SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of December 21, 2021 among COPART, INC., as the Company, CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY, as Designated Borrowers, CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY PARTY HERETO, as the Guarantors, BANK OF...
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$1,250,000,000
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of December 21, 2021
among
COPART, INC.,
as the Company,
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY,
as Designated Borrowers,
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY PARTY HERETO,
as the Guarantors,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender and
an Issuing Lender,
The Other Issuing Lenders Party Hereto,
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
Dated as of December 21, 2021
among
COPART, INC.,
as the Company,
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY,
as Designated Borrowers,
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY PARTY HERETO,
as the Guarantors,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender and
an Issuing Lender,
The Other Issuing Lenders Party Hereto,
and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Syndication Agent
as Syndication Agent
BANK OF MONTREAL and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as co-Documentation Agents
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as co-Documentation Agents
BOFA SECURITIES, INC. and
XXXXX FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
XXXXX FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS | |||||
1.01 Definitions | |||||
1.02 Other Definitions and Provisions | |||||
1.03 Divisions | |||||
1.04 Accounting Terms | |||||
1.05 UCC Terms | |||||
1.06 Rounding | |||||
1.07 References to Agreement and Laws | |||||
1.08 Times of Day | |||||
1.09 Letter of Credit Amounts | |||||
1.10 Guarantees | |||||
1.11 Covenant Compliance Generally | |||||
1.12 Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents | |||||
1.13 Additional Alternative Currencies | |||||
1.14 Change of Currency | |||||
ARTICLE II COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS | |||||
2.01 Loans | |||||
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans | |||||
2.03 Letters of Credit | |||||
2.04 Swingline Loans | |||||
2.05 Prepayments | |||||
2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments | |||||
2.07 Repayment of Loans | |||||
2.08 Interest and Default Rate | |||||
2.09 Fees | |||||
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate | |||||
2.11 Evidence of Debt | |||||
2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback | |||||
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders | |||||
2.14 Cash Collateral | |||||
2.15 Defaulting Lenders | |||||
2.16 Designated Borrowers | |||||
2.17 Designated Lenders | |||||
2.18 Increase in Commitments | |||||
ARTICLE III TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY | |||||
3.01 Taxes | |||||
3.02 Illegality | |||||
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates; Availability of Term SOFR |
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3.04 Increased Costs | |||||
3.05 Compensation for Losses | |||||
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders | |||||
3.07 Survival | |||||
ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS | |||||
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension | |||||
4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions | |||||
ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE CREDIT PARTIES | |||||
5.01 Organization; Power; Qualification | |||||
5.02 Ownership | |||||
5.03 Authorization; Enforceability | |||||
5.04 Compliance of Agreement, Loan Documents and Borrowing with Laws, Etc. | |||||
5.05 Compliance with Law; Governmental Approvals | |||||
5.06 Tax Returns and Payments | |||||
5.07 Intellectual Property Matters | |||||
5.08 Environmental Matters | |||||
5.09 Employee Benefit Matters | |||||
5.10 Margin Stock | |||||
5.11 Government Regulation | |||||
5.12 Material Contracts | |||||
5.13 Employee Relations | |||||
5.14 Burdensome Provisions | |||||
5.15 Financial Statements | |||||
5.16 No Material Adverse Change | |||||
5.17 Solvency | |||||
5.18 Title to Properties | |||||
5.19 Litigation | |||||
5.20 Anti-Terrorism; Anti-Money Laundering | |||||
5.21 Absence of Defaults | |||||
5.22 Senior Indebtedness Status | |||||
5.23 Disclosure | |||||
5.24 Compliance with FCPA | |||||
ARTICLE VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | |||||
6.01 Financial Statements and Budgets | |||||
6.02 Certificates; Other Reports | |||||
6.03 Notice of Litigation and Other Matters | |||||
6.04 Preservation of Corporate Existence and Related Matters | |||||
6.05 Maintenance of Property and Licenses | |||||
6.06 Insurance | |||||
6.07 Accounting Methods and Financial Records | |||||
6.08 Payment of Taxes and Other Obligations |
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6.09 Compliance with Laws and Approvals | |||||
6.10 Environmental Laws | |||||
6.11 Compliance with ERISA | |||||
6.12 Visits and Inspections | |||||
6.13 Additional Subsidiaries | |||||
6.14 Use of Proceeds | |||||
6.15 Further Assurances | |||||
6.16 Post-Closing Covenant | |||||
ARTICLE VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS | |||||
7.01 Indebtedness | |||||
7.02 Liens | |||||
7.03 Investments | |||||
7.04 Fundamental Changes | |||||
7.05 Asset Dispositions | |||||
7.06 Restricted Payments | |||||
7.07 Transactions with Affiliates | |||||
7.08 Accounting Changes; Organizational Documents | |||||
7.09 Payments and Modifications of Subordinated Indebtedness | |||||
7.10 [Reserved] | |||||
7.11 No Further Negative Pledges; Restrictive Agreements | |||||
7.12 Nature of Business | |||||
7.13 Sale Leasebacks | |||||
7.14 Financial Covenants | |||||
7.15 Disposal of Subsidiary Interests | |||||
ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES | |||||
8.01 Events of Default | |||||
8.02 Remedies | |||||
8.03 Rights and Remedies Cumulative; Non-Waiver; etc | |||||
8.04 Application of Funds | |||||
ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND COLLATERAL AGENT | |||||
9.01 Appointment and Authority | |||||
9.02 Rights as a Lender | |||||
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions | |||||
9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent | |||||
9.05 Delegation of Duties | |||||
9.06 Resignation of Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent | |||||
9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Arranger and the Other Lenders | |||||
9.08 No Other Duties, Etc | |||||
9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding | |||||
9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters |
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9.11 Secured Hedge Agreements and Secured Cash Management Agreements | |||||
9.12 Certain ERISA Matters | |||||
9.13 Recovery of Erroneous Payments | |||||
ARTICLE X CONTINUING GUARANTY | |||||
10.01 Guaranty | |||||
10.02 Agent May Perform | |||||
10.03 Remedies Cumulative | |||||
10.04 Indemnity and Expenses | |||||
10.05 New Subsidiaries | |||||
10.06 Keepwell | |||||
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS | |||||
11.01 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications | |||||
11.02 Amendments, Waivers and Consents | |||||
11.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement | |||||
11.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver | |||||
11.05 Right of Setoff | |||||
11.06 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc | |||||
11.07 Waiver of Jury Trial | |||||
11.08 Payments Set Aside | |||||
11.09 Injunctive Relief | |||||
11.10 Successors and Assigns | |||||
11.11 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality | |||||
11.12 Performance of Duties | |||||
11.13 All Powers Coupled with Interest | |||||
11.14 Survival | |||||
11.15 Titles, Captions and Headings | |||||
11.16 Severability of Provisions | |||||
11.17 Interest Rate Limitation | |||||
11.18 Integration; Effectiveness | |||||
11.19 Replacement of Lenders | |||||
11.20 [Reserved] | |||||
11.21 Term of Agreement | |||||
11.22 USA Patriot Act Notice | |||||
11.23 Independent Effect of Covenants | |||||
11.24 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility | |||||
11.25 Intercreditor Agreement | |||||
11.26 Electronic Execution; Electronic Records; Counterparts | |||||
11.27 Inconsistencies with Other Documents | |||||
11.28 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions | |||||
11.29 Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs | |||||
11.30 Time of the Essence |
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11.31 Judgment Currency | |||||
11.32 Amendment and Restatement | |||||
11.33 Spanish Law Provisions Relating to Executive Proceedings | |||||
11.34 German Law Provisions Relating to Limitation of Liability | |||||
11.35 ENTIRE AGREEMENT |
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BORROWER PREPARED SCHEDULES
Schedule 1.01(d) Excluded Subsidiaries
Schedule 5.01 Credit Parties and Subsidiaries
Schedule 5.02 Ownership
Schedule 5.06 Audits, Examinations and Investigations
Schedule 5.12 Material Contracts
Schedule 5.13 Employee Relations
Schedule 7.01 Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 7.02 Existing Liens
Schedule 7.03 Existing Investments
Schedule 7.07 Transactions with Affiliates
Schedule 7.11 Existing Restrictive Agreements
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PREPARED SCHEDULES
Schedule 1.01(a) Certain Addresses for Notices
Schedule 1.01(b) Initial Commitments and Applicable Percentages
Schedule 1.01(c) Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule 2.01 Swingline Commitments
Schedule 2.03 L/C Commitments
Schedule 4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions (Spanish Borrower)
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Administrative Questionnaire
Exhibit B Form of Assignment and Assumption
Exhibit C Form of Compliance Certificate
Exhibit D Form of Joinder Agreement
Exhibit E Form of Loan Notice
Exhibit F Form of Revolving Note
Exhibit G Form of Secured Party Designation Notice
Exhibit H Form of Solvency Certificate
Exhibit I Form of Swingline Loan Notice
Exhibit J Form of Officer’s Certificate
Exhibit K Forms of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificates
Exhibit L Form of Financial Condition Certificate
Exhibit M [Reserved]
Exhibit N Form of Notice of Loan Prepayment
Exhibit O Form of Letter of Credit Report
Exhibit P Form of Notice of Additional Issuing Lender
Exhibit Q Form of Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement
Exhibit R Form of Designated Borrower Notice
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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of December 21, 2021, among COPART, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors (defined herein), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party hereto pursuant to Section 2.16 (each, a “Designated Borrower” and, together with the Company, the “Borrowers” and each a “Borrower”), the Lenders (defined herein), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender and an Issuing Lender, and the Issuing Lenders from time to time party hereto.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:
WHEREAS, the Company, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, entered into that certain First Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of July 21, 2020 (as amended or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Credit Agreement”).
WHEREAS, Copart of Connecticut, Inc., Copart of Oklahoma, Inc., Copart of Washington, Inc., Copart of Kansas, Inc. Copart of Tennessee, Inc., VB2, Inc., Copart of Missouri, Inc., Houston Copart Salvage Auto Auctions Limited Partnership, Dallas Copart Salvage Auto Auctions Limited Partnership, Copart of Louisiana, Inc., Copart of Arkansas, Inc., Copart of Arizona, Inc. entered into that certain Guaranty Agreement, dated as of December 3, 2014, in favor of Bank of America, N.A. (as successor to Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association) as administrative agent (as amended or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the “Existing Guaranty Agreement”).
WHEREAS, the Borrowers wish to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement and the Existing Guaranty Agreement to, among other things, increase the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all of the Revolving Credit Lenders to the Dollar Equivalent of $1,250,000,000, add the Designated Borrowers as Borrowers, add the ability of Borrowers to draw in certain available currencies, and extend the Maturity Date to December 21, 2026, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein.
WHEREAS, certain lenders party to the Existing Credit Agreement, including Truist Bank, will not continue to be a lender and will not be party to this Agreement and certain new lenders will be added as Lenders.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement and the Existing Guaranty Agreement as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS
1.01Definitions.
The following terms when used in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to them below:
“Acquisition” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of Permitted Acquisition.
“Additional Pari Passu Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Additional Pari Passu Debt” shall mean any Indebtedness incurred by any Credit Party so long as (a) such Indebtedness is secured equally and ratably by the Collateral and the holders of such Indebtedness or a collateral agent for such holder executed a joinder to the Intercreditor Agreement in accordance with the terms thereof, (b) the representations, covenants and events of default in respect of such Indebtedness shall be no more restrictive (taken as a whole) on the applicable Credit Party than the representations, covenants and Events of Default contained in this Agreement (as determined by the
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Company in good faith) and (c) the final maturity date of such Indebtedness shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date.
“Administrative Agent” means Bank of America (or any of its designated branch offices or affiliates) in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 1.01(a) with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Company and the Lenders.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Agreed Currency” means Dollars or any Alternative Currency, as applicable.
“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement, including all schedules, exhibits and annexes hereto.
“Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 11.31.
“Alternative Currency” means each of the following currencies: Canadian Dollar, Euro and Sterling, together with each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.13; provided that for each Alternative Currency, such requested currency is an Eligible Currency.
“Alternative Currency Daily Rate” means, for any day, with respect to any Credit Extension:
(a) denominated in Sterling, the rate per annum equal to XXXXX determined pursuant to the definition thereof plus the XXXXX Adjustment; and
(b) denominated in any other Alternative Currency (to the extent such Loans denominated in such currency will bear interest at a daily rate), the daily rate per annum as designated with respect to such Alternative Currency at the time such Alternative Currency is approved by the Administrative Agent and the relevant Lenders pursuant to Section 1.13(a) plus the adjustment (if any) determined by the Administrative Agent and the relevant Lenders pursuant to Section 1.13(a);
provided, that, if any Alternative Currency Daily Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement. Any change in an Alternative Currency Daily Rate shall be effective from and including the date of such change without further notice.
“Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the definition of “Alternative Currency Daily Rate.” All Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans must be denominated in an Alternative Currency.
“Alternative Currency Equivalent” means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency as determined by the
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Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender, as the case may be, by reference to Bloomberg (or such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates), to be the exchange rate for the purchase of such Alternative Currency with Dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two (2) Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided, however, that if no such rate is available, the “Alternative Currency Equivalent” shall be determined by the Administrative Agent or such Issuing Lender, as the case may be, using any reasonable method of determination they deem appropriate in their sole discretion (and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error).
“Alternative Currency Loan” means an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, as applicable.
“Alternative Currency Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Commitments and the Dollar Equivalent of $550,000,000. The Alternative Currency Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments.
“Alternative Currency Term Rate” means, for any Interest Period, with respect to any Credit Extension:
(a) denominated in Euros, the rate per annum equal to the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (“EURIBOR”), as published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) on the day that is two TARGET Days preceding the first day of such Interest Period with a term equivalent to such Interest Period;
(b) denominated in Canadian dollars, the rate per annum equal to the Canadian Dollar Offered Rate (“CDOR”), as published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) (in such case, the “CDOR Rate”) on the Rate Determination Date with a term equivalent to such Interest Period;
(c) denominated in any other Alternative Currency (to the extent such Loans denominated in such currency will bear interest at a term rate), the term rate per annum as designated with respect to such Alternative Currency at the time such Alternative Currency is approved by the Administrative Agent and the relevant Lenders pursuant to Section 1.13(a) plus the adjustment (if any) determined by the Administrative Agent and the relevant Lenders pursuant to Section 1.13(a);
provided, that, if any Alternative Currency Term Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the definition of “Alternative Currency Term Rate.” All Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans must be denominated in an Alternative Currency.
“Applicable Authority” means (a) with respect to Term SOFR, CME or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent or the SOFR Administrator and (b) with respect to any Alternative Currency, the applicable administrator for the Relevant Rate for such Alternative Currency or any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent or such administrator.
