in relation to each Bank, the amount of the Facility which that Bank agrees to advance to
the Borrower as its several liability as indicated against the name of that Bank in
Schedule 1, as reduced from time to time in accordance with Clause 2.4, or, where the
context permits, the amount of the Facility advanced by that Bank and remaining
outstanding. |
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1.1.18 |
“Commitment
Commission” means the commitment commission to be paid by the Borrower to the
Agent on behalf of the Banks pursuant to Clause 7.2. |
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1.1.19 |
“Commitment
Termination Date” means the date falling one month prior to the Termination
Date. |
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1.1.20 |
a
“Communication” means any notice, approval, demand, request or other
communication from one party to this Agreement to any other party to this Agreement. |
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1.1.21 |
“the
Communications Address” means x/x Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx (Xxxxxx) Xxx, Xxxxx 0000,
Xxxxxxx 5, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, X.X., Xxxxxx X0X 0X0, fax no: x000 000 0000
marked for the attention of Director, Finance. |
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1.1.22 |
"Covenanting
Group" means the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. |
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1.1.23 |
“Currency
of Account” means, in relation to any payment to be made to a Finance Party
pursuant to any of the Security Documents, the currency in which that payment is required
to be made by the terms of the relevant Security Document. |
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1.1.24 |
“Current
Facilities” means two working capital facilities, as the same may be amended
from time to time, provided by Den norske Bank ASA to companies within the Navion Group. |
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1.1.25 |
“Default
Rate” means the rate which is the aggregate of (i) two per centum (2%) per annum
(ii) the applicable Margin (iii) LIBOR and (iv) the Mandatory Cost. |
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1.1.26 |
“Dollars” and
“$” each means available and freely transferable and convertible funds
in lawful currency of the United States of America. |
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1.1.27 |
“Drawdown
Notice” means a notice complying with Clause 2.3. |
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1.1.28 |
“Drawing” means
a part (or, if requested and available, all) of the Facility advanced by the Banks to the
Borrower in accordance with Clause 2. |
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1.1.29 |
“Earnings”,
in relation to a Vessel, means all hires, freights, pool income and other sums payable to
or for the account of the owner in respect of that Vessel including (without limitation)
all remuneration for salvage and towage services, demurrage and detention moneys,
contributions in general average, compensation in respect of any requisition for hire and
damages and other payments (whether awarded by any court or arbitral tribunal or by
agreement or otherwise) for breach, termination or variation of any contract for the
operation, employment or use of that Vessel. |
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1.1.30 |
“EBITDA” means
the consolidated earnings of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries before interest, Taxes,
depreciation and amortisation, at any time during the Facility Period as determined in
accordance with GAAP. |
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1.1.31 |
“Encumbrance” means
any mortgage, charge, pledge, lien, assignment, hypothecation, preferential right,
option, title retention or trust arrangement or any other agreement or arrangement which,
in any of the aforementioned instances, has the effect of creating security. |
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1.1.32 |
“Event
of Default” means any of the events set out in Clause 12.2. |
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1.1.33 |
"Execution
Date" means the date on which this Agreement is executed by each of the parties
hereto. |
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1.1.34 |
“Facility” means
the reducing revolving credit facility made available by the Banks to the Borrower
pursuant to this Agreement. |
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1.1.35 |
“the
Facility Outstandings” at any time means the total of all Drawings made at that
time, to the extent not reduced by repayments, prepayments and voluntary reductions. |
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1.1.36 |
“the
Facility Period” means the period beginning on the Execution Date and ending on
the date when the whole of the Indebtedness has been repaid in full and the Borrower has
ceased to be under any further actual or contingent liability to the Finance Parties
under or in connection with the Security Documents. |
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1.1.37 |
“the
Fee Letter” means the letter from the Agent as agreed and accepted by the
Borrower setting out certain fees, commissions and other sums payable by the Borrower in
connection with the Facility. |
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1.1.38 |
“the
Finance Parties” means the Banks, the Agent and the Arrangers. |
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1.1.39 |
“First
Reduction Date” means 30 September 2003. |
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1.1.40 |
“Free
Liquidity”, in relation to the Borrower or the Guarantor, means cash, cash
equivalents and marketable securities to which the Borrower or the Guarantor (as the case
may be) shall have free, immediate and direct access each as reflected in the most recent
Borrower’s Accounts or the Guarantor’s most recent accounts (as the case may
be). |
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1.1.41 |
“GAAP” means
the generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. |
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1.1.42 |
“the
Guarantee” means the guarantee and indemnity of the Guarantor in respect of the
Borrower’s Obligations referred to in Clause 8.2. |
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1.1.43 |
“Guarantor” means
Teekay Shipping Corporation, a company incorporated under the laws of the Xxxxxxxx
Islands and with its registered office at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Island, XX Xxx
0000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx XX-000000. |
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1.1.44 |
“the
Indebtedness” means the Facility Outstandings; all other sums of any nature
including costs (together with all interest on any of those sums) which from time to time
may be payable by the Borrower to the Finance Parties pursuant to the Security Documents;
any damages payable as a result of any breach by the Borrower of any of the Security
Documents; and any damages or other sums payable as a result of any of the obligations of
the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents being disclaimed by a
liquidator or any other person, or, where the context permits, the amount thereof for the
time being outstanding. |
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1.1.45 |
“Insurances”,
in relation to a Vessel, means all policies and contracts of insurance (including but not
limited to hull and machinery, all entries in protection and indemnity or war risks
associations) which are from time to time taken out or entered into in respect of or in
connection with that Vessel or her increased value and (where the context permits) all
benefits thereof, including all claims of any nature and returns of premium. |
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1.1.46 |
“Intercompany
Indebtedness” means that portion of the Facility on lent by the Borrower to the
Purchaser upon the terms and conditions of the Intercompany Loan Agreement. |
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1.1.47 |
“Intercompany
Loan Agreement” means the agreement made or to be made between the Borrower and
the Purchaser on terms acceptable to the Majority Banks under which the Borrower will
lend the Intercompany Indebtedness to the Purchaser. |
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1.1.48 |
“Interest
and Reductions” means, for any relevant period, interest payable hereunder and
mandatory reductions in the Maximum Facility Amount hereunder. |
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1.1.49 |
“Interest
Payment Date” means each date for the payment of interest in accordance with
Clause 6. |
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1.1.50 |
“Interest
Period” means each interest period selected by the Borrower or agreed by the
Agent pursuant to Clause 6. |
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1.1.51 |
“law” means
any law, statute, treaty, convention, regulation, instrument or other subordinate
legislation or other legislative or quasi-legislative rule or measure, or any order or
decree of any government, judicial or public or other body or authority, or any
directive, code of practice, circular, guidance note or other direction issued by any
competent authority or agency (whether or not having the force of law). |
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1.1.52 |
“LIBOR” means
the rate, rounded to the nearest four decimal places downwards (if the digit displayed in
the fifth decimal place is 1,2,3 or 4) or upwards (if the digit displayed in the fifth
decimal place is 5,6,7,8 or 9) displayed on Reuters page LIBOR 01 (or such other page or
pages which replace(s) such page for the purposes of displaying offered rates of leading
banks, for deposits in Dollars of amounts equal to the amount of the relevant Drawing for
a period equal in length to the relevant Interest Period or if there is no such display
rate then available for Dollars for an amount comparable to the Drawing, the arithmetic
mean (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of one-sixteenth per
centum (1/16%)) of the respective rates notified to the Agent by each of the Reference
Banks as the rate at which it is offered deposits in Dollars and for the required period
by prime banks in the London Interbank Market. |
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1.1.53 |
“Majority
Banks” means any one or more Banks whose combined Proportionate Shares exceed
sixty six and two thirds per centum (66 2/3%). |
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1.1.54 |
“Mandatory
Cost” means for each Bank to which it applies, the cost imputed to that Bank of
compliance with the mandatory liquid asset requirements of the Bank of England and/or the
banking supervision or other costs imposed by the Financial Services Authority,
determined in accordance with Schedule 6 (Calculation of the Mandatory Cost). |
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1.1.55 |
“Margin” means
one point three seven five per cent (1.375%) per annum until the earlier to occur of the
date falling fifteen months after the Execution Date and the Qualifying Security Date.
Thereafter, for the remainder of the Facility Period, the applicable Margin shall be
based on the ratio of NIBD to EBITDA for the preceding four fiscal quarters calculated as
follows:-
1.00% per annum where NIBD to EBITDA
is equal to or less than 2.5
1.10% per annum where NIBD to EBITDA
is greater than 2.5 but less than 3.0
1.25% per annum where NIBD to EBITDA
is equal to or greater than 3.0 but less than 4.75
1.50% per annum where NIBD to EBITDA
is equal to or greater than 4.75
Provided however that each applicable Margin shall
automatically increase by nought point three seven five per cent (0.375%) per annum on
each date falling 15, 21 and 27 months after the Execution Date unless the Qualifying
Security has been delivered to the Agent (but, for the avoidance of doubt, such increases
shall be of no further effect following the provision of the Qualifying Security). The
applicable Margin shall be calculated by the Agent as of 31 March, 30 June, 30
September and 31 December each year (each a “Margin Review Date”) for
the succeeding fiscal quarter and shall be calculated based on the NIBD as of the
previous Margin Review Date over EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters, the most recent of
which shall have ended on the previous Margin Review Date and shall apply during the next
succeeding fiscal quarter following such Margin Review Date. Notwithstanding the above,
for the duration of the Guarantee (subject to the Guarantor maintaining the Minimum
Rating) then the applicable Margin shall be one point two five per cent (1.25%) per annum
for the first fifteen months after the Execution Date and thereafter one point three
seven five per cent (1.375%) per annum. |
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1.1.56 |
“the
Maximum Facility Amount” means the amount of the aggregate Commitments (stated
in Dollars) subject to any reductions effected in accordance with Clauses 2.4, 15.7
and 15.8. |
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1.1.57 |
“Minimum
Rating” means a rating of at least BB- from Standard and Poors or Ba 3 from Xxxxx’x
in respect of long term senior secured debt. |
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1.1.58 |
“Navion” means
Navion ASA with enterprise no. 979199325 of Xxxxxx 0, X-0000 Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx. |
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1.1.59 |
“Navion
Group” means the Borrower, the Purchaser, Navion and Navion's Subsidiaries. |
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1.1.60 |
“NIBD” means
Total Debt less Free Liquidity, as at any date on which the same is to be compared to
EBITDA hereunder, except that intercompany debt, including any interest thereon, which is
subordinated to the rights of the Finance Parties hereunder shall be treated as equity
for all purposes. |
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1.1.61 |
“Permitted
Liens” means (i) any Encumbrance which has the prior written approval of the
Agent acting upon the instructions of all the Banks or (ii) any Encumbrance arising
either by operation of law or in the ordinary course of the business of the relevant
Security Party which is discharged in the ordinary course of business or (iii) any
Encumbrance over assets acquired subject to that Encumbrance, provided the Encumbrance is
discharged within three (3) months of the date of acquisition of the asset or (iv) any
Encumbrance on any asset acquired with Permitted Borrowings. |
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1.1.62 |
“Permitted
Borrowings” means, in relation to any relevant entity: |
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(i) |
borrowings
under the Current Facilities; |
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(ii) |
borrowings
in the ordinary course of its business which: |
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(a) |
relate
to projects outside the North Sea; |
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(b) |
are
non-recourse to any of the Security Parties (but excluding the Guarantor); and |
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(c) |
are
borrowings relating to projects for which the equity requirement (in an amount of not
less than twenty five per centum (25%) of the project cost) has been injected from
outside the Covenanting Group |
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1.1.63 |
“Potential
Event of Default” means any event which, with the giving of notice and/or the
passage of time and/or the satisfaction of any materiality test, would constitute an
Event of Default. |
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1.1.64 |
“Pro
Rata Insurance Proceeds Amount” means, in respect of each Vessel, a figure equal
to (x) a fraction in which (i) the numerator is the amount of the insurance proceeds
payable in respect of such Vessel in the event of a Total Loss and (ii) the denominator
is the aggregate market value of all the Vessels (based on the Valuations) multiplied by
(y) the Maximum Facility Amount. |
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1.1.65 |
“Proceedings” means
any suit, action or proceedings begun by any of the Finance Parties arising out of or in
connection with the Security Documents. |
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1.1.66 |
“Proportionate
Share” means, for each Bank, the percentage indicated against the name of that
Bank in Schedule 1, as amended by any Transfer Certificate executed from time to time. |
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1.1.67 |
“Purchaser” means
Norsk Teekay AS a company incorporated according to the laws of Norway. |
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1.1.68 |
“Qualifying
Contracts” means contracts which the Majority Banks in their absolute discretion
deem to be acceptable security. |
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1.1.69 |
“Qualifying
Contract Proceeds” means all sums due and payable under any Qualifying Contracts
including all damages and other payments (whether awarded by any court or arbitral
tribunal or by agreement or otherwise) for breach, termination or variation of any
Qualifying Contract. |
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1.1.70 |
“Qualifying
Security” means (i) first priority mortgages of Qualifying Vessels and
collateral assignments of Insurances, Earnings and Requisition Compensation and
Qualifying Contracts or (ii) the Guarantee (subject to the Guarantor maintaining the
Minimum Rating) or (iii) such other security as may be acceptable to and approved in
writing by the Agent acting on behalf of the Majority Banks, with (i), (ii) or (iii)
above in each case being duly executed and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Agent in its absolute discretion. |
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1.1.71 |
“Qualifying
Security Date” means any date on which acceptable Qualifying Security (other
than the Guarantee) is delivered to the Agent. |
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1.1.72 |
“Qualifying
Vessels” means vessels which the Majority Banks in their absolute discretion
deem to be acceptable security. |
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1.1.73 |
“Reference
Banks” means Den Norske Bank ASA, Citibank N.A. and Nordea Bank Norge ASA. |
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1.1.74 |
“Requisition
Compensation”, in relation to a Vessel, means all compensation or other money
which may from time to time be payable to the owner as a result of the Vessel being
requisitioned for title or in any other way compulsorily acquired (other than by way of
requisition for hire). |
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1.1.75 |
“the
Security Documents” means this Agreement, the Qualifying Security, the Shares
Charge, the Assignment, the Guarantee, the Cash Call Guarantee (but in the case of the
Qualifying Security and the Cash Call Guarantee, only with effect from the date such
documents are executed and delivered to the Agent) or (where the context permits) any one
or more of them, and any other agreement or document which may at any time be executed as
security for the payment of all or any part of the Indebtedness. |
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1.1.76 |
“Security
Parties” means, at any relevant time, the Borrower, the Shareholder, the
Guarantor (for such period as the Guarantee is extant and has not been released in
accordance with Clause 10.6), any party to Qualifying Security (other than any of the
Finance Parties) (for such period as the Qualifying Security to which it is a party is
extant) and any other party who may at any time during the Facility Period be liable for,
or provide security for, all or any part of the Indebtedness, and “Security Party” means
any one of them. |
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1.1.77 |
“Shareholder” means
Norsk Teekay AS (enterprise number 985 030 235). |
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1.1.78 |
“Shares
Charge” means the assignment of the charge over the issued share capital of
Navion referred to in Clause 8.3. |
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1.1.79 |
“Subsequent
Reduction Dates” means each date falling at consecutive six monthly intervals
after the previous Subsequent Reduction Date which in the case of the first Subsequent
Reduction Date shall be six months after the First Reduction Date. |
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1.1.80 |
“Subordinated
Debt” means (based on the Borrower’s Accounts) any inter-company loan
(including interest thereon) which has a term beyond the Termination Date and which shall
be treated as equity in Navion for financial covenant test purposes. |
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1.1.81 |
“Subsidiary” means
a subsidiary undertaking, as defined in section 736 Companies Act 1985 or any analogous
definition under any other relevant system of law. |
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1.1.82 |
“Taxes” means
all taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions and withholdings (including
any related interest and penalties) and any restrictions or conditions resulting in any
charge, other than taxes on the overall net income of a Finance Party or branch thereof,
and “Tax” and “Taxation” shall be interpreted
accordingly. |
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1.1.83 |
“the
Termination Date” means 31 March 2008. |
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1.1.84 |
“Total
Debt” means the aggregate of: |
|
(a) |
the
