CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of October 18, 2021 among Syneron Medical Ltd. and Candela Medical, Inc. as the Borrowers, Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, THE OTHER LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO BARCLAYS BANK PLC,...
Exhibit 10.23
Dated as of October 18, 2021
among
Syneron Medical Ltd. and
Candela Medical, Inc. as the Borrowers,
Barclays Bank PLC,
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent,
THE OTHER LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO
BARCLAYS BANK PLC,
BOFA SECURITIES INC.,
ING CAPITAL LLC,
XXXXXXX XXXXX BANK USA,
and
COMERICA BANK
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I |
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DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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Section 1.01. |
Defined Terms | 1 | ||||
Section 1.02. |
Other Interpretive Provisions | 57 | ||||
Section 1.03. |
Accounting Terms | 58 | ||||
Section 1.04. |
Rounding | 58 | ||||
Section 1.05. |
References to Agreements, Laws, Etc. | 58 | ||||
Section 1.06. |
Times of Day | 59 | ||||
Section 1.07. |
[Reserved] | 59 | ||||
Section 1.08. |
Timing of Payment or Performance | 59 | ||||
Section 1.09. |
Currency Equivalents Generally | 59 | ||||
Section 1.10. |
Additional Alternative Currencies | 59 | ||||
Section 1.11. |
[Reserved] | 60 | ||||
Section 1.12. |
Limited Condition Acquisition | 60 | ||||
Section 1.13. |
Pro Forma and Other Calculations | 61 | ||||
Section 1.14. |
Divisions | 63 | ||||
ARTICLE II |
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THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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Section 2.01. |
The Loans | 63 | ||||
Section 2.02. |
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans | 63 | ||||
Section 2.03. |
[Reserved] | 65 | ||||
Section 2.04. |
Letters of Credit | 65 | ||||
Section 2.05. |
Prepayments | 70 | ||||
Section 2.06. |
Termination or Reduction of Commitments | 71 | ||||
Section 2.07. |
Repayment of Loans | 72 | ||||
Section 2.08. |
Interest | 72 | ||||
Section 2.09. |
Fees | 73 | ||||
Section 2.10. |
Computation of Interest and Fees | 73 | ||||
Section 2.11. |
Evidence of Indebtedness | 74 | ||||
Section 2.12. |
Payments Generally | 74 | ||||
Section 2.13. |
Sharing of Payments | 76 | ||||
Section 2.14. |
Incremental Credit Extensions | 77 | ||||
Section 2.15. |
Extensions of Revolving Credit Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments | 79 | ||||
Section 2.16. |
Defaulting Lenders | 82 | ||||
ARTICLE III |
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TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY |
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Section 3.01. |
Taxes | 83 | ||||
Section 3.02. |
Illegality | 87 | ||||
Section 3.03. |
Benchmark Replacement Setting | 87 |
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Section 3.04. |
Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans | 91 | ||||
Section 3.05. |
Funding Losses | 92 | ||||
Section 3.06. |
Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation | 92 | ||||
Section 3.07. |
Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances | 93 | ||||
Section 3.08. |
Survival | 94 | ||||
Section 3.09. |
Inability to Determine Rates | 94 | ||||
ARTICLE IV |
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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Section 4.01. |
Conditions to Signing Date | 95 | ||||
Section 4.02. |
Conditions to Closing Date | 96 | ||||
Section 4.03. |
Conditions to Each Credit Extension | 98 | ||||
ARTICLE V |
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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Section 5.01. |
Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws | 99 | ||||
Section 5.02. |
Authorization; No Contravention | 99 | ||||
Section 5.03. |
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents | 100 | ||||
Section 5.04. |
Binding Effect | 100 | ||||
Section 5.05. |
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect | 100 | ||||
Section 5.06. |
Litigation | 100 | ||||
Section 5.07. |
Ownership of Property; Liens | 101 | ||||
Section 5.08. |
Environmental Compliance | 101 | ||||
Section 5.09. |
Taxes | 101 | ||||
Section 5.10. |
Compliance with ERISA and other Pension Laws; Labor Matters | 101 | ||||
Section 5.11. |
Subsidiaries; Equity Interests | 102 | ||||
Section 5.12. |
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act | 102 | ||||
Section 5.13. |
Disclosure | 102 | ||||
Section 5.14. |
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. | 103 | ||||
Section 5.15. |
Solvency | 104 | ||||
Section 5.16. |
Collateral Documents | 104 | ||||
Section 5.17. |
Use of Proceeds | 104 | ||||
Section 5.18. |
Senior Indebtedness | 104 | ||||
Section 5.19. |
Patriot Act | 104 | ||||
Section 5.20. |
Anti-Corruption Laws | 104 | ||||
Section 5.21. |
Sanctioned Persons | 104 | ||||
Section 5.22. |
Beneficial Ownership Certification | 105 |
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ARTICLE VI |
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 6.01. |
Financial Statements | 105 | ||||
Section 6.02. |
Certificates; Other Information | 106 | ||||
Section 6.03. |
Notices | 107 | ||||
Section 6.04. |
Maintenance of Existence |
108 | ||||
Section 6.05. |
Maintenance of Properties |
108 | ||||
Section 6.06. |
Maintenance of Insurance |
109 | ||||
Section 6.07. |
Compliance with Laws |
109 | ||||
Section 6.08. |
Books and Records |
109 | ||||
Section 6.09. |
Inspection Rights |
109 | ||||
Section 6.10. |
Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security |
110 | ||||
Section 6.11. |
Use of Proceeds |
111 | ||||
Section 6.12. |
Further Assurances and Post-Closing Conditions |
111 | ||||
Section 6.13. |
Designation of Subsidiaries |
112 | ||||
Section 6.14. |
Payment of Taxes |
113 | ||||
Section 6.15. |
Nature of Business |
113 | ||||
Section 6.16. |
End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters |
113 | ||||
ARTICLE VII |
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 7.01. |
Liens | 114 | ||||
Section 7.02. |
Investments |
118 | ||||
Section 7.03. |
Indebtedness |
121 | ||||
Section 7.04. |
Fundamental Changes |
125 | ||||
Section 7.05. |
Dispositions |
127 | ||||
Section 7.06. |
Restricted Payments |
128 | ||||
Section 7.07. |
Transactions with Affiliates |
132 | ||||
Section 7.08. |
Prepayments, Etc., of Indebtedness |
133 | ||||
Section 7.09. |
Financial Maintenance Covenants |
134 | ||||
Section 7.10. |
Negative Pledge |
134 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII |
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES |
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Section 8.01. |
Events of Default | 136 | ||||
Section 8.02. |
Remedies Upon Event of Default |
138 | ||||
Section 8.03. |
[Reserved] |
138 | ||||
Section 8.04. |
Application of Funds |
139 | ||||
Section 8.05. |
Permitted Holders’ Right to Cure |
139 | ||||
Section 8.06. |
[Reserved] |
140 |
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ARTICLE IX |
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS |
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Section 9.01. |
Appointment and Authorization of Agents | 140 | ||||
Section 9.02. |
Delegation of Duties |
141 | ||||
Section 9.03. |
Liability of Agents |
141 | ||||
Section 9.04. |
Reliance by Agents |
142 | ||||
Section 9.05. |
Notice of Default |
142 | ||||
Section 9.06. |
Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents |
142 | ||||
Section 9.07. |
Indemnification of Agents |
143 | ||||
Section 9.08. |
Agents in their Individual Capacities |
144 | ||||
Section 9.09. |
Successor Agents |
144 | ||||
Section 9.10. |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding |
145 | ||||
Section 9.11. |
Collateral and Guaranty Matters |
146 | ||||
Section 9.12. |
Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers |
146 | ||||
Section 9.13. |
Withholding Tax |
147 | ||||
Section 9.14. |
Erroneous Payment |
147 | ||||
Section 9.15. |
Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements |
148 | ||||
Section 9.16. |
Intercreditor Agreements |
148 | ||||
Section 9.17. |
Certain ERISA Matters |
149 | ||||
ARTICLE X |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 10.01. |
Amendments, Etc. |
150 | ||||
Section 10.02. |
Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies |
153 | ||||
Section 10.03. |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
154 | ||||
Section 10.04. |
Attorney Costs and Expenses |
154 | ||||
Section 10.05. |
Indemnification by the Borrower |
154 | ||||
Section 10.06. |
Payments Set Aside |
156 | ||||
Section 10.07. |
Successors and Assigns |
156 | ||||
Section 10.08. |
Confidentiality |
161 | ||||
Section 10.09. |
Setoff |
162 | ||||
Section 10.10. |
Counterparts |
162 | ||||
Section 10.11. |
Integration |
162 | ||||
Section 10.12. |
Survival of Representations and Warranties |
163 | ||||
Section 10.13. |
Severability |
163 | ||||
Section 10.14. |
GOVERNING LAW |
163 | ||||
Section 10.15. |
WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY |
164 | ||||
Section 10.16. |
Binding Effect |
164 | ||||
Section 10.17. |
Judgment Currency |
164 | ||||
Section 10.18. |
Lender Action |
165 | ||||
Section 10.19. |
USA PATRIOT Act |
165 | ||||
Section 10.20. |
Release of Collateral and Guarantee Obligations; Subordination of Liens |
165 | ||||
Section 10.21. |
Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents |
167 | ||||
Section 10.22. |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions |
167 | ||||
Section 10.23. |
Judgment Currency |
168 | ||||
Section 10.24. |
Israeli Lenders |
168 | ||||
Section 10.25. |
Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs |
169 | ||||
Section 10.26. |
Fiduciary Duty and Conflicts |
170 |
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SCHEDULES
1.01A |
– | Certain Security Interests and Guarantees | ||||
1.01B |
– | Unrestricted Subsidiaries | ||||
1.01D |
– | Guarantors | ||||
2.01(a) |
– | Revolving Credit Commitments and L/C Commitments | ||||
5.06 |
– | Litigation | ||||
5.11 |
– | Subsidiaries | ||||
6.12(b) |
– | Post-Closing | ||||
7.01(b) |
– | Existing Liens | ||||
7.02(g) |
– | Existing Investments | ||||
7.03(c) |
– | Existing Indebtedness | ||||
7.05 |
Dispositions | |||||
7.07 |
– | Transactions with Affiliates | ||||
7.11 |
Negative Pledge Clauses | |||||
10.02 |
– | Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices |
EXHIBITS
Form of
A |
– | Committed Loan Notice | ||||
B |
– | Form of Prepayment Notice | ||||
C-1 |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
C-2 |
– | Revolving Credit Note | ||||
D |
– | Compliance Certificate | ||||
E |
– | Assignment and Assumption | ||||
F |
– | Guaranty | ||||
G |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
H |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
I |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
J-1 |
– | Signing Certificate | ||||
J-2 |
Israeli Signing Certificate | |||||
K |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
L |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
M |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
N |
– | Solvency Certificate | ||||
O |
– | U.S. Tax Compliance Certificates | ||||
P |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
Q |
– | Subordinated Intercompany Note | ||||
R |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
S |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
T |
– | [Reserved] | ||||
U-1 |
– | Form of Hedge Bank Designation | ||||
U-2 |
– | Form of Cash Management Bank Designation |
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This CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of October 18, 2021, by and among Syneron Medical Ltd., a company formed under the laws of the State of Israel (the “Israeli Borrower”), Candela Medical, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “U.S. Borrower” and, together with the Israeli Borrower, the “Borrower”), Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”), as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and, individually, a “Lender”; each as hereafter further defined) and each issuing bank from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Issuing Banks” and, individually, an “Issuing Bank”; each as hereafter further defined).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
1. The Borrower has requested that the Lenders extend credit to the Borrower in the form of Revolving Credit Commitments in an initial aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 (the “Revolving Credit Facility”) available in Dollars.