“Applicable Law” means, as to any Person, all applicable provisions of constitutions, laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, treaties, regulations, permits, licenses, approvals, interpretations and orders of courts or Governmental Authorities and all orders and decrees of all courts and arbitrators.
“Applicable Percentage” means in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Revolving Credit Facility represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment
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at such time, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.15. If the Commitment of all of the Revolving Credit Lenders to make Revolving Credit Loans and the obligation of the Issuing Lenders to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02, or if the Revolving Credit Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments and to any Revolving Credit Lender’s status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination. The Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 1.01(b) or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto or in any documentation executed by such Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, as applicable.
“Applicable Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum set forth below opposite the applicable Level then in effect (based on the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio), it being understood that the Applicable Rate for (a) Revolving Credit Loans that are Base Rate Loans shall be the percentage set forth under the column “Base Rate” and “Revolving Credit Loans”, (b) Revolving Credit Loans that are Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Loans shall be the percentage set forth under the column “Term SOFR, Alternative Currency Loans & Letter of Credit Fee” and “Revolving Credit Loans”, (c) the Letter of Credit Fee shall be the percentage set forth under the column and “Term SOFR, Alternative Currency Loans & Letter of Credit Fee” and “Revolving Credit Loans”, and (d) the Commitment Fee shall be the percentage set forth under the column “Commitment Fee”:
Level | Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio | Term SOFR, Alternative Currency Loans & Letter of Credit Fee | Base Rate | Commitment Fee | ||||||||||||||||
Revolving Credit Loans | Revolving Credit Loans | |||||||||||||||||||
1 | Less than 1.25 to 1.00 | 1.00% | 0.00% | 0.175% | ||||||||||||||||
2 | Greater than or equal to 1.25 to 1.00, but less than 2.00 to 1.00 | 1.25% | 0.25% | 0.20% | ||||||||||||||||
3 | Greater than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00, but less than 3.00 to 1.00 | 1.50% | 0.50% | 0.225% | ||||||||||||||||
4 | Greater than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 | 1.75% | 0.75% | 0.275% | ||||||||||||||||
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with Section 6.02(a), then, upon the request of the Required Lenders, Pricing Level 4 shall apply, in each case as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered and in each case shall remain in effect until the first Business Day following the date on which such Compliance Certificate is delivered. In addition, at all times while the Default Rate is in effect, the highest rate set forth in each column of the Applicable Rate shall apply.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, (i) the determination of the Applicable Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b) and (ii) the initial Applicable Rate shall be set at Pricing Level 1 until the first Business Day immediately following the date
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a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a) for the first fiscal quarter to occur following the Closing Date to the Administrative Agent. Any adjustment in the Applicable Rate shall be applicable to all Credit Extensions then existing or subsequently made or issued.
The Applicable Rate set forth above shall be increased as, and to the extent, required by Section 2.18.
“Applicable Revolving Percentage” means with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time.
“Applicable Time” means, with respect to any Borrowings and payments in any Alternative Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternative Currency as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender, as the case may be, to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures in the place of payment.
“Applicant Borrower” has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a).
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any Facility, a Lender that has a Commitment with respect to such Facility or holds a Loan under such Facility at such time, (b) with respect to the L/C Sublimit, (i) the Issuing Lenders and (ii) if any Letters of Credit have been issued pursuant to Section 2.03, the Revolving Credit Lenders and (c) with respect to the Swingline Sublimit, (i) the Swingline Lenders and (ii) if any Swingline Loans are outstanding pursuant to Section 2.04(a), the Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Approved Fund” means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
“Arranger” means, collectively, BofA Securities, Inc. and Xxxxx Fargo Securities, LLC, in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners.
“Asset Disposition” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition of any Property (including any disposition by any Person of Equity Interests of another Person) by any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof, and any issuance of Equity Interests by any Subsidiary of the Company to any Person that is not a Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof or that constitute directors’ qualifying shares or other shares required by Applicable Law to be owned by a Person other than the Company and/or one or more of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries. The term “Asset Disposition” shall not include (a) the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business, (b) sales of non-core assets in connection with a transaction permitted by Section 7.03, (c) the transfer of assets pursuant to any other transaction permitted pursuant to Section 7.04, (d) the write-off, discount, sale or other disposition of defaulted or past-due receivables and similar obligations in the ordinary course of business and not undertaken as part of an accounts receivable financing transaction, (e) the disposition of any Hedge Agreement, (f) dispositions of Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents, (g) the transfer by any Credit Party of its assets to any other Credit Party, (h) the transfer by any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary of its assets to any Credit Party (provided that in connection with any new transfer, such Credit Party shall not pay more than an amount equal to the fair market value of such assets as determined in good faith at the time of such transfer), (i) the transfer by any Non-Guarantor Subsidiary of its assets to any other Non-Guarantor Subsidiary, (j) the granting, creation or existence of a Permitted Lien, (k) the surrender or waiver of contract rights or litigation claims or the settlement, release or surrender of tort or litigation claims of any kind, (l) the transfer of improvements or alterations in connection with any lease of property upon the termination thereof, (m) the abandonment, lapse, or transfer of any domain name, trademark or other intellectual property right that is not material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (n) any Restricted Payment permitted by Section 7.06, (o) any Investment permitted by Section 7.03, (p) any sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition of any Property (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) with an aggregate fair market value of the Dollar Equivalent of $10,000,000 or less, (q) foreclosure on assets by reason of eminent domain, (r) sales, transfers or other dispositions of assets acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition that in the judgment of the Company’s management are not necessary or desirable to carry out the Company’s business plans, to the extent binding agreements or letters of intent providing for such
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sales, transfers or other dispositions are entered into within 12 months after the acquisition of such assets, (s) sales, transfers or other dispositions in respect of joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements between joint venture parties as set forth in the applicable joint venture agreement or similar arrangement and (t) sales, transfers or other dispositions to any Subsidiary of international rights to the Company’s or any of its Subsidiary’s patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets or other intellectual property rights.
“Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.10(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit B or any other form (including an electronic documentation form generated by use of an electronic platform) approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date of determination, (a) in respect of any Capital Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease, the capitalized amount or principal amount of the remaining lease payments under the relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease were accounted for as a Capital Lease.
“Autoborrow Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(b).
“Auto-Extension Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b).
“Availability Period” means in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility, the period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (i) the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, (ii) the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (iii) the date of termination of the Commitment of each Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and of the obligation of the Issuing Lenders to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02.
“Available Amount” means, on any date of determination, an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (a) $200,000,000 plus (b) 50% of cumulative Consolidated Net Income for each fiscal quarter (beginning with the fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2016) plus (c) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of all dividends, returns, interest, profits, distributions, income and similar amounts (in each case, to the extent made in cash or Cash Equivalents) received by the Company or any Subsidiary from any Investment to the extent such Investment was made by using the Available Amount during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following July 21, 2016 through and including the date of any determination of the Available Amount minus (d) the amount of any Investments and Restricted Payments made using the Available Amount.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank of America” means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate of interest per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate,” and (c) Term SOFR for a one month interest period for such date plus 1.00%, subject to the interest rate floors set forth therein; provided that if the
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Base Rate shall be less than 1%, such rate shall be deemed 1% for purposes of this Agreement. The “prime rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such prime rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the public announcement of such change. If the Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 3.03 hereof, then the Base Rate shall be the greater of clauses (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Revolving Credit Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate. All Base Rate Loans are only available to U.S. Borrowers and Loans denominated in Dollars.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.
“Borrower” and “Borrowers” each has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Borrower DTTP Filing” means an HM Revenue & Customs form DTTP2 duly completed and filed by the relevant Credit Party.
“Borrower Materials” means materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrowers hereunder.
“Borrowing” means a Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Borrowing, as the context may require.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agent’s Office is located; provided that:
(a) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to an Alternative Currency Loan denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euro in respect of any such Alternative Currency Loan, or any other dealings in Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Alternative Currency Loan, means a Business Day that is also a TARGET Day;
(b) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to an Alternative Currency Loan denominated in Sterling, means a day other than a day banks in London are closed for general business (including because such day is a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday under the laws of the United Kingdom); and
(c) if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a currency other than Euro in respect of an Alternative Currency Loan denominated in a currency other than Euro, or any other dealings in any currency other than Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Alternative Currency Loan (other than any interest rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.
“Canadian Dollar” and “CAD” means the lawful currency of Canada.
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“Capital Expenditures” means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, for any period, the additions to property, plant and equipment and other capital expenditures that are (or would be) set forth in a consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person for such period prepared in accordance with GAAP, but excluding expenditures for the restoration, repair or replacement of any fixed or capital asset which was destroyed or damaged, in whole or in part, to the extent financed by the proceeds of an insurance policy maintained by such Person.
“Capital Lease” means any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Collateralize” means to deposit in a Controlled Account or to pledge and deposit with, or deliver to the Administrative Agent, or directly to the applicable Issuing Lender (with notice thereof to the Collateral Agent), for the benefit of one or more of the Issuing Lenders, the Swingline Lender or the Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations, the Obligations in respect of Swingline Loans, or obligations of the Lenders to fund participations in respect of L/C Obligations or Swingline Loans (as the context may require), (a) cash or deposit account balances, (b) backstop letters of credit entered into on terms, from issuers and in amounts satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Lenders, and/or (c) if the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Lender or Swingline Lender shall agree, in their sole discretion, other credit support, in each case, in Dollars and pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, such Issuing Lender and the Swingline Lender, as applicable. “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.
“Cash Collateralized Letters of Credit” means any cash collateralized letters of credit (other than Letters of Credit issued hereunder) or bank guarantees issued by Bank of America (or other banks in jurisdictions in which neither Bank of America can issue letters of credit or bank guarantees) issued on behalf of the Company or its Subsidiaries.
“Cash Equivalents” means, collectively, (a) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or any agency thereof maturing within twelve (12) months from the date of acquisition thereof, (b) commercial paper maturing no more than six (6) months from the date of creation thereof and currently having the one of the two highest ratings obtainable from either S&P or Xxxxx’x, (c) certificates of deposit maturing no more than two (2) years from the date of creation thereof issued by commercial banks incorporated under the laws of the United States, each having combined capital, surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000 and having a rating of “A” or better by a nationally recognized rating agency, (d) time deposits maturing no more than thirty (30) days from the date of creation thereof with commercial banks or savings banks or savings and loan associations each having membership either in the FDIC or the deposits of which are insured by the FDIC and in amounts not exceeding the maximum amounts of insurance thereunder, (e) investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 which are administered by reputable financial institutions having capital of at least $500,000,000 and the portfolios of which are limited to Investments of the character described in the foregoing subdivisions (a) through (d), (f) solely in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, investments, instruments or securities equivalent to those referred to in clauses (a) through (e) of this definition denominated in any foreign currency that is the local currency of such Foreign Subsidiary, and (g) any other investments (whether short term or long term) permitted by the Company’s cash investment policy approved by the Company’s board of directors (or a committee thereof) as such policy is in effect, and as disclosed to the Administrative Agent, prior to the Closing Date (and as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), it being understood that any new investments permitted under such policy shall constitute Cash Equivalents for purposes of this Agreement only with the consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of the Administrative Agent.
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“Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement that is not prohibited by the terms hereof to provide treasury or cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, deposit accounts, overnight draft, credit cards, debit cards, p-cards (including purchasing cards and commercial cards), funds transfer, automated clearinghouse, zero balance accounts, returned check concentration, controlled disbursement, lockbox, account reconciliation and reporting and trade finance services and other cash management services.
“Cash Management Bank” means (a) Bank of America, N.A. and its Affiliates, and (b) any Person in its capacity as a party to a Cash Management Agreement that, (i) at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement with a Credit Party, is a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or (ii) at the time it (or its Affiliate) becomes a Lender (including on the Closing Date), is a party to a Cash Management Agreement with a Credit Party, in each case in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement; provided, however, that for any of the foregoing to be included as a “Secured Cash Management Agreement” on any date of determination by the Administrative Agent, the applicable Cash Management Bank (other than the Administrative Agent or an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) must have delivered a Secured Party Designation Notice to the Administrative Agent prior to such date of determination.
“Change in Control” means an event or series of events by which:
(a)any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its Subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) other than the Permitted Investors becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a “person” or “group” shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all Equity Interests that such “person” or “group” has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an “option right”)), directly or indirectly, of thirty five percent (35%) or more of the Equity Interests of the Company entitled to vote in the election of members of the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of the Company; or
(b)there shall have occurred under any indenture or other instrument evidencing the Senior Notes or any Indebtedness in excess of the Threshold Amount any “change in control” or similar provision (as set forth in the indenture, agreement or other evidence of such Indebtedness), but excluding any “change of control” or similar defined term resulting solely from the failure of the Company’s common stock to be listed or quoted on a national securities exchange, obligating the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to repurchase, redeem or repay all or any part of the Indebtedness provided for therein.
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in the implementation thereof and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.
“Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans and, when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Credit Commitment.
“Closing Date” means the date hereof.
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“CME” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
“Collateral” means the collateral security for the Secured Obligations pledged or granted pursuant to the Security Documents.
“Collateral Account” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(q).
“Collateral Agent” means Bank of America (or any of its designated branch offices or affiliates) in its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents, or any successor collateral agent.
“Commitment” means a Revolving Credit Commitment.
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
“Communication” means this Agreement, any Loan Document and any written document, amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to any Loan Document.
“Company” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to the use, administration of or any conventions associated with any proposed Successor Rate for an Agreed Currency or Term SOFR, as applicable, any conforming changes to the definitions of “Base Rate”, “SOFR”, “Term SOFR”, “XXXXX”, “Interest Period” made as a result of the implementation of a new Successor Rate, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the definition of “Business Day”, “U.S. Government Securities Business Day”, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices and length of lookback periods) as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such applicable rate(s) and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice for such Agreed Currency (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such rate for such Agreed Currency exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and any other Loan Document).
“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
“Consolidated” means, when used with reference to financial statements or financial statement items of any Person, such statements or items on a consolidated basis in accordance with applicable principles of consolidation under GAAP.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, the sum of the following determined on a Consolidated basis, without duplication, for the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP: (a) Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (b) the sum of the following, without duplication, to the extent deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period: (i) the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes payable by the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, including, without limitation, any franchise taxes or other taxes based on income, profits or capital and all other taxes that are included in the provision for income tax line item on the consolidated income
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statement of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense, (iii) amortization, depreciation and other non-cash charges or expenses (except to the extent that such non-cash charges are reserved for cash charges to be taken in the future), (iv) extraordinary losses (excluding extraordinary losses from discontinued operations), (v) unusual or nonrecurring losses in an aggregate amount for all add-backs pursuant to this clause (v) not to exceed an amount equal to 15% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the date of determination for which financial statements have been provided pursuant to this Agreement (determined after giving effect to any increase thereto pursuant to this clause (v)), (vi) cash acquisition related expenses, whether or not any acquisition is successful, and cash restructuring, integration and related charges or expenses (which for the avoidance of doubt, include retention, severance, systems establishment costs, contract termination costs, future lease commitments, and costs to consolidate facilities and relocate employees) in an aggregate amount for all add-backs pursuant to this clause (vi) not to exceed an amount equal to 10% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the date of determination for which financial statements have been provided pursuant to this Agreement, and (vii) Transaction Costs, less (c) the sum of the following, without duplication, to the extent included in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period: (i) any unusual, nonrecurring or extraordinary gains and (ii) non-cash gains or non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income. For purposes of this Agreement, Consolidated EBITDA shall be adjusted on a Pro Forma Basis.
“Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending on or immediately prior to such date to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending on or immediately prior to such date.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the sum of the following determined on a Consolidated basis, without duplication, for the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, (a) cash interest expense (including, without limitation, cash interest expense attributable to Capital Lease Obligations and all net cash payment obligations pursuant to Hedge Agreements), premium payments, debt fees, charges and related expenses incurred in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, for such period less (b) cash interest income.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a Consolidated basis, without duplication, in accordance with GAAP; provided, that in calculating Consolidated Net Income of the Company and its Subsidiaries for any period, there shall be excluded (a) the net income (or loss) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary which shall be subject to clause (c) below), in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has a joint interest with a third party, except to the extent such net income is actually paid in cash to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by dividend or other distribution during such period, (b) the net income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or is merged into or consolidated with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or that Person’s assets are acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries except to the extent included pursuant to the foregoing clause (a), (c) the net income (if positive) of any Subsidiary (other than any Guarantor) to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of such net income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to such Subsidiary and (d) any gain or loss from Asset Dispositions during such period.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, total assets, as determined in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent basis.
“Consolidated Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis without duplication, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries described in clauses (a) through (f), clause (g) and, solely with respect to the foregoing, clause (i) of the definition of Indebtedness;
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provided, however, the Cash Collateralized Letters of Credit shall be excluded from this definition so long as they are fully cash collateralized.
“Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Indebtedness on such date minus the sum of (i) 100% of the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents on the balance sheet of the Company with respect to the Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries and (ii) 85% of the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents on the balance sheet of the Company with respect to its Foreign Subsidiaries to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters ending on or immediately prior to such date.
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Controlled Account” means each deposit account and securities account that is subject to an account control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the applicable Issuing Lenders that is entitled to Cash Collateral hereunder at the time such control agreement is executed.
“Covered Entity” means any of the following: (a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Credit Extension” means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
“Credit Parties” means, collectively, the Company, each Designated Borrower and each Guarantor.
“Debt Issuance” means the issuance of any Indebtedness for borrowed money by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of America, the United Kingdom’s Insolvency Xxx 0000, the EU Regulation 2015/848 on insolvency proceedings (recast), the United Kingdom’s Companies Xxx 0000, the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung), the Spanish Recast Insolvency Law and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, administration, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.
“Default” means any of the events specified in Section 8.01 which with the passage of time, the giving of notice or any other condition, would constitute an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means (a) with respect to any Obligation for which a rate is specified, a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%) in excess of the rate otherwise applicable thereto and (b) with respect to any Obligation for which a rate is not specified or available, a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans that are Base Rate Loans plus two percent (2%), in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law.
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.15(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans, participations in L/C Obligations or participations in Swingline Loans required to be funded by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans or participations were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more
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conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender, the Swingline Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans) within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Company, the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or the Swingline Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Company, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Company that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Company), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.15(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower, each Issuing Lender, the Swingline Lender and each other Lender promptly following such determination.
“Designated Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto. On the Closing Date, the Designated Borrowers are the German Borrower, the Spanish Borrower and the UK Borrower.
“Designated Borrower Notice” means the notice substantially in the form of Exhibit R attached hereto or any other notice approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement” means the notice substantially in the form of Exhibit Q attached hereto or any other notice approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Designated Jurisdiction” means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory is the subject of any Sanction.
“Designated Lender” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.17.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that, by their terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interest into which they are convertible or for which they are exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event or condition, (a) mature or are mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments), (b) are redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests) (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination
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of the Revolving Credit Commitments), in whole or in part, (c) provide for the scheduled payment of dividends in cash or (d) are or become convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date; provided that if such Equity Interests is issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of the Company or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by the Company or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent” means, for any amount, at the time of determination thereof, (a) if such amount is expressed in Dollars, such amount, (b) if such amount is expressed in an Alternative Currency, the equivalent of such amount in Dollars determined by using the rate of exchange for the purchase of dollars with the Alternative Currency last provided (either by publication or otherwise provided to the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender, as applicable) by the applicable Bloomberg source (or such other publicly available source for displaying exchange rates) on date that is two (2) Business Days immediately preceding the date of determination (or if such service ceases to be available or ceases to provide such rate of exchange, the equivalent of such amount in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender, as applicable using any method of determination it reasonably deems appropriate in its reasonable discretion) and (c) if such amount is denominated in any other currency, the equivalent of such amount in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender, as applicable, using any method of determination it deems appropriate in its reasonable discretion. Any determination by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender pursuant to clauses (b) or (c) above shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Electronic Copy” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.26.
“Electronic Record” and “Electronic Signature” shall have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time.
“Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.10 (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.10(b)(iii)).
“Eligible Currency” means any lawful currency other than Dollars that is readily available, freely transferable and convertible into Dollars in the international interbank market available to the Lenders in such market and as to which a Dollar Equivalent may be readily calculated. If, after the designation by the Lenders of any currency as an Alternative Currency, any change in currency controls or exchange regulations or any change in the national or international financial, political or economic conditions are imposed in the country in which such currency is issued, result in, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent (in the case of any Loans to be denominated in an Alternative Currency) or the
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Issuing Lenders (in the case of any Letter of Credit to be denominated in an Alternative Currency), (a) such currency no longer being readily available, freely transferable and convertible into Dollars, (b) a Dollar Equivalent is no longer readily calculable with respect to such currency, (c) providing such currency is impracticable for the Lenders or (d) no longer a currency in which the Required Lenders or the Issuing Lenders are willing to make such Credit Extensions (each of clauses (a), (b), (c), and (d) a “Disqualifying Event”), then the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the Company, and such country’s currency shall no longer be an Alternative Currency until such time as the Disqualifying Event(s) no longer exist(s). Within five (5) Business Days after receipt of such notice from the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers shall repay all Loans in such currency to which the Disqualifying Event applies or convert such Loans into the Dollar Equivalent of Loans in Dollars, subject to the other terms contained herein and on a basis consistent with similarly situated borrowers of the Administrative Agent.
“Employee Benefit Plan” means (a) any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA that is maintained for employees of any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate or (b) any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan that has at any time within the preceding six (6) years been maintained, funded or administered for the employees of any Credit Party or any current or former ERISA Affiliate.
“Environmental Claims” means any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, accusations, allegations, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations (other than internal reports prepared by any Person in the ordinary course of business and not in response to any third party action or request of any kind) or proceedings relating in any way to any actual or alleged violation of or liability under any Environmental Law or relating to any permit issued, or any approval given, under any such Environmental Law, including, without limitation, any and all claims by Governmental Authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting from Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to public health or the environment.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all federal, foreign, state, provincial and local laws, statutes, ordinances, codes, rules, standards and regulations, permits, licenses, approvals, interpretations and orders of courts or Governmental Authorities, relating to the protection of public health or the environment, including, but not limited to, requirements pertaining to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transportation, handling, reporting, licensing, permitting, investigation or remediation of Hazardous Materials.
“Equity Interests” means (a) in the case of a corporation, capital stock, (b) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock, (c) in the case of a partnership, partnership interests (whether general or limited), (d) in the case of a limited liability company, membership interests, (e) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person and (f) any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the foregoing.
“Equity Issuance” means (a) any issuance by the Company of shares of its Equity Interests to any Person that is not a Credit Party (including, without limitation, in connection with the exercise of options or warrants or the conversion of any debt securities to equity) and (b) any capital contribution from any Person that is not a Credit Party into any Credit Party or any Subsidiary thereof. The term “Equity Issuance” shall not include (A) any Asset Disposition or (B) any Debt Issuance.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any Person who together with any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries is treated as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code or Section 4001(b) of ERISA.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time to time.
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“Euro” and “€” mean the single currency of the Participating Member States.
“Event of Default” means any of the events specified in Section 8.01; provided that any requirement for passage of time, giving of notice, or any other condition, has been satisfied.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) each Domestic Subsidiary that is an Immaterial Subsidiary as of the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 1.01(d) and each future Domestic Subsidiary which is an Immaterial Subsidiary, in each case, for so long as such Subsidiary remains an Immaterial Subsidiary, (b) any Subsidiary substantially all of the assets of which consist of Equity Interests in Foreign Subsidiaries (a “FSHCO”), (c) each Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary, (d) any Person where a Guarantee is prohibited or restricted by contracts (so long as such contract or replacement or renewal thereof is in effect) with an unaffiliated third party existing on the Closing Date or at the time of the acquisition of such Subsidiary and not entered into in contemplation thereof or Applicable Law (including any requirement to obtain Governmental Authority or third party consent), or would result in material adverse tax consequences as reasonably determined by the Company in consultation with the Administrative Agent, (e) any special purpose entity, (f) any Foreign Subsidiary, other than any Foreign Subsidiary owned directly by a Credit Party if such Foreign Subsidiary (i) is disregarded for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) is not a FSHCO or (g) any other Domestic Subsidiaries to the extent the Administrative Agent and Company mutually determine that the cost and/or burden of obtaining the Guarantee outweigh the benefit to Lenders.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Credit Party, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Credit Party of, or the grant by such Credit Party of a Lien to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation thereof) by virtue of such Credit Party’s failure for any reason to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to Section 10.06 and any other “keepwell”, support or other agreement for the benefit of such Credit Party and any and all guarantees of such Credit Party’s Swap Obligations by other Credit Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Credit Party, or grant by such Credit Party of a Lien, becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a Master Agreement governing more than one Hedge Agreement, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to Hedge Agreements for which such Guaranty or Lien is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.
“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 11.19) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Sections 3.01(b) or (d), amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 3.01(f), (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA, (e) any UK Tax Deduction required to be made by the UK Borrower or any Guarantor guaranteeing the Obligations of the UK Borrower in respect of an advance made by a Lender to the UK Borrower under the Loan Documents (in each case, a “Relevant UK Tax Deduction”) where the relevant Lender is a Treaty Lender and the UK Borrower or Loan Guarantor can reasonably demonstrate that the payment giving rise to the UK Tax Deduction could have been made to the Lender without the UK Tax Deduction had that Lender complied with its obligations under Section 3.01(d)(iii), (f) a Relevant UK Tax
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Deduction if, on the date on which the payment giving rise to the UK Tax Deduction falls due: the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a UK Tax Deduction if the Lender had been a Treaty Lender or a UK Domestic Lender but on that date the Lender is not or has ceased to be such a Lender (other than by reason of a Change in Law after the date on which it became a Lender), (g) a Relevant UK Tax Deduction if on the date on which the payment giving rise to the Tax Deduction falls due: (i) the relevant Lender is a UK Domestic Lender solely by virtue of clause (a)(ii) of the definition of UK Domestic Lender; and: (A) an officer of H.M. Revenue & Customs has given (and not revoked) a direction (a “Direction”) under section 931 of the UK ITA which relates to the payment and that Lender has received from the UK Borrower making the payment a certified copy of that Direction; and (B) the payment could have been made to the Lender without any UK Tax Deduction if that Direction had not been made; or (ii) the relevant Lender is a UK Domestic Lender solely by virtue of clause (a)(ii) of the definition of UK Domestic Lender and: (A) the relevant Lender has not given a UK Tax Confirmation to the UK Borrower; and (B) the payment could have been made to the Lender without any UK Tax Deduction if the Lender had given such a UK Tax Confirmation, on the basis that the UK Tax Confirmation would have enabled the UK Borrower making the payment to have formed a reasonable belief that the payment was an “excepted payment” for the purpose of section 930 of the UK ITA and (h) in the case of a Lender, withholding Taxes imposed with respect to all Designated Borrowers other than any Designated Borrower organized under the laws of the United Kingdom (which, for the avoidance of doubt, are otherwise covered by the preceding clauses (e) through (g)) on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 11.19) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Sections 3.01(b) or (d), amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office.
“Existing Credit Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the preamble of this Agreement.
“Existing Guaranty Agreement” has the meaning given to such term in the preamble of this Agreement.
“Existing Letters of Credit” means those certain letters of credit set forth on Schedule 1.01(c).
“Facility” means the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Facility Termination Date” means the date as of which all of the following shall have occurred: (a) the Aggregate Commitments have terminated, (b) all Obligations have been paid in full (other than contingent indemnification obligations), and (c) all Letters of Credit have terminated or expired (other than Letters of Credit as to which other arrangements with respect thereto satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Lenders shall have been made).
“FASB ASC” means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such Sections of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to such intergovernmental agreement.
“FATCA Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Loan Document for and on account of any Taxes required by FATCA.
“FDIC” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum calculated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the federal funds effective rate; provided that if the Federal Funds Rate as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Fee Letter” means the letter agreement, dated November 24, 2021 between the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Arranger.
“First Tier Foreign Subsidiary” means any Foreign Subsidiary that is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code and the Equity Interests of which are owned directly by any Credit Party.
“Fiscal Year” means the fiscal year of the Company and its Subsidiaries ending on July 31.
“Foreign Borrower” means any Borrower that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States, a state thereof or the District of Columbia. On the Closing Date, the Foreign Borrowers are the German Borrower, the Spanish Borrower and the UK Borrower.
“Foreign Lender” means, with respect to any Borrower (a) if such Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if the Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“Foreign Obligor” means a Credit Party, including each Foreign Borrower, that is a Foreign Subsidiary.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender that is a Revolving Credit Lender, (a) with respect to any Issuing Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the outstanding Dollar Equivalent of L/C Obligations other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Credit Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) with respect to the Swingline Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Applicable Percentage of Swingline Loans other than Swingline Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Credit Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural Person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied (or in relation to a Spanish Credit Party, the Spanish Accounting Principles).
“German Borrower” means CPRT GmbH, a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung), incorporated in Germany and registered with the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local court (Amtsgericht) of Düsseldorf under registration number HRB 93704.
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“German Borrower Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Commitments and the Dollar Equivalent of $150,000,000. The German Borrower Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments. If the German Borrower ceases to be a direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company this sublimit shall be, automatically and without notice, reduced to $0.00 at time.