amount calculated in accordance with GAAP shown as each of “long term debt”,
“short term debt” and “current portion of long term debt” on
the consolidated balance sheet of the Guarantor; and |
|
(b) |
the
amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract which
would, in accordance with GAAP, be treated as a finance or capital lease. |
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1.1.85 |
“Total
Loss”, in relation to a Vessel means:- |
|
(a) |
an
actual, constructive, arranged, agreed or compromised total loss of that
Vessel; or |
|
(b) |
the
requisition for title, compulsory acquisition, nationalisation or expropriation
of that Vessel by or on behalf of any government or other authority (other than
by way of requisition for hire); or |
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(c) |
the
capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation of that Vessel, unless the
Vessel is released and returned to the possession of the Vessel owner within
two months after the capture, seizure, arrest, detention or confiscation in
question. |
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1.1.86 |
“Transfer
Certificate” means a certificate materially in the form set forth in
Schedule 4 signed by a Bank and a Transferee whereby:- |
|
(a) |
such
Bank seeks to procure the transfer to such Transferee of all or a part of such
Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement upon and subject to the
terms and conditions set out in Clause 14; and |
|
(b) |
such
Transferee undertakes to perform the obligations it will assume as a result of delivery
of such certificate to the Agent as is contemplated in Clause 14. |
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1.1.87 |
“Transfer
Date” means, in relation to any Transfer Certificate, the date for the making of
the transfer specified in the schedule to such Transfer Certificate. |
|
1.1.88 |
“Transferee” means
a bank or other financial institution to which a Bank seeks to transfer all or part of
such Bank’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. |
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1.1.89 |
“the
Trust Property” means:- |
|
(a) |
the
benefit of Clause 8 and of the covenants contained in Clause 9.3; and |
|
(b) |
all
benefits arising under (including, without limitation, all proceeds of the
enforcement of) each of the Security Documents (other than this
Agreement), with the exception of any benefits arising solely for the
benefit of the Agent). |
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1.1.90 |
“Valuation” means
in relation to a Vessel, the arithmetic mean of the written valuations of that Vessel
expressed in Dollars prepared by two of the Approved Brokers (or such other firms of
reputable independent shipbrokers as may be acceptable to the Majority Banks), one
appointed by the Agent and the other appointed by the Borrower, unless either the Agent
or the Borrower disagrees with such arithmetic average, in which event the two
shipbrokers shall appoint a third firm of Approved Brokers (or such other firm of
reputable independent shipbrokers as may be acceptable to the Majority Banks) and the
valuation of the Vessel shall be the arithmetic mean of all three such valuations. Such
valuations shall be prepared at the Borrower’s expense, without a physical
inspection, on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery for cash at arm’s length
between a willing buyer and a willing seller without the benefit of any charterparty or
other engagement. |
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1.1.91 |
“the
Vessels”means any vessels designated as Qualifying Vessels and over which
Qualifying Security has been granted and everything now or in the future belonging to
them on board and ashore (each a “Vessel”). |
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1.2.1 |
words
denoting the plural number include the singular and vice versa; |
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1.2.2 |
words
denoting persons include corporations, partnerships, associations of persons (whether
incorporated or not) or governmental or quasi-governmental bodies or authorities and vice
versa; |
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1.2.3 |
references
to Recitals, Clauses, Schedules and Appendices are references to recitals and clauses of,
and schedules and appendices to, this Agreement; |
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1.2.4 |
references
to this Agreement include the Recitals, the Schedules and the Appendices; |
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1.2.5 |
the
headings and contents page(s) are for the purpose of reference only, have no legal or
other significance, and shall be ignored in the interpretation of this Agreement; |
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1.2.6 |
references
to any document (including, without limitation, to all or any of the Security Documents)
are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to that document as amended,
supplemented, novated or replaced from time to time; |
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1.2.7 |
references
to statutes or provisions of statutes are references to those statutes, or those
provisions, as from time to time amended, replaced or re-enacted; |
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1.2.8 |
references
to any of the Finance Parties include its successors, transferees and assignees; and |
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1.2.9 |
references
to times of day are to Oslo time. |
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2 |
The
Facility and its Purpose |
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2.1 |
Agreement
to lend Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and in reliance on
each of the representations and warranties made or to be made in or in accordance with
each of the Security Documents, each of the Banks agrees to advance to the Borrower its
Commitment of an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the Maximum Facility Amount to
be used by the Borrower for the purposes referred to in the Recital. |
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2.2 |
Drawings
Subject to satisfaction by the Borrower of the conditions set out in Clause 3.1
(in respect of the first Drawing), Clause 3.3 (in respect of all subsequent Drawings),
and subject to Clause 2.3, and provided that the maximum aggregate amount of the Facility
Outstandings at any given time during the Facility Period shall not exceed the Maximum
Facility Amount, each Drawing shall be advanced to the Borrower, in each case by the
Agent transferring the amount of the Drawing to such account of the Borrower as the
Borrower shall notify to the Agent in the relevant Drawdown Notice by such same day
method of funds transfer as the Agent shall select. |
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2.3 |
Advance
of Drawings Each Drawing shall be advanced in Dollars. Each Drawing shall be advanced
on a Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall have given to the Agent not more than
ten and not fewer than four Business Days’ notice in writing materially in the form
set out in Schedule 5 of the required Advance Date of the Drawing in question and
provided that the requested Drawing would not cause a breach of Clause 2.5. Each Drawdown
Notice once given shall be irrevocable and shall constitute a warranty by the Borrower
that:- |
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2.3.1 |
all
conditions precedent to the advance of the Drawing requested in that Drawdown Notice will
have been satisfied on or before the Advance Date requested; |
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2.3.2 |
no
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred or will then have occurred;
and |
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2.3.3 |
no
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from the advance of the
Drawing in question. |
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The Agent
shall promptly notify each Bank of the receipt of each Drawdown Notice, following which
each Bank will make its Proportionate Share of the amount of the requested Drawing
available to the Borrower through the Agent on the Advance Date requested. |
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2.4.1 |
The
amount of the Facility available to the Borrower for drawing under this Agreement shall
be five hundred and fifty million Dollars ($550,000,000) during the period from the
Execution Date until the First Reduction Date. On the First Reduction Date and on each of
the eight Subsequent Reduction Dates the amount of the Facility available for drawing
shall be reduced by an amount equal to one eighteenth of the Maximum Facility Amount. In
the event of a Change of Control the amount of the Facility available for drawing shall
be reduced to zero and any outstanding Drawings shall be immediately repayable. On the
Termination Date the Facility available shall be reduced to zero. The mandatory
reductions in the amount of the Facility available for drawing required pursuant to this
Clause will be made in the amounts and at the times specified whether or not the Maximum
Facility Amount is reduced pursuant to Clause 2.4.3, Clause 2.4.4, Clause 5.2, Clause
15.7 or Clause 15.8. Any mandatory reductions pursuant to Clause 2.4.3 (sale) or Clause
2.4.4 (Total Loss) shall be applied to the remaining mandatory reductions hereunder on a
pro rata basis. |
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2.4.2 |
The
Borrower may voluntarily cancel the Maximum Facility Amount in whole or in part in
integral multiples of five million Dollars ($5,000,000), provided that it has first given
to the Agent not fewer than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice expiring on
a Business Day of its desire to reduce the Maximum Facility Amount. Any such reduction in
the Maximum Facility Amount shall not be reversed. Any voluntary reduction in the Maximum
Facility Amount pursuant to this Clause shall be applied to the remaining mandatory
reductions under Clause 2.4.1 on a pro rata basis. |
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2.4.3 |
In
the event of a sale or disposal of a Vessel or the sale or disposal of any other asset
owned by any member of the Navion Group as at the date hereof or which is the subject of
Qualifying Security and where the net sales proceeds of such sales in any twelve (12)
month period exceeds five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or the equivalent in any other
currency), the Maximum Facility Amount shall be reduced on the date of receipt of such
proceeds by the amount of such net sale or disposal proceeds (the “Net Proceeds”)
unless either: |
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(i) |
the
Vessel or asset in question remains owned by a member of the Navion Group;
or |
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(ii) |
the
Vessel or asset in question is replaced within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the
sale with a similar vessel or asset being in all respects acceptable to all of the
Finance Parties in their absolute discretion |
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and in
either case any security held by the Agent over such Vessel or asset is reconstituted
immediately after the sale by the new owner or over the replacement asset (as the case
may be) in substantially identical form, and the Agent obtains favourable legal opinions
in respect of such reconstituted security. For any period commencing on the date of the
sale or disposal of a Vessel or other relevant asset and ending on the earlier of (a) the
date falling one hundred and twenty (120) days thereafter and (b) the date on which a
replacement Vessel or asset is acquired in accordance with the provisions of this Clause,
then, at the Borrower’s option, either |
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(a) |
the
Net Proceeds shall be placed in such account as the Agent may reasonably specify and the
Borrower shall execute and deliver a first priority charge over the Net Proceeds in
favour of the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties in such form as the Agent may
reasonably specify and the Net Proceeds and the said deed of charge would (subject to no
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default then being in existence) be released at
the end of such period; or |
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(b) |
a
part of the Maximum Facility Amount equivalent to the Net Proceeds (the “Unavailable
Portion”) shall be unavailable for drawing. If the aggregate Drawings then advanced
exceed the Maximum Facility Amount less the Unavailable Portion, the Borrower shall
promptly make such prepayment as may be required to ensure that the aggregate Drawings
then advanced are equal to or less than the Maximum Facility Amount less the Unavailable
Portion. For the avoidance of doubt, Commitment Commission shall continue to accrue on
the Unavailable Portion for such period. |
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2.4.4 |
In
the event that any Vessel becomes a Total Loss, on the earlier to occur of (a) the date
of receipt of the proceeds of the Total Loss and (b) the date falling one hundred and
eighty (180) days after the occurrence of the Total Loss (the “Reduction Date”),
the Maximum Facility Amount shall (subject to the proviso hereto) reduce by the Pro Rata
Insurance Proceeds Amount in respect of such Vessel. Any such reductions in the Maximum
Facility Amount shall not be reversed. If, as a result of any reduction in the Maximum
Facility Amount pursuant to this Clause the Facility Outstandings exceed the Maximum
Facility Amount, the Borrower shall, on the earlier to occur of (a) the one hundred and
eightieth day after the date of such Total Loss occurring and (b) the date on which the
Borrower receives the proceeds of such Total Loss, prepay such amount of the Facility
Outstandings as will ensure that the Facility Outstandings are not greater than the
Maximum Facility Amount. Any such prepayment shall not be reborrowed and Clause 5.3 shall
apply to any such prepayment. PROVIDED ALWAYS that if there is an investment in a
substitute vessel acceptable to all of the Banks within one hundred and twenty (120) days
of the Reduction Date, and security over such substitute vessel acceptable to all of the
Banks is also executed and delivered within one hundred and twenty (120) days of the
Reduction Date, then the reduction in the Maximum Facility Amount shall not apply. |
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2.4.5 |
To
the extent that repayments or prepayments made by the Borrower to the Agent in accordance
with this Agreement reduce the Facility Outstandings to less than the Maximum Facility
Amount, the Borrower shall again be entitled to make Drawings up to the Commitment
Termination Date in accordance with and subject to the terms of this Agreement. Any part
of the Facility which is undrawn on the Commitment Termination Date shall be
automatically cancelled. |
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2.4.6 |
Simultaneously
with each reduction of the Maximum Facility Amount in accordance with Clause 2.4.1,
Clause 2.4.2, Clause 2.4.3 or Clause 2.4.4 (as the case may be), the Commitment of each
Bank will reduce so that the Commitments of the Banks in respect of the reduced Maximum
Facility Amount remain in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares. |
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2.5 |
Restrictions
on Drawings The Borrower shall not be entitled to make more than one Drawing on any
Business Day and no more than seven (7) Drawings may be outstanding at any one time
during the Facility Period. Each Drawing shall be of an amount of not less than ten
million Dollars ($10,000,000) and in integral multiples of five million Dollars
($5,000,000) or the undrawn balance of the Facility. |
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2.6 |
Termination
Date No Bank shall be under any obligation to advance all or any part of its
Commitment after the Commitment Termination Date. |
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2.7 |
Several
obligations The obligations of the Banks under this Agreement are several. The
failure of a Bank to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not affect the
obligations of the Borrower to any Finance Party nor shall any Finance Party be liable
for the failure of another Bank to perform any of its obligations under or in connection
with this Agreement. |
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2.8 |
Application
of Facility Without prejudice to the obligations of the Borrower under this
Agreement, no Finance Party shall be obliged to concern itself with the application of
the Facility by the Borrower. |
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2.9 |
Loan
facility and control accounts The Agent will open and maintain such loan facility
account or such other control accounts as the Agent shall in its discretion consider
necessary or desirable in connection with the Facility. |
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3 |
Conditions
Precedent and Subsequent |
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3.1 |
Conditions
Precedent —First Drawing Before any Bank shall have any obligation to
advance the first Drawing under the Facility, the Borrower shall pay to the Agent the
relevant fees referred to in Clause 7 and the Fee Letter and deliver or cause to be
delivered to or to the order of the Agent the following documents and evidence:- |
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3.1.1 |
Evidence
of incorporation Such evidence as the Agent may reasonably require that each Security
Party was duly incorporated in its country of incorporation and remains in existence and,
where appropriate, in good standing, with power to enter into, and perform its
obligations under, those of the Security Documents to which it is, or is intended to be,
a party, including (without limitation) a copy, certified by a director or an officer of
the Security Party in question as true, complete, accurate and unamended, of all
documents establishing or limiting the constitution of each Security Party. |
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3.1.2 |
Corporate
authorities A copy, certified by a director or the secretary of the Security Party in
question as true, complete, accurate and neither amended nor revoked, of a resolution of
the directors and a resolution of the shareholders of each Security Party (together,
where appropriate, with signed waivers of notice of any directors’ or shareholders’ meetings)
approving, and authorising or ratifying the execution of, those of the Security Documents
and each Drawdown Notice to which that Security Party is or is intended to be a party and
all matters incidental thereto. |
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3.1.3 |
Officer’s
certificate A certificate (i) signed by a duly authorised officer of each of the
Security Parties setting out the names of the directors, officers and shareholders of
that Security Party and (ii) issued by each Security Party’s company registry
confirming due incorporation and valid existence and (when such information is maintained
by the registry) the names of its directors and shareholders. |
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3.1.4 |
Power
of attorney The power of attorney (notarially attested and legalised, if necessary,
for registration purposes) of each of the Security Parties under which any documents are
to be executed or transactions undertaken by that Security Party. |
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3.1.5 |
Qualifying
Security If the Borrower exercises its option to put in place any Qualifying Security
(other than the Guarantee) on or before the first Advance Date, the documents and
evidence listed in Clause 3.4. |
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3.1.6 |
The
Security Documents The Security Documents (other than the Qualifying Security and the
Cash Call Guarantee), together with all notices and other documents required by any of
them, duly executed. |
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3.1.7 |
Drawdown
Notice A Drawdown Notice. |
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3.1.8 |
Process
agent A letter from Teekay Shipping (UK) Ltd accepting their appointment by each of
the Security Parties as agent for service of Proceedings pursuant to the Security
Documents. |
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3.1.9 |
The
Fee Letter The Fee Letter countersigned on behalf of the Borrower by way of
acceptance of its terms. |
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3.1.10 |
Legal
opinions Confirmation satisfactory to the Agent that all legal opinions required by
the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties will be given substantially in the form
required by the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties. |
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3.1.11 |
Accounts The
Borrower’s Accounts for its fiscal quarter just ended, certified, by a director or
an officer of the Borrower, as fair and accurate. |
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3.1.12 |
Corporate
Structure Evidence of the capital structure and financial condition of the Navion
Group (based on the Borrower’s Accounts) confirming (inter alia) that within the
Navion Group there is available two hundred million Dollars ($200,000,000) of equity or
Subordinated Debt and twenty million Dollars ($20,000,000) of Free Liquidity. |
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3.1.13 |
Margin Such
evidence as the Agent shall require in order to set the Margin, including without