2. The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Facility may be used by the Borrower for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including the financing of Permitted Acquisitions and other investments and dividends (to the extent permitted herein) and any other use not prohibited by the Loan Documents.
3. The applicable Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary (determined as if references to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA” were references to such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary and its subsidiaries that will become Restricted Subsidiaries), as determined on a consolidated basis for such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP.
“Acquired Entity or Business” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Additional Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(d).
“Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate” means, for any Interest Period with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, a rate per annum equal to the product of (i) the Eurocurrency Rate in effect for such Interest Period and (ii) Statutory Reserves.
“Administrative Agent” means Barclays, in its capacity as administrative agent under the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent appointed in accordance with Section 9.09.
“Administrative Agent Fee Letter” means the Administrative Agent Fee Letter between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent dated as of the date hereof.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02 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 Borrower and the Lenders.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, the Person specified. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlled” has a meaning correlative thereto.
“Agent-Related Persons” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives of such Persons and Affiliates.
“Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.
“Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.
“Alternative Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 1.10.
“Applicable Lending Office” means for any Lender, such Lender’s office, branch or affiliate designated for Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans as notified to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower or as otherwise specified in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, any of which offices may, subject to Section 3.01(e) and Section 3.02, be changed by such Lender upon ten (10) days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.
“Applicable Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to, (i) until delivery of financial statements and a related Compliance Certificate for the first full fiscal quarter commencing on or after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 6.01, for (x) Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, 2.00% and (y) Revolving Credit Loans that are Base Rate Loans, 1.00% and (ii) thereafter, in connection with Revolving Credit Loans and Commitment Fees, the percentages per annum set forth in the table below, based upon the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a):
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Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans
Pricing Level |
First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio |
Eurocurrency Rate Loans |
Base Rate Loans | Commitment Fee Rate |
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I |
³ 3.00:1.00 | 3.00 | % | 2.00 | % | 0.375 | % | |||||||
II |
<3.00:1.00 but ³ 2.75:1.00 |
2.75 | % | 1.75 | % | 0.375 | % | |||||||
III |
< 2.75:1.00 but ³ 2.50:1.00 |
2.50 | % | 1.50 | % | 0.375 | % | |||||||
IV |
< 2.50:1.00 but ³ 2.25:1.00 |
2.25 | % | 1.25 | % | 0.375 | % | |||||||
V |
< 2.25:1.00 | 2.00 | % | 1.00 | % | 0.375 | % |
Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the First Lien Senior Secured 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).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this definition or elsewhere in this Agreement, if it is subsequently determined that the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio set forth in any Compliance Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent is inaccurate for any reason and the result thereof is that the Lenders received interest or fees for any period based on an Applicable Rate that is less than that which would have been applicable had the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio been accurately determined, then, for all purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Rate” for any day occurring within the period covered by such Compliance Certificate shall retroactively be deemed to be the relevant percentage as based upon the accurately determined First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio for such period, and any shortfall in the interest or fees theretofore paid by the Borrower for the relevant period as a result of the miscalculation of First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be (and shall be) earned and due and, subject to the foregoing proviso payable, at the time the interest or fees for such period were required to be paid pursuant to Section 2.08, 2.09 or 2.12, as applicable; provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as an Event of Default described in Section 8.01(a) (other than solely as a result of the failure to pay amounts required due to a miscalculation as provided in this paragraph) or Section 8.01(f) has not occurred with respect to the Borrower, such shortfall shall not be required to be paid until the date that is five (5) Business Days following the demand thereof by the Administrative Agent. In addition, (i) at the option of the Required Lenders, at any time during which the Borrower shall have failed to deliver the Section 6.01 Financials by the date required under Section 6.01, then the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Pricing Level I for the purposes of determining the Applicable Rate (but only for so long as such failure continues, after which the Pricing Level shall be otherwise as determined as set forth above) and (ii) at any time an Event of Default exists, pursuant to clause (a) or (f) of Section 8.01, then the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Pricing Level I for the purposes of determining the Applicable Rate.
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class.
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“Approved Foreign Bank” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Cash Equivalents.”
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged or advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course of business and that is administered, advised or managed by (a) such Lender, (b) an Affiliate of such Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages such Lender.
“Assignees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(b).
“Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit E or such other form as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable and documented or invoiced out-of-pocket fees, expenses and disbursements of any specified law firm or other specified external legal counsel.
“Auto-Extension Letter of Credit” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04.
“Available Amount” means, (a) at any time (the “Available Amount Reference Time”), the sum (which shall not be less than zero) of, without duplication:
(i) an amount equal to $20,000,000;
(ii) the amount (which amount shall not be less than zero) equal to 50% of the Cumulative Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries;
(iii) 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 received in cash or Cash Equivalents (valued at the Fair Market Value of such Cash Equivalents at the time received) or to the extent not received as cash or Cash Equivalents, an amount not to exceed, in the aggregate together with the amounts not received as cash or Cash Equivalents under clause (iv) below, $2,500,000) received by the Borrower or any Restricted 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 the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time (other than the portion of any such dividends and other distributions that is used by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to pay taxes);
(iv) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income, the aggregate amount of all repayments made in cash or Cash Equivalents (valued at the Fair Market Value of such Cash Equivalents at the time received (or to the extent not received as cash or Cash Equivalents, an amount not to exceed, in the aggregate together with the amounts not received as cash or Cash Equivalents under clause (iii) above, $2,500,000 )) of principal received by the Borrower or any Restricted 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 the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time in respect of loans made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and that constituted Investments;
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(v) to the extent not already included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income or applied to prepay the Loans in accordance with Section 2.05(a) or to prepay, repurchase, defease or redeem any secured Permitted Additional Debt (or any Indebtedness representing secured Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof in accordance with the corresponding provisions of the governing documentation thereof), the aggregate amount of all net cash proceeds received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Disposition of its ownership interest in any Investment to any Person other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary and to the extent such Investment was made by using the Available Amount during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time; and
(vi) the amount of any Investment of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any Unrestricted Subsidiary that has been re-designated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13 or that has been merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Section 7.04, in each case following the Closing Date and at or prior to the Available Amount Reference Time, in each case, such amount not to exceed the lesser of (x) the Fair Market Value of the Investments of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary immediately prior to giving effect to such re-designation or merger, amalgamation or consolidation and (y) the amount originally invested from the Available Amount by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary;
minus (b) the sum of, without duplication and without taking into account the proposed portion of the amount calculated above to be used at the applicable Available Amount Reference Time:
(i) the aggregate amount of any Investments made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 7.02(d), 7.02(j) or 7.02(n) after the Closing Date and prior to the Available Amount Reference Time;
(ii) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Payments made by the Borrower using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 7.06(j) after the Closing Date and prior to the Available Amount Reference Time; and
(iii) the aggregate amount expended on prepayments, repurchases, redemptions and defeasements made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Amount pursuant to Section 7.08(a) after the Closing Date and prior to the Available Amount Reference Time.