“German Insolvency Event” means:
(a) a German Relevant Entity is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due or is deemed to or declared to be unable to pay its debts under applicable law, suspends or threatens to suspend making payments on any of its debts or, by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, commences negotiations with one or more of its creditors with a view to rescheduling any of its indebtedness, including a stoppage of payment situation (Zahlungsunfähigkeit), a status of over-indebtedness (Überschuldung), the presumed inability to pay its debts as they fall due (drohende Zahlungsunfähigkeit), or actual insolvency proceedings;
(b) a moratorium is declared in respect of any Indebtedness of a German Relevant Entity, or
(c) (i) such German Relevant Entity is otherwise in a situation to file for insolvency because of any of the reasons set out in Sections 17 to 19 of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung) and (ii) a petition for insolvency proceedings in respect of its assets (Antrag auf Eröffnung eines Insolvenzverfahrens) has been filed based on section 17 to section 19 of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung), or actions are taken pursuant to section 21 German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung) by a competent court.
“German Relevant Entity” means the German Borrower or any Credit Party capable of becoming subject of insolvency proceedings under the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung).
“Germany” means the Federal Republic of Germany.
“Governmental Approvals” means all authorizations, consents, approvals, permits, licenses and exemptions of, and all registrations and filings with or issued by, any Governmental Authorities.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including, without limitation, the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation or (e) for the purpose of assuming in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (whether in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” shall not include any liability by endorsement of instruments for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business or any customary and reasonable indemnity obligations entered into in the ordinary course of business or in connection with any transaction permitted hereby.
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“Guarantied Obligations” means all of the Secured Obligations now or hereafter existing, whether for principal, interest (including any interest that accrues after the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in whole or in part as a claim in any such Insolvency Proceeding), fees, expenses described in Section 11.04 (including any fees or expenses that accrue after the commencement of an Insolvency Proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in whole or in part as a claim in any such Insolvency Proceeding), or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Guarantied Obligations shall include all amounts that constitute part of the Guarantied Obligations and would be owed by a Borrower to Administrative Agent or any other Lender or Secured Party, including due to the existence of a bankruptcy, reorganization, other Insolvency Proceeding or similar proceeding involving any Borrower or any Guarantor. In no event shall the Guarantied Obligations include any Excluded Swap Obligations.
“Guarantors” means, collectively, the Company, the other Borrowers and all direct and indirect Subsidiaries of the Company (other than Excluded Subsidiaries, but not excluding any Borrower) in existence on the Closing Date or which become a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 6.13.
“Guaranty” means, collectively, the Guarantee made by the Guarantors under Article X in favor of the Secured Parties, together with each other guaranty delivered pursuant to Section 6.13.
“Hazardous Materials” means any substances or materials (a) which are or become defined as hazardous wastes, hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, chemical substances or mixtures or toxic substances under any Environmental Law, (b) which are toxic, explosive, corrosive, flammable, infectious, radioactive, carcinogenic, mutagenic or otherwise harmful to public health or the environment and are or become regulated by any Governmental Authority, (c) the presence of which require investigation or remediation under any Environmental Law or common law, (d) the discharge or emission or release of which requires a permit or license under any Environmental Law or other Governmental Approval, (e) which are deemed by a Governmental Authority to constitute a nuisance or a trespass which pose a health or safety hazard to Persons or neighboring properties, or (f) which contain, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, petroleum hydrocarbons, petroleum derived substances or waste, crude oil, nuclear fuel, natural gas or synthetic gas.
“Hedge Agreement” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Hedge Bank” means (a) Bank of America, N.A. and its Affiliates, and (b) any Person in its capacity as a party to a Hedge Agreement that, (i) at the time it enters into a Hedge Agreement not prohibited under Articles VI or VII, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, or (ii) at the time it (or its Affiliate) becomes a Lender, is a party to a Hedge Agreement not prohibited under Articles VI or VII, in each case, in its capacity as a party to such Hedge Agreement; provided, that for any of the foregoing to be included as a “Secured Hedge Agreement” on any date of determination by the Administrative Agent, the applicable Hedge Bank (other than the Administrative Agent or an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) must have delivered a Secured Party Designation Notice to the Administrative Agent prior to such date of determination.
“Hedge Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Hedge Agreements, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Hedge Agreements, (a) for any date on or after the date such Hedge Agreements have been closed out and
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termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the xxxx-to-market value(s) for such Hedge Agreements, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Hedge Agreements (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“IFRS” means international accounting standards within the meaning of IAS Regulation 1606/2002 to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements delivered under or referred to herein.
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means, any Subsidiary that owns 5% or less of consolidated assets of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries at the end of any fiscal quarter or generates 5% or less of Consolidated EBITDA of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, in each case determined by reference to the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been provided by the Company pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, at no time shall all Immaterial Subsidiaries that have not become Guarantors in the aggregate own more than 15% of consolidated assets at the end of any fiscal quarter or generate more than 15% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, in each case determined by reference to the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been provided by the Company pursuant to this Agreement.
“Increase Effective Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18.
“Increase Joinder” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(d).
“Incremental Commitments” means Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments and/or the Incremental Term Commitments.
“Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18.
“Incremental Term Commitment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18.
“Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.18(c).
“Incremental Term Loans” means any loans made pursuant to any Incremental Term Commitments.
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person at any date and without duplication, the sum of the following:
(a)all liabilities, obligations and indebtedness for borrowed money including, but not limited to, obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments of any such Person;
(b)all obligations to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services of any such Person, (i) except trade payables arising in the ordinary course of business not more than ninety (90) days past due, or that are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided for on the books of such Person, (ii) intercompany charges of expenses, deferred revenue and other accrued liabilities (including deferred payments in respect of services by employees), in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business, and (iii) any earn-out obligation or other post-closing balance sheet adjustment prior to such time as it becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP;
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(c)the Attributable Indebtedness of such Person with respect to such Person’s Capital Lease Obligations and Synthetic Leases (regardless of whether accounted for as indebtedness under GAAP);
(d)all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property purchased by such Person to the extent of the value of such property (other than customary reservations or retentions of title under agreements with suppliers entered into in the ordinary course of business);
(e)all Indebtedness of any other Person secured by a Lien on any asset owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements except trade payables arising in the ordinary course of business), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f)all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of any such Person relative to the face amount of letters of credit, whether or not drawn, including, without limitation, any Reimbursement Obligation, and banker’s acceptances issued for the account of any such Person;
(g)all obligations of any such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests;
(h)all net obligations of such Person under any Hedge Agreements; and
(i)all Guarantees of any such Person with respect to any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Hedge Agreement on any date shall be deemed to be the Hedge Termination Value thereof as of such date.
“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.
“Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 11.04(b).
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 11.11(a).
“Insolvency Proceeding” means any formal proceeding commenced by or against any Person under any provision of the Bankruptcy Code, the United Kingdom’s Insolvency Xxx 0000, the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung), the Spanish Recast Insolvency Law or under any other national, state or federal bankruptcy or insolvency law, assignments for the benefit of creditors, formal or informal moratoria, compositions, extensions generally with creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, arrangement, or other similar relief.
“Insurance and Condemnation Event” means the receipt by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries of any cash insurance proceeds or condemnation award payable by reason of theft, loss, physical destruction or damage, taking or similar event with respect to any of their respective Property.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain intercreditor and collateral agency agreement, dated as of December 3, 2014, by and among the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Noteholders and the Credit Parties, in form and substance satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan (or an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan), the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest
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Period for a Term SOFR Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swingline Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date; (c) as to any Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each month and the Maturity Date and (d) as to any Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall be Interest Payment Dates.
“Interest Period” means as to each Term SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Term SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, as applicable, is disbursed or converted to or continued as an Term SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan and ending on the date one, three or six months thereafter (in each case, subject to availability for the interest rate applicable to the relevant currency), as selected by the applicable Borrower in its Loan Notice, or such other period that is twelve months or less requested by the applicable Borrower and consented to by all the Lenders; provided that:
(i) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Term SOFR Loan or an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, as applicable, such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a Term SOFR Loan or an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and
(iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“ISP” means the International Standby Practices, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the applicable time).
“Issuer Documents” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by any Issuing Lender and the Company (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of such Issuing Lender and relating to such Letter of Credit.
“Issuing Lender” means with respect to a particular Letter of Credit, (a) each Issuing Lender in its capacity as issuer of such Letters of Credit, or any successor issuer thereof, (b) such other Lender selected by the Company pursuant to Section 2.03(p) from time to time to issue such Letter of Credit (provided that no Lender shall be required to become an Issuing Lender pursuant to this clause (b) without such Lender’s consent), or any successor issuer thereof or (c) any Lender selected by the Company (with the prior consent of the Administrative Agent) to replace a Lender who is a Defaulting Lender at the time of such Lender’s appointment as an Issuing Lender (provided that no Lender shall be required to become an Issuing Lender pursuant to this clause (c) without such Lender’s consent), or any successor issuer thereof; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, only Bank of America, through itself or through one of its designated Affiliates or branch offices may be the Issuing Lender for any Letter of Credit issued in an Alternative Currency.
“Joinder Agreement” means a joinder agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit D (or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent) executed and delivered in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.13.
“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 11.31.
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“Latest Maturity Date” means, as of any date of determination, the latest of (a) the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, and (b) any Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date.
“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Percentage.
“L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving Borrowing.
“L/C Commitment” means, with respect to each Issuing Lender, the commitment of such Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder. The initial amount of each Issuing Lender’s L/C Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.03, or if an Issuing Lender has entered into an Assignment and Assumption or has otherwise assumed a L/C Commitment after the Closing Date, the amount set forth for such Issuing Lender as its L/C Commitment in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent. The L/C Commitment of an Issuing Lender may be modified from time to time by agreement between such Issuing Lender and the Company, and notified in writing to the Administrative Agent.
“L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.
“L/C Disbursement” means a payment made by an Issuing Lender pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“L/C Obligations” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts (including all L/C Borrowings). For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.
“L/C Sublimit” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000,000 and (b) the Revolving Credit Facility; provided that each Issuing Lender’s L/C Sublimit shall not exceed its L/C Commitment. The L/C Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Lender” means each of the Persons identified as a “Lender” on the signature pages hereto, each other Person that becomes a “Lender” in accordance with this Agreement and, their successors and assigns and, unless the context requires otherwise, includes the Swingline Lender; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to Bank of Montreal, only Bank of Montreal itself (and not any of the entities listed below the name “Bank of Montreal” on its signature page to this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the Chicago Branch, the London Branch and/or any other branch or booking office thereof) is a Lender hereunder as a result of its inclusion on such signature page (but the term "Lender" may include such entity, branch or booking office as a result of such person being a Designated Lender pursuant to the following sentence). The term “Lender” shall include any Designated Lender who has funded any Credit Extension.
“Lender Parties” and “Lender Recipient Parties” mean, collectively, the Lenders, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Lenders.
“Lending Office” means, as to the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Lender or any Lender, the office or offices of such Person described as such in such Person’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such
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other office or offices as such Person may from time to time notify the Company and the Administrative Agent; which office may include any Affiliate of such Person or any domestic or foreign branch of such Person or such Affiliate.
“Letter of Credit” means any standby letter of credit issued hereunder and shall include the Existing Letters of Credit. Letters of Credit may be issued in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.
“Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the applicable Issuing Lender.
“Letter of Credit Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(l).
“Letter of Credit Report” means a certificate substantially the form of Exhibit O or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, leasehold mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest, assignment by way of security, hypothecation or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset. For the purposes of this Agreement, a Person shall be deemed to own subject to a Lien any asset which it has acquired or holds subject to the interest of a vendor or lessor under any conditional sale agreement, Capital Lease or other title retention agreement relating to such asset.
“Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under Article II in the form of a Revolving Credit Loan or a Swingline Loan.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, each Note, each Issuer Document, the Security Documents, the Guaranty Agreement, the Fee Letters, the Autoborrow Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement and each other document, instrument, certificate and agreement executed and delivered by the Credit Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries in favor of or provided to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Secured Party in connection with this Agreement or otherwise referred to herein or contemplated hereby (excluding any Secured Hedge Agreement and any Secured Cash Management Agreement) and any amendments, modifications or supplements thereto or to any other Loan Document or waivers hereof or to any other Loan Document.
“Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit E or such other form as may be approved in writing by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company.
“Mandatory Cost” means any amount incurred periodically by any Issuing Lender or any Lender during the term of the Facility which constitutes fees, costs or charges imposed on lenders generally in the jurisdiction in which such Issuing Lender or such Lender is domiciled, subject to regulation, or has its Lending Office by any Governmental Authority.
“Material Adverse Effect” means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries, (a) a material adverse effect on the operations, business, assets, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or condition (financial or otherwise) of such Persons, taken as a whole, (b) a material impairment of the ability of any such Person to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document or (d) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Credit Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party.
“Material Contract” means each of the agreements listed as exhibits to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2021, included therein pursuant to the requirements of clauses (2), (4), (9) or (10) of Item 601(b) of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (other than those which have expired, terminated or are otherwise no longer in effect) or otherwise
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subsequently included in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2021.
“Material Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not an Immaterial Subsidiary.
“Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, December 21, 2026 and (b) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans, the Incremental Term Loan Maturity Date; provided, however, that, in each case, if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.
“Minimum Collateral Amount” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances, an amount equal to 103% of the sum of (i) the Fronting Exposure of the Issuing Lenders with respect to Letters of Credit issued and outstanding at such time and (ii) the Fronting Exposure of the Swingline Lender with respect to all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time and (b) otherwise, an amount reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and each of the applicable Issuing Lenders that is entitled to Cash Collateral hereunder at such time in their sole discretion.
“Minimum Liquidity” shall mean, as of any date of determination with respect to the Credit Parties, unused availability under the Revolving Credit Facility plus (a) 100% of the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Company and its Domestic Subsidiaries and (b) 85% of the amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of Company’s Foreign Subsidiaries, in each case as of such date. For the avoidance of doubt, cash shall not be deemed restricted by reason of the existence of (i) Liens granted pursuant to the Security Agreement (other than Cash Collateral under Section 2.14), (ii) restrictions on the use of cash imposed under this Agreement, any Private Placement Note Purchase Agreement or any Additional Pari Passu Debt or (iii) common law rights of setoff in favor of depository institutions.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate is making, or is accruing an obligation to make, or has accrued an obligation to make contributions within the preceding six (6) years.
“Non-Consenting Lender” means any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver, amendment, modification or termination that (a) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders, or all Lenders or all affected Lenders in a Facility, in accordance with the terms of Section 11.02 and (b) has been approved by the Required Lenders.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
“Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” means, at any time, a Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Guarantor.
“Note” means a Revolving Note.
“Noteholders” shall mean the holders of the Senior Notes.