limitation and if required by the Agent a Compliance Certificate. |
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3.1.14 |
Intercompany
Loan Agreement A copy of the Intercompany Loan Agreement duly executed by the parties
thereto and certified as a true and complete copy by the Borrower together with evidence
that all conditions precedent required under the Intercompany Loan Agreement have been
satisfied. |
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3.1.15 |
Navion
Evidence that any charges or other security granted and/or registered against Navion
or on or over all or any of its vessels has been discharged. |
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3.1.16 |
Share
Charge Documents Any documents required by the Shares Charge. |
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3.1.17 |
Bridge
Facility Evidence that the Bridge Facility and any other sums due and payable by the
Borrower to the Bridge Lenders and the Agent under the Bridge Facility Agreement will
following application of the first Drawing hereunder have been irrevocably repaid in full
and that any security granted by any of the Security Parties as security for the Bridge
Facility shall be released forthwith upon repayment of the Bridge Facility. |
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3.1.18 |
Negative
Pledge an undertaking in form and content acceptable to the Agent duly executed and
delivered by Navion covenanting not to create or permit to arise or continue any
Encumbrance on or over all or any part of its assets or undertakings except for Permitted
Liens. |
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3.2 |
Conditions
Subsequent The Borrower undertakes to deliver or to cause to be delivered to the
Agent on, or as soon as practicable after, the first Advance Date, the following
additional documents and evidence:- |
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3.2.1 |
Legal
opinions Such legal opinions as the Agent on behalf of the Banks shall require
pursuant to Clause 3.1.10. |
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3.2.2 |
Companies
Act registrations Evidence that the prescribed particulars of the Security Documents
have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies of England and Wales and any other
relevant authorities within the statutory time limit. |
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3.3 |
Conditions
Precedent – Subsequent Drawings Before any Bank shall have any obligation
to advance any subsequent Drawings under the Facility, the Borrower shall deliver or
cause to be delivered to the order of the Agent, a Drawdown Notice, in addition to the
documents and evidence referred to in Clause 3.1 where such documents and evidence have
not already been delivered to and received by the Agent. |
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3.4 |
Qualifying
Security The Borrower shall deliver to the Agent the following documents and evidence
if it decides to exercise its option to put in place any of the Qualifying Security
(other than the Guarantee):- |
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3.4.1 |
Corporate
Documents The documents and evidence contained in Clauses 3.1.1 to 3.1.4 inclusive
(to the extent such corporate documents do not already authorise the Qualifying Security)
in relation to the giver of the Qualifying Security; |
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3.4.2 |
Vessel
documents Photocopies, certified as true, accurate and complete by a director or the
secretary of the Borrower of (in respect of each Qualifying Vessel):- |
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(a) |
any
Qualifying Contract which is in force at the time of this Agreement; and |
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(b) |
the
management agreement relating to that Qualifying Vessel which is in force at
the time of the granting of the Qualifying Security; |
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in each
case together with all addenda, amendments or supplements. |
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3.4.3 |
Evidence
of ownership In respect of each Qualifying Vessel, certificate(s) of ownership and
encumbrance (or equivalent) issued by the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at
the Qualifying Vessel’s port of registry confirming that such Qualifying Vessel is
on the Qualifying Security Date owned by her owner and free of registered Encumbrances
(other than the Qualifying Security). |
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3.4.4 |
Evidence
of insurance Evidence that each Qualifying Vessel is insured in the manner required
by the relevant Qualifying Security and that letters of undertaking will be issued in the
manner required by the Qualifying Security, together with (if required by the Agent) the
written approval of the Insurances by an insurance adviser appointed by the Agent. |
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3.4.5 |
Confirmation
of class A Certificate of Confirmation of Class for hull and machinery (dated not
more than seven days before the Qualifying Security Date) confirming that each Qualifying
Vessel is classed with the highest applicable class necessary to properly operate such
Qualifying Vessel with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Det norske Veritas, the
American Bureau of Shipping or such other classification society as may be acceptable to
the Agent. |
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3.4.6 |
Valuations
A Valuation of each Qualifying Vessel addressed to the Agent. |
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3.4.7 |
Qualifying
Security The Qualifying Security duly executed and in the case of any mortgages
registered with first priority through the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at
the port of registry of the Qualifying Vessel concerned. |
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3.4.8 |
Legal
Opinions Confirmation satisfactory to the Agent that all legal opinions required by
the Agent on behalf of the Banks will be given substantially in the form required by the
Agent on behalf of the Banks. |
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3.5 |
Qualifying
Security Conditions Subsequent The Borrower undertakes to deliver or cause to be
delivered to the Agent, on or as soon as practicable after, the Qualifying Security Date
the following additional documents and evidence:- |
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3.5.1 |
Evidence
of registration Evidence of registration of the mortgages, in each case with first
priority with the Registrar of Ships (or equivalent official) at the port of registry of
the Vessel concerned. |
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3.5.2 |
Letters
of undertaking Letters of undertaking as required by the relevant Security Documents
in form and substance acceptable to the Agent. |
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3.5.3 |
Master’s
receipts If required by the law of the flag of any Vessel, the master’s receipt
for each of the mortgages on such Vessels. |
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3.5.4 |
Companies
Actregistrations Evidence that the prescribed particulars of the Security
Documents have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies of England and Wales and any
other relevant authorities within the statutory time limit. |
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3.6 |
No
waiver If the Banks in their sole discretion agree to advance any part of the
Facility to the Borrower before all of the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1
or Clause 3.3 (as the case may be) have been delivered to or to the order of the Agent,
the Borrower undertakes to deliver all outstanding documents and evidence to or to the
order of the Agent no later than the date specified by the Agent, and the advance of any
part of the Facility shall not be taken as a waiver of the Agent’s right to require
production of all the documents and evidence required by Clause 3.1 or Clause 3.3 (as the
case may be). |
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3.7 |
Form
and content All documents and evidence delivered to the Agent pursuant to this Clause
shall:- |
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3.7.1 |
be
in form and substance acceptable to the Agent; |
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3.7.2 |
be
accompanied, if required by the Agent, by translations into the English language,
certified in a manner acceptable to the Agent; |
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3.7.3 |
if required for registration purposes, be certified, notarised, legalised or attested in a
manner acceptable to the Agent. |
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3.8 |
Event
of Default No Bank shall be under any obligation to advance any part of its
Commitment nor to act on any Drawdown Notice if, at the date of the Drawdown Notice or at
the date on which the advance of a Drawing is requested in the Drawdown Notice, an Event
of Default or Potential Event of Default shall have occurred, or if an Event of Default
or Potential Event of Default would result from the advance of the Drawing in question. |
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4 |
Representations
and Warranties |
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The Borrower
represents and warrants to each of the Finance Parties at the date of this Agreement and
(by reference to the facts and circumstances then pertaining) at the date of each
Drawdown Notice, at each Advance Date and at each Interest Payment Date as follows except
that the representation and warranty contained at Clause 4.6 shall only be made on the
first Advance Date:- |
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4.1 |
Incorporation
and capacity Each of the Security Parties is a body corporate duly constituted,
organised and validly existing and (where applicable) in good standing under the law of
its country of incorporation, in each case with perpetual corporate existence and
the power to xxx and be sued, to own its assets and to carry on its business, and all of
the corporate shareholders (if any) of each Security Party are duly constituted and
existing under the laws of their countries of incorporation with perpetual corporate
existence and the power to xxx and be sued, to own their assets and to carry on their
business and are acting on their own account. |
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4.2 |
Solvency
None of the Security Parties is insolvent or in liquidation or administration or
subject to any other insolvency procedure, and no receiver, administrative receiver,
administrator, liquidator, trustee or analogous officer has been appointed in respect of
any of the Security Parties or all or any part of their assets. For this purpose a
Security Party will be deemed insolvent if it is unable to pay its debts within the
meaning of S.123 of the Insolvency Xxx 0000. |
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4.3 |
Binding
obligations The Security Documents when duly executed and delivered will constitute
the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Security Parties enforceable in
accordance with their respective terms subject to applicable laws regarding creditors’ rights
in general. |
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4.4 |
Satisfaction
of conditions All acts, conditions and things required to be done and satisfied and
to have happened prior to the execution and delivery of the Security Documents in order
to constitute the Security Documents the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Security Parties in accordance with their respective terms have been done, satisfied and
have happened in compliance with all applicable laws. |
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4.5 |
Registrations
and consents With the exception only of the registrations referred to in Clauses 3.2
or 3.5 (as the case may be), all (if any) consents, licences, approvals and
authorisations of, or registrations with or declarations to, any governmental authority,
bureau or agency which may be required in connection with the execution, delivery,
performance, validity or enforceability of the Security Documents have been obtained or
made and remain in full force and effect and the Borrower is not aware of any event or
circumstance which could reasonably be expected adversely to affect the right of any of
the Security Parties (as the case may be) to hold and/or obtain renewal of any such
consents, licences, approvals or authorisations. |
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4.6 |
Disclosure
of material facts The Borrower is not aware of any material facts or circumstances
which have not been disclosed to the Agent and which might, if disclosed, have reasonably
been expected to adversely affect the decision of a person considering whether or not to
make loan facilities of the nature contemplated by this Agreement available to the
Borrower. |
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4.7 |
No
material litigation Except for those matters disclosed in writing to the Agent, there
is no action, suit, arbitration or administrative proceeding nor any contemplated action,
suit, arbitration or administrative proceeding pending or to its knowledge about to be
pursued before any court, tribunal or governmental or other authority which would, or
would be likely to, have a materially adverse effect on the business, assets, financial
condition or creditworthiness of the Navion Group. |
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4.8 |
No
breach of law or contract The execution, delivery and performance of the Security
Documents will not contravene any contractual restriction or any law binding on any of
the Security Parties or on any shareholder (whether legal or beneficial) of any of the
Security Parties, or the constitutional documents of any of the Security Parties, nor
result in the creation of, nor oblige any of the Security Parties to create, any
Encumbrance over all or any of its assets, with the exception of the Encumbrances created
by or pursuant to the Security Documents. |
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4.9 |
No
deductions Except as disclosed to the Agent in writing, that to the best of their
knowledge belief and without undue enquiry, none of the Security Parties is required to
make any deduction or withholding from any payment which it may be obliged to make to any
of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents. |
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4.10 |
Use
of Facility The Facility will be used for the purposes specified in the Recital. |
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4.11 |
Material
Adverse Change There has been no material adverse change in the business, assets,
operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of any company within the
Navion Group or the Guarantor or in the facts and information regarding such entities as
represented to date. In this clause material adverse change means, in the reasonable
opinion of the Banks, a material adverse affect on (i) the ability of the Borrower to
repay Drawings or perform its obligations under this Agreement or (ii) the ability of any
Security Party to perform its material obligations under any document related to the
Facility or (iii) the business, property, assets, liabilities, operations, condition
(financial or otherwise) or prospects of any Security Party. |
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4.12 |
Intercompany
Loan Agreement The Intercompany Loan Agreement delivered to the Agent pursuant to
Clause 3.1 constitutes the entire agreement between the Borrower and the Purchaser in
relation to the Intercompany Indebtedness and there are no side letters, security
documents or other related agreements nor fees payable in connection therewith which have
not been disclosed to the Agent. |
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5 |
Repayment
and Prepayment |
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5.1 |
Repayment
Each Drawing shall be repaid by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Banks on
the last day of its Interest Period unless the Borrower selects a further Interest Period
for that Drawing in accordance with Clause 6, provided that the Borrower shall not be
permitted to select such further Interest Period if an Event of Default or Potential
Event of Default has occurred and shall then be obliged to repay such Drawing on the last
day of its then current Interest Period. The Borrower shall on the Termination Date repay
to the Agent as agent for the Banks all Facility Outstandings. |
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5.2 |
Prepayment
The Borrower may prepay the Facility Outstandings in whole or in part in integral
multiples of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) (or as otherwise may be agreed by the
Agent) provided that it has first given to the Agent not fewer than five (5) Business Days’ prior
written notice expiring on a Business Day of its intention to do so. Any notice pursuant
to this Clause 5.2 once given shall be irrevocable and shall oblige the Borrower to make
the prepayment referred to in the notice on the Business Day specified in the notice,
together with all interest accrued on the amount prepaid up to and including that
Business Day. |
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5.3 |
Prepayment
indemnity If the Borrower shall, subject always to Clause 5.2, make a prepayment on a
Business Day other than the last day of an Interest Period, it shall pay to the Agent on
behalf of the Banks any amount which is necessary to compensate the Banks for any Break
Costs incurred by the Agent or any of the Banks as a result of the prepayment in question. |
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5.4 |
Application
of prepayments Any prepayment in an amount less than the Indebtedness shall be
applied in satisfaction or reduction first of any costs and other expenses outstanding;
secondly of all interest accrued with respect to the outstanding Drawings; and thirdly of
the outstanding Drawings as the Borrower may specify. |
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5.5 |
Reborrowing
of prepayments Any amount prepaid pursuant to this Agreement may be reborrowed in
accordance with Clause 2.4. |
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6.1 |
Interest
Periods The period during which any Drawing shall be outstanding pursuant to this
Agreement shall be divided into consecutive Interest Periods of one, two, three or six
months’ duration, as selected by the Borrower by written notice to the Agent not
later than 11.00 a.m. on the fourth Business Day before the beginning of the Interest
Period in question, or such other duration as may be agreed by the Banks in their
discretion. No more than three one (1) month Interest Periods may be selected by the
Borrower in each calendar year during the Facility Period. |
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6.2 |
Beginning
and end of Interest Periods The first Interest Period in respect of each Drawing
shall begin on the Advance Date of that Drawing and shall end on the last day of the
Interest Period selected in accordance with Clause 6.1. Any subsequent Interest Period
selected in respect of each Drawing shall commence on the day following the last day of
its previous Interest Period and shall end on the last day of its current Interest Period
selected in accordance with Clause 6.1. However, in respect of any Drawings outstanding
on the Termination Date, the Interest Period applicable to such Drawings shall end on the
Termination Date. |
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6.3 |
Interest
rate During each Interest Period, interest shall accrue on each Drawing at the rate
determined by the Agent to be the aggregate of (a) the applicable Margin (b) LIBOR and
(c), if applicable, the Mandatory Cost determined at or about 11.00 a.m. (London time) on
the second Business Day prior to the beginning of the Interest Period relating to that
Drawing. |
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6.4 |
Accrual
and payment of interest During the Facility Period,interest shall accrue from
day to day, shall be calculated on the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of
days elapsed (or, in any circumstance where market practice differs, in accordance with
the prevailing market practice) and shall be paid by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf
of the Banks on the last day of each Interest Period and additionally, during any
Interest Period exceeding three months, on the last day of each successive three month
period after the beginning of that Interest Period. |
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6.5 |
Ending
of Interest Periods If any Interest Period would end on a day which is not a Business
Day, that Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next
succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which event the Interest
Period in question shall end on the next preceding Business Day). |
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6.6 |
Default
Rate If an Event of Default shall occur, the whole of the Indebtedness shall, from
the date of the occurrence of the Event of Default, bear interest up to the date of
actual payment (both before and after judgment) at the Default Rate, compounded at such
intervals as the Agent shall in its reasonable discretion determine, which interest shall
be payable from time to time by the Borrower to the Agent on behalf of the Banks on
demand. |
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6.7 |
Determinations
conclusive Each determination of an interest rate made by the Agent in accordance