“Available Amount Reference Time” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Available Amount.”
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“Available Equity Amount” means, at any time (the “Available Equity Amount Reference Time”), an amount equal to, without duplication,
(a) the amount of any capital contribution or other equity issuances (or issuances of Indebtedness that have been converted into or exchanged for Qualified Equity Interests) received as cash equity (other than intercompany equity contributions among the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) by the Borrower or one of the Restricted Subsidiaries during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time, but excluding (i) all proceeds from the issuance of Disqualified Equity Interests, (ii) any Cure Amount and (iii) any proceeds from the issuance of Equity Interests used for, or otherwise having the effect of increasing any baskets under Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(n)(ii)), Section 7.02(d)(iv) and Section 7.02(j)(iv)(II)), Section 7.03(cc), Section 7.06 (other than Section 7.06(j)(i)) or Section 7.08 (other than Section 7.08(a)(iii)), plus
(b) the amount of any capital contributions received by the Borrower or one of the Restricted Subsidiaries (provided that the gross proceeds received in a form other than cash and Cash Equivalents shall not exceed $2,500,000 ) during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time, but excluding (i) all proceeds from the issuance of Disqualified Equity Interests, (ii) any Cure Amount and (iii) any capital contributions used for, or otherwise having the effect of increasing any baskets under Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(n)(ii)), Section 7.02(d)(iv), and Section 7.02(j)(iv)(II)) Section 7.03(cc), Section 7.06 (other than Section 7.06(j)(i)) or Section 7.08 (other than Section 7.08(a)(iii)), plus
(c) the aggregate amount of all dividends, returns, interests, profits, distributions, income and similar amounts (in each case, to the extent made in cash or Cash Equivalents (valued at the Fair Market Value of such Cash Equivalents at the time received), which amounts shall not exceed the amount of such Investment (valued at the Fair Market Value of such Investment at the time such Investment was made)) received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary on Investments made using the Available Equity Amount during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Equity Amount Reference Time, minus
(d) the sum, without duplication, and, without taking into account the proposed portion of the Available Equity Amount calculated above to be used at the applicable Available Equity Amount Reference Time, of:
(i) the aggregate amount of any Investments made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Equity Amount pursuant to Section 7.02(n)(ii), Section 7.02(d)(iv), Section 7.02(j)(iv)(II) after the Closing Date and prior to the Available Equity Amount Reference Time;
(ii) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Payments made by the Borrower using the Available Equity Amount pursuant to Section 7.06(j) after the Closing Date and prior to the Available Equity Amount Reference Time; and
(iii) the aggregate amount expended on prepayments, repurchases, redemptions and defeasements made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary using the Available Equity Amount pursuant to Section 7.08(a) after the Closing Date and prior to the Available Equity Amount Reference Time.
“Available Equity Amount Reference Time” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Available Equity Amount.”
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“Available Revolving Credit Commitment” means, in respect of any Revolving Credit Lender, at any time, such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
“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).
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
“Base Rate” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times be equal to the highest of:
(a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day;
(b) 1⁄2 of 1% per annum above the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day; and
(c) the Eurocurrency Rate plus 1%. Any change in such rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate, as the case may be.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, the applicable Base Rate shall not be less than 1.0%.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Base Rate. All Base Rate Loans shall be denominated in Dollars.
“Basel III” means, collectively, those certain agreements on capital requirements, leverage ratios and liquidity standards contained in “Basel III: A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking Systems,” “Basel III: International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards and Monitoring,” and “Guidance for National Authorities Operating the Countercyclical Capital Buffer,” each as published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010 (as revised from time to time).
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in and subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan.”
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“Board of Directors” means, with respect to any Person, (a) in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such Person or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board, (b) in the case of any limited liability company, the board of managers or board of directors of such Person, (c) in the case of any partnership, the board of directors or board of managers of a general partner of such Person and (d) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing.
“Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement and includes, to the extent applicable, any Successor Borrower. All references to “Borrower” herein shall be a collective reference to both the Israeli Borrower and the U.S. Borrower.
“Borrowing” means (a) the Incurrence of one Class and Type of Revolving Credit Loan on a given date (or resulting from conversions on a given date) having, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the same Interest Period and (b) the Incurrence of one Type of Extended Revolving Credit Loan of a specified Class on a given date (or resulting from conversions on a given date) having, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, the same Interest Period.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to close and if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Business Day.
“Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“Capitalized Leases” means, as applied to any Person, all leases of property that have been or are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases of such Person.
“Capitalized Software Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of purchased software or internally developed software and software enhancements that, in conformity with GAAP, are, or are required to be, reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary:
(1) (i) Dollars and (ii) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiaries, other currencies held by such Foreign Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;
(2) securities issued or directly and fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing the securities of which are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of such government with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
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(3) certificates of deposit, bankers’ acceptances, time deposits and eurocurrency time deposits with maturities of two years or less from the date of acquisition, with any United States or foreign commercial bank having capital and surplus of not less than $500,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks and $100,000,000 (or the equivalent in any local currency as of the date of determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks;
(4) repurchase agreements with a term of not more than thirty (30) days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3) and (7) of this definition entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;
(5) commercial paper or any variable or fixed rate note rated at least “P-2” by Moody’s or at least “A-2” by S&P, and in each case maturing within 36 months after the date of creation thereof and Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Persons with an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower), with maturities of 36 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(6) marketable short-term money market and similar securities having either (a) a rating of at least “P-2” or “A-2” from either Moody’s or S&P, respectively (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower) or (b) having assets in excess of $1,000,000,000;
(7) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth, province or territory of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof having an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower);
(8) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any foreign government or any political subdivision or public instrumentality thereof, in each case having an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower);
(9) Investments with average maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated within the top three ratings category by S&P or Moody’s (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower);
(10) with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business; provided that such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in each case maturing within one year after the date of investment therein, (ii) certificates of deposit of, bankers acceptances of, or time deposits with, any ADI or other commercial bank which is organized and existing under the laws of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business; provided that such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof or from Xxxxx’x is at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”), and in each case with maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank;
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(11) in the case of investments by any Foreign Subsidiary or investments made in a country outside the United States of America, Cash Equivalents shall also include (i) investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (1) through (10) above of foreign obligors, which investments or obligors (or the parents of such obligors) have ratings, described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies and (ii) other short-term investments utilized by Foreign Subsidiaries in accordance with normal investment practices for cash management in investments analogous to the foregoing investments described in clauses (1) through (10) of this paragraph.
(12) investment funds investing 90% of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (1) through (11) above.
“Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement entered into from time to time by Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with cash management services for collections, other Cash Management Services or for operating, payroll and trust accounts of such Person, including automatic clearing house services, controlled disbursement services, electronic funds transfer services, information reporting services, lockbox services, stop payment services, wire transfer services and other related services.
“Cash Management Bank” means any Lender, any Agent, any Lead Arranger or any Affiliate of the foregoing at the time it provides any Cash Management Services or any Person that shall have become a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent or a Lead Arranger at any time after it has provided any Cash Management Services; provided that with respect to any Cash Management Bank that is not a Lender or an Agent or a Lead Arranger, such Person shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a letter agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit U-2 or such other form as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Cash Management Obligations” means obligations owed by Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Cash Management Bank in respect of Cash Management Services.
“Cash Management Services” means (a) commercial credit cards, merchant card services, purchase or debit cards, including non-card e-payables services, (b) treasury management services (including controlled disbursement, overdraft automatic clearing house fund transfer services, return items and interstate depository network services) and (c) any other demand deposit or operating account relationships or other cash management services, including any Cash Management Agreements.
“Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, fixed assets or real property.
“CFC” means a Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower (for the avoidance of doubt, other than an Israeli Loan Party) that is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code.
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“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Signing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Xxxx-Xxxxx Xxxx Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law,” regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“Change of Control” means any Person, entity or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such Person, entity or “group” and their respective 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 Holders (or any Parent Entity of Borrower owned directly or indirectly by the Permitted Holders), shall at any time have acquired direct or indirect beneficial ownership (as defined in SEC Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act) of 35% or more on a fully diluted basis of the total outstanding voting interest in the Equity Interests of the Company.
provided that for the purposes of clause (a) of this definition, the members of any Permitted Holder Group will be treated as individual “persons,” and not as a “group.”
“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, Extended Revolving Credit Loans (of the same Extension Series), and, when used in reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving Credit Commitment or an Extended Revolving Credit Commitment (of the same Extension Series) and when used in reference to any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment of such Class.
“Closing Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.02.
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral” means all the “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in any Collateral Document and any other asset in which a Lien is (or purported to be) granted pursuant to any Collateral Document and shall include the Mortgaged Properties.
“Collateral Agent” means Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as collateral agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor collateral agent appointed in accordance with Section 9.09.