“Notice of Additional Issuing Lender” means a certificate substantially the form of Exhibit P or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Notice of Loan Prepayment” means a notice of prepayment with respect to a Loan, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit N or such other form as may be approved in writing by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer.
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“Obligations” means (a) all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Credit Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, or Letter of Credit and (b) all costs and expenses incurred in connection with enforcement and collection of the foregoing, including the fees, charges and disbursements of counsel, in each case whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest, expenses and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Credit Party or any Affiliate thereof pursuant to any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest, expenses and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided that, without limiting the foregoing, the Obligations of a Credit Party shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Credit Party.
“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate substantially the form of Exhibit J or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Operating Lease” means, as to any Person as determined in accordance with GAAP, any lease of Property (whether real, personal or mixed) by such Person as lessee which is not a Capital Lease.
“Organization Documents” means, (a) with respect to any corporation, the charter or certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement, articles of association or limited liability company agreement (or equivalent or comparable documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or organization (or equivalent or comparable documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (d) with respect to all entities, any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization (or equivalent or comparable documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (e) with respect to a limited liability company established under the laws of Germany (a GmbH), the articles of association, the shareholder list, an excerpt from the commercial register, and any other organizational agreement applicable to it; and (f) with respect to a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, the certificate of incorporation, any certificates of incorporation on change of name and memorandum and articles of association.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.06).
“Outstanding Amount” means (a) with respect to Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any Borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the aggregate outstanding amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes
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in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Company of Unreimbursed Amounts.
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders, or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in an Alternative Currency, an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lenders, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 11.10(d).
“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 11.10(d).
“Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Union that has the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
“Patriot Act” has the meaning specified in Section 11.22.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor agency.
“Pension Plan” means any Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code and which (a) is maintained, funded or administered for the employees of any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate or (b) has at any time within the preceding six (6) years been maintained, funded or administered for the employees of any Credit Party or any current or former ERISA Affiliates.
“Permitted Acquisition” means any acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary in the form of the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets, business or a line of business, or at least a majority of the outstanding Equity Interests which have the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) (whether through purchase, merger or otherwise, or whether through a single transaction or a series of related transactions), of any other Person (each an “Acquisition”) if each such acquisition meets all of the following requirements:
(a)such Acquisition has been approved by the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of the Person to be acquired;
(b)the Person or business to be acquired shall be in a line of business permitted pursuant to Section 7.12;
(c)if such transaction is a merger or consolidation involving the Company or a Guarantor, the Company or a Guarantor (or, in the case of a transaction not involving the Company, a Person that will become a Guarantor upon such merger or consolidation) shall be the surviving Person and no Change in Control shall have been effected thereby;
(d)(i) the Company shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis (as of the date of the Acquisition and after giving effect thereto and any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith) with each covenant contained in Section 7.14 and (ii) the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis (as of the proposed closing date of the Acquisition and after giving effect thereto and any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith (but without deduction for cash proceeds of any such Indebtedness)) shall be no greater than 3.50 to 1.00;
(e)the Administrative Agent shall have received, for any such Acquisition with total consideration in excess of the Dollar Equivalent $50,000,000, (1) audited financial statements (or, if unavailable, management-prepared financial or pro forma financial statements) of the target for
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its two most recent fiscal years and for any fiscal quarters ended within the fiscal year to date and (2) a Compliance Certificate for the most recent fiscal quarter end preceding such Acquisition for which financial statements are available demonstrating compliance with clause (d) above;
(f)no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing both before and after giving effect to such Acquisition and any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith; and
(g)both before and after giving effect to the Acquisition on a Pro Forma Basis, Minimum Liquidity shall be at least $75,000,000.
“Permitted Investors” means, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, A. Xxxxxx Xxxxx and their Affiliates, and their respective estate, spouse, siblings, heirs and lineal descendants, and spouses of any such persons, the legal representatives of the foregoing, and the trustee of any bona fide trust of which one or more of the foregoing are the principal beneficiaries or grantors.
“Permitted Liens” means the Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.02.
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
“Platform means IntraLinks, Syndtrak, ClearPar or a substantially similar electronic transmission system.
“Private Placement Note Purchase Agreement” means the Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 3, 2014, by and among the Company and the various note purchasers, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
“Pro Forma Basis” means, for purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period during which one or more Specified Transactions occurs, that such Specified Transaction (and all other Specified Transactions that have been consummated during the applicable period) shall be deemed to have occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement and (i) all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the Property or Person disposed of in a Specified Disposition shall be excluded and all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the Property or Person acquired in a Permitted Acquisition shall be included (provided that such income statement items to be included are reflected in financial statements or other financial data reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and based upon reasonable assumptions and calculations which are expected to have a continuous impact) and (ii) with respect to any Indebtedness incurred or assumed in connection with such Specified Transaction, if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, it shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination.
“Property” means any right or interest in or to property of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, including, without limitation, Equity Interests.
“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(j).
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
“QFC Credit Support” has the meaning specified in Section 11.29.
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“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, at any time, each Credit Party with total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or that qualifies at such time as an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another Person to qualify as an “eligible contract participant” at such time under Section 1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.
“Rate Determination Date” means two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (or such other day as is generally treated as the rate fixing day by market practice in such interbank market, as determined by the Administrative Agent; provided that, to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then “Rate Determination Date” means such other day as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent).
“Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party hereunder.
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 11.10(c).
“Regulation U” means Regulation U of the FRB, as in effect from time to time and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“Reimbursement Obligation” means the obligation of the Company to reimburse any Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.03 for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender.
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors, consultants, service providers and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Relevant Rate” means with respect to any Credit Extension denominated in (a) Dollars, Term SOFR, (b) Xxxxxxxx, XXXXX, (c) Euros, EURIBOR, and (d) Canadian Dollars, the CDOR Rate, as applicable.
“Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Revolving Credit Loans, a Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swingline Loan at any time an Autoborrow Agreement is not in effect, a Swingline Loan Notice.
“Required Class Lenders” means, at any time with respect to any Class of Loans or Commitments, Lenders having Total Credit Exposures with respect to such Class representing more than 50% of the Total Credit Exposures of all Lenders of such Class. The Total Credit Exposure of any Defaulting Lender with respect to such Class shall be disregarded in determining Required Class Lenders at any time.
“Required Lenders” means, at any time, at least two (2) unaffiliated Lenders having Total Credit Exposures representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the Total Credit Exposures of all Lenders. The Total Credit Exposure of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time; provided that, the amount of any participation in any Swingline Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swingline Lender or the applicable Issuing Lender, as the case may be, in making such determination.
“Required Revolving Credit Lenders” means, at any time, at least two (2) Revolving Credit Lenders having Total Revolving Credit Exposures representing more than 50% of the Total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Revolving Credit Lenders. The Total Revolving Credit Exposure of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Revolving Credit Lenders at any time; provided that, the amount of any participation in any Swingline Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that
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such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Revolving Credit Lender that is the Swingline Lender or the applicable Issuing Lender, as the case may be, in making such determination.
“Rescindable Amount” has the meaning as defined in Section 2.12(b)(ii).
“Resignation Effective Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.06(a).
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer” means, as to any Person, the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, vice president of finance, controller, treasurer or assistant treasurer of such Person or any other officer of such Person and in each case with respect to any Person organized under the laws of Germany including a managing director (Geschäftsführer) designated in writing by the Company and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and, solely for purposes of notices given by a Credit Party pursuant to Article II or Article III, any other officer or employee of the applicable Credit Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a notice to the Administrative Agent or any other officer or employee of the applicable Credit Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Credit Party and the Administrative Agent. Any document delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Person shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Person and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Person. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Responsible Officer of the Company, acting for the purposes of giving and receiving notices and consenting to amendments and waivers under the Loan Documents, shall be a Responsible Officer of each Credit Party for such purposes, including pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 2.16(c).
“Revaluation Date” means (a) with respect to any Loan, each of the following: (i) each date of a Borrowing of an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, (ii) each date of a continuation of an Alternative Currency Loan pursuant to Section 2.02, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require; and (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following: (i) each date of issuance, amendment and/or extension of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of any payment by the applicable Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (iii) in the case of all Existing Letters of Credit denominated in Alternative Currencies, the Closing Date, and (iv) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender shall determine or the Required Lenders shall require.
“Revolving Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Term SOFR Loans and Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to (a) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01, (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and (c) purchase participations in Swingline Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.01(b) under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement. The Revolving Credit Commitment of all of the Revolving Credit Lenders on the Closing Date shall be the Dollar Equivalent of $1,250,000,000.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of its outstanding Revolving Credit Loans and such Revolving Credit Lender’s participation in L/C Obligations and Swingline Loans at such time.
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“Revolving Credit Facility” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments at such time.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, (a) so long as any Revolving Credit Commitment is in effect, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time or (b) if the Revolving Credit Commitments have terminated or expired, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Loan or a participation in L/C Obligations or Swingline Loans at such time.
“Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).
“Revolving Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrowers in favor of a Revolving Credit Lender evidencing Revolving Credit Loans or Swingline Loans, as the case may be, made by such Revolving Credit Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit F (or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent).
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Same Day Funds” means (a) with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available funds, and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments in an Alternative Currency, same day or other funds as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lenders, as the case may be, to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Alternative Currency.
“Sanctioned Country” means a country subject to a sanctions program identified on the list maintained by OFAC and available at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx/Xxxxxxxx/Xxxxx/Xxxxxxxx.xxxx, or as otherwise published from time to time.
“Sanctioned Person” means (a) a Person named on the list of “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” maintained by OFAC available at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx/XXX-Xxxx/Xxxxx/xxxxxxx.xxxx, or as otherwise published from time to time, (b) a Person named on the lists maintained by the United Nations Security Council available at xxxx://xxx.xx.xxx/xx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxx_xxxxxxx.xxxxx, or as otherwise published from time to time, (c) a Person named on the lists maintained by the European Union available at xxxx://xxxx.xxxxxx.xx/xxxx/xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxx-xxxx_xx.xxx, or as otherwise published from time to time, or a Person named on the lists maintained by any member state of the European Union, (d) a Person named on the lists maintained by Her Majesty’s Treasury available at xxxx://xxx.xx-xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx/xxx_xxxxxxxxx_xxxxx.xxx, or as otherwise published from time to time, or (e) (i) an agency of the government of a Sanctioned Country, (ii) an organization controlled by a Sanctioned Country, or (iii) a person resident in a Sanctioned Country, to the extent subject to a sanctions program administered by OFAC.
“Sanction(s)” means any sanction administered or enforced by the United States Government (including, without limitation, OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, any member state of the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) or other relevant sanctions authority.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Agreement between or among any Credit Party and any Cash Management Bank.
“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any interest rate, currency, foreign exchange, or commodity Hedge Agreement required by or not prohibited under Article VI or VII between any Credit Party and any Hedge Bank.
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“Secured Obligations” means, collectively, (a) the Obligations and (b) all existing or future payment and other obligations owing by any Credit Party under (i) any Secured Hedge Agreement (other than an Excluded Swap Obligation) and (ii) any Secured Cash Management Agreement.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, the Noteholders, the holders of any Additional Pari Passu Debt, each coagent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, any other holder from time to time of any of any Secured Obligations and, in each case, their respective successors and permitted assigns.
“Secured Party Designation Notice” means a notice from any Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender substantially in the form of Exhibit G or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, including all amendments thereto and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Security Agreement” means the security agreement, dated as of December 3, 2014, executed by each of the Credit Parties (other than the Designated Borrowers) in favor of the Collateral Agent, as confirmed and joined by each of the Credit Parties (excluding the Designated Borrowers) pursuant to that certain Security Documents Confirmation Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, each of which shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent.
“Security Documents” means the collective reference to the Security Agreement and each other agreement or writing pursuant to which any Credit Party pledges or grants a security interest in any Property or assets securing the Secured Obligations.
“Senior Notes” shall mean a collective reference to the notes issued in connection with (a) the Private Placement Note Purchase Agreement and (b) any Additional Pari Passu Debt.
“Senior Notes Documentation” shall mean the Senior Notes, together with any agreements, documents or other instruments executed in connection therewith.
“SOFR” means the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator).
“SOFR Adjustment” means, with respect to Term SOFR, (a) 0.10% per annum for an Interest Period of one month, (b) 0.15% per annum for an Interest Period of three months and (c) 0.25% per annum for an Interest Period of six months.
“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of SOFR, or any successor administrator of SOFR designated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or other Person acting as the SOFR Administrator at such time.
“Solvency Certificate” means a solvency certificate in substantially in the form of Exhibit H or any other form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute an unreasonably small capital, (e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as
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they mature in the ordinary course of business, (f) no German Insolvency Event has occurred, (g) with regards to any Person that is an entity organized under English Law, it is not in a situation where (i) it is unable or has admitted inability to pay its debts as they fall due, (ii) it is deemed to, or is declared to, be unable to pay its debts under English law, (iii) it has suspended or threatened to suspend making payments on any of its debts; (iv) by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, it has commenced negotiations with one or more of its creditors (excluding any Secured Party in its capacity as such) with a view to rescheduling any of its indebtedness, (v) the value of its assets is less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities), or (vi) a moratorium is declared in respect of any indebtedness of it. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability; and with regards to any Person that is an entity organized under Spanish Law, it is not in a situation where (i) it is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due; (ii) it has declared or is under an insolvency proceeding; (iii) it has taken any step with a view to the suspension of payments, a moratorium or a composition, compromise, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its creditors; or (iv) has appointed any administrator in respect of it or any of its assets.
“XXXXX” means, with respect to any applicable determination date, the Sterling Overnight Index Average Reference Rate published on the fifth Business Day preceding such date on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time); provided however that if such determination date is not a Business Day, XXXXX means such rate that applied on the first Business Day immediately prior thereto.
“XXXXX Adjustment” means 0.0326% per annum.
“Spain” means the Kingdom of Spain.
“Spanish Accounting Principles” shall mean the accounting principles included in the Spanish General Accounting System (Plan General de Contabilidad), approved by Royal Decree No. 1514/2007 of 16 November (Real Decreto 0000/0000, xx 00 xx xxxxxxxxx), xx any other successor principles applicable in Spain. Any reference to the General Accounting System shall be understood as a reference to all regulations that may hereafter replace it, including IFRS to the extent applicable to the relevant financial statements.
“Spanish Borrower” means, upon the execution and delivery of the (a) Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement by the Company and Copart Autos España, S.L.U., a private limited liability company (sociedad de responsabilidad limitada) organized under the laws of the Kingdom of Spain and the satisfaction of each of the terms and conditions set forth in Section 2.16 and (b) Designated Borrower Notice by the Administrative Agent, Copart Autos España, S.L.U.