with Clause 6 shall (save in the case of manifest error or on any question of law)
be final and conclusive. |
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7.1 |
Fee
Letter The Borrower shall pay to or to the order of the Agent the fees, commissions
and other sums referred to in the Fee Letter in the amounts and on the dates set out in
the Fee Letter. |
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7.2 |
Commitment
Commission The Borrower shall pay to the Agent Commitment Commission in Dollars at
the rate of (i) fifty per cent (50%) of the applicable Margin per annum during the first
three years of the Facility Period following the Execution Date and (ii) forty per cent
(40%) of the applicable Margin per annum for the remainder of the Facility Period on any
undrawn part of the Facility. The Commitment Commission will accrue from day to day on
the basis of a 360 day year and the actual number of days elapsed and shall be paid
quarterly in arrears from the Execution Date until the Commitment Termination Date based
upon the Margin in effect for the previous quarter with the first such payment being due
and payable on the date falling three months after the Execution Date. Where any
Commitment Commission is due and payable prior to the first Advance Date the applicable
Margin shall be the Margin that would have applied to the Facility if all or any part of
the Facility had been advanced under this Agreement. |
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As security
for the repayment of the Indebtedness, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to the
Agent or cause to be executed and delivered to the Agent, on or before the first Advance
Date, the following Security Documents in such forms and containing such terms and
conditions as the Agent shall require:- |
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8.1 |
the
Assignment a deed of assignment of the Intercompany Indebtedness; |
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8.2 |
the
Guarantee the guarantee and indemnity of the Guarantor in respect of the Borrower's
Obligations; and |
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8.3 |
Shares
Charge an assignment by the Borrower of a charge over the issued share capital of
Navion entered into by the Shareholder as security for its obligations under the
Intercompany Loan Agreement. |
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9.1 |
Appointment
Each of the Banks and the Arrangers appoints the Agent its agent for the purpose of
administering the Facility and the Security Documents and authorises the Agent and its
directors, officers, employees and agents acting on the instructions from time to time of
the Majority Banks, and subject to Clauses 9.4 and 9.19, to execute the Security
Documents on its behalf and to exercise all rights, powers, discretions and remedies
vested in the Banks under or pursuant to the Security Documents, together with all powers
reasonably incidental to them. |
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9.2 |
Authority
Each of the Banks and the Arrangers irrevocably authorises the Agent, acting on the
instructions from time to time of the Majority Banks (save where the terms of any
Security Document expressly require the instructions of all of the Banks):- |
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9.2.1 |
to
give or withhold any consents or approvals; and |
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9.2.2 |
to
exercise, or refrain from exercising, any discretions; and |
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9.2.3 |
to
collect, receive, release or pay any money; |
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under or
pursuant to any of the Security Documents. The Agent shall have no duties or
responsibilities as agent or as security trustee other than those expressly conferred on
it by the Security Documents and shall not be obliged to act on any instructions if to do
so would, in the opinion of the Agent, be contrary to any provision of the Security
Documents or to any law, or would expose the Agent to any actual or potential liability
to any third party. |
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9.3 |
Trust
The Agent agrees and declares, and each of the Banks acknowledges, that, subject to
the terms and conditions of this Clause, the Agent holds the Trust Property on trust for
the Banks, in accordance with their respective Proportionate Shares, absolutely. Each of
the Banks agrees that the obligations, rights and benefits vested in the Agent in its
capacity as security trustee shall be performed and exercised in accordance with this
Clause. The Agent in its capacity as security trustee shall have the benefit of all of
the provisions of this Agreement benefiting it in its capacity as agent for the Banks,
and all the powers and discretions conferred on trustees by the Trustee Xxx 0000 (to the
extent not inconsistent with this Agreement). In addition:- |
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9.3.1 |
the
Agent (and any attorney, agent or delegate of the Agent) may indemnify itself or himself
out of the Trust Property against all liabilities, costs, fees, damages, charges, losses
and expenses sustained or incurred by it or him in relation to the taking or holding of
any of the Trust Property or in connection with the exercise or purported exercise of the
rights, trusts, powers and discretions vested in the Agent or any other such person by or
pursuant to the Security Documents or in respect of anything else done or omitted to be
done in any way relating to the Security Documents; and |
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9.3.2 |
the
Banks acknowledge that the Agent shall be under no obligation to insure any property nor
to require any other person to insure any property and shall not be responsible for any
loss which may be suffered by any person as a result of the lack or insufficiency of any
insurance; and |
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9.3.3 |
the
Agent and the Banks agree that the perpetuity period applicable to the trusts declared by
this Agreement shall be the period of eighty years from the Execution Date. |
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9.4 |
Limitations
on authority Except with the prior written consent of each of the Banks, the
Agent shall not be entitled to :- |
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9.4.1 |
release or vary
any security given for the Borrower's obligations under this Agreement; nor |
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9.4.2 |
except
as otherwise provided in this Agreement, agree to waive the payment of any sum of money
payable by any of the Security Parties under the Security
Documents; nor |
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9.4.3 |
change
the meaning of the expression "Majority Banks"; nor |
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9.4.4 |
exercise,
or refrain from exercising, any discretion, or give or withhold any consent, the exercise
or giving of which is, by the terms of this Agreement, expressly reserved to the Banks;
nor |
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9.4.5 |
extend
the due date for the payment of any sum of money payable by any of the Security Parties
under the Security Documents; nor |
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9.4.6 |
take
or refrain from taking any step if the effect of such action or inaction may lead to the
increase of the obligations of a Bank under any of the Security Documents; nor |
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9.4.7 |
agree
to change the currency in which any sum is payable under the Security Documents; nor |
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9.4.8 |
agree
to amend this Clause 9.4; nor |
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9.4.9 |
agree
to amend the definition of "Margin". |
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9.5 |
Liability
Neither the Agent nor any of its directors, officers, employees or agents shall be
liable to the Banks or the Arrangers for anything done or omitted to be done by the Agent
under or in connection with the Security Documents unless as a result of the Agent’s
wilful misconduct or gross negligence. |
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9.6 |
Acknowledgement
Each of the Banks and the Arrangers acknowledges that:- |
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9.6.1 |
it
has not relied on any representation made by the Agent or any of the Agent’s
directors, officers, employees or agents or by any other person acting or purporting to
act on behalf of the Agent to induce it to enter into any of the Security Documents; |
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9.6.2 |
it
has made and will continue to make without reliance on the Agent, and based on such
documents and other evidence as it considers appropriate, its own independent
investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the Security Parties in
connection with the making and continuation of the Facility; |
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9.6.3 |
it
has made its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of the Security Parties; |
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9.6.4 |
the
Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility at any time to provide it with any credit
or other information relating to any of the Security Parties unless that information is
received by the Agent pursuant to the express terms of the Security Documents. |
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Each of
the Banks and the Arrangers agrees that it will not assert nor seek to assert against any
director, officer, employee or agent of the Agent or against any other person acting or
purporting to act on behalf of the Agent any claim which it might have against them in
respect of any of the matters referred to in this Clause. |
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9.7 |
Limitations
on responsibility The Agent shall have no responsibility to any of the Security Parties
or to the Banks or to the Arrangers on account of:- |
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9.7.1 |
the
failure of a Bank or of any of the Security Parties to perform any of their respective
obligations under the Security Documents; |
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9.7.2 |
the
financial condition of any of the Security Parties; |
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9.7.3 |
the
completeness or accuracy of any statements, representations or warranties made in or
pursuant to any of the Security Documents, or in or pursuant to any document delivered
pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security Documents; |
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9.7.4 |
the
negotiation, execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, enforceability,
admissibility in evidence or sufficiency of any of the Security Documents or of any
document executed or delivered pursuant to or in connection with any of the Security
Documents. |
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9.8 |
The
Agent’s rights' The Agent may:- |
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9.8.1 |
assume
that all representations or warranties made or deemed repeated by any of the Security
Parties in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents are true and complete, unless, in
its capacity as the Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and |
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9.8.2 |
assume
that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred unless, in its
capacity as the Agent, it has acquired actual knowledge to the contrary; and |
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9.8.3 |
rely
on any document or Communication believed by it to be genuine; and |
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9.8.4 |
rely
as to legal or other professional matters on opinions and statements of any
legal or other professional advisers selected or approved
by it; and |
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9.8.5 |
rely
as to any factual matters which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge
of any of the Security Parties on a certificate signed by or on behalf of that Security
Party; and |
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9.8.6 |
refrain
from exercising any right, power, discretion or remedy unless and until instructed to
exercise that right, power, discretion or remedy and as to the manner of its exercise by
the Banks (or, where applicable, by the Majority Banks) and unless and until the Agent
has received from the Banks any payment which the Agent may require on account of, or any
security which the Agent may require for, any costs, claims, expenses (including legal
and other professional fees) and liabilities which it considers it may incur or sustain
in complying with those instructions. |
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9.9 |
The
Agent’s duties The Agent shall:- |
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9.9.1 |
if
requested in writing to do so by a Bank, make enquiry and advise the Banks as to the
performance or observance of any of the provisions of the Security Documents by any of
the Security Parties or as to the existence of an Event of Default; and |
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9.9.2 |
inform
the Banks promptly of any Event of Default of which the Agent has actual knowledge; and |
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9.9.3 |
inform
the Banks promptly of any disclosures in writing received by the Agent pursuant to Clause
4.7. |
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9.10 |
No
deemed knowledge The Agent shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of the
falsehood or incompleteness of any representation or warranty made or deemed repeated by
any of the Security Parties or actual knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default
or Potential Event of Default unless a Bank or any of the Security Parties shall have
given written notice thereof to the Agent. |
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9.11 |
Other
business The Agent may, without any liability to account to the Banks or the
Arrangers, generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with any of the
Security Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries or associated companies or with
a Bank as if it were not the Agent. |
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9.12 |
Indemnity
The Banks shall, promptly on the Agent’s request, reimburse the Agent in their
respective Proportionate Shares, for, and keep the Agent fully indemnified in respect of:- |
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9.12.1 |
all
amounts payable by the Borrower to the Agent pursuant to Clause 17 (other than under
Clauses 17.3 and 17.4) to the extent that those amounts are not paid by the Borrower; |
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9.12.2 |
all
liabilities, damages, costs and claims sustained or incurred by the Agent in connection
with the Security Documents, or the performance of its duties and obligations, or the
exercise of its rights, powers, discretions or remedies under or pursuant to any of the
Security Documents; or in connection with any action taken or omitted by the Agent under
or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, unless in any case those liabilities,
damages, costs or claims arise solely from the Agent’s wilful misconduct or gross
negligence. |
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9.13 |
Employment
of agents In performing its duties and exercising its rights, powers, discretions and
remedies under or pursuant to the Security Documents, the Agent shall be entitled to
employ and pay agents to do anything which the Agent is empowered to do under or pursuant
to the Security Documents (including the receipt of money and documents and the payment
of money) and to act or refrain from taking action in reliance on the opinion of, or
advice or information obtained from, any lawyer, banker, broker, accountant, valuer or
any other person believed by the Agent in good faith to be competent to give such
opinion, advice or information. |
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9.14 |
Distribution
of payments The Agent shall pay promptly to the order of each of the Banks that Bank’s
Proportionate Share of every sum of money received by the Agent pursuant to the Security
Documents (with the exception of any amounts payable pursuant to Clause 7.1 and/or the
Fee Letter and any amounts which, by the terms of the Security Documents, are paid to the
Agent for the account of the Agent alone or specifically for the account of one or more
Banks or Arrangers) and until so paid such amount shall be held by the Agent on trust
absolutely for that Bank or that Arranger (or as the case may be). |
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9.15 |
Reimbursement
The Agent shall have no liability to pay any sum to a Bank or to an Arranger until it
has itself received payment of that sum. If, however, the Agent does pay any sum to a
Bank or to an Arranger on account of any amount prospectively due to it pursuant to Clause 9.14
before it has itself received payment of that amount, and the Agent does not in fact
receive payment within five Business Days after the date on which that payment was
required to be made by the terms of the Security Documents or the Mortgagees’ Insurances,
the recipient will, on demand by the Agent, refund to the Agent an amount equal to the
amount received by it, together with an amount sufficient to reimburse the Agent for any
amount which the Agent may certify that it has been required to pay by way of interest on
money borrowed to fund the amount in question during the period beginning on the date on
which that amount was required to be paid by the terms of the Security Documents or the
Mortgagees’ Insurances and ending on the date on which the Agent receives
reimbursement. |
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9.16 |
Redistribution
of payments Unless otherwise agreed between the Finance Parties, if at any time a
Bank receives or recovers by way of set-off, the exercise of any lien or otherwise (other
than from any assignee or transferee of or sub-participant in that Bank’s
Commitment), an amount greater than that Bank’s Proportionate Share of any sum due
from any of the Security Parties under the Security Documents (the amount of the excess
being referred to in this Clause as the “Excess Amount”) then:- |
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9.16.1 |
that
Bank shall promptly notify the Agent (which shall promptly notify each other Bank); |
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9.16.2 |
that
Bank shall pay to the Agent an amount equal to the Excess Amount within ten days of
its receipt or recovery of the Excess Amount; and |
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9.16.3 |
the
Agent shall treat that payment as if it were a payment by the Security Party in question
on account of the sum owed to the Banks as aforesaid and shall account to the Banks in
respect of the Excess Amount in accordance with the provisions of this Clause. |
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However, if
a Bank has commenced any Proceedings to recover sums owing to it under the Security
Documents and, as a result of, or in connection with, those Proceedings has received an
Excess Amount, the Agent shall not distribute any of that Excess Amount to any other Bank
which had been notified of the Proceedings and had the legal right to, but did not, join
those Proceedings or commence and diligently prosecute separate Proceedings to enforce
its rights in the same or another court. |
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9.17 |
Rescission
of Excess Amount If all or any part of any Excess Amount is rescinded or must
otherwise be restored to any of the Security Parties or to any other third party, the
Banks which have received any part of that Excess Amount by way of distribution from the
Agent pursuant to Clause 9.16 shall repay to the Agent for the account of the Bank which
originally received or recovered the Excess Amount, the amount which shall be necessary
to ensure that the Banks share rateably in accordance with their Proportionate Shares in
the amount of the receipt or payment retained, together with interest on that amount at a
rate equivalent to that (if any) paid by the Bank receiving or recovering the Excess
Amount to the person to whom that Bank is liable to make payment in respect of such
amount, and Clause 9.16.3 shall apply only to the retained amount. |
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9.18 |
Proceedings
Each of the Finance Parties shall notify one another of the proposed commencement of
any Proceedings under any of the Security Documents prior to their commencement. No such
Proceedings may be commenced without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks. |
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9.19 |
Instructions
Where the Agent is authorised or directed to act or refrain from acting in accordance
with the instructions of the Banks or of the Majority Banks each of the Banks shall
provide the Agent with instructions within seven Business Days of the Agent’s
written request. If a Bank does not provide the Agent with instructions within that
period, (i) that Bank shall be bound by the decision of the Agent, (ii) that Bank shall
have no vote for the purposes of this Clause and (iii) the combined Proportionate Shares
of the other Banks who provided such instructions shall be deemed to contribute 100%.