“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement (in each case subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Agreement and the Collateral Documents) that:
(a) the Collateral Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.02(a) or, after the Closing Date, pursuant to Section 6.10, Section 6.12, the Security Agreement or any other Collateral Agreement at such time required by such Collateral Documents or such section to be delivered in each case, duly executed by each Loan Party thereto;
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(b) all Obligations shall have been guaranteed unconditionally (the “Guarantees”) by Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary of Borrower (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) and, other than in the case of Obligations incurred directly by it, the Borrower, including as of the Closing Date those Restricted Subsidiaries of Borrower that are listed on Schedule 1.01C (each, a “Guarantor”);
(c) the Obligations shall have been secured by a first priority Lien on (i) all the Equity Interests of the Borrower and (ii) all Equity Interests (other than Excluded Equity Interests) held directly by the Borrower or any Guarantor in any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary and the Collateral Agent shall have received such certificate (to the extent that any such Equity Interests are evidenced by a certificate), together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank , and, with respect to Equity Interests of Persons formed in Israel, irrevocable instructions in relation to payments while an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(d) except to the extent otherwise provided hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations shall have been secured by perfected Lien (other than in the case of real property, which is covered by clause (f) below, to the extent such Lien may be perfected by delivering certificated securities or promissory notes, filing personal property financing statements or making any necessary filings or recordations with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office) in, and mortgages, charges and/or assignments (by way of security) on or over, substantially all tangible and intangible assets of each Loan Party (including, without limitation, accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, investment property, Intellectual Property, other general intangibles, owned (but not leased) real property and proceeds of the foregoing but excluding Equity Interests which are covered by clause (c) above), in each case, with the priority required by the Collateral Documents; provided that Liens in real property shall be limited to the Mortgaged Properties;
(e) none of the Collateral shall be subject to any Liens other than Liens permitted by Section 7.01;
(f) to the extent a Lien and Mortgages on any Material Real Property are required from a Loan Party pursuant to clause (d) above, the Collateral Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Material Real Property required to be delivered pursuant to Section 4.02(a) (if applicable), Section 6.10 and Section 6.12 (the “Mortgaged Properties”) duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such property together with evidence that counterparts of the Mortgages have been or are in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that the Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to create a valid and subsisting perfected Lien on the property and/or rights described therein in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and that all filing and recording taxes and fees have been paid or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (ii) other than with respect to any Mortgaged Property located in the State of Israel, a title insurance policy for such property or the equivalent or other form (if applicable) available in each applicable jurisdiction insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid Lien on the property described therein, free of any other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 7.01, in amounts (not to exceed the Fair Market Value
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of the Mortgaged Property covered thereby) and together with such endorsements, coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request and providing for such other affirmative insurance (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents), (iii) other than with respect to any Mortgaged Property located in the State of Israel, Guernsey (a) a new ALTA survey or (b) existing as-built surveys of the Mortgaged Properties (together with a no change affidavit) sufficient for the title company to remove the standard survey exceptions and issue the survey-related endorsements (to the extent such endorsements are available at commercially reasonable rates), (iv) with respect to any Mortgaged Property located in the State of Israel, Guernsey or owned by any Israeli Loan Party or Guernsey Loan Party, all documents and instruments required by Law or reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent to be filed, registered or recorded with any Governmental Authority (including for the purpose of perfection), (v) legal opinions (including opinions of local counsel for the Loan Parties addressed to the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties in states or provinces in which the Mortgaged Properties are located, with respect to the enforceability and perfection of the Mortgages and any related fixture filings and in states or provinces in which the Loan Party granting the Mortgage is organized with respect to the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Mortgages, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent) and other documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgaged Property and (vi) other than with respect to any Mortgaged Property located in the State of Israel or Guernsey, a completed “Life-of-Loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination, and if any improvements on such Mortgaged Property are located in a special flood hazard area, (a) a notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster assistance duly executed by the Borrower and (b) evidence of flood insurance required by Section 6.06 in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; provided that the relevant Loan Party shall not be required to execute and deliver any Mortgage on such real property until the Borrower has received confirmation from the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance as required by Section 6.06 is complete;
(g) (i) except with respect to intercompany Indebtedness, if any Indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount in excess of $1,000,000 (individually) is owing to any Loan Party and such Indebtedness is evidenced by a promissory note, the Collateral Agent shall have received such promissory note, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank and (ii) with respect to intercompany Indebtedness, all Indebtedness of the Borrower and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries that is owing to any Loan Party (or Person required to become a Loan Party) shall be evidenced by the Subordinated Intercompany Note, and the Collateral Agent shall have received such Subordinated Intercompany Note duly executed by the Borrower, each such Restricted Subsidiary and each such other Loan Party, together with undated instruments of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;
(h) to the extent a Guarantee and/or perfected Lien is required from (or in respect of) a Subsidiary pursuant to clauses (b) to (d) above, the Collateral Agent shall have received such legal opinions (including opinions of local counsel for the Loan Parties or, if customary in the relevant jurisdiction, counsel for the Administrative Agent) and other documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Guarantee or Collateral Document.
The foregoing definition shall not require the creation or perfection of Liens of or in, or the obtaining of title insurance or surveys with respect to, particular assets if and for so long as the Collateral Agent and the Borrower agree in writing that the cost of creating or perfecting such Liens in such assets or obtaining title insurance or surveys in respect of such assets shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom.
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The Collateral Agent may grant extensions of time for the provision or perfection of Liens in, or the obtaining of title insurance and surveys with respect to, particular assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of Liens in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) where it reasonably determines, in consultation with the Borrower, that provision or perfection cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, (a) with respect to leases of real property entered into by any Loan Party where the Loan Party is a tenant, such Loan Party shall not be required to take any action with respect to creation or perfection of Liens with respect to such leases (including requirements to deliver landlord lien waivers, estoppels and collateral access letters), (b) Liens required to be granted from time to time pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in the Collateral Documents and, to the extent appropriate in the applicable jurisdiction, as agreed between the Collateral Agent and the Borrower, (c) the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall not apply to any of the following assets: (i) any fee-owned real property that is not a Material Real Property, (ii) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters or authorizations, to the extent a Lien on any such licenses, franchise, charter or authorization would be prohibited or restricted thereby (including any legally effective prohibition or restriction and excluding IIA-Funded Know-How (which shall be subject to the IIA Provision)) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment clauses of the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Laws, other than the proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Laws notwithstanding such prohibition, (iii) motor vehicles and other assets and personal property subject to certificates of title to the extent a Lien thereon cannot be perfected by the filing of a UCC financing statement, a filing with the Registrar of Companies or the Registrar of Pledges or equivalent under applicable law, (iv) assets and personal property for which a pledge thereof or a Lien therein is prohibited by applicable Laws (including any legally effective requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment clauses of the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Laws, other than the proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Laws notwithstanding such prohibition, (v) Excluded Equity Interests, (vi) assets and personal property to the extent the cost, burden or consequences (including adverse tax consequences) of obtaining or perfecting a Lien on such assets and personal property is excessive in relation to the practical benefit afforded thereby, as reasonably determined by the Borrower and the Collateral Agent, (vii) any intent-to-use trademark application prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” or “Amendment to Allege Use” with respect thereto, to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which the grant of a Lien therein would impair the invalidity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark applicable under applicable federal law, (viii) [reserved] and (ix) any lease, license, contract, instrument or other agreements or any property (including personal property) subject to a purchase money security interest, Capitalized Lease Obligation or similar arrangements, in each case to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, to the extent that a pledge thereof or a Lien therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license, contract, instrument or agreement, purchase money, Capitalized Lease or similar arrangement, or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than a Borrower or a Guarantor) after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment clauses of the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Laws, other than the proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under
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the Uniform Commercial Code and other applicable Laws notwithstanding such prohibition (the assets excluded pursuant to this clause (c), collectively, the “Excluded Assets”), (d) control agreements shall not be required with respect to any deposit accounts, securities accounts, futures accounts or commodities accounts, (e) no perfection actions shall be required with respect to (i) motor vehicles and other assets and personal property subject to certificates of title except to the extent perfection is accomplished by the filing of a UCC financing statement, a filing with the Registrar of Companies or the Registrar of Pledges or equivalent action under any applicable Law, (ii) letter of credit rights, except to the extent constituting a supporting obligation for other Collateral as to which perfection is accomplished by the filing of a UCC financing statement, a filing with the Registrar of Companies or the Registrar of Pledges or equivalent under applicable Law (it being understood that no actions shall be required to perfect a Lien on assets subject to certificates of title or letter of credit rights, other than the filing of a UCC financing statement, a filing with the Registrar of Companies or the Registrar of Pledges or equivalent under applicable Law), (iii) commercial tort claims with an individual value of less than $1,000,000 and (iv) promissory notes evidencing Indebtedness for borrowed money in a principal amount, individually, of less than $1,000,000, other than the filing of a UCC financing statement and (f) no actions in any jurisdiction other than the U.S., the State of Israel or Guernsey shall be required to be taken to create any security interests in assets located or titled outside of the U.S., the State of Israel or Guernsey, or to perfect or make enforceable any Liens in any assets outside of the U.S., the State of Israel or Guernsey (it being understood that there shall be no Collateral Document (or other security agreements or pledge agreements) governed under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the U.S., Israel or Guernsey and it is agreed that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Liens in any IIA-Funded Know-How shall be subject to the immediately following paragraph and shall be granted solely under security documents governed by Israeli law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of Israeli courts).