“Spanish Borrower Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Commitments and the Dollar Equivalent of $150,000,000. The Spanish Borrower Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments. If the Spanish Borrower ceases to be a direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company this sublimit shall be, automatically and without notice, reduced to $0.00 at time.
“Spanish Civil Code” means the Spanish Civil Code approved by Royal Decree of 24 July 1889 (Real Decreto de 24 de xxxxx de 1889 por el que se publica el Código Civil), as amended from time to time.
“Spanish Commercial Code” means the Spanish Commercial Code approved by Royal Decree on 22 August 1885 (Real decreto de 22 xx xxxxxx de 1885 por el que se publica el Código de Comercio), as amended from time to time.
“Spanish Companies Law” means Royal Legislative Decree 1/2010 (Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2010, de 2 de xxxxx, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de xx Xxx de Sociedades de Capital), as amended from time to time.
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“Spanish Credit Parties” means, collectively, each Credit Party that is incorporated under the laws of Spain.
“Spanish Public Document” means a documento público, executed before a Spanish notary public, being either an escritura pública or a póliza.
“Spanish Recast Insolvency Law” means Spanish Royal Legislative Decree 1/2020, dated 5 May, by virtue of which the recast version of the insolvency law was enacted (Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2020, de 5 xx xxxx, por el que se aprueba el texto refundido de xx Xxx Concursal), as amended from time to time.”Spanish Royal Decree 5/2005” means the Royal Decree Law 5/2005 of 11 March 2005 of urgent reforms for the productivity and for the improvement of the public sector contracting (Real Decreto Ley 0/0000, xx 00 xx xxxxx, xx reformas urgentes para el impulso de la productividad y para la mejora de la contratación pública), as amended from time to time.
“Specified Credit Party” means any Credit Party that is not then an “eligible contract participant” under the Commodity Exchange Act (determined prior to giving effect to Section 10.06).
“Specified Disposition” means any disposition of all or substantially all of the assets or Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Company or any division, business unit, product line or line of business of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
“Specified Transactions” means (a) any Specified Disposition, (b) any Permitted Acquisition and (c) the Transactions.
“Sterling” and “£” mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.
“Subordinated Indebtedness” means the collective reference to any Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that by its terms is expressly subordinated in right and time of payment to the Obligations on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, standstill, interest rate, maturity and amortization, and insolvency-related provisions, in all respects reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Subsidiary” means as to any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding Equity Interests having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) or other managers of such corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity is at the time owned by (directly or indirectly) or the management is otherwise controlled by (directly or indirectly) such Person (irrespective of whether, at the time, Equity Interests of any other class or classes of such corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency). Unless otherwise qualified, references to “Subsidiary” or “Subsidiaries” herein shall refer to those of the Company.
“Supported QFC” has the meaning specified in Section 11.29.
“Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swingline Borrowing” means a borrowing of a Swingline Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.
“Swingline Commitment” means, as to any Lender (a) the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 hereof or (b) if such Lender has entered into an Assignment and Assumption or has otherwise assumed a Swingline Commitment after the Closing Date, the amount set forth for such Lender as its Swingline Commitment in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 11.10(c).
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“Swingline Lender” means Bank of America, through itself or through one of its designated Affiliates or branch offices, in its capacity as provider of Swingline Loans, or any successor swingline lender hereunder.
“Swingline Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
“Swingline Loan Notice” means a notice of a Swingline Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit I or such other form as approved in writing by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company.
“Swingline Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $60,000,000 and (b) the Revolving Credit Facility. The Swingline Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Synthetic Lease” means any synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off balance sheet loan or similar off balance sheet financing product where such transaction is considered borrowed money indebtedness for tax purposes but is classified as an Operating Lease in accordance with GAAP.
“TARGET2” means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November 19, 2007.
“TARGET Day” means any day on which TARGET2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.
“Tax Deduction” means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Taxes from a payment under a Loan Document.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), value added taxes or any other goods and services, use or sales taxes, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, fines, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term Loan” means an Incremental Term Loan.
“Term Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrowers in favor of a Lender providing an Incremental Term Loan evidencing an Incremental Term Loan made by such Lender, substantially in such form approved in writing by the Administrative Agent.
“Term SOFR” means:
(a)for any Interest Period with respect to a Term SOFR Loan, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate two U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided that if the rate is not published prior to 11:00 a.m. on such determination date then Term SOFR means the Term SOFR Screen Rate on the first U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately prior thereto, in each case, plus the SOFR Adjustment for such Interest Period; and
(b)for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to the Term SOFR Screen Rate with a term of one month commencing that day;
provided that if the Term SOFR determined in accordance with either of the foregoing provisions (a) or (b) of this definition would otherwise be less than zero, the Term SOFR shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
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“Term SOFR Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of Term SOFR.
“Term SOFR Screen Rate” means the forward-looking SOFR term rate administered by CME (or any successor administrator satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) and published on the applicable Reuters screen page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time).
“Termination Event” means the occurrence of any of the following which, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount: (a) a “Reportable Event” described in Section 4043 of ERISA for which the thirty (30) day notice requirement has not been waived by the PBGC, or (b) the withdrawal of any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan during a plan year in which it was a “substantial employer” as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA, or (c) the termination of a Pension Plan, the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan or the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination, under Section 4041 of ERISA, if the plan assets are not sufficient to pay all plan liabilities, or (d) the institution of proceedings to terminate, or the appointment of a trustee with respect to, any Pension Plan by the PBGC, or (e) any other event or condition which would constitute grounds under Section 4042(a) of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan, or (f) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA, or (g) the determination that any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan is considered an atrisk plan or plan in endangered or critical status with the meaning of Sections 430, 431 or 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 or 305 of ERISA or (h) the partial or complete withdrawal of any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan if withdrawal liability is asserted by such plan, or (i) any event or condition which results in the reorganization or insolvency of a Multiemployer Plan under Sections 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, or (j) any event or condition which results in the termination of a Multiemployer Plan under Section 4041A of ERISA or the institution by PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Multiemployer Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA, or (k) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate.
“Threshold Amount” means the Dollar Equivalent of $50,000,000.
“Total Credit Exposure” means, as to any Lender at any time, the unused Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Exposure of such Lender at such time.
“Total Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the unused Commitments and Revolving Credit Exposure of such Revolving Credit Lender at such time.
“Total Revolving Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans, Swingline Loans and L/C Obligations.
“Transaction Costs” means all transaction fees, charges, costs, expenses and other amounts related to the Transactions (including, without limitation, any financing fees, merger and acquisition fees, legal fees and expenses, due diligence fees or any other fees and expenses in connection therewith), in each case to the extent paid within six (6) months of the closing of the Revolving Credit Facility.
“Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the repayment in full of all Indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, (b) the initial Credit Extensions and (c) the payment of fees, charges, costs, expenses and other amounts in connection with the foregoing and the Private Placement Note Purchase Agreement.
“Treaty Lender” means a Lender which:
(a) is treated as a resident of a Treaty State for the purposes of the Treaty;
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(b) does not carry on a business in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in the Loan is effectively connected; and
(c) satisfies all other conditions, applicable to such Lender, under the Treaty for a payment of interest made by the UK Borrower under any Loan Document to be fully exempt from UK income tax (except that is shall be assumed that the relevant Lender complies with all procedural requirements for the UK Borrower not to be liable to withhold UK tax).
“Treaty State” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “Treaty”) with the United Kingdom which makes provision for full exemption from tax imposed by the United Kingdom on interest.
“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan, an Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loan, an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan or a Term SOFR Loan.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
“UCP” means the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the applicable time).
“UK Borrower” means Copart UK Limited, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with company number 00929621.
“UK Borrower Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of the Aggregate Commitments and the Dollar Equivalent of $250,000,000. The UK Borrower Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Commitments. If the UK Borrower ceases to be a direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company this sublimit shall be, automatically and without notice, reduced to $0.00 at time.
“UK CTA” means the United Kingdom Corporation Tax Xxx 0000.
“UK Domestic Lender” means (a) a Lender that is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Loan Document and is (i) a Lender (1) that is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 UK ITA) making an advance under a Loan Document and is within the charge to UK corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance or would be within such charge as respects such payments apart from section 18A of the UK CTA or (2) in respect of an advance made under a Loan Document by a person that was a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 UK ITA) at the time the advance was made and within the charge to UK corporation tax as regards any payment of interest made in respect of that advance; or (ii) a Lender which is (1) a company resident in the UK for UK tax purposes, (2) a partnership each member of which is (A) a company so resident in the UK or (B) a company not so resident in the UK which carries on a trade in the UK through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the UK CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of Part 17 of the UK CTA; or (3) a company not so resident in the UK which carries on a trade in the UK through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the UK CTA) of that company; or (b) a Lender which is a building society (as defined for the purposes of Section 880 of the UK ITA) making an advance under a Loan Document.
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person subject to IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time
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to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK ITA” means the United Kingdom Income Tax Xxx 0000.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“UK Tax Confirmation” means a confirmation by a Lender that the person beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Loan Document is either (a) a company resident in the UK for UK tax purposes, (b) a partnership, each member of which is (i) a company so resident in the UK; or (ii) a company not so resident in the UK which carries on a trade in the UK through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the UK CTA) the whole or any share of the interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of Part 17 of the UK CTA; or (c) a company not so resident in the UK that carries on a trade in the UK through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of such advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the UK CTA) of such company.
“UK Tax Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under any Loan Document for and on account of any Taxes imposed by the UK other than a FATCA Deduction.
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(f).
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any Business Day, except any Business Day on which any of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the New York Stock Exchange or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is not open for business because such day is a legal holiday under the federal laws of the United States or the laws of the State of New York, as applicable.
“U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regimes” has the meaning specified in Section 11.29.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(f)(ii)(B)(3).
“VAT” means (a) any value added tax imposed by the Value Added Tax Xxx 0000 and supplemental legislation and regulations, (b) any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and (c) any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in the UK or in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above, or imposed elsewhere.
“Wholly-Owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary, that all of the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary are, directly or indirectly, owned or controlled by the Company and/or one or more of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries (except for directors’ qualifying shares or other shares required by Applicable Law to be owned by a Person other than the Company and/or one or more of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries).
“Withholding Agent” means the Company and the Administrative Agent.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any
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powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
1.02Other Definitions and Provisions.
With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a)The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.
(b)Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.
(c)The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.”
(d)The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.”
(e)Any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns.
(f)The words “hereto,” “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof.
(g)All references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear
(h)The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
(i)The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
(j)Any and all references to “Borrower” regardless of whether preceded by the term “a”, “any”, “each of”, “all”, “and/or”, or any other similar term shall be deemed to refer, as the context requires, to each and every (and/or any, one or all) parties constituting a Borrower, individually and/or in the aggregate.
(k)In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including;” the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding;” and the word “through” means “to and including.”
In this Agreement and any other Loan Document, where it relates to the German Borrower, a reference to:
(a)a necessary action to authorize, where applicable, includes without limitation, obtaining an unconditional positive advice from the competent works council(s);
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(b)gross negligence includes xxxxx Fahrlässigkeit;
(c)negligence includes Fahrlässigkeit;
(d)a security interest includes any mortgage (Grundschuld, Hypothek), pledge (Pfandrecht), retention of title arrangement (Eigentumsvorbehalt), right of retention (Zurückbehaltungsrecht), right to reclaim goods (Herausgabeansprüche), and, in general, any right in rem created for the purpose of granting security;
(e)a winding-up, administration or dissolution (and any of those terms) includes a German entity being declared bankrupt (insolvent) or dissolved (ausfgelöst);
(f)any step or procedure taken in connection with insolvency proceedings includes a German entity having applied for bankruptcy (Insolvenzantrag) or the opening of bankruptcy proceedings (Insolvenzeröffnung); and
an administrator includes an insolvency administrator (Insolvenzverwalter) and insolvency trustee (Sachwalter).
In this Agreement and any other Loan Document, where it relates to a Spanish Credit Party, a reference to:
(a)“administration”, “insolvency” or “insolvency proceeding” and any step or proceeding relating to it has the meaning attributed to them under the Spanish Recast Insolvency Law, including a declaración de concurso con independencia de su carácter necesario o voluntario as well as any solicitud de inicio del procedimiento del concurso voluntario, the request of declaration of insolvency by a third party (solicitud de concurso por acreedores) (including, without limitation, any petition filed under to a competent court pursuant to articles 583 et seq. or 631 of the Spanish Recast Insolvency Law, and its solicitud de inicio de procedimiento de concurso, auto de declaración de concurso, convenio judicial o extrajudicial con acreedores and transacción extrajudicial);
(b)a “person being unable to pay its debts” means that person being in a state of insolvencia or concurso as defined in Spanish Recast Insolvency Law;
(c)“control” has the meaning stated under article 42 of the Spanish Commercial Code;
(d)“financial assistance” means (a) in respect to a Spanish Credit Party incorporated as a Sociedad Anónima, financial assistance under Article 150 of the Spanish Companies Law; and (b) in respect to a Spanish Credit Party incorporated as a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada, financial assistance under Article 143 of the Spanish Companies Law;
(e)a “winding-up” or “dissolution” includes, without limitation, disolución, liquidaciónor any other similar proceedings and shall be used to those circumstances as regulated under Spanish law from time to time;
(f)a “liquidator”, “receiver”, “administrative receiver”, “administrator” or “compulsory manager” includes, without limitation, a mediador concursal, administrador del concurso, administración concursal or a liquidador or any other person or entity performing the same or a similar function;
(g)a “composition”, “arrangement” or similar arrangement with any creditor includes, without limitation, a convenio de acreedores, propuesta anticipada de convenio, acuerdo de refinanciación or acuerdo extrajudicial de pagos, any refinancing agreement to be judicially sanctioned for the purposes of the Spanish Recast Insolvency Law, or any agreement under Title II or Title III of the Second Book of the Spanish Recast Insolvency Law;
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(h)a “matured obligation” includes, without limitation, any crédito líquido, vencido y exigible;
(i)a “security interest” includes any mortgage (hipoteca), pledge (prenda) (with or without transfer of possession), financial collateral agreement (garantía financiera pignoraticia) and, in general, any in rem security right governed by Spanish law;
(j)a “guarantee” means any accessory personal guarantee (fianza), performance bond (aval), joint and several guarantee (garantía solidaria) and first demand guarantee (garantía a primer requerimiento);
(k)a “trustee”, “fiduciary” and “fiduciary duty” has in each case the meaning given to such term under any applicable law;
(l)a “set-off” includes to the extent legally possible the rights to compensate under Spanish Royal Decree 5/2005;
(m)a “penalty” means cláusula penal; and
(n)a “willful misconduct” means dolo.
1.03Divisions. Any reference herein to a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a division of or by a limited liability company or any other Person, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company or any other Person (or the unwinding of such a division or allocation), as if it were a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, as applicable, to, of or with a separate Person. Any division of a limited liability company or any other Person shall constitute a separate Person hereunder (and each division of any limited liability company or any other Person that is a Subsidiary, joint venture or any other like term shall also constitute such a Person or entity).