Nothing in this Clause shall limit the right of the Agent to take, or refrain from
taking, any action without obtaining the instructions of the Banks if the Agent in its
discretion considers it necessary or appropriate to take, or refrain from taking, such
action in order to preserve the rights of the Banks under or in connection with the
Security Documents. In that event, the Agent will notify the Banks of the action taken by
it as soon as reasonably practicable, and the Banks agree to ratify any action taken by
the Agent pursuant to this Clause. |
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9.20 |
Communications
Any Communication under this Clause shall be given, delivered, made or served, in the
case of the Agent (in its capacity as Agent or as one of the Banks), and in the case of
the other Banks, at the address indicated in Schedule 1 or such other addresses as shall
be duly notified in writing to the Agent on behalf of the Banks. |
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9.21 |
Payments All
amounts payable to a Bank under this Clause shall be paid to such account at such bank as
that Bank may from time to time direct in writing to the Agent. |
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9.22 |
Retirement
Subject to a successor being appointed in accordance with this Clause, the Agent may
retire as agent and/or security trustee at any time without assigning any reason by
giving to the Borrower and the other Finance Parties notice of its intention to do so, in
which event the following shall apply:- |
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9.22.1 |
with
the consent of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld, the other Finance Parties
may within thirty days after the date of the Agent’s notice appoint a successor to
act as agent and/or security trustee or, if they fail to do so with the consent of the
Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld, the Agent may appoint any other bank or
financial institution as its successor; |
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9.22.2 |
the
resignation of the Agent shall take effect simultaneously with the appointment of its
successor on written notice of that appointment being given to the Borrower and the other
Finance Parties; |
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9.22.3 |
the
Agent shall thereupon be discharged from all further obligations as agent and/or security
trustee but shall remain entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this Clause; |
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9.22.4 |
the
Agent’s successor and each of the other parties to this Agreement shall have the
same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if that successor
had been a party to this Agreement. |
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9.23 |
No
fiduciary relationship Except as provided in Clauses 9.3 and 9.14, the Agent shall
not have any fiduciary relationship with or be deemed to be a trustee of or for a Bank or
an Arranger and nothing contained in any of the Security Documents shall constitute a
partnership between any two or more Banks or Arrangers or between the Agent and any Bank
or Arranger. |
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9.24 |
The
Agent as a Bank The expression “the Banks” when used in the Security
Documents includes the Agent in its capacity as one of the Banks. The Agent shall be
entitled to exercise its rights, powers, discretions and remedies under or pursuant to
the Security Documents in its capacity as one of the Banks in the same manner as any
other Bank and as if it were not also the Agent. |
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9.25 |
The
Agent as security trustee Unless the context otherwise requires, the expression “the
Agent” when used in the Security Documents includes the Agent acting in its
capacities both as agent and security trustee. |
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The Borrower
covenants with the Finance Parties in the following terms. |
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The Borrower
will not and (other than in the case of Clause 10.1.5) will procure that no member of the
Covenanting Group will:- |
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10.1.1 |
no
third party rights without the Majority Banks’ prior written consent create or
permit to arise or continue any Encumbrance on or over all or any part of its assets or
undertaking (including, without limitation accounts receivable by that member) except for
Permitted Liens or Encumbrances arising in connection with the financing of the volatile
organic compound equipment provided on a non-recourse basis to the Borrower (the “VOC
Equipment”); nor |
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10.1.2 |
no
loans or other financial commitments make any loan or other similar financial support
available to any third party or any member of the Navion Group save in respect of
employee loans, the Intercompany Indebtedness, and intercompany loans to Subsidiaries for
working capital purposes and financing of the VOC Equipment, which financial support may
only be given to any member of the Covenanting Group; nor |
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10.1.3 |
no
other business materially change the nature of its business from that carried on as
at the Execution Date (and for the purpose of this Clause, a change of business shall be
deemed “material” if the turnover of any new or changed business constitutes
seven point five per cent (7.5%) or more of the aggregate turnover of the relevant entity
within the Covenanting Group); nor |
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10.1.4 |
no
borrowing borrow any money other than Permitted Borrowings or incur any obligations
under leases other than in its ordinary course of business; nor |
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10.1.5 |
no
dividends pay any dividends or make any other distributions to shareholders or issue
any new shares unless:- |
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(a) |
no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing; and |
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(b) |
the
Borrower has cash reserves of seventy million Dollars ($70,000,000) or the
equivalent in any other currency (the “Cash Reserve Amount”)
after such dividend distribution has been made. The Cash Reserve Amount shall
consist of at least forty million Dollars ($40,000,000) in Free Liquidity and
the remainder may consist of an undrawn amount available under the Facility; or |
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(c) |
(if
at any relevant time the Guarantee is not in full force and effect) the
Guarantor has delivered to the Agent the Cash Call Guarantee for the Cash Call
Amount together with a legal opinion relating thereto in all respects
acceptable to the Agent; nor |
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10.1.6 |
merger
or amalgamation without the prior written consent of the Majority Banks, permit any
merger or amalgamation, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld in the case of a
merger or amalgamation within the Navion Group. |
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10.2.1 |
Financial
statements The Borrower will supply to the Agent, without request, the Borrower’s
Accounts for each financial year of the Borrower ending during the Facility Period,
containing (amongst other things) the Borrower’s profit and loss account for, and
balance sheet at the end of, each such financial year, in each case within one hundred
and twenty days of the end of the financial year to which they relate and the Borrower’s
quarterly unaudited management accounts within 90 days of the end of the quarter to which
they relate, and such financial statements shall accurately and fairly represent the
financial condition of the Borrower. |
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10.2.2 |
Other
information The Borrower will promptly supply to the Agent such information and
explanations as the Majority Banks may from time to time reasonably require in connection
with the operation of the Vessels and the Borrower’s and the Guarantor’s profit
and liquidity, and will procure that the Agent be given the like information and
explanations relating to all other Security Parties. |
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10.2.3 |
Certificate
of Compliance The Borrower shall deliver to the Agent a duly executed Certificate of
Compliance ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal quarter (or one hundred and
twenty (120) days in the case of the year end accounts) occurring during the Facility
Period certifying (inter alia) compliance with the covenants contained in Clause 10.3. |
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10.2.4 |
Inspection
of records The Borrower will permit the inspection of its financial records and
accounts on reasonable notice from time to time during business hours by the Agent or its
nominee. |
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10.2.5 |
Notification
of Event of Default The Borrower will immediately notify the Agent in writing of the
occurrence of any Event of Default or Potential Event of Default or any event which will
materially adversely affect the Borrower’s or the Guarantor’s ability to
perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is a party or the
ability of any of the other Security Parties to perform any of their material obligations
under any of the Security Documents to which they are a party or may become a party to. |
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10.2.6 |
Pari
Passu The Borrower shall ensure that its respective obligations under this Agreement
shall at all times rank at least pari passu with all of its other present and future
unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness with the exception of any obligations which are
mandatorily preferred by any applicable laws to companies generally and not by contract. |
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10.2.7 |
Corporate
Existence Save as permitted by Clause 10.1.6, the Borrower shall ensure that
throughout the Facility Period each of the Security Parties shall (i) remain duly formed
and validly existing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation (ii)
remain authorised to do business in the jurisdiction in which it transacts its business
(iii) continue to have the power to carry on its business as it is now being conducted
and to enter into and perform its obligations under the Security Documents to which it is
a party and (iv) continue to comply with all laws, statutory, regulatory and other
requirements relative to its business which could reasonably be expected to have a
material adverse effect on its business, assets or operations, financial or otherwise. |
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10.2.8 |
Admissibility
In Evidence The Borrower shall on the request of the Agent obtain all necessary
authorisations, consents, approvals, licences, exemptions, filings, registrations,
recordings and notarisations required or advisable in connection with the admissibility
in evidence of the Security Documents or any of them in Proceedings in England or any
other jurisdiction in which Proceedings have been commenced. |
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10.3 |
Borrower’s
Financial Covenants |
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10.3.1 |
Throughout
the Facility Period (but subject to Clause 10.5) the Borrower shall:- |
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(a) |
maintain a
Free Liquidity of not less than twenty million Dollars ($20,000,000) from the
Execution Date until the first anniversary thereof and thereafter for the
remainder of the Facility Period maintain a minimum Free Liquidity of thirty million Dollars ($30,000,000); |
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(b) |
calculated quarterly
on a 12 month trailing basis (provided that until the first anniversary of the
Execution Date the EBITDA will be annualised based on the number of months that
have elapsed) maintain a NIBD to EBITDA ratio of a maximum of:-
less than 5.5 for the first year of the Facility Period commencing on the Execution Date;
less than 5.0 for the second and third years of the Facility Period commencing on the Execution
Date; and
less than 4.0 for the remainder of the Facility Period after the third anniversary of the
Execution Date; and
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(c) |
calculated quarterly on a 12 month trailing basis (provided that until the
first anniversary of the Execution Date the EBITDA will be annualised based on
the number of months that have elapsed) maintain an EBITDA to Interest and
Reductions ratio of greater than 1.0. |
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10.4 |
Guarantor’s
Financial Covenants At any time during the Facility Period when the Guarantor has
issued the Guarantee and/or Cash Call Guarantee(s) which remain in full force and effect,
the Borrower shall procure that the Guarantor maintains a Free Liquidity of not less than
the greater of seventy five million Dollars ($75,000,000) and seven point five per cent
(7.5%) of the Total Debt of the Guarantor. |
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10.5 |
Calculation
of covenants |
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The financial
covenants set forth in Clauses 10.3 (b) and (c) shall only be applicable from the earlier
to occur of (i) the date falling fifteen months after the Execution Date and (ii) the
date on which the Guarantee is withdrawn. The financial covenants contained in Clause
10.3 shall first be tested on the date falling fifteen months after the Execution Date,
on the date on which the Guarantee is withdrawn or on the date on which the Guarantor
loses the Minimum Rating in order to ensure that the Borrower is in compliance with such
covenants. All of the covenants contained in Clause 10.3 shall be calculated on a
consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. |
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10.6 |
Release
of Guarantee |
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10.6.1 |
At
any time prior to the date falling fifteen (15) months after the Execution Date, subject
to and conditional upon |
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(i) |
the
Borrower having given no less than thirty (30) days written notice to the
Agent requesting release of the Guarantee; |
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(ii) |
no
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default then being in existence; and |
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(iii) |
the
Borrower having delivered or procured the delivery to the Agent of
Qualifying Security (other than the Guarantee) together with all other
documents referred to in Clause 3.4 |
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then on
or as soon as practicable after the Qualifying Security Date, the Agent shall release the
Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee. |
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10.6.2 |
At
any time on or after the date falling fifteen (15) months after the Execution Date,
subject to and conditional upon |
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(i) |
the
Borrower having given no less than thirty (30) days written notice to the Agent
requesting release of the Guarantee; and |
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(ii) |
no
Event of Default or Potential Event of Default then being in existence |
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then the
Agent shall release the Guarantor from its obligations under the Guarantee, and the
calculation of the Margin shall be modified in accordance with the definition of “Margin”. |
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10.7 |
Cash
Call Guarantee if at any time the Cash Call Guarantee(s) are less than the Cash Call
Amount, promptly on the request of the Agent to procure the delivery of a further Cash
Call Guarantee to the Agent to secure any such shortfall together with a legal opinion
relating thereto in all respects acceptable to the Agent. |
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Remittance of
EarningsImmediately upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall
procure that all Earnings are paid to such account(s) as the Agent shall from time to
time specify by notice in writing to the Borrower. |
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12.1 |
The
Agent’s rights If any of the events set out in Clause 12.2 occurs, the Agent may
at its discretion (and, on the instructions of the Majority Banks, will) by notice to the
Borrower declare the Banks to be under no further obligation to the Borrower under or
pursuant to this Agreement and may (and, on the instructions of the Majority Banks, will)
declare all or any part of the Indebtedness (including such unpaid interest as shall have
accrued) to be immediately payable, whereupon the Indebtedness (or the part of the
Indebtedness referred to in the Agent’s notice) shall immediately become due and
payable without any further demand or notice of any kind. |
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12.2 |
Events
of Default The events referred to in Clause 12.1 are:- |
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12.2.1 |
payment
default if the Borrower defaults in the payment of any part of the Indebtedness when
due PROVIDED ALWAYS that if the Borrower can demonstrate to the reasonable satisfaction
of the Agent that it has given all necessary instructions to effect payment and the
non-receipt thereof is attributable to an error in the banking system, such Event of
Default shall only occur two (2) Business Days after such payment fell due; or |
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12.2.2 |
other
default if any of the Security Parties fails to observe or perform any of the
covenants, conditions, undertakings, agreements or obligations on its part contained in
any of the Security Documents or shall in any other way be in breach of or do or cause to
be done any act repudiating or evidencing an intention to repudiate any of the Security
Documents and such default (if in the reasonable opinion of the Majority Banks capable of
remedy) is not remedied within fourteen (14) days after notice of the default has been
given to the Borrower; or |
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12.2.3 |
misrepresentation
or breach of warranty if any representation, warranty or statement made, deemed to be
made, or repeated under any of the Security Documents or in any accounts, certificate,
notice instrument, written statement or opinion delivered by a Security Party under or in
connection with any Security Document is incorrect in any material respect when made,
deemed to be made or repeated; or |
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12.2.4 |
execution
if a distress or execution or other process of a court or authority is levied on any
of the property of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group
before or after final judgment or by order of any competent court or authority for an
amount in excess of five million Dollars ($5,000,000) or its equivalent in any other
currency and is not satisfied or stayed (with a view to being contested in good faith)
within fourteen days of levy or any other applicable cure period (if longer); or |
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12.2.5 |
insolvency
events if any of the Security Parties:- |
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(a) |
resolves
to appoint, or applies for, or consents to the appointment of, a receiver,
administrative receiver, trustee, administrator or liquidator of itself or of
all or part of its assets other than for the purposes of a merger or
amalgamation pursuant to Clause 10.1.6; or |
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(b) |
is
unable or admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due; or |
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(c) |
makes
a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or |
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(d) |
ceases
trading or threatens to cease trading; or |
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(e) |
has
appointed an Inspector under the Companies Xxx 0000 or any statutory provision
which the Agent in its discretion considers analogous thereto; or |
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12.2.6 |
insolvency
proceedings if any proceedings are commenced or threatened, or any order or judgment
is given by any court, for the bankruptcy, liquidation, winding up, administration or
re-organisation of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group or
for the appointment of a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or
trustee of any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group or of all
or any material part of the assets of any of the Security Parties or any other member of
the Navion Group, or if any person appoints or purports to appoint such receiver,
administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or trustee which proceeding is not
discharged within thirty (30) days of its commencement; or |
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12.2.7 |
impossibility
or illegality unless covered by Clause 15.7, if any event occurs which would, or
would with the passage of time, render performance of any of the Security Documents
impossible, unlawful or unenforceable by the Banks or the Agent; or |
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12.2.8 |
conditions
subsequent if any of the conditions set out in Clause 3.2 or 3.5 is not satisfied
within the time reasonably required by the Agent; or |
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12.2.9 |
revocation
or modification of consents etc. if any material consent, licence, approval or
authorisation which is now or which at any time during the Facility Period becomes
necessary to enable any of the Security Parties to comply with any of their obligations
in or pursuant to any of the Security Documents is revoked, withdrawn or withheld, or
modified in a manner which the Agent reasonably considers is, or may be, prejudicial to
the interests of the Banks in a material manner, or any material consent, licence,
approval or authorisation ceases to remain in full force and effect; or |
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12.2.10 |
curtailment
of business if the business of any of the Security Parties is wholly or materially