The Secured Parties hereby acknowledge that any Liens in any IIA-Funded Know-How, to the extent applicable, and the realization thereof is subject to the Research Law. In addition, the Secured Parties hereby acknowledge that (a) the grant of the Lien on any IIA-Funded Know-How or (potentially) in Equity Interests in an Israeli Loan Party that owns IIA-Funded Know-How will require and will be subject to the approval of the Israeli Innovation Authority and to the execution and delivery by the Collateral Agent, on behalf of itself and the other Secured Parties, of an undertaking towards the Israeli Innovation Authority, in the form required by the Israeli Innovation Authority (the “IIA Undertaking”) (b) any realization of a Lien on IIA-Funded Know-How or (potentially) in Equity Interests in an Israeli Loan Party that owns IIA-Funded Know-How, including the sale, assignment or license of the IIA-Funded Know-How and its transfer within the framework of realization procedures under the Loan Documents will require and be subject to the approval of the Israeli Innovation Authority and to the conditions of the IIA Approval and of the Research Law. In addition, any realization of a Lien on the IIA-Funded Know-How or (potentially) in Equity Interests in an Israeli Loan Party that owns IIA-Funded Know-How will be subject to receiving an undertaking of the grantee, potential buyer or any other transferee to assume the applicable obligations in respect of such IIA-Funded Know-How in accordance with the Research Law and in accordance with the terms of the program pursuant to which grants were provided to the applicable Loan Party. This paragraph is referred to herein as the “IIA Provision.” The Secured Parties hereby authorize the Collateral Agent to take, or refrain from taking, any actions or to enter into any necessary undertakings or agreements on behalf of the Secured Parties that the Collateral Agent shall determine in its sole discretion are necessary to comply with the IIA Provision or any other requirements of the Israeli Innovation Authority with respect to IIA-Funded Know-How and any ancillary or related property.
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“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, each of the Mortgages, the Israeli Collateral Documents, the Guernsey Collateral Documents, the collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, general or specific security deeds, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Collateral Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 4.02(a), Section 6.10 or Section 6.12 and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (or any of them).
“Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender (to the extent applicable), such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, Extended Revolving Credit Commitment or any combination thereof (as the context requires).
“Commitment Fee” has the meaning provided in Section 2.09(a).
“Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Revolving Credit Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.
“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.
“Companies Law” means the Israeli Companies Law, 5759-1999, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Compensation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(d)(ii).
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
“Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means, with respect to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of deferred financing fees or costs, Capitalized Software Expenditures and the amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, the Consolidated Net Income of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, plus:
(a) without duplication and to the extent already deducted (and not added back or excluded) or, in the case of clause (viii), to the extent not included, in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period:
(i) provision for taxes based on income, revenues, profits or capital, including federal, foreign, state, franchise, excise, value added and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes of such Person paid or accrued during such period (including in respect of repatriated funds and any penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from any tax examinations); plus
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(ii) total interest expense and bank and letter of credit fees, amortization of deferred financing fees or costs and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities; plus
(iii) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense for such; plus
(iv) any expenses, fees, charges or losses (other than Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense) related to any equity offering or issuance, Investment (including compensation expense directly related thereto), acquisition, Disposition, conveyance, Refinancing or recapitalization permitted hereunder or the Incurrence of Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred hereunder (in each case, including any such transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed and/or not successful), including (A) such fees, expenses or charges related to the Loan Documents and any other credit facilities, (B) such fees, expenses or charges related to the Transactions and (C) any amendment or other modification, including any Refinancing, of the Loans and any other credit facilities; plus
(v) the amount of any restructuring charge or reserve or any non-recurring (on a per-transaction basis) integration cost or other business optimization expense (including in connection with the implementation of operational and reporting systems and technology initiatives), or cost associated with establishing new facilities or migrating from existing facilities that is deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities and costs related to the development of processes, establishment of facilities and recruiting; provided that (A) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have certified to the Administrative Agent that such restructuring charges are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable and specify such addbacks in reasonable detail and (B) no restructuring charges shall be added pursuant to this clause (v) to the extent duplicative of any adjustments to Consolidated Net Income; plus
(vi) any other non-cash charges, non-cash write-downs, non-cash write-offs, non-cash expenses, non-cash losses or items, including any impairment charges or the impact of purchase accounting, (excluding any such non-cash charge, write-off, write-down or item to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for a cash expenditure for a future period) or other items classified by the Borrower as special items less other non-cash items of income increasing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any such non-cash item of income to the extent it represents a receipt of cash in any future period); plus
(vii) (A) the amount of management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees (including termination fees) and related indemnities and expenses paid or accrued in such period to (or on behalf of) the Sponsor and (B) the amount of payments made to option holders of the Borrower or any of its direct or indirect parent companies in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to shareholders of such person or its direct or indirect parent companies, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were shareholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution, in each case to the extent permitted under this Agreement; plus
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(viii) the amount of “run-rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies related to any Transaction or any Specified Transaction that are projected by the Borrower in good faith and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent to result from either actions taken, actions for which substantial steps have already been taken, or actions expected to be taken within four fiscal quarters after the closing date of such Transaction or such Specified Transaction, as applicable (which cost savings shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings had been realized on the first day of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized prior to or during such period from such actions; provided that (A) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have certified to the Administrative Agent that such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable and specify such addbacks in reasonable detail, (B) no cost savings shall be added pursuant to this clause (viii) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges relating to such cost savings that are included in clause (v) above with respect to such Test Period or duplicative of any adjustments to Consolidated Net Income; and (C) the aggregate amount added back pursuant to this clause (viii) and pursuant to Section 1.13(c) for any Test Period shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period (prior to giving effect to such addbacks) and after giving effect to the applicable transactions; plus
(ix) [reserved];
(x) cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such income were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (b) below for any previous period and not added back; plus
(xi) (i) any expenses and charges that are reimbursed by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other Disposition of assets permitted hereunder and (ii) to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Borrower has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (A) not denied by or in dispute with the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption; plus
(xii) [reserved]; plus
(xiii) [reserved];
(xiv) net unrealized losses from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of FASB Accounting Standard Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements; plus
(xv) (i) interest income on trust cash held by Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) non-cash losses from joint ventures and non-cash minority interest reductions; plus
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(xvi) any transaction bonus, change of control payment or other amount paid to employees, directors or officers of Borrower (or any parent entity thereof) and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions; minus
(b) without duplication, and to the extent included in arriving at Consolidated Net Income in such period:
(i) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period, excluding any non-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period and any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period so long as such cash did not increase Consolidated EBITDA in such prior period; plus
(ii) any net unrealized gain or loss resulting from currency gains or losses related to Indebtedness, intercompany balances and/or the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; plus
(iii) any unrealized non-cash gains attributable to the xxxx-to-market movement in the valuation of Hedging Obligations (to the extent the cash impact resulting from such gain has not been realized) or other derivative instruments pursuant to FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815; and
(c) increased or decreased (without duplication) by, as applicable, any adjustments resulting for the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 460 or any comparable regulation; and
in each case, as determined on a consolidated basis for Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
There shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, the Acquired EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset acquired by Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or assets to the extent not so acquired), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise Disposed of by Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset acquired (including pursuant to (i) a transaction consummated prior to the Closing Date and (ii) a Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment)) and not subsequently so Disposed of, an “Acquired Entity or Business”), and the Acquired EBITDA of any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each a “Converted Restricted Subsidiary”), based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition) determined on a historical pro forma basis. There shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Person, property, business or asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred or otherwise Disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (each such Person, property, business or asset so sold or Disposed of, a “Sold Entity or Business”) and the Disposed EBITDA of any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period to the extent not subsequently reacquired, reclassified or continued, in each case, during such period (each a “Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary”), based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring
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prior to such sale, transfer or Disposition) determined on a historical pro forma basis; provided that for the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding any classification under GAAP of any Person or business in respect of which a definitive agreement for the Disposition thereof has been entered into as discontinued operations, the Disposed EBITDA of such Person or business shall not be excluded pursuant to this paragraph until such Disposition shall have been consummated.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) attributable to Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, excluding, without duplication,
(1) any net income (loss) of any Person if such Person is not Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, except that Borrower’ or any Restricted Subsidiary’s equity in the net income of any such Person for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash or Cash Equivalents actually distributed;
(2) any net gain (or loss) realized upon the sale or other Disposition of any asset of Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries (including pursuant to any sale/leaseback transaction) which is not sold or otherwise Disposed of in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer or the Board of Directors of the Borrower);
(3) any extraordinary, exceptional, unusual or nonrecurring gain, loss, charge or expense (other than Transaction Expenses) or any charges, expenses or reserves in respect of any restructuring, redundancy or severance expense;
(4) Transaction Expenses;
(5) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles;
(6) (i) stock-based, partnership interest-based and similar incentive-based compensation award or arrangement charges or expenses (including with respect to any profits interest relating to membership interests in any partnership or limited liability company and any charges or expenses arising from the grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, options, restricted stock or other rights or equity incentive programs) and any charges associated with the rollover, acceleration or payout of Equity Interests by, or to, officers, directors or employees of Borrower (or any parent entity thereof) or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or any of its Parent Entities, (ii) and any deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities or other provisions, (iii) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts and (iv) any costs or expense incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such cost or expenses are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Borrower or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interests of the Borrower (or any Parent Entity) (other than Disqualified Equity Interests or any Cure Amount);
(7) all deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid or other expenses incurred directly in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness and any net gain (loss) from any write-off or forgiveness of Indebtedness;
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(8) any unrealized gains or losses in respect of any obligations under any Swap Contracts or any ineffectiveness recognized in earnings related to qualifying hedge transactions or the fair value of changes therein recognized in earnings for derivatives that do not qualify as hedge transactions, in each case, in respect of any obligations under any Swap Contracts and any losses on Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income and gains on such Hedging Obligations or such derivative instruments;
(9) any unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets and liabilities on the balance sheet of the Borrower;
(10) any purchase accounting effects including, but not limited to, adjustments to property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries), as a result of any consummated acquisition (including the Transactions and any acquisition prior to the Closing Date), or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof (including any write-off of in process research and development);
(11) any goodwill or other intangible asset impairment charge or write-off;
(12) any income (loss) from the early extinguishment or cancellation of Indebtedness or any obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments;
(13) accruals and reserves that are established within twelve months after the Closing Date that are so required to be established as a result of the Transactions in accordance with GAAP or changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period;
(14) any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 – Derivatives and Hedging and related pronouncements;
(15) any net pension or other post-employment benefit costs representing amortization of unrecognized prior service costs, actuarial losses, including amortization of such amounts arising in prior periods, amortization of the unrecognized net obligation (and loss or cost) existing at the date of initial application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715, and any other items of a similar nature;
(16) income or expense related to changes in the fair value of contingent liability for in connection with earn-out obligations, deferred purchase prices and similar liabilities in connection with the Transactions or any Permitted Acquisition or similar Investment; and
(17) solely for the purpose of determining the amount available under clause (ii) of the definition of “Available Amount,” the net income (or loss) for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any of the Guarantors) shall be excluded to the extent the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of its net income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, is otherwise restricted by the operation of the terms of its
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charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule, or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its equity holders, unless such restriction with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions has been legally waived; provided that Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower will be increased by the amount of such dividends or other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or to the extent converted into cash or Cash Equivalents prior to the date of such determination) to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any date of determination, the amount that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total assets” (or any like caption) on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date.
“Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with the Transactions or any Permitted Acquisition (or any similar permitted Investment)), consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, Unreimbursed Amounts, Capitalized Lease Obligations, purchase money indebtedness and debt obligations evidenced by promissory notes or similar instruments minus (b) the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents included in the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date; provided that the proceeds of Indebtedness Incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not be considered cash or Cash Equivalents for purposes of any “netting” pursuant to clause (b) of this definition for purposes of determining any concurrent (or substantially concurrent) Incurrence test under this Agreement and whether the Borrower is in pro forma compliance with any such concurrent (or substantially concurrent) test; provided, further, that Consolidated Total Debt shall not include obligations under Swap Contracts permitted under Section 7.03(h).
“Contractual Obligation” means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Control” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Affiliate.”
“Converted Restricted Subsidiary” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA.”
“Corrective Extension Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(e).
“Credit Extension” means a Borrowing.
“Cumulative Consolidated Net Income” means, as at any date of determination, Consolidated Net Income for the period (taken as one accounting period) commencing on October 1, 2021 and ending on the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which Section 6.01 Financials have been delivered.
“Cure Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).
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“Cure Deadline” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).
“Cure Right” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).
“Customary Intercreditor Agreement” means (a) to the extent executed in connection with the Incurrence of secured Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement, the Liens on the Collateral of which are intended to rank equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies), at the option of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent acting together in good faith, either (i) any intercreditor agreement substantially in the form of the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement or (ii) a customary intercreditor agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which agreement shall provide that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Indebtedness shall rank equal in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies) and (b) to the extent executed in connection with the Incurrence of secured Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement the Liens on the Collateral of which are intended to rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations, at the option of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent acting together in good faith, either (i) in the case of Liens on the Collateral of which are intended to rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations (but without regard to the control of remedies), the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or (ii) a customary intercreditor agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which agreement shall provide that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Indebtedness shall rank junior in priority to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code, the Companies Law, the Insolvency Law and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, rehabilitation, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States, the State of Israel, Guernsey or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan (or, in the event of non-Loan amounts, the Base Rate) plus 2.0% per annum, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender whose acts or failure to act, whether directly or indirectly, cause it to meet any part of the definition of “Lender Default.”
“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a Disposition pursuant to Section 7.05(m) that is designated as “Designated Non-Cash Consideration” pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent, setting forth the basis of such valuation (which amount will be reduced by (i) the Fair Market Value of the portion of the non-cash consideration converted to cash within 180 days following the consummation of the applicable Disposition and (ii) the amount of Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration).
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“Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary (determined as if references to Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA” (and in the component financial definitions used therein) were references to such Sold Entity or Business and its Subsidiaries or to such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries), all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, assignment, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any Sale Leaseback and any sale (or issuance to any Person not an Affiliate of the Borrower) of Equity Interests) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided that “Disposition” and “Dispose” shall not be deemed to include any issuance by Borrower (or any Parent Entity) of any of its Equity Interests to another Person.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition:
(a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests) pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale or casualty or condemnation event so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale or casualty or condemnation event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations (other than Hedging Obligations under any Secured Hedge Agreement, Cash Management Obligations under Secured Cash Management Agreements or contingent indemnification obligations and other contingent obligations that are not then due and payable) that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments),
(b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares of such Equity Interests), in whole or in part,
(c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date, or
(d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to any plan for the benefit of employees of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof), the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because it may be required to be repurchased by Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof), the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations.
“Disqualified Lenders” means (i) those Persons who are competitors of Borrower and its Subsidiaries that are separately identified in writing by the Borrower from time to time and (ii) any of their Affiliates (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not include any bona fide debt investment funds that are affiliates of the Persons referenced in clause (i) above) that are either (a) identified in writing by the Borrower from time to time or (b) readily identifiable on the basis of such Affiliates name; provided that (i) no permitted supplement or modification to the list of Disqualified Lenders shall apply retroactively to disqualify any persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation in the Loans or Commitments, (ii) any permitted supplement or modification to the list of Disqualified Lenders
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shall be posted to the Platform, (iii) any such supplement or modification will become effective three (3) Business Days after being posted to the Platform, and (iv) if the Borrower has consented to an assignment to a Disqualified Lender, such entity will not be considered a Disqualified Lender for the purpose of such assignment. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not (x) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Lender or (y) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of Loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to any Disqualified Lender.
“Distressed Person” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Lender-Related Distress Event.”
“Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of (i) the United States or any state thereof or (ii) the District of Columbia.
“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.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person) that becomes an Assignee in accordance with Section 10.07(b).
“Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, land surface, sediments, and subsurface strata and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable Laws relating to pollution or the protection of human health (as relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials) and the Environment.
“Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement” means an Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement among the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent and one or more representatives for holders of one or more classes of Indebtedness secured on a pari passu basis to the Liens securing the Obligations in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Borrower.
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“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities).
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated under it.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is under common control with any Loan Party and is treated as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA.
“ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) the failure of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Pension Plan; (d) a failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, whether or not waived, or the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard, in each case with respect to a Pension Plan, or a failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (e) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan, notification of any Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or that is in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA; (f) any event or condition which constitutes grounds for a termination under Section 4041A of ERISA, the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, but excluding PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate, or the imposition of a lien under Section 412 or 430(k) of the Code or Section 303 or 4068 of ERISA on any property (or rights to property, whether real or personal) of a Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; (i) a determination that any Pension Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (within the meaning of Section 303(i)(4)(A) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4)(A) of the Code) or (j) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction with respect to any Pension Plan maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA), which could result in liability to any Loan Party.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
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“Eurocurrency Rate” means:
(a) with respect to any Credit Extension denominated in a LIBOR Quoted Currency, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or a comparable or successor rate which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, 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) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in the relevant currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period;
(b) for any rate calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time determined two (2) Business Days prior to such date for Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day;
provided that to the extent a comparable or successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection with any rate set forth in this definition, the approved rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided, further, that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent; and if the Eurocurrency Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
“Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate.” Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be denominated in Dollars.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exchange Rate” means, on any day with respect to any currency (other than Dollars), the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into any other currency (including Dollars), as set forth at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day on the Reuters World Currency Page for such currency. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Reuters World Currency Page, the Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such currency are then being conducted, at or about 11:00 a.m., local time, on such date for the purchase of the relevant currency for delivery two (2) Business Days later.
“Excluded Assets” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
“Excluded Equity Interests” means:
(a) any Equity Interests with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Collateral Agent and the Borrower, the cost of pledging such Equity Interests (including any adverse tax consequences) shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Secured Parties therefrom;
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(b) any Equity Interests that are Voting Stock of a Subsidiary that is a CFC or FSHCO in excess of 65% of the outstanding Equity Interests that are Voting Stock of such CFC or FSHCO;
(c) any Equity Interests to the extent, and for so long as, the pledge thereof would be prohibited by any applicable Law (including any legally effective requirement to obtain the consent of any Governmental Authority unless such consent has been obtained but only to the extent any of the foregoing is not rendered ineffective by, or is otherwise unenforceable under, the UCC or any other applicable Law);
(d) any “margin stock” and Equity Interests of any Person (other than any Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary) to the extent, and for so long as, the pledge of such Equity Interests would be prohibited by, or would create an enforceable right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than Borrower, the Borrower or any Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary) under, the terms of any Contractual Obligation, Organizational Document, joint venture agreement or shareholders’ agreement applicable to such Person (but only to the extent any of the foregoing is not rendered ineffective by, or is otherwise unenforceable under, the UCC or any other applicable Law);
(e) the Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of a CFC;
(f) the Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary (other than an Israeli Subsidiary or a Guernsey Subsidiary) of an Israeli Subsidiary;
(g) the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary; and
(h) [reserved].