1.04Accounting Terms.
(a)Generally. All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the audited financial statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, (i) Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and FASB ASC 470–20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded, (ii) all liability amounts shall be determined excluding any liability relating to any operating lease, all asset amounts shall be determined excluding any right-of-use assets relating to any operating lease, all amortization amounts shall be determined excluding any amortization of a right-of-use asset relating to any operating lease, and all interest amounts shall be determined excluding any deemed interest comprising a portion of fixed rent payable under any operating lease, in each case to the extent that such liability, asset, amortization or interest pertains to an operating lease under which the covenantor or a member of its consolidated group is the lessee and would not have been accounted for as such under GAAP as in effect on December 31, 2015, and (iii) all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under FASB ASC Topic 825 “Financial Instruments” (or any other financial accounting standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined therein. For purposes of determining the amount of any outstanding Indebtedness, no effect shall be given to any election by the Company to measure an item of Indebtedness using fair value (as permitted by Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting
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Standards Codification 825–10–25 (formerly known as FASB 159) or any similar accounting standard).
(b)Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP (including the adoption of IFRS) would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Company or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Company shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP.
(c)Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to Consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Company is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB ASC 810 as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.
(d)Pro Forma Treatment. Each Asset Disposition of all or substantially all of a line of business, and each Acquisition, by the Company and its Subsidiaries that is consummated during any measurement period shall, for purposes of determining compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.14 and for purposes of determining the Applicable Rate, be given pro forma effect as of the first day of such measurement period.
1.05UCC Terms.
Terms defined in the UCC in effect on the Closing Date and not otherwise defined herein shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the meanings provided by those definitions. Subject to the foregoing, the term “UCC” refers, as of any date of determination, to the UCC then in effect.
1.06Rounding.
Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio or percentage is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).
1.07References to Agreement and Laws. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) any definition or reference to formation documents, governing documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual documents or instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are not prohibited by any Loan Document; and (b) any definition or reference to any Applicable Law, including, without limitation, the Code, the Commodity Exchange Act, ERISA, the Exchange Act, the PATRIOT Act, the Securities Act, the UCC, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Interstate Commerce Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act of the United States or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department, shall include all statutory and regulatory rules, regulations, orders and provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Applicable Law
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and any reference to any law, rule or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law, rule or regulation as amended, modified, extended, restated, replaced or supplemented from time to time.
1.08Times of Day.
Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
1.09Letter of Credit Amounts.
Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.
1.10Guarantees. Unless otherwise specified, the amount of any Guarantee shall be the lesser of the principal amount of the obligations guaranteed and still outstanding and the maximum amount for which the guaranteeing Person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee.
1.11Covenant Compliance Generally. For purposes of determining compliance under Sections 7.01, 7.02, 7.03, 7.05 and 7.06, any amount in a currency other than Dollars will be converted to Dollars in a manner consistent with that used in calculating Consolidated Net Income in the most recent annual financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with Sections 7.01, 7.02 and 7.03, with respect to any amount of Indebtedness or Investment in a currency other than Dollars, no breach of any basket contained in such sections shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness or Investment is incurred; provided that for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.11 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness or Investment may be incurred at any time under such Sections.
1.12Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents.
(a)The Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lenders, as applicable, shall determine the Dollar Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts denominated in Alternative Currencies. Such Dollar Equivalent shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Dollar Equivalent of such amounts until the next Revaluation Date to occur. Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Credit Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lenders, as applicable.
(b)Wherever in this Agreement in connection with a Borrowing, conversion, continuation or prepayment of an Alternative Currency Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Borrowing, Alternative Currency Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of such Alternative Currency, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward), as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Issuing Lender, as the case may be.
(c)The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any
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other matter related to the rates in the definition of “SOFR”, “Alternative Currency Daily Rate”, “Term SOFR” or “Alternative Currency Term Rate”, the selection of rates, any related spread or adjustment or with respect to any rate that is an alternative or replacement for or successor to any of such rates (including, without limitation, any Successor Rate) or the effect of any of the foregoing, or of any Conforming Changes.
1.13Additional Alternative Currencies.
(a)The Company may from time to time request that Alternative Currency Loans be made and/or Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of “Alternative Currency”; provided that such requested currency is an Eligible Currency. In the case of any such request with respect to the making of Alternative Currency Loans, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and each Lender with a Commitment under which such currency is requested to be made available; and in the case of any such request with respect to the issuance of Letters of Credit, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Lender.
(b)Any such request relating to an Alternative Currency Loan and/or Letters of Credit (other than those currencies specifically listed in the definition of “Alternative Currency”) shall be made to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., twenty (20) Business Days prior to the date of the desired Credit Extension (or such other time or date as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the Issuing Lenders, in its or their sole discretion). In the case of any such request pertaining to Alternative Currency Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender thereof; and in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Issuing Lenders thereof. Each Appropriate Lender (in the case of any such request pertaining to Alternative Currency Loans) or the Issuing Lenders (in the case of a request pertaining to Letters of Credit) shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00 a.m., ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the making of Alternative Currency Loans or the issuance of Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested currency.
(c)Any failure by a Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, to respond to such request within the time period specified in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be a refusal by such Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, to permit Alternative Currency Loans to be made or Letters of Credit to be issued in such requested currency. If the Administrative Agent and all the Lenders consent to making Alternative Currency Loans in such requested currency and the Administrative Agent and such Lenders reasonably determine that an appropriate interest rate is available to be used for such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and (i) the Administrative Agent and such Lenders may amend the definition of Alternative Currency Daily Rate or Alternative Currency Term Rate to the extent necessary to add the applicable rate for such currency and any applicable adjustment for such rate and (ii) to the extent the definition of Alternative Currency Daily Rate or Alternative Currency Term Rate, as applicable, has been amended to reflect the appropriate rate for such currency, such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency for purposes of any Borrowings of Alternative Currency Loans. If the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender consent to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender may amend the definition of Alternative Currency Daily Rate or Alternative Currency Term Rate, as applicable, to the extent necessary to add the applicable rate for such currency and any applicable adjustment for such rate and (iv) to the extent the definition of Alternative Currency Daily Rate or Alternative Currency Term Rate, as applicable, has been amended to reflect the appropriate rate for such currency, such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency, for purposes of any Letter of Credit issuances. If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency under this Section 1.13, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Company.
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1.14Change of Currency.
(a)Each obligation of the Borrowers to make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the date hereof shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption. If, in relation to the currency of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this Agreement in respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that, if any Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.
(b)Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect the adoption of the Euro by any member state of the European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the Euro.
(c)Each provision of this Agreement also shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect a change in currency of any other country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the change in currency.
ARTICLE II
COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
1.01Loans.
(a)Revolving Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) to the Borrowers, in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies, from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Revolving Borrowing, (i) the Total Revolving Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility, (ii) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, (iii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans made to the German Borrower shall not exceed the German Borrower Sublimit, (iv) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans made to the Spanish Borrower shall not exceed the Spanish Borrower Sublimit, (v) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans made to the UK Borrower shall not exceed the UK Borrower Sublimit, and (vi) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies shall not exceed the Alternative Currency Sublimit. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow Revolving Credit Loans, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(a). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Term SOFR Loans, as further provided herein; provided, however, any Revolving Credit Loans made on the Closing Date shall be made as Base Rate Loans by the Company unless the Borrowers deliver a funding indemnity letter in form, substance and pursuant to documentation acceptable to the Administrative Agent not less than three Business Days prior to the date of such Borrowing.
1.02Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a)Notice of Borrowing. Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans shall be made upon the Company’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by: (i) telephone or (ii) a Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be
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confirmed immediately by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Loan Notice. Each such Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (A) two (2) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Term SOFR Loans, (B) four (4) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Alternative Currency Loans, and (C) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that if a Borrower wishes to request Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans or Term SOFR Loans having an Interest Period other than one, three or six months in duration as provided in the definition of “Interest Period,” the applicable notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (x) four Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of a Term SOFR Loan or (y) five Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, whereupon the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Lenders of such request and determine whether the requested Interest Period is acceptable to all of them. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Term SOFR Loans and/or an Alternative Currency Loan, as applicable, shall be in a principal amount of the Dollar Equivalent of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of the Dollar Equivalent of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Loan Notice and each telephonic notice shall specify (I) the applicable Facility and whether the applicable Borrower is requesting a Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Loans, as the case may be, under such Facility, (II) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (III) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (IV) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted, (V) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto, (VI) the currency of the Loans to be borrowed, and (VII) if applicable, the Designated Borrower. If the Company fails to specify a currency in a Loan Notice requesting a Borrowing, then the Loans so requested shall be made in Dollars. If the Company fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Loan Notice or if the Company fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, such Loans shall be continued as Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, as applicable, in their original currency with an Interest Period of one (1) month. If the Company requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans in any such Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swingline Loan may not be converted to a Term SOFR Loan. Except as provided pursuant to Section 2.12(a), no Loan may be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in a different currency, but instead must be repaid in the original currency of such Loan and reborrowed in the other currency.
(b)Advances. Following receipt of a Loan Notice for a Facility, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount (and currency) of its Applicable Percentage under such Facility of the applicable Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Company, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Appropriate Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Loans denominated in a currency other than Dollars, in each case as described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of a Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office for the applicable currency not later than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of any Loan in an Alternative Currency, in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of such Borrower on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire
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transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Company; provided, however, that if, on the date a Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Borrowing denominated in Dollars is given by the Company, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made available to the applicable Borrower as provided above.
(c)Term SOFR Loans and Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans. Except as otherwise provided herein, a Term SOFR Loan and an Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Term SOFR Loan or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loan, as applicable. During the existence of a Default or Event of Default, no Loans may be requested as, or converted to Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Daily Rate Loans or converted to or continued as Term SOFR Loans or Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans, as applicable, without the consent of the Required Lenders, and the Required Lenders may demand that and any or all of the then outstanding Alternative Currency Loans be prepaid, or redenominated into Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof, on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto.
(d)Interest Rates. Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrowers and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error.
(e)Interest Periods. After giving effect to all Term SOFR Loans and Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans and all continuations of Term SOFR Loans and Alternative Currency Term Rate Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than eight Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Facility.
(f)Cashless Settlement Mechanism. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any Lender may exchange, continue or rollover all or the portion of its Loans in connection with any refinancing, extension, loan modification or similar transaction permitted by the terms of this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Company, the Administrative Agent and such Lender.
(g)With respect to any Alternative Currency Daily Rate or SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document; provided that, with respect to any such amendment effected, the Administrative Agent shall post each such amendment implementing such Conforming Changes to the Company and the Lenders reasonably promptly after such amendment becomes effective.
1.03Letters of Credit.
(a)The L/C Commitment. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, in addition to the Loans provided for in Section 2.01, the Company may request that any Issuing Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, issue, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period, Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or, solely to the extent Bank of America, N.A. or any of its Affiliates or branch offices is the Issuing Lender with respect thereto, an Alternative Currency, in each case for its own account or the account of any of its Subsidiaries in such form as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent and such Issuing Lender in its reasonable determination. Letters of Credit issued hereunder shall constitute utilization of the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(b)Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Extension, Reinstatement or Renewal.
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(i)To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment of the terms and conditions, extension of the terms and conditions, extension of the expiration date, or reinstatement of amounts paid, or renewal of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Company shall deliver (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the applicable Issuing Lender) to an Issuing Lender selected by it and to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two (2) Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and such Issuing Lender may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, extended, reinstated or renewed, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, extension, reinstatement or renewal (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with clause (d) of this Section 2.03), the amount and currency of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof, the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, extend, reinstate or renew such Letter of Credit. If requested by the applicable Issuing Lender, the Company also shall submit a letter of credit application and reimbursement agreement on such Issuing Lender’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application and reimbursement agreement or other agreement submitted by the Company to, or entered into by the Company with, an Issuing Lender relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.
(ii)If the Company so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application (or the amendment of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the applicable Issuing Lender may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit shall permit such Issuing Lender to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon by the Company and the applicable Issuing Lender at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the applicable Issuing Lender, the Company shall not be required to make a specific request to such Issuing Lender for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the applicable Issuing Lender to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiration date not later than the date permitted pursuant to Section 2.03(d); provided, that such Issuing Lender shall not (A) permit any such extension if (1) such Issuing Lender has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its extended form under the terms hereof (except that the expiration date may be extended to a date that is no more than one (1) year from the then-current expiration date) or (2) it has received notice (which may be in writing or by telephone (if promptly confirmed in writing)) on or before the day that is seven (7) Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date from the Administrative Agent that the Required Revolving Credit Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (B) be obligated to permit such extension if it has received notice (which may be in writing or by telephone (if promptly confirmed in writing)) on or before the day that is seven (7) Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Company that one or more of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing such Issuing Lender not to permit such extension.
(c)Limitations on Amounts, Issuance and Amendment. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, extended, reinstated or renewed only if (and upon issuance, amendment, extension, reinstatement or renewal of each Letter of Credit the Company shall be deemed to
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represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, extension, reinstatement or renewal (w) the aggregate amount of the outstanding Letters of Credit issued by any Issuing Lender shall not exceed its L/C Commitment, (x) the aggregate L/C Obligations shall not exceed the L/C Sublimit, (y) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed its Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) the Total Revolving Credit Exposure shall not exceed the total Revolving Credit Commitments.
(i)No Issuing Lender shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A)any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such Issuing Lender from issuing the Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such Issuing Lender or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such Issuing Lender shall prohibit, or request that such Issuing Lender refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or the Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such Issuing Lender with respect to the Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such Issuing Lender is not otherwise compensated hereunder), in each case above, not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such Issuing Lender any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which such Issuing Lender in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it;
(B)the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of such Issuing Lender applicable to letters of credit generally;
(C)except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and such Issuing Lender, the Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000, in the case of a standby Letter of Credit;
(D)any Revolving Credit Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless such Issuing Lender has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, satisfactory to such Issuing Lender (in its sole discretion) with the Company or such Lender to eliminate such Issuing Lender’s actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.15(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which such Issuing Lender has actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion; or
(E)the Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder.
(ii)No Issuing Lender shall be under any obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such Issuing Lender would have no obligation at such time to issue the Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of the Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to the Letter of Credit.
(d)Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall have a stated expiration date no later than the earlier of (i) the date twelve (12) months after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any extension of the expiration date thereof, whether automatic or by amendment, twelve months after the thencurrent expiration date of such Letter of Credit) and (ii) the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Maturity Date.
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(e)Participations.