curtailed by any intervention by or under authority of any government, or if all or a
substantial part of the undertaking, property or assets of any of the Security Parties is
seized, nationalised, expropriated or compulsorily acquired by or under authority of any
government or any Security Party disposes or threatens to dispose of a substantial part
of its business or assets; or |
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12.2.11 |
acceleration
of other indebtedness if any other indebtedness or obligation for borrowed money of
any of the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group becomes due or
capable of being declared due prior to its stated maturity by reason of default on the
part of that Security Party or member of the Navion Group (as the case may be), or is not
repaid or satisfied on the due date for its repayment or any such other loan, guarantee
or indebtedness becomes enforceable save, in either case, for amounts of less than five
million Dollars ($5,000,000) in aggregate, or its equivalent in any other currency; or |
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12.2.12 |
reduction
of capital if any of the members of the Navion Group reduces its authorised or issued
or subscribed capital except reductions effected in compliance with Clause 10.1.6; or |
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12.2.13 |
challenge
to registration if the registration of any Vessel or any Mortgage becomes void or
voidable or liable to cancellation or termination; or |
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12.2.14 |
war
if the country of registration of any Vessel becomes involved in war (whether or not
declared) or civil war or is occupied by any other power and the Agent reasonably
considers that, as a result, the security conferred by the Security Documents is
materially prejudiced; or |
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12.2.15 |
notice
of termination if the Guarantor gives notice to the Agent to determine its
obligations under the Guarantee or the Cash Call Guarantee, as the case may be; or |
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12.2.16 |
material
adverse change etc. if any thing is done or permitted or omitted to be done by any of
the Security Parties or any other member of the Navion Group which in the reasonable
opinion of the Majority Banks jeopardises or imperils (or may jeopardise or imperil) the
rights conferred on the Finance Parties by the Security Documents, or if there occurs (in
the reasonable opinion of the Majority Banks) any material adverse change in the
business, affairs or financial condition of any of the Security Parties or any other
member of the Navion Group from that pertaining at the date of this Agreement; or |
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12.2.17 |
final
judgements if any of the Security Parties fails to comply with any non appealable
court order or fails to pay a final unappealable judgment against it, in either case, in
excess of one million Dollars ($1,000,000) which remains unsettled for fourteen (14)
days. |
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13.1 |
Set-off
The Borrower irrevocably authorises each of the Finance Parties at any time after all
or any part of the Indebtedness shall have become due and payable to set off without
notice any liability of the Borrower to any of the Finance Parties (whether present or
future, actual or contingent, and irrespective of the branch or office, currency or place
of payment) against any credit balance from time to time standing on any account of the
Borrower (whether current or otherwise and whether or not subject to notice) with any
branch of any of the Finance Parties in or towards satisfaction of the Indebtedness and,
in the name of that Finance Party or the Borrower, to do all acts (including, without
limitation, converting or exchanging any currency) and execute all documents which may be
required to effect such application. |
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13.2 |
Lien
If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, each Finance Party shall have
a lien on and be entitled to retain and realise as additional security for the repayment
of the Indebtedness any cheques, drafts, bills, notes or negotiable or non-negotiable
instruments and any stocks, shares or marketable or other securities and property of any
kind of the Borrower (or of that Finance Party as agent or nominee of the Borrower) from
time to time held by that Finance Party, whether for safe custody or otherwise. |
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13.3 |
Restrictions
on withdrawal Despite any term to the contrary in relation to any deposit or credit
balance at any time on any account of the Borrower with any of the Finance Parties, no
such deposit or balance shall be repayable or capable of being assigned, mortgaged,
charged or otherwise disposed of or dealt with by the Borrower after an Event of Default
has occurred and while such Event of Default is continuing, but any Finance Party may
from time to time permit the withdrawal of all or any part of any such deposit or balance
without affecting the continued application of this Clause. |
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13.4 |
Application
Whilst an Event of Default is continuing, the Borrower irrevocably authorises the
Agent to apply allsums which the Agent may receive:- |
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13.4.1 |
pursuant
to a sale or other disposition of a Vessel or any right, title or interest in a Vessel; or |
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13.4.2 |
by
way of payment to the Agent of any sum in respect of the Qualifying Contract Proceeds,
the Insurances, Earnings or Requisition Compensation of a Vessel; or |
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13.4.3 |
otherwise
arising under or in connection with any of the Security Documents |
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in or
towards satisfaction, or by way of retention on account, of the Indebtedness, in such
manner as the Agent may in its discretion determine. |
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14 |
Assignment and Sub-Participation |
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14.1 |
Right
to assign Each of the Banks may assign or transfer all or any of its rights under or
pursuant to the Security Documents or grant sub-participations in all or any part of its
Commitment to any other branch of that Bank or (with the prior written consent of the
Borrower which shall not be unreasonably withheld and which shall be deemed given if the
Borrower fails to respond to any written request under this provision within a period of
ten (10) Business Days) to any other bank or financial institution, provided that such
assignment or transfer or sub-participation does not result in the Borrower being subject
to any additional Tax or other financial or legal obligations other than those
contemplated by the terms of this Agreement at the time of such assignment, transfer or
sub-participation. |
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14.2 |
Borrower’s
co-operation The Borrower will co-operate fully with the Banks in connection with any
assignment, transfer or sub-participation pursuant to Clause 14.1; will execute and
procure the execution of such documents as the Banks may require in connection therewith;
and irrevocably authorises each of the Finance Parties to disclose to any proposed
assignee, transferee or sub-participant (whether before or after any assignment, transfer
or sub-participation and whether or not any assignment, transfer or sub-participation
shall take place) all information relating to the Security Parties, the Facility or the
Security Documents which each such Finance Party may in its discretion consider necessary
or desirable (subject to any duties of confidentiality applicable to the Banks generally). |
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14.3 |
Rights
of assignee Any assignee, transferee or sub-participant of a Bank shall (unless
limited by the express terms of the assignment, transfer or sub-participation) take the
full benefit of every provision of the Security Documents benefiting that Bank. |
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14.4 |
Transfer
Certificates If any Bank wishes to transfer all or any of its Commitment as
contemplated in Clause 14.1 then such transfer may be effected by the delivery to the
Agent of a duly completed and duly executed Transfer Certificate in which event, on the
later of the Transfer Date specified in such Transfer Certificate and the fifth Business
Day after the date of delivery of such Transfer Certificate to the Agent: |
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14.4.1 |
to
the extent that in such Transfer Certificate the Bank which is a party thereto seeks to
transfer its Commitment in whole, the Borrower and such Bank shall be released from
further obligations towards each other under this Agreement and their respective rights
against each other shall be cancelled other than existing claims against such Bank for
breach of this Agreement (such rights, benefits and obligations being referred to in this
Clause 14.4 as “discharged rights and obligations”); |
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14.4.2 |
the
Borrower and the Transferee which is a party thereto shall assume obligations towards one
another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from such discharged
rights and obligations only insofar as the Borrower and such Transferee have assumed
and/or acquired the same in place of the Borrower and such Bank; and |
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14.4.3 |
the
Agent, the Arrangers, the Transferee and the other Banks shall acquire the same rights
and benefits and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have
acquired and assumed had such Transferee been an original party to this Agreement as a
Bank with the rights, benefits and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result
of such transfer. |
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14.5 |
Power
of Attorney In order to give effect to each Transfer Certificate the Finance Parties
and the Borrower each hereby irrevocably and unconditionally appoint the Agent as its
true and lawful attorney with full power to execute on their respective behalves each
Transfer Certificate delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clause 14.4 without the Agent
being under any obligation to take any further instructions from or give any prior notice
to, any of the Finance Parties or, subject to the Borrower’s rights under Clause
14.1, the Borrower before doing so and the Agent shall so execute each such Transfer
Certificate on behalf of the other Finance Parties and the Borrower immediately on its
receipt of the same pursuant to Clause 14.4. |
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14.6 |
Notification
The Agent shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties, the Transferee and the
Borrower on the execution by it of any Transfer Certificate together with details of the
amount transferred, the Transfer Date and the parties to such transfer. |
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15 |
Payments,
Mandatory Prepayment, Reserve Requirements and Illegality |
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15.1 |
Payments
All amounts payable by the Borrower under or pursuant to any of the Security
Documents shall be paid to such accounts at such banks as the Agent may from time to time
direct to the Borrower and shall be paid in Dollars in same day funds (or such funds as
are required by the authorities in the United States of America for settlement of
international payments for immediate value). Payments shall be deemed to have been
received by the Agent on the date on which the Agent receives authenticated advice of
receipt, unless that advice is received by the Agent on a day other than a Business Day
or at a time of day (whether on a Business Day or not) when the Agent in its reasonable
discretion considers that it is impossible or impracticable for the Agent to utilise the
amount received for value that same day, in which event the payment in question shall be
deemed to have been received by the Agent on the Business Day next following the date of
receipt of advice by the Agent. |
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15.2 |
No
deductions or withholdings All payments (whether of principal or interest or
otherwise) to be made by the Borrower pursuant to the Security Documents shall, subject
only to Clause 15.3, be made free and clear of and without deduction for or on account of
any Taxes or other deductions, withholdings, restrictions, conditions or counterclaims of
any nature, and the Borrower will not claim any equity in respect of any payment due from
it to the Banks or to the Agent under or in relation to any of the Security Documents. |
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15.3 |
Grossing-up
If at any time any law requires (or is interpreted to require) the Borrower to make
any deduction or withholding from any payment, or to change the rate or manner in which
any required deduction or withholding is made, the Borrower will promptly notify the
Agent and, simultaneously with making that payment, will pay to the Agent whatever
additional amount (after taking into account any additional Taxes on, or deductions or
withholdings from, or restrictions or conditions on, that additional amount) is necessary
to ensure that, after making the deduction or withholding, the Agent and the Banks
receive a net sum equal to the sum which they would have received had no deduction or
withholding been made. |
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15.4 |
Evidence
of deductions If at any time the Borrower is required by law to make any deduction or
withholding from any payment to be made by it pursuant to any of the Security Documents,
the Borrower will pay the amount required to be deducted or withheld to the relevant
authority within the time allowed under the applicable law and will, no later than thirty
days after making that payment, deliver to the Agent an original receipt issued by the
relevant authority, or other evidence reasonably acceptable to the Agent, evidencing the
payment to that authority of all amounts required to be deducted or withheld. If the
Borrower makes any deduction or withholding from any payment under or pursuant to any of
the Security Documents, and a Bank subsequently receives a refund or allowance from any
tax authority which that Bank at its sole discretion identifies as being referable to
that deduction or withholding, that Bank shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, pay to
the Borrower an amount equal to the amount of the refund or allowance received, if and to
the extent that it may do so without prejudicing its right to retain that refund or
allowance and without putting itself in any worse financial position than that in which
it would have been had the deduction or withholding not been required to have been made.
Nothing in this Clause shall be interpreted as imposing any obligation on any Bank unless
requested by the Borrower to apply for any refund or allowance nor as restricting in any
way the manner in which any Bank organises its tax affairs, nor as imposing on any Bank
any obligation to disclose to the Borrower any information regarding its tax affairs or
tax computations. All costs and expenses incurred by any Bank in obtaining or seeking to
obtain a refund or allowance from any tax authority pursuant to this Clause shall be for
the Borrower’s account. |
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15.5 |
Adjustment
of due dates If any payment to be made under any of the Security Documents, other
than a payment of interest on the Facility, shall be due on a day which is not a Business
Day, that payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (unless the next
succeeding Business Day falls in the next calendar month in which event the payment shall
be made on the next preceding Business Day). Any such variation of time shall be taken
into account in computing any interest in respect of that payment. |
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15.6 |
Change
in law If, by reason of the introduction of any law, or any change in any law, or the
interpretation or administration of any law, or in compliance with any request or
requirement from any central bank or any fiscal, monetary or other authority:- |
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15.6.1 |
any
Finance Party (or the holding company of any Finance Party) shall be subject to any Tax
with respect to payments of all or any part of the Indebtedness; or |
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15.6.2 |
the
basis of Taxation of payments to any Finance Party in respect of all or any part of the
Indebtedness shall be changed; or |
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15.6.3 |
any
reserve requirements shall be imposed, modified or deemed applicable against assets held
by or deposits in or for the account of or loans by any branch of any Finance Party or
its direct or indirect holding company; or |
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15.6.4 |
any
ratio (whether cash, capital adequacy, liquidity or otherwise) which any Finance Party or
its direct or indirect holding company is required or requested to maintain shall be
affected; or |
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15.6.5 |
there
is imposed on any Finance Party (or on the direct or indirect holding company of any
Finance Party) any other condition in relation to the Indebtedness or the Security
Documents; |
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and the
result of any of the above shall be to increase the cost to any Bank (or to the direct or
indirect holding company of any Bank) of that Bank making or maintaining its Commitment
or its Drawing, or to cause any Finance Party to suffer (in its reasonable opinion) a
material reduction in the rate of return on its overall capital below the level which it
reasonably anticipated at the date of this Agreement and which it would have been able to
achieve but for its entering into this Agreement and/or performing its obligations under
this Agreement, the Finance Party affected shall notify the Agent and, on demand to the
Borrower by the Agent, the Borrower shall from time to time pay to the Agent for the
account of the Finance Party affected the amount which shall compensate that Finance
Party or the Agent (or the relevant holding company) for such additional cost or reduced
return. A certificate signed by an authorised signatory of the Agent or of the Finance
Party affected setting out the amount of that payment and the basis of its calculation
shall be submitted to the Borrower and shall be conclusive evidence of such amount save
for manifest error or on any question of law. |
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15.7 |
Illegality
and impracticality Notwithstanding anything contained in the Security Documents, the
obligations of a Bank to advance or maintain its Commitment shall terminate in the event
that a change in any law or in the interpretation of any law by any authority charged
with its administration shall make it unlawful for that Bank to advance or maintain its
Commitment. In such event the Bank affected shall notify the Agent and the Agent shall,
by written notice to the Borrower, declare that Bank’s obligations to be immediately
terminated. If all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by the Banks to
the Borrower, the portion of the Indebtedness (including all accrued interest) advanced
by the Bank so affected shall be prepaid within thirty days from the date of such notice.
Clause 5.3 shall apply to that prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day
of an Interest Period. During that period, the affected Bank shall negotiate in good
faith with the Borrower to find an alternative method or lending base in order to
maintain the Facility. |
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15.8 |
Changes
in market circumstances If at any time a Bank determines (which determination shall
be final and conclusive and binding on the Borrower) that, by reason of changes affecting
the London Interbank market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the
rate of interest on the Facility or any part thereof pursuant to this Agreement:- |
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15.8.1 |
that
Bank shall give notice to the Agent and the Agent shall give notice to the Borrower of
the occurrence of such event; and |
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15.8.2 |
the
Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable certify to the Borrower in writing the
effective cost to that Bank of maintaining its Commitment for such further period as
shall be selected by that Bank and the rate of interest payable by the Borrower for that
period; or, if that is not acceptable to the Borrower, |
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15.8.3 |
the
Agent in accordance with instructions from that Bank and subject to that Bank’s
approval of any agreement between the Agent and the Borrower, will negotiate with the
Borrower in good faith with a view to modifying this Agreement to provide a substitute
basis for that Bank’s Commitment which is financially a substantial equivalent to
the basis provided for in this Agreement. |
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If, within
thirty days of the giving of the notice referred to in Clause 15.8.1, the Borrower
and the Agent fail to agree in writing on a substitute basis for such Bank’s
Commitment the Borrower will immediately prepay the amount of such Bank’s Commitment
and the Maximum Facility Amount will automatically decrease by the amount of such
Commitment and such decrease shall not be reversed. Clause 5.3 shall apply to that
prepayment if it is made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period. |
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15.9 |
Non-availability
of currency If a Bank is for any reason unable to obtain Dollars in the London
Interbank market and is, as a result, or as a result of any other contingency affecting
the London Interbank market, unable to advance or maintain its Commitment in Dollars,
that Bank shall give notice to the Agent and the Agent shall give notice to the Borrower
and that Bank’s obligations to make the Facility available shall immediately cease.