“Excluded Subsidiary” means:
(a) any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary or is a joint venture on any date such Subsidiary would otherwise be required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.10 (for so long as such Subsidiary remains a non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary) (provided that a wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary that becomes a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary as a result of a transaction that is not a good faith disposition for fair market value and for a bona fide business purpose, in either case, shall not be deemed to be an Excluded Subsidiary);
(b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by (x) subject to clause (h) below, applicable Law or (y) Contractual Obligation from guaranteeing the Obligations (and for so long as such restriction is in effect); provided that in the case of clause (y), such Contractual Obligation existed on the Closing Date or, with respect to any Subsidiary acquired by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date (and so long as such Contractual Obligation was not incurred in contemplation of such acquisition), on the date such Subsidiary is so acquired;
(c) (i) any CFC, (ii) any FSHCO,(iii) any direct or indirect Subsidiary of a CFC and (iv) any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary, a Subsidiary organized under the laws of Guernsey or an Israeli Subsidiary;
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(d) any other Subsidiary for which cost, burden or consequences (including adverse tax consequences) of providing a Guarantee would outweigh the practical benefit afforded thereby (as reasonably determined by the Borrower in consultation with the Administrative Agent);
(e) any Immaterial Subsidiary (provided that the Borrower shall not be permitted to exclude Immaterial Subsidiaries from guaranteeing the Obligations to the extent that (i) the aggregate amount of gross revenue for all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) excluded by this clause (e) exceeds 5% of the consolidated gross revenues (measured as of any date of determination based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are not otherwise Excluded Subsidiaries by virtue of any other clauses of this definition except for this clause (e) as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination, (ii) the aggregate amount of total assets for all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) excluded by this clause (e) exceeds 5% of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Total Assets (measured as of any date of determination based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are not otherwise Excluded Subsidiaries by virtue of any other clauses of this definition except for this clause (e) as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination and (iii) the aggregate amount of EBITDA for all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries) excluded by this clause (e) exceeds 5% of Consolidated EBITDA (measured as of any date of determination based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are not otherwise Excluded Subsidiaries by virtue of any other clauses of this definition except for clause (e) as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination);
(f) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower (confirmed in writing by notice to the Borrower and the Collateral Agent), the cost of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom;
(g) each Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(h) each other Domestic Subsidiary or Israeli Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and financed with secured Indebtedness assumed pursuant to Section 7.03(i) and the Liens securing which are permitted by Section 7.02(j) (and, for the avoidance of doubt, not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment)), and each Restricted Subsidiary acquired in such Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) that guarantees such Indebtedness, in each case to the extent that, and for so long as, the documentation relating to such Indebtedness to which such Domestic Subsidiary, Israeli Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, is a party prohibits such Subsidiary from guaranteeing the Obligations; and
(i) any Subsidiary that would require any consent, approval, license or authorization from any Governmental Authority to provide a Guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received, or is received after commercially reasonable efforts (including if requested by the Administrative Agent to do so) by the Borrower and/or such Subsidiary to obtain the same.
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“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, (a) any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of such Guarantor pursuant to the Guarantee of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a Lien to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any guarantee pursuant to the 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 of any thereof) (i) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure to constitute an “eligible contract participant,” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations thereunder (determined after giving effect to any applicable keep well, support, or other agreement for the benefit of such Guarantor and any and all applicable guarantees of such Guarantor’s Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties), at the time the guarantee of (or grant of such Lien by, as applicable) such Guarantor becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or (ii) in the case of a Swap Obligation that is subject to a clearing requirement pursuant to Section 2(h) of the Commodity Exchange Act, because such Guarantor is a “financial entity,” as defined in Section 2(h)(7)(C) of the Commodity Exchange Act, at the time the guarantee of (or grant of such Lien by, as applicable) such Guarantor becomes or would become effective with respect to such Swap Obligation or (b) any other Swap Obligation designated as an “Excluded Swap Obligation” of such Guarantor as specified in any agreement between the relevant Loan Parties and Hedge Bank applicable to such Swap Obligations. If a Swap Obligation arises under a Master Agreement governing more than one Swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to the Swap for which such guarantee or Lien is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition. As used herein, “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.
“Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Agent or Lender or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to any Agent or Lender, (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 Agent or Lender being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Applicable Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax 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 applicable Commitment, or, if such Lender did not fund the applicable Loan pursuant to a prior Commitment, the date on which such Lender acquires the applicable interest in such Loan (in each case, other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 3.07) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01, 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 Agent’s or Lender’s failure to comply with Section 3.01(f) or (g) and (d) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Existing Class” means each Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Existing Credit Agreement” means that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of September 20, 2017 (as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Credit Agreement, dated as of October 8, 2017, as further amended by that certain Amendment No. 2 to Credit Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2018, as further amended by that certain Waiver and Amendment No. 2 to Credit Agreement, dated as of September 24, 2019 and as further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), among Lupert Ltd, Syneron Medical Ltd., Syneron, Inc., ING Capital LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent thereunder, and each lender thereunder party thereto.
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“Existing Revolving Credit Class” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Existing Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Existing Senior Facilities Agreement” means that certain Senior Facilities Agreement dated as of January 14, 2020, among, inter alia, Candela Midco LLC and Carlyle Global Credit Investments Management LLC.
“Expected Cure Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(b).
“Extended Loans/Commitments” means Extended Revolving Credit Loans and/or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments.
“Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Extended Revolving Credit Facility” means each Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments established pursuant to Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Extended Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Extending Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(b).
“Extension Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(c).
“Extension Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(d).
“Extension Election” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(b).
“Extension Request” means Revolving Credit Extension Requests.
“Extension Series” means all Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (as applicable) that are established pursuant to the same Extension Agreement (or any subsequent Extension Agreement to the extent such Extension Agreement expressly provides that the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, provided for therein are intended to be a part of any previously established Extension Series) and that provide for the same interest margins, extension fees, if any, and amortization schedule.
“Facility” means any of the Revolving Credit Facility or any Extended Revolving Credit Facility, as applicable.
“Fair Market Value” means with respect to any asset or group of assets on any date of determination, the value of the consideration obtainable in a sale of such asset at such date of determination assuming a sale by a willing seller to a willing purchaser dealing at arm’s length and arranged in an orderly manner over a reasonable period of time having regard to the nature and characteristics of such asset, as determined in good faith by the Borrower.
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“fair value” means the amount at which the assets (both tangible and intangible), in their entirety, of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, within a commercially reasonable period of time, each having reasonable knowledge of the relevant facts, with neither being under any compulsion to act.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations with respect thereto or official administrative interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code as of the Closing Date (or any amended or successor version described above) and any intergovernmental agreements (or related rules, legislation or official administrative guidance) implementing the foregoing.
“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
“Federal Funds Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) determined by the Administrative Agent.
“Financial Covenant” means the covenants set forth in Section 7.09.
“First Lien Obligations” means (i) the Obligations and (ii) any other Indebtedness that is secured by Liens on the Collateral that rank on an equal priority basis (but without regard to the control of remedies) with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations.
“First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt (including the Loans hereunder) secured by first priority Liens on all or substantially all of the Collateral as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Fitch” means Fitch Ratings Ltd, or any successor thereto.
“Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statue thereto, (iii) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (v) the Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxx Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.
“Foreign Pension Event” means (a) a contribution or premium required to be paid to or in respect of any Foreign Plan is not paid in a timely fashion in accordance with the terms thereof or any applicable Law, or taxes, penalties or fees are owing or eligible under any Foreign Plan beyond the date permitted for payment of same; (b) the occurrence of an event respecting any Foreign Plan which would entitle any Person to wind-up or terminate any Foreign Plan, or which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the tax status thereof; (c) the determination of a going concern unfunded actuarial liability, past service unfunded liability or solvency deficiency respecting any Foreign Plan or (d) the occurrence of an improper withdrawal or transfer of assets from any Foreign Plan.
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“Foreign Plan” means any employee pension, retirement or other analogous plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement maintained by, or contributed to by, or entered into with, any Loan Party or any Subsidiary with respect to employees outside the United States providing for retirement income or benefits (other than any plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement sponsored or maintained exclusively by a Governmental Authority).
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
“FSHCO” means any Domestic Subsidiary of the U.S. Borrower that owns no material assets other than Equity Interests of one or more direct or indirect Foreign Subsidiaries that are CFCs.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, it is understood and agreed that all obligations of any Person that are or would be characterized as operating lease obligations in accordance with GAAP on January 1, 2013 (whether or not such operating lease obligations were in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as operating lease obligations (and not as Capitalized Lease Obligations or Capitalized Leases) for purposes of this Agreement regardless of any change in GAAP following the date that would otherwise require such obligations to be re-characterized as Capitalized Lease Obligations or Capitalized Leases.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state, territorial or other political subdivision thereof, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including the Bank of Israel, the Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings Department in the Israeli Ministry of Finance and supra-national bodies).
“Granting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).