(i)By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount or extending the expiration date thereof), and without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Lender or the Lenders, such Issuing Lender hereby grants to each Revolving Credit Lender, and each Revolving Credit Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Lender, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this clause (e) in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, extension, reinstatement or renewal of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or Event of Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(ii)In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for account of the applicable Issuing Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each L/C Disbursement made by an Issuing Lender not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the notice provided by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.03(f) until such L/C Disbursement is reimbursed by the Company or at any time after any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Company for any reason, including after the Maturity Date. Such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each such payment shall be made in the same manner as provided in Section 2.02 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.02 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to this Section 2.03), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Company pursuant to Section 2.03(f), the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable Issuing Lender or, to the extent that the Revolving Credit Lenders have made payments pursuant to this clause (e) to reimburse such Issuing Lender, then to such Lenders and such Issuing Lender as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Lender pursuant to this clause (e) to reimburse an Issuing Lender for any L/C Disbursement shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Company of its obligation to reimburse such L/C Disbursement.
(iii)Each Revolving Credit Lender further acknowledges and agrees that its participation in each Letter of Credit will be automatically adjusted to reflect such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit at each time such Lender’s Commitment is amended pursuant to the operation of Section 2.18, as a result of an assignment in accordance with Section 11.10 or otherwise pursuant to this Agreement.
(iv)If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Issuing Lender any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(e), then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, the applicable Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such Issuing Lender at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the applicable Overnight Rate and a rate determined by the applicable Issuing Lender in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Lender in connection with the foregoing. If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Revolving Credit Loan included in the
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relevant Revolving Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be. A certificate of any Issuing Lender submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (e)(vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(f)Reimbursement. If an Issuing Lender shall make any L/C Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Company shall reimburse such Issuing Lender in respect of such L/C Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such L/C Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon on (i) the Business Day that the Company receives notice of such L/C Disbursement, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m. or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Company receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time, provided that, if such L/C Disbursement is not less than the Dollar Equivalent of $1,000,000, the Company may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.02 or Section 2.04 that such payment be financed with a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Company’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or Swingline Loan. If the Company fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the applicable L/C Disbursement, the payment then due from the Company in respect thereof (the “Unreimbursed Amount”) and such Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount pursuant to Section 2.03(e)(ii), subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments. Any notice given by any Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(f) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(g)Obligations Absolute. The Company’s obligation to reimburse L/C Disbursements as provided in clause (f) of this Section 2.03 shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of:
(i)any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any Letter of Credit, or any term or provision herein or therein;
(ii)the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the Company or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), any Issuing Lender or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;
(iii)any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement in such draft or other document being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv)waiver by any Issuing Lender of any requirement that exists for such Issuing Lender’s protection and not the protection of the Company or any waiver by such Issuing Lender which does not in fact materially prejudice the Company;
(v)honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such Letter of Credit required that demand be in the form of a draft;
(vi)any payment made by any Issuing Lender in respect of an otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by
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which documents must be received under such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the UCC, the ISP or the UCP, as applicable;
(vii)payment by the applicable Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply strictly with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by any Issuing Lender under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law; or
(viii)any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section 2.03, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Company’s obligations hereunder; or
(ix)any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the relevant Alternative Currency to the Company or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally.
(h)Examination. The Company shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Company’s instructions or other irregularity, the Company will immediately notify the applicable Issuing Lender. The Company shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against each Issuing Lender and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
(i)Liability. None of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, any Issuing Lender, or any of their Related Parties shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit by the applicable Issuing Lender or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms, any error in translation or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the applicable Issuing Lender; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse an Issuing Lender from liability to the Company to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Company to the extent permitted by Applicable Law) suffered by the Company that are caused by such Issuing Lender’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of an Issuing Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), an Issuing Lender shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination, and that:
(i)an Issuing Lender may replace a purportedly lost, stolen, or destroyed original Letter of Credit or missing amendment thereto with a certified true copy marked as such or waive a requirement for its presentation;
(ii)an Issuing Lender may accept documents that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and may make payment upon presentation of documents that appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit and without regard to any non-documentary condition in such Letter of Credit;
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(iii)an Issuing Lender shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to decline to accept such documents and to make such payment if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit; and
(iv)this sentence shall establish the standard of care to be exercised by an Issuing Lender when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof (and the parties hereto hereby waive, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, any standard of care inconsistent with the foregoing).
Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, any Issuing Lender, or any of their Related Parties shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of (A) any presentation that includes forged or fraudulent documents or that is otherwise affected by the fraudulent, bad faith, or illegal conduct of the beneficiary or other Person, (B) an Issuing Lender declining to take-up documents and make payment, (C) against documents that are fraudulent, forged, or for other reasons by which that it is entitled not to honor, (D) following a Company’s waiver of discrepancies with respect to such documents or request for honor of such documents or (E) an Issuing Lender retaining proceeds of a Letter of Credit based on an apparently applicable attachment order, blocking regulation, or third-party claim notified to such Issuing Lender.
(j)Applicability of ISP and UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable Issuing Lender and the Company when a Letter of Credit is issued by it (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the UCP shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Issuing Lender shall be responsible to the Company for, and no Issuing Lender’s rights and remedies against the Company shall not be impaired by, any action or inaction of any Issuing Lender required or permitted under any law, order, or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where any Issuing Lender or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP or UCP, as applicable, or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements, or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade – International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such law or practice.
(k)Benefits. Each Issuing Lender shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and each Issuing Lender shall have all of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such Issuing Lender in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent” as used in Article IX included such Issuing Lender with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to such Issuing Lender.
(l)Letter of Credit Fees. The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Percentage a Letter of Credit fee (the “Letter of Credit Fee”) for each standby Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate times the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any standby Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09. Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) payable on the first Business Day following the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit and (ii) accrued through and including the last day of each calendar quarter in arrears. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each standby Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
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contained herein, upon the request of the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.
(m)Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to Issuing Lenders. The Company shall pay directly to the applicable Issuing Lender for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each standby Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum equal to the percentage separately agreed upon between the Company and such Issuing Lender, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such fronting fee shall be due and payable no later than the tenth Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in the most recently- ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Maturity Date and thereafter on demand. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09. In addition, the Company shall pay directly to the applicable Issuing Lender for its own account, in Dollars the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such Issuing Lender relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
(n)Disbursement Procedures. The Issuing Lender for any Letter of Credit shall, within the time allowed by Applicable Laws or the specific terms of the Letter of Credit following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under such Letter of Credit. Such Issuing Lender shall promptly after such examination notify the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing of such demand for payment if such Issuing Lender has made or will make an L/C Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Company of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Lender and the Lenders with respect to any such L/C Disbursement.
(o)Interim Interest. If the Issuing Lender for any standby Letter of Credit shall make any L/C Disbursement, then, unless the Company shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement in full on the date such L/C Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such L/C Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Company reimburses such L/C Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to Base Rate Loans; provided that if the Company fails to reimburse such L/C Disbursement when due pursuant to clause (f) of this Section 2.03, then Section 2.08(b) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this clause (p) shall be for account of such Issuing Lender, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Lender pursuant to clause (f) of this Section 2.03 to reimburse such Issuing Lender shall be for account of such Lender to the extent of such payment.
(p)Replacement of any Issuing Lender. Any Issuing Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement between the Company, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Lender and the successor Issuing Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of an Issuing Lender. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Company shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(m). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued by it thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Lender” shall be deemed to include such successor or any previous Issuing Lender, or such successor and all previous Issuing Lender, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Lender hereunder, the replaced Issuing Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
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(q)Cash Collateralization.
(i)If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Company receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Revolving Credit Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Revolving Credit Lenders with L/C Obligations representing at least 50% of the total L/C Obligations) demanding the deposit of Cash Collateral pursuant to this clause (q), the Company shall immediately deposit into an account established and maintained on the books and records of the Administrative Agent (the “Collateral Account”) an amount in cash equal to 103% of the total L/C Obligations as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, provided that the obligation to deposit such Cash Collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Company described in clause (f) of Section 8.01. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Company under this Agreement. In addition, and without limiting the foregoing or clause (d) of this Section 2.03, if any L/C Obligations remain outstanding after the expiration date specified in said clause (d), the Company shall immediately deposit into the Collateral Account an amount in cash equal to 103% of such L/C Obligations as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon.
(ii)The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over the Collateral Account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Company’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in the Collateral Account. Moneys in the Collateral Account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse each Issuing Lender for L/C Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed, together with related fees, costs, and customary processing charges, and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Company for the L/C Obligations at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Lenders with L/C Obligations representing 50% of the total L/C Obligations), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Company under this Agreement. If the Company is required to provide an amount of Cash Collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Company within three (3) Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived.
(r)Issuing Lender Reports to the Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender (other than the Administrative Agent in its capacity as an Issuing Lender) shall, in addition to its notification obligations set forth elsewhere in this Section 2.03, provide the Administrative Agent a Letter of Credit Report, as set forth below:
(i)reasonably prior to the time that such Issuing Lender issues, amends, renews, increases or extends a Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance, amendment, renewal, increase or extension and the stated amount of the applicable Letters of Credit after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (and whether the amounts thereof shall have changed);
(ii)on each Business Day on which such Issuing Lender makes a payment pursuant to a Letter of Credit, the date and amount of such payment;
(iii)on any Business Day on which the Company fails to reimburse a payment made pursuant to a Letter of Credit required to be reimbursed to such Issuing Lender on such day, the date of such failure and the amount of such payment;
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(iv)on any other Business Day, such other information as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request as to the Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender;
(v)for so long as any Letter of Credit issued by an Issuing Lender is outstanding, such Issuing Lender shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (A) on the last Business Day of each calendar month, (B) at all other times a Letter of Credit Report is required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement, and (C) on each date that (1) an L/C Credit Extension occurs or (2) there is any expiration, cancellation and/or disbursement, in each case, with respect to any such Letter of Credit, a Letter of Credit Report appropriately completed with the information for every outstanding Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender;
(vi)within one Business Day of any issuances, increases, decreases, extensions or terminations of Letters of Credit, all such information related thereto;
(vii)on the second Business Day or each month, the Dollar Equivalent of all outstanding Letters of Credit; and
(viii)a consolidated list of all outstanding Letter of Credits and activity throughout the quarter by 9:00 am EST 2 business days prior to the last day of the quarter.
(s)Additional Issuing Lenders. Any Lender hereunder may become an Issuing Lender upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of a fully executed Notice of Additional Issuing Lender which shall be signed by the Company, the Administrative Agent and each Issuing Lender. Such new Issuing Lender shall provide its L/C Commitment in such Notice of Additional Issuing Lender and upon the receipt by the Administrative Agent of the fully executed Notice of Additional Issuing Lender, the defined term L/C Commitment shall be deemed amended to incorporate the L/C Commitment of such new Issuing Lender.
(t)Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary, the Company shall be obligated to reimburse, indemnify and compensate the applicable Issuing Lender hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit as if such Letter of Credit had been issues solely for the account of the Company. The Company irrevocably waives any and all defenses that might otherwise be available to it as a guarantor or surety of any or all of the obligations of such Subsidiary in respect of such Letter of Credit. The Company hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Company, and that the Company’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
(u)Conflict with Issuer Documents. In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.
1.04Swingline Loans.
(a)The Swingline. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, shall, subject to the terms of any Autoborrow Agreement, make loans to the Company (each such loan, a “Swingline Loan”). Each such Swingline Loan may be made, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in any Autoborrow Agreement then in effect, to the Company, in Dollars, from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swingline Sublimit; provided, however, that (i) after giving effect to any Swingline Loan, (A) the Total Revolving Outstandings shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Facility at such time, (B) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Revolving Credit Lender at such time shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and (C) the aggregate amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding shall not exceed the Swingline Commitment of the Swingline Lender, (ii) the Company shall not use the proceeds
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of any Swingline Loan to refinance any outstanding Swingline Loan, and (iii) the Swingline Lender shall not be under any obligation to make any Swingline Loan if it shall determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that it has, or by such Credit Extension may have, Fronting Exposure. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Company may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. Each Swingline Loan shall bear interest only at a rate based on the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate; provided, however, that if an Autoborrow Agreement is in effect, the Swingline Lender may, at its discretion, provide for an alternate rate of interest on Swingline Loans under the Autoborrow Agreement with respect to any Swingline Loans for which the Swingline Lender has not requested that the Revolving Credit Lenders fund Revolving Credit Loans to refinance, or to purchase and fund risk participations in, such Swingline Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c). Immediately upon the making of a Swingline Loan, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swingline Lender a risk participation in such Swingline Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Revolving Percentage times the amount of such Swingline Loan.
(b)Borrowing Procedures.
(i)Other than a Swingline Loan Borrowing made pursuant to the Autoborrow Agreement, each Swingline Borrowing shall be made upon the Company’s irrevocable notice to the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by: (ii) telephone or (iii) a Swingline Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent of a Swingline Loan Notice. Each such Swingline Loan Notice must be received by the Swingline Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (A) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 or a whole multiple of the Dollar Equivalent of $100,000 in excess thereof, and (B) the requested date of the Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day). Promptly after receipt by the Swingline Lender of any Swingline Loan Notice, the Swingline Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swingline Loan Notice and, if not, the Swingline Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swingline Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Revolving Credit Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Swingline Borrowing (1) directing the Swingline Lender not to make such Swingline Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (2) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article IV is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swingline Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swingline Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swingline Loan available to the Company at its office by crediting the account of the Company on the books of the Swingline Lender in Same Day Funds.
(ii)In order to facilitate the borrowing of Swingline Loans, the Company and the Swingline Lender may mutually agree to, and are hereby authorized to, enter into an Autoborrow Agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Swingline Lender (the “Autoborrow Agreement”) providing for the automatic advance by the Swingline Lender of Swingline Loans under the conditions set forth in such agreement, which shall be in addition to the conditions set forth herein. At any time an Autoborrow Agreement is in effect, the requirements for Swingline Borrowings set forth in the immediately preceding paragraph shall not apply, and all Swingline Borrowings shall be made in accordance with the Autoborrow Agreement; provided that any automatic advance made by Bank of America in reliance of the Autoborrow Agreement shall be deemed a Swingline Loan as of the time such automatic advance is made notwithstanding any provision in the Autoborrow Agreement to the contrary. For purposes of determining the Total Revolving Outstandings at any time
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during which an Autoborrow Agreement is in effect (other than for purposes of calculating Commitment Fees), the Outstanding Amount of all Swingline Loans shall be deemed to be the amount of the Swingline Sublimit. For purposes of any Swingline Borrowing pursuant to the Autoborrow Agreement, all references to Bank of America in the Autoborrow Agreement shall be deemed to be a reference to Bank of America, in its capacity as Swingline Lender hereunder.
(c)Refinancing of Swingline Loans.
(i)The Swingline Lender at any time in its sole discretion may request, on behalf of the Company (which hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swingline Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving Credit Lender make a Base Rate Loan in an amount equal to such Lender’s Applicable Re