In that event, if all or any part of the Facility shall have been advanced by that Bank
to the Borrower, the Agent in accordance with instructions from that Bank and subject to
that Bank’s approval of any agreement between the Agent and the Borrower, will
negotiate with the Borrower in good faith with a view to establishing a mutually
acceptable basis for funding the Facility or relevant part thereof from an alternative
source. If the Agent and the Borrower have failed to agree in writing on a basis for
funding the Facility or relevant part thereof from an alternative source by 11.00 a.m. on
the second Business Day prior to the end of the then current relevant Interest Period,
the Borrower will (without prejudice to its other obligations under or pursuant to this
Agreement, including, without limitation, its obligation to pay interest on the Facility,
arising on the expiry of the then relevant Interest Period) prepay the Indebtedness (or
relevant part thereof) to the Agent on behalf of that Bank on the expiry of the then
current relevant Interest Period. |
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16.1 |
Method Except
for Communications pursuant to Clause 9, which shall be made or given in accordance with
Clause 9.20, any Communication may be given, delivered, made or served (as the case may
be) under or in relation to this Agreement by letter or fax and shall be in the English
language and sent addressed:- |
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16.1.1 |
in
the case of any of the Finance Parties to the Agent at its address at the head of this
Agreement (fax no: + 00 00 000 000) marked for the
attention of: Credit Administration Shipping; and |
|
16.1.2 |
in
the case of the Borrower and/or the Guarantor to the Communications Address; |
|
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or to
such other address or fax number as the Agent or the Borrower may designate for
themselves by written notice to the others. |
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16.2 |
Timing
A Communication shall be deemed to have been duly given, delivered, made or served to
or on, and received by a party to this Agreement:- |
|
16.2.1 |
in
the case of a fax when the sender receives one or more transmission reports showing
the whole of the Communication to have been transmitted to
the correct fax number; |
|
16.2.2 |
if
delivered to an officer of the relevant party or (in the case of the Borrower)
left at the Communications Address at the time of delivery
or leaving; or |
|
16.2.3 |
if
posted, at 9.00 a.m. on the third Business Day after posting by prepaid first class post. |
|
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Any Communication
by fax shall be promptly confirmed in writing by post or hand delivery. |
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17.1 |
Currency
In the event of any Finance Party receiving or recovering any amount payable under
any of the Security Documents in a currency other than the Currency of Account, and if
the amount received or recovered is insufficient when converted into the Currency of
Account at the date of receipt to satisfy in full the amount due, the Borrower shall, on
the Agent’s written demand, pay to the Agent such further amount in the Currency of
Account as is sufficient to satisfy in full the amount due and that further amount shall
be due to the Agent on behalf of the Finance Parties as a separate debt under this
Agreement. |
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17.2 |
Costs
and expenses The Borrower will, within fourteen days of the Agent’s written
demand, reimburse the Agent (on behalf of each of the Finance Parties) for all reasonable
out of pocket expenses including internal and external legal costs (including stamp duty,
Value Added Tax or any similar or replacement tax if applicable) of and incidental to:- |
|
17.2.1 |
the
negotiation, syndication, preparation, execution and registration of the Security
Documents (whether or not any of the Security Documents are actually executed or
registered and whether or not all or any part of the Facility is advanced); |
|
17.2.2 |
any
amendments, addenda or supplements to any of the Security Documents (whether or not
completed); |
|
17.2.3 |
any
other documents which may at any time be required by any Finance Party to give effect to
any of the Security Documents or which any Finance Party is entitled to call for or
obtain pursuant to any of the Security Documents; and |
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17.2.4 |
the
exercise of the rights, powers, discretions and remedies of the Finance Parties under or
pursuant to the Security Documents. |
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17.3 |
Events
of Default The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties from time to time on
demand against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Finance Party as a
consequence of any Event of Default, including (without limitation) any Break Costs. |
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17.4 |
Funding
costs The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties from time to time on demand
against all losses and costs incurred or sustained by any Finance Party if, for any
reason due to a default or other action by the Borrower, any Drawing is not advanced to
the Borrower after the relevant Drawdown Notice has been given to the Agent, or is
advanced on a date other than that requested in the Drawdown Notice, including (without
limitation) any Break Costs. |
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17.5 |
Protection
and enforcement The Borrower shall indemnify the Finance Parties from time to time on
demand against all losses, costs and liabilities which any Finance Party may from time to
time sustain, incur or become liable for in or about the protection, maintenance or
enforcement of the rights conferred on the Finance Parties by the Security Documents or
in or about the exercise or purported exercise by the Finance Parties of any of the
rights, powers, discretions or remedies vested in them under or arising out of the
Security Documents, including (without limitation) any losses, costs and liabilities
which any Finance Party may from time to time sustain, incur or become liable for by
reason of any Finance Party being mortgagees of any Vessel and/or a lender to the
Borrower, or by reason of any Finance Party being deemed by any court or authority to be
an operator or controller, or in any way concerned in the operation or control, of any
Vessel. No such indemnity will be given to a Finance Party where any such loss, cost or
liability has occurred due to gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of that
Finance Party; however this shall not affect the right of any other Finance Party to
receive any such indemnity. |
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17.6 |
Liabilities
of Finance Parties The Borrower will from time to time reimburse the Finance Parties
on demand for all sums which any Finance Party may pay on account of any of the Security
Parties or in connection with any Vessel (whether alone or jointly or jointly and
severally with any other person) including (without limitation) all sums which any
Finance Party may pay or guarantees which any Finance Party may give in respect of the
Insurances, any expenses incurred by any Finance Party in connection with the maintenance
or repair of any Vessel or in discharging any lien, bond or other claim relating in any
way to any Vessel, and any sums which any Finance Party may pay or guarantees which they
may give to procure the release of any Vessel from arrest or detention. |
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17.7 |
Taxes
The Borrower shall pay all Taxes to which all or any part of the Indebtedness or any
of the Security Documents may be at any time subject and shall indemnify the Finance
Parties on demand against all liabilities, costs, claims and expenses incurred in
connection therewith, including but not limited to any such liabilities, costs, claims
and expenses resulting from any omission to pay or delay in paying any such Taxes. The
indemnity contained in this Clause shall survive the repayment of the Indebtedness. |
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18.1 |
Waivers
No failure or delay on the part of any Finance Party in exercising any right, power,
discretion or remedy under or pursuant to any of the Security Documents, nor any actual
or alleged course of dealing between any Finance Party and any of the Security Parties,
shall operate as a waiver of, or acquiescence in, any default on the part of any Security
Party, unless expressly agreed to do so in writing by the Agent, nor shall any single or
partial exercise by any Finance Party of any right, power, discretion or remedy preclude
any other or further exercise of that right, power, discretion or remedy, or the exercise
by a Finance Party of any other right, power, discretion or remedy. |
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18.2 |
No
oral variations No variation or amendment of any of the Security Documents shall be
valid unless in writing and signed on behalf of the Agent and the relevant Security Party. |
|
18.3 |
Severability
If at any time any provision of any of the Security Documents is invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect that provision shall be severed from the remainder and the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected
or impaired in any way. |
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18.4 |
Successors
etc. The Security Documents shall be binding on the Security Parties and on their
successors and permitted transferees and assignees, and shall inure to the benefit of the
Finance Parties and their respective successors, transferees and assignees. The Borrower
may not assign or transfer any of its rights or duties under or pursuant to any of the
Security Documents without the prior written consent of the Banks. |
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18.5 |
Further
assurance If any provision of the Security Documents shall be invalid or
unenforceable in whole or in part by reason of any present or future law or any decision
of any court, or if the documents at any time held by the Finance Parties on their behalf
are considered by the Banks for any reason insufficient to carry out the terms of this
Agreement, then from time to time the Borrower will promptly, on demand by the Agent,
execute or procure the execution of such further documents as in the reasonable opinion
of the Banks are necessary to provide adequate security for the repayment of the
Indebtedness. |
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18.6 |
Other
arrangements The Finance Parties may, without prejudice to their rights under or
pursuant to the Security Documents, at any time and from time to time, on such terms and
conditions as they may in their discretion determine, and without notice to the Borrower,
grant time or other indulgence to, or compound with, any other person liable (actually or
contingently) to the Finance Parties or any of them in respect of all or any part of the
Indebtedness, and may release or renew negotiable instruments and take and release
securities and hold funds on realisation or suspense account without affecting the
liabilities of the Borrower or the rights of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the
Security Documents. |
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18.7 |
Advisers The
Borrower irrevocably authorises the Agent, at any time and from time to time during the
Facility Period, to consult insurance advisers on any matters relating to the Insurances,
including, without limitation, the collection of insurance claims, and from time to time
to consult or retain advisers or consultants to monitor or advise on any other claims
relating to the Vessels. The Borrower will provide such advisers and consultants with all
information and documents which they may from time to time reasonably require and will
reimburse the Agent on demand for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the Agent
in connection with the consultation or retention of such advisers or consultants. |
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18.8 |
Delegation
The Finance Parties may at any time and from time to time delegate to any person any
of their rights, powers, discretions and remedies pursuant to the Security Documents,
other than rights relating to actions to be taken by the Majority Banks or the Banks as a
group on such terms as they may consider appropriate (including the power to
sub-delegate). |
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18.9 |
Rights
etc. cumulative Every right, power, discretion and remedy conferred on the Finance
Parties under or pursuant to the Security Documents shall be cumulative and in addition
to every other right, power, discretion or remedy to which they may at any time be
entitled by law or in equity. The Finance Parties may exercise each of their rights,
powers, discretions and remedies as often and in such order as they deem appropriate
subject to obtaining the prior written consent of the Majority Banks. The exercise or the
beginning of the exercise of any right, power, discretion or remedy shall not be
interpreted as a waiver of the right to exercise any other right, power, discretion or
remedy either simultaneously or subsequently. |
|
18.10 |
No
enquiry The Finance Parties shall not be concerned to enquire into the powers of the
Security Parties or of any person purporting to act on behalf of any of the Security
Parties, even if any of the Security Parties or any such person shall have acted in
excess of their powers or if their actions shall have been irregular, defective or
informal, whether or not any Finance Parties had notice thereof. |
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18.11 |
Continuing
security The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be continuing and
shall not be satisfied by any intermediate payment or satisfaction until the Indebtedness
shall have been repaid in full and none of the Finance Parties shall be under any further
actual or contingent liability to any third party in relation to the Vessels, the
Qualifying Contracts, the Qualifying Contract Proceeds, the Insurances, Earnings or
Requisition Compensation or any other matter referred to in the Security Documents. |
|
18.12 |
Security
cumulative The security constituted by the Security Documents shall be in addition to
any other security now or in the future held by the Finance Parties or any of them for or
in respect of all or any part of the Indebtedness, and shall not merge with or prejudice
or be prejudiced by any such security or any other contractual or legal rights of any of
the Finance Parties, nor affected by any irregularity, defect or informality, or by any
release, exchange or variation of any such security. Section 93 of the Law of Property
Xxx 0000 and all provisions which the Agent considers analogous thereto under the law of
any other relevant jurisdiction shall not apply to the security constituted by the
Security Documents. |
|
18.13 |
Re-instatement
If any Finance Party takes any steps to exercise any of its rights, powers, remedies
or discretions pursuant to the Security Documents and the result shall be adverse to the
Finance Parties, the Borrower and the Finance Parties shall be restored to their former
positions as if no such steps had been taken. |
|
18.14 |
No
liability None of the Finance Parties, nor any agent or employee of any Finance
Party, nor any receiver and/or manager appointed by the Agent, shall be liable for any
losses which may be incurred in or about the exercise of any of the rights, powers,
discretions or remedies of the Finance Parties under or pursuant to the Security
Documents nor liable as mortgagee in possession for any loss on realisation or for any
neglect or default of any nature for which a mortgagee in possession might otherwise be
liable unless such Finance Party’s action constitutes gross negligence or wilful
misconduct. |
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18.15 |
Rescission
of payments etc. Any discharge, release or reassignment by any of the Finance Parties
of any of the security constituted by, or any of the obligations of any Security Party
contained in, any of the Security Documents shall be (and be deemed always to have been)
void if any act (including, without limitation, any payment) as a result of which such
discharge, release or reassignment was given or made is subsequently wholly or partially
rescinded or avoided by operation of any law, unless such Finance Party’s action
constitutes gross negligence or wilful misconduct. |
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18.16 |
Subsequent
Encumbrances If the Agent receives notice of any subsequent Encumbrance (other than
any Encumbrance permitted by the terms of this Agreement) affecting any Vessel, any
Qualifying Contract, or all or any part of the Qualifying Contract Proceeds, the
Insurances, Earnings or Requisition Compensation, the Agent may open a new account in its
books for the Borrower. If the Agent does not open a new account, then (unless the
Encumbrance is permitted by the terms of this Agreement or the Agent gives written notice
to the contrary to the Borrower) as from the time of receipt by the Agent of notice of
such subsequent Encumbrance, all payments made to the Agent shall be treated as having
been credited to a new account of the Borrower and not as having been applied in
reduction of the Indebtedness. |
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18.17 |
Releases
If any Finance Party shall at any time in its discretion release any party from all
or any part of any of the Security Documents or from any term, covenant, clause,
condition or obligation contained in any of the Security Documents, the liability of any
other party to the Security Documents shall not be varied or diminished. |
|
18.18 |
Certificates
Any certificate or statement signed by an authorised signatory of the Agent
purporting to show the amount of the Indebtedness (or any part of the Indebtedness) or
any other amount referred to in any of the Security Documents shall, save for manifest
error or on any question of law, be conclusive evidence as against the Borrower of that
amount. |
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18.19 |
Survival
of representations and warranties The representations and warranties on the part of
the Borrower contained in this Agreement shall survive the execution of this Agreement
and the advance of the Facility or any part thereof. |
|
18.20 |
Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be
original but which shall together constitute the same instrument. |
|
18.21 |
Third
Party Rights Notwithstanding the provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third
Parties) Xxx 0000, no term of this Agreement is enforceable by a person who is not a
party to it. |
|
19.1 |
Governing
law This Agreement shall in all respects be governed by and interpreted in accordance
with English law. |
|
19.2 |
Jurisdiction
For the exclusive benefit of the Finance Parties, the parties to this Agreement
irrevocably agree that the courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any
disputes which may arise out of or in connection with this Agreement and that any
Proceedings may be brought in those courts. The Borrower irrevocably waives any objection
which it may now or in the future have to the laying of the venue of any Proceedings in
any court referred to in this Clause, and any claim that those Proceedings have been
brought in an inconvenient or inappropriate forum. |
|
19.3 |
Alternative
jurisdictions Nothing contained in this Clause shall limit the right of the Finance
Parties to commence any Proceedings against the Borrower in any other court of competent
jurisdiction nor shall the commencement of any Proceedings against the Borrower in one or
more jurisdictions preclude the commencement of any Proceedings in any other
jurisdiction, whether concurrently or not. |
|
19.4 |
Service
of process Without prejudice to the right of the Finance Parties to use any other
method of service permitted by law, the Borrower irrevocably agrees that any writ,
notice, judgment or other legal process shall be sufficiently served on it if addressed
to it and left at or sent by post to the Address for Service, and in that event shall be
conclusively deemed to have been served at the time of leaving or, if posted, at 9.00
a.m. on the third Business Day after posting by prepaid first class registered post. |
IN WITNESS of which the
parties to this Agreement have executed this Agreement the day and year first before
written.
SCHEDULE 1
The Banks, the Commitments and the Proportionate Shares
The Banks |
The Commitments
(in $) |
The Proportionate
Shares (%) |
| | |
Citibank N.A |
41,000,000 |
7.45 |
00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxx X00 0XX |
Fax: x00 000 000 0000 |
Attention: Processing Unit, Loans |
| | |
Den norske Bank ASA |
41,000,000 |
7.45 |
Xxxxxxxx 00 |
X.X. Xxx 0000 Xxxxxxx |
X-0000 Xxxx |
Xxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 00 000000 |
Attention: Credit Administration, Shipping |
| | |
Nordea Bank Norge ASA |
41,000,000 |
7.45 |
X.X. Xxx 0000 Xxxxxxx |
0000 Xxxx |
Xxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 00 000 000 |
Attention: International Loan Administration |
| | |
The Governor and Company |
38,000,000 |
6.91 |
of the Bank of Scotland |
Marine Finance Group |
Corporate Banking |
New Uberior House |
00 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxxxxx XX0 0XX |
Fax no: x00 000 000 0000 |
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
| | |
Fortis International Finance (Dublin) |
38,000,000 |
6.91 |
Xxxxx Xxxxx |
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxx 0 |
Xxxxxxx |
Fax no: x000 00000000 |
Attention: Shipping Department |
| | |
HSBC Bank plc |
38,000,000 |
6.91 |
0 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxx |
X00 0XX |
Fax no: x00 000 000 0000 |
Attention: Transport & Logistics, Shipping Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets |
| | |
ING Bank N.V |
38,000,000 |
6.91 |
Xxxxx 000 |
0000 XX Xxxxxxxxx |
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 0000 000 0000 |
Attention: Xxxxx Van der Ploeg |
| | |
Lloyds TSB Bank plc |
38,000,000 |
6.91 |
Strategic Asset Finance |
00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxx |
XX0X 0XX |
Fax no: x00 000 000 0000 |
Attention: Head of Ship Finance |
| | |
Scotiabank Europe Plc |
38,000,000 |
6.91 |
00 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxx |
XX0X 0XX |
Fax no:x00 000 000 0000 |
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx/Xxxxx Xxxxxx |
| | |
Skandinaviska Enskillda Xxxxxx XX (publ)38,000,000 |
6.9 |
8 Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
000 00 Xxxxxxxxx |
For administration matters: |
Fax no: x00 0000 0000 |
Attention: Xxxx Geelmugden |
KV 108 FCA |
Fax no: x00 0000 0000 |
Attention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx |
For credit matters: |
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxx 00 |
Xx-0000 Xxxx |
Xxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 0000 0000 |
Attention: Per Xxxx Xxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxxxx |
| | |
Credit Agricole Indosuez |
27,000,000 |
4.91 |
For administration matters: |
9. Quai, du President Xxxx Xxxxxx F-92400 |
92920 Paris La Defense Cedex |
France |
Fax no: x00 000 00 0000 |
Attention: Middle Office/Shipping/Xx X. Xxxxx/ X. Xxxxx-Xxxxxx |
For credit matters: |
000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX |
Fax no: x00 000 000 0000 |
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxx/Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx |
| | |
DVB Bank A.G |
27,000,000 |
4.91 |
Xxxxxxxxxx 0 |
00000 Xxxxxxx |
Xxxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 00 000000-00 |
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx/Xxxxx Xxxxxx |
| | |
HSH Nordbank AG |
27,000,000 |
4.91 |
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx 00, |
X-00000 Xxxxxxx |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx of Germany |
Fax no: x00 000 000 00000 |
Attention: Franke Hay |
| | |
NIB Capital Bank N.V |
27,000,000 |
4.91 |
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 0, 0000 XX, Xxx Xxxxx |
XX Xxx 000, 0000 XX Xxx Xxxxx |
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 00 000 0000 |
Attention: Transportation & Energy |
| | |
Gjensidige Nor Merchant Bank |
21,000,000 |
3.82 |
X.X. Xxx 0000 Xxxxxxx |
X-0000 Xxxx |
Fax no: x00 00 000000 |
Attention: Shipping/Offshore/Transport |
| | |
Vereins-und Westbank AG |
17,000,000 |
3.09 |
Alter Wall 22 |
X-00000 Xxxxxxx |
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx of Germany |
Fax no: x00 00 0000 0000 |
Attention: Xx Xxxx Xxxxx |
| | |
Natexis Banques Populaires |
15,000,000 |
2.73 |
00 xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx |
00000, Xxxxx |
Xxxxxx |
Fax no: x00 000 000000 |
Attention: Middle Office Shipping – Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx |
For credit matters: |
Fax no: x00 000 00 0000 |
Attention: Antoine Saint Olive/Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx |
SCHEDULE 2
Lead Arrangers
1 |
Citigroup Global Markets Limited
Citigroup Centre
33 Canada Square
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx XX00 0XX
Fax no: 0000 000 0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Director Synidicated Loans |
2 |
Den norske Bank ASA
Stranden 21
X.X. Xxx 0000 Xxxxxxx
X-0000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
Fax no: x00 00 000000
Attention: Credit Administration, Shipping |
3 |
Nordea Bank Norge ASA
X.X. Xxx 0000 Xxxxxxx
0000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
Fax no: x00 00 000 000
Attention: International Loan Administration |
SCHEDULE 3
Form of Compliance
Certificate
Dear Sirs,
$550m revolving credit facility agreement dated
[ ] (the "Agreement")
As at [specify preceding quarter date] I hereby confirm:
(i) |
The Borrower had a Free Liquidity of
[ ]; |
(ii) |
Calculated on a 12 month trailing basis, the Borrower had EBITDA of
[ ],
NIBD of
[ ]
and therefore a ratio of NIBD to EBITDA of
[ ]; |
(iii) |
Calculated on a 12 month trailing basis, the Borrower had a ratio of EBITDA to
Interest and Reductions of
[ ]. |
I hereby certify that to the best of
my knowledge, no Event of Default exists and all Representations and Warranties of the
Borrower set forth in the Agreement (except those appearing in Clause 4.6) are true and
correct.
Words and expressions defined in the
Agreement shall bear the same meanings when used herein.
Norsk Teekay Holdings Ltd
By:
__________________________________
Title:
__________________________________
Date:__________________________________
SCHEDULE 4
Form of Transfer
Certificate
To: Den norske Bank ASA as agent (the "Agent")
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
This transfer certificate relates to
a facility agreement (as the same may be from time to time amended, varied, novated or
supplemented, the “Facility Agreement”) dated 2003 whereby a revolving
credit facility of up to $550,000,000 was made available to Norsk Teekay Holdings Ltd as
borrower by a group of banks on whose behalf the Agent acts as agent and security trustee.
1 |
Terms
defined in the Facility Agreement shall, subject to any contrary indication, have the
same meanings herein. The terms “Bank” and “Transferee” are defined
in the schedule to this transfer certificate . |
2 |
The
Bank (i) confirms that the details in the Schedule hereto under the heading “Bank’s
Commitment” accurately summarises its Commitment in the Facility Agreement and
(ii) requests the Transferee to accept and procure the transfer to the Transferee of the
portion of such Commitment specified in the Schedule hereto by counter-signing and
delivering the Transfer Certificate to the Agent at its address for the service of
Communications specified in the Facility Agreement. |
3 |
The
Transferee requests the Agent to accept this Transfer Certificate as being delivered to
the Agent pursuant to and for the purposes of clause 14.4 of the Facility Agreement so as
to take effect in accordance with the terms thereof on the Transfer Date or on such later
date as may be determined in accordance with the terms thereof. |
4 |
The
Transferee confirms that it has received a copy of the Facility Agreement together with
such other information as it has required in connection with this transaction and that it
has not relied and will not in the future rely on the Bank or any other party to the
Facility Agreement to check or enquire on its behalf into the legality, validity,
effectiveness, adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any such information and further
agrees that it has not relied and will not rely on the Bank or any other party to the
Facility Agreement to access or keep under review on its behalf the financial condition,
creditworthiness, condition, affairs, status or nature of the Borrower or any other party
to the Facility Agreement. |
5 |
Execution
of this Transfer Certificate by the Transferee constitutes its representation to the
Transferor and all other parties to the Facility Agreement that it has power to become a
party to the Facility Agreement as a Bank on the terms herein and therein set out and has
taken all steps to authorise execution and delivery of this Transfer Certificate. |
6 |
The
Transferee undertakes with the Bank and each of the other parties to the Facility
Agreement that it will perform in accordance with their terms all those obligations which
by the terms of the Facility Agreement will be assumed by it after delivery of this
Transfer Certificate to the Agent and satisfaction of the conditions (if any) subject to
which the Transfer Certificate is expressed to take effect. |
7 |
The
Bank makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Facility
Agreement or any document relating thereto and assumes no responsibility for the
financial condition of the Borrower or for the performance and observance by the Borrower
of any of its obligations under the Facility Agreement or any document relating thereto
and any and all such conditions and warranties, whether express or implied by law or
otherwise, are hereby excluded. |
8 |
The
Bank gives notice that nothing in this transfer certificate or in the Facility Agreement
(or any document relating thereto) shall oblige the Bank to (i) accept a re-transfer from
the Transferee of the whole or any part of its rights, benefits and/or obligations under
the Facility Agreement transferred pursuant hereto or (ii) support any losses directly or
indirectly sustained or incurred by the Transferee for any reason whatsoever including,
without limitation, the non-performance by the Borrower or any other party to the
Facility Agreement (or any document relating thereto) of its obligations under any such
document. The Transferee acknowledges the absence of any such obligation as is referred
to in (i) or (ii) above. |
9 |
This
Transfer Certificate and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall be
governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law. |
THE SCHEDULE
1 Bank:
2 Transferee:
3 Transfer Date:
4 Commitment1:
Portion Transferred
|
|
[Transferor Bank] |
[Transferee Bank] |
|
By: |
By: |
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Date: |
Date: |
|
Den norske Bank ASA |
|
As agent for and on behalf of
itself, the Borrower and the other Finance Parties in the presence of:-
By:..........................................
Date:
[ ]
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1 Details of the Bank's Commitment
should not be completed after the Termination Date.
SCHEDULE 5
Form of Drawdown Notice
To: Den norske Bank ASA
From: Norsk Teekay
Holdings Ltd
[Date]
Dear Sirs,
Drawdown Notice
We
refer to the Revolving Credit Facility Agreement dated
2003 made between, amongst others,
ourselves and yourselves (“the Agreement”).
Words
and phrases defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Drawdown
Notice.
Pursuant to
Clause 2.3 of the Agreement, we irrevocably request that you advance a Drawing of [ ]
to us on 200[ ],
which is a Business Day, by paying the amount of the Drawing to [ ].
We
warrant that the representations and warranties contained in Clause 4 of the Agreement
[(except those contained in clause 4.6]2 are true and correct at the date of
this Drawdown Notice and will be true and correct on
200[ ]; that no Event of Default nor Potential Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, and that no Event of Default or Potential Event of Default will result from
the advance of the Drawing requested in this Drawdown Notice.
[We
further confirm and certify that no material adverse change has occurred since
[ ] in
the business, assets, operations, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of the
Guarantor or its subsidiaries or in the facts and information regarding such entities as
represented to date3].
We
select the period of [ ] months as the [first]
Interest Period in respect of the Drawing.
Yours faithfully
_________________
For and on behalf of
Norsk Teekay Holdings Ltd
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2 To be in subsequent Drawdown Notices only.
3 To be in first Drawdown Notice only.
SCHEDULE 6
Calculation of the
Mandatory Cost
1 |
The
Mandatory Cost is an addition to the interest rate to compensate the Banks for the cost
of compliance with (a) the requirements of the Bank of England and/or the Financial
Services Authority (or, in either case, any other authority which replaces all or any of
its functions) or (b) the requirements of the European Central Bank. |
2 |
On
the first day of each Interest Period (or as soon as possible thereafter) the Agent shall
calculate, as a percentage rate, a rate (the “Additional Cost Rate”) for
each Bank, in accordance with the paragraphs set out below. The Mandatory Cost will be
calculated by the Agent as a weighted average of the Banks’Additional Cost Rates
(weighted in proportion to the percentage participation of each Bank in the Loan) and
will be expressed as a percentage rate per annum. |
3 |
The
Additional Cost Rate for any Bank lending from a Facility Office in a Participating
Member State will be the percentage notified by that Bank to the Agent. This percentage
will be certified by that Bank in its notice to the Agent to be its reasonable
determination of the cost (expressed as a percentage of that Bank’s participation in
all loans made from that Facility Office) of complying with the minimum reserve
requirements of the European Central Bank in respect of loans made from that Facility
Office. |
4 |
The
Additional Cost Rate for any Bank lending from a Facility Office in the United Kingdom
will be calculated by the Agent as follows: |
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E x 0.01 |
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per cent. per annum.
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300 |
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Where E
is the rate of charge payable by a Bank to the Financial Services Authority under the
Fees Rules in respect of the relevant financial year of the Financial Services Authority
(calculated for this purpose by the Agent as being the average of the Fee Tariffs
applicable to that Bank for that financial year). |
5 |
For
the purposes of this Schedule: |
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(a) |
“Eligible
Liabilities and “Special Deposits” have the meanings given to them
from time to time under or pursuant to the Bank of England Act 1998 or (as may be
appropriate) by the Bank of England; |
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(b) |
“Facility
Office” means the office notified by a Bank to the Agent in
writing on or before the date it becomes a Bank as the office through
which it will perform its obligations under the Agreement; |
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(c) |
“Fee
Rules” means the rules on periodic fees contained in the FSA
Supervision Manual or such other law or regulation as may be in force from
time to time in respect of the payment of fees for the acceptance of
deposits; |
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(d) |
“Fee
Tariffs” means the fee tariffs specified in the Fees Rules under
the activity group A.1 Deposit acceptors (ignoring any minimum fee or zero
rated fee required pursuant to the Fee Rules but taking into account any
applicable discount rate); and |
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(e) |
“Participating
Member State” means any member state of the European Communities
that adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency in accordance
with legislation of the European Union relating to European Monetary
Union; |
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(f) |
“Parties” means
any party to the Agreement, including its successors in title permitted
assigns and permitted transferees; and |
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(g) |
“Tariff
Base” has the meaning given to it in, and will be calculated in
accordance with, the Fees Rules. |
6 |
If
requested by the Agent, each Bank shall, as soon as practicable after publication by the
Financial Services Authority, supply to the Agent, the rate of charge payable by that
Bank to the Financial Services Authority pursuant to the Fees Rules in respect of the
relevant financial year of the Financial Services Authority (calculated for this purpose
by that Bank as being the average of the Fee Tariffs applicable to that Bank for that
financial year). |
7 |
Each
Bank shall supply any information required by the Agent for the purpose of calculating
its Additional Cost Rate. In particular, but without limitation, each Bank Shall supply
the following information on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Bank: |
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(a) |
the
jurisdiction of its Facility Office; and |
|
(b) |
any
other information that the Agent may reasonably require for such purpose. |
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Each Bank
shall promptly notify the Agent of any change to the information provided by it pursuant
to this paragraph. |
8 |
The
percentages of each Bank for the purpose of E above shall be determined by the Agent
based upon the information supplied to it pursuant to paragraphs 6 and 7 above and on the
assumption that, unless the Bank notifies the Agent to the contrary, each Bank’s
obligations in relation to cash ratio deposits and Special Deposits are the same as those
of a typical bank from its jurisdiction of incorporation with a Facility Office in the
same jurisdiction as in its Facility Office. |
9 |
The
Agent shall have no liability to any person if such determination results in an
Additional Cost Rate which over or under compensates any Bank and shall be entitled to
assume that the information provided by any Bank pursuant to paragraphs 3, 6 and 7 above
is true and correct in all respects. |
10 |
The
Agent shall distribute the additional amounts received as a result of the Mandatory Cost
to the Banks on the basis of the Additional Cost Rate for each Bank based on the
information provided by each Bank pursuant to paragraphs 3, 6 and 7 above. |
11 |
Any
determination by the Agent pursuant to this Schedule in relation to a formula, the
Mandatory Cost, an Additional Cost Rate or any amount payable to a Bank shall, in the
absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on all Parties. |
12 |
The
Agent may from time to time, after consultation with the Borrower and the Banks determine
and notify to all Parties any amendments which are required to be made to this Schedule
in order to comply with any change in law, regulation or any requirements from time to
time imposed by the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority or the European
Central Bank (or, in any case, any other authority which replaces all or any of its
functions) and any such determination shall, in the absence of manifest error, be
conclusive and binding on all Parties. |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of DEN NORSKE BANK ASA |
) |
(as the Agent) |
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in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of CITIBANK N.A |
) |
(as a Bank) |
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in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of CREDIT AGRICOLE INDOSUEZ |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of DEN NORSKE BANK ASA |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of DVB BANK A.G |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of FORTIS INTERNATIONAL |
) |
FINANCE (Dublin) |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY |
) |
OF THE BANK OF SCOTLAND |
) |
(as a Bank) |
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in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of HSBC BANK PLC |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of HSH NORDBANK AG |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of ING BANK N.V |
) |
(as a Bank) |
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in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of LLOYDS TSB BANK plc |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of NATEXIS BANQUES POPULAIRES |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of NIB CAPITAL BANK N.V |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of NORDEA BANK NORGE ASA |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of SCOTIABANK EUROPE PLC |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA |
) |
XXXXXX XX (publ) |
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(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of GJENSIDIGE NOR |
MERCHANT BANK |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of VEREINS-und WESTBANK AG |
) |
(as a Bank) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS |
) |
LIMITED |
) |
(as an Arranger) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of DEN NORSKE BANK ASA |
) |
(as an Arranger) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of NORDEA BANK NORGE ASA |
) |
(as an Arranger) |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
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SIGNED by |
) |
duly authorised for and on behalf |
) |
of NORSK TEEKAY HOLDINGS LTD |
) |
in the presence of:- |
) |
DATED
JUNE 2003
NORSK TEEKAY HOLDINGS LTD
(as borrower)
— and —
DEN NORSKE BANK ASA
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS LIMITED
NORDEA BANK NORGE ASA
(as lead arrangers)
— and —
CITIBANK N.A.
CREDIT AGRICOLE INDOSUEZ
DEN NORSKE BANK ASA
and others
(as banks)
— and —
DEN NORSKE BANK ASA
(as facility agent and security trustee)
________________________________________
US$550,000,000 SECURED
REDUCING REVOLVING LOAN
FACILITY AGREEMENT
________________________________________
XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX
Xxx, Xx. Xxxx’x Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx XX0X 0XX
Tel: 000 0000 0000
Fax: 000 0000 0000
Ref: 819/822
CONTENTS
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Page |
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1 |
Definitions and Interpretation |
1 |
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2 |
The Facility and its Purpose |
17 |
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3 |
Conditions Precedent and Subsequent |
21 |
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4 |
Representations and Warranties |
27 |
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5 |
Repayment and Prepayment |
30 |
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6 |
Interest |
31 |
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7 |
Fees |
32 |
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8 |
Security Documents |
33 |
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9 |
Agency and Trust |
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Xxxxxxxxx |
00 |
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Earnings |
48 |
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12 |
Events Of Default |
48 |
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13 |
Set-Off and Lien |
52 |
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14 |
Assignment and Sub-Participation |
54 |
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15 |
Payments, Mandatory Prepayment, Reserve Requirements and Illegality |
56 |
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16 |
Communications |
60 |
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17 |
General Indemnities |
61 |
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18 |
Miscellaneous |
64 |
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19 |
Law and Jurisdiction |
68 |
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SCHEDULE 1 |
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70 |
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The Banks, the Commitments and the Proportionate Shares |
70 |
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SCHEDULE 2 |
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74 |
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Lead Arrangers |
74 |
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SCHEDULE 3 |
|
75 |
|
Form of Compliance Certificate |
75 |
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SCHEDULE 4 |
|
76 |
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Form of Transfer Certificate |
76 |
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SCHEDULE 5 |
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78 |
|
Form of Drawdown Notice |
78 |
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SCHEDULE 6 |
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79 |
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Calculation of the Mandatory Cost |
79 |