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“Guarantee Obligations” means, as to any Person, without duplication, any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or the payment or performance of such Indebtedness, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided that the term “Guarantee Obligations” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or Disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith.
“Guarantees” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
“Guarantors” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
“Guaranty” means, collectively, (a) the Guarantee substantially in the form of Exhibit F and (b) each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.
“Guernsey Collateral Documents” means any pledge, charge, mortgage, security and/or collateral agreements, assignments or other documents between any Guernsey Loan Party or any other Loan Party that owns Collateral located in Guernsey (including Equity Interests in any Subsidiary formed in the State of Guernsey (other than Excluded Equity Interests)) and the Collateral Agent.
“Guernsey Loan Party” means any Loan Party organized under the laws of Guernsey.
“Hazardous Materials” means all substances or wastes regulated as hazardous or toxic or other term of equivalent regulatory import, pursuant to any Environmental Law, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, friable asbestos or friable asbestos containing materials and polychlorinated biphenyls.
“Hedge Bank” means any Person that is a counterparty to a Secured Hedge Agreement with a Loan Party or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in its capacity as such, and that any of (i) a Lender, an Agent, a Lead Arranger or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing at the time it enters into such a Secured Hedge Agreement, in its capacity as a party thereto or (ii) a Person that becomes a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Agent or an Affiliate of an Agent or a Lead Arranger after it has entered into such a Secured Hedge Agreement; provided that with respect to any Hedge Bank that is not a Lender or an Agent, delivered to the Administrative Agent a letter agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit U-1 or such other form as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. For the avoidance of doubt, each Agent shall constitute a Hedge Bank to the extent it has entered into a Secured Hedge Agreement.
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“Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under Swap Contracts.
“IIA Approval” means the Initial IIA Approval and any other approval (substantially similar to the Initial IIA Approval or in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) of the Israeli Innovation Authority granted in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.
“IIA-Funded Know-How” means the Intellectual Property forming part of the Collateral that was developed with the support of the Israeli Innovation Authority, including any rights derived therefrom.
“IIA Provision” has the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
“IIA Rights” means all the rights, powers and privileges of the Research Committee by virtue of the Research Law and/or any instrument of approval granted by the Israeli Innovation Authority, pursuant to the Israeli Innovation Authority’s powers under the Research Law.
“IIA Undertaking” has the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) whose total assets (when combined with the assets of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination were less than 2.5% or (ii) whose gross revenues (when combined with the revenues of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany obligations) for such Test Period were less than 2.5%.
“Immediate Family Members” means, with respect to any individual, such individual’s estate, heirs, legatees, distributees, child, stepchild, grandchild or more remote descendant, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse, former spouse, qualified domestic partner, sibling, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law or sister-in-law (including adoptive relationships) and any trust, partnership or other bona fide estate-planning vehicle the only beneficiaries of which are any of the foregoing individuals or any private foundation or fund that is controlled by any of the foregoing individuals or any donor-advised fund of which any such individual is the donor.
“Incremental Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(e).
“Incremental Amount” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14(b).
“Incremental Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Facilities” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(e).
“Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
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“Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(g).
“Incur” means, create, issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable for; provided, however, that any Indebtedness of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Person at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary. The term “Incurrence” when used as a noun shall have a correlative meaning. Solely for purposes of determining compliance with Section 7.03 with respect to any initial incurrence of Indebtedness:
(a) amortization of debt discount or the accretion of principal with respect to a non-interest bearing or other discount security;
(b) the payment of regularly scheduled interest in the form of additional Indebtedness of the same instrument or the payment of regularly scheduled dividends on Equity Interests in the form of additional Equity Interests of the same class and with the same terms; and
(c) the obligation to pay a premium in respect of Indebtedness arising in connection with the issuance of a notice of prepayment or redemption or making of a mandatory offer to prepay, redeem or purchase such Indebtedness;
will, in each case, not be deemed to be the Incurrence of Indebtedness.
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), banker’s acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;
(c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable, liabilities or accrued expenses in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any earnout obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and if not paid after becoming due and payable);
(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f) all Capitalized Lease Obligation of such Person;
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(g) all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests; and
(h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing;
provided that Indebtedness shall not include (i) prepaid or deferred revenue arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) purchase price holdbacks arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warrants or other unperformed obligations of the seller of such assets and (iii) Guarantee Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and not supporting or otherwise related to any Indebtedness for borrowed money.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall (A) include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise limited and only to the extent such Indebtedness would be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Debt and (B) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, exclude all intercompany Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value of such Swap Contract as of such date. The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the Fair Market Value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
“Indemnified Taxes” means all (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a) above, Other Taxes.
“Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
“Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.
“Initial IIA Approval” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.01(h).
“Insolvency Law” means the Israeli Insolvency and Rehabilitation Law, 5778-2018, and any regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Intellectual Property” means U.S. and non-U.S. rights in all (a) patents, invention registrations and design registrations, together with all inventions, discoveries or designs disclosed or claimed therein, (b) copyrights, (c) trademarks, service marks, domain names, trade names, trade dress and other identifiers of source or goodwill, (d) trade secrets, know how, designs, product configurations, rights in software, data and databases and other confidential or proprietary information or technology, (e) all issuances, registrations and applications for issuance or registration with respect to the foregoing.
“Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means each Intellectual Property Security Agreement executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.
“Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Intellectual Property Security Agreement.
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“Interest Payment Date” means (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
“Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date one, three or six months thereafter (in each case, subject to availability), as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice, or such other period that is twelve months or a period of shorter than one month, if requested by the Borrower and consented to by all the Appropriate 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 Eurocurrency Rate Loan, 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 Eurocurrency 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 of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
“Investment” means, as to any Person, any direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests or Indebtedness or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee Obligation with respect to any obligation of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other Indebtedness or equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person (excluding, in the case of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, intercompany loans, advances, or Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business) or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person. The amount, as of any date of determination, of (i) any Investment in the form of a loan or an advance shall be the principal amount thereof outstanding on such date, minus any cash payments actually received by such investor representing interest in respect of such Investment (to the extent any such payment to be deducted does not exceed the remaining principal amount of such Investment), but without any adjustment for write-downs or write-offs (including as a result of forgiveness of any portion thereof) with respect to such loan or advance after the date thereof, (ii) any Investment in the form of a Guarantee shall be equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof, as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer, (iii) any Investment in the form of a transfer of Equity Interests or other non-cash property or services by the investor to the investee, including any such transfer in the form of a capital contribution, shall be the Fair Market Value of such Equity Interests or other property or services as of the time of the transfer, minus
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any payments actually received by such investor representing a return of capital of, or dividends or other distributions in respect of, such Investment (to the extent such payments do not exceed, in the aggregate, the original amount of such Investment), but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the date of such Investment, and (iv) any Investment (other than any Investment referred to in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above) by the specified Person in the form of a purchase or other acquisition for value of any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities of any other Person shall be the original cost of such Investment, except that the amount of any Investment in the form of a Permitted Acquisition or other acquisition shall be the Permitted Acquisition Consideration, minus (i) the amount of any portion of such Investment that has been repaid to the investor as a repayment of principal or a return of capital, and of any payments or other amounts actually received by such investor representing interest, dividends or other distributions or similar payments in respect of such Investment (to the extent the amounts referred to in clause (b) do not, in the aggregate, exceed the original cost of such Investment plus the costs of additions thereto and without duplication of amounts increasing the Available Amount or the Available Equity Amount), but without any other adjustment for increases or decreases in value of, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to, such Investment after the date of such Investment. For purposes of Section 7.02, if an Investment involves the acquisition of more than one Person, the amount of such Investment shall be allocated among the acquired Persons in accordance with GAAP; provided that pending the final determination of the amounts to be so allocated in accordance with GAAP, such allocation shall be as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer.
“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Xxxxx’x and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by Fitch.
“ISP 98” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
“Israeli Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.
“Israeli Collateral Documents” means any pledge, charge, mortgage, security and/or collateral agreements, assignments or other documents between the Israeli Borrower, any Israeli Loan Party or any other Loan Party that owns Collateral located in the State of Israel (including Equity Interests in any Subsidiary formed in the State of Israel (other than Excluded Equity Interests)) and the Collateral Agent, in each case in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Israeli Innovation Authority” means the Israeli National Authority for Technological Innovation (formerly known as the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of the Economy), or any successor Governmental Authority.
“Israeli Lender” means a Lender subject to the Bank of Israel guidelines and directives; provided that, solely for purposes of Section 3.01(h), the term “Israeli Lender” shall mean any Lender that is a resident of Israel for Israeli income tax purposes or is subject to Israeli income tax by virtue of making any advance under this Agreement through a branch or office in Israel.
“Israeli Loan Party” means any Loan Party organized under the laws of the State of Israel.
“Israeli Regulatory Guidelines” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.24.
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“Israeli Subsidiary” means any subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the State of Israel.
“Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate” means a certificate issued by the Israel Tax Authority to the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower establishing that any amount advanced pursuant to this Agreement by an Israeli Lender (whether directly or through the Administrative Agent) to the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower (as applicable) can be advanced free of any withholding of Israeli withholding Tax.
“Issuing Bank” means, as the context may require, (a) Barclays Bank PLC, with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it (provided that Barclays Bank PLC shall only be required to issue standby letters of credit), (b) Bank of America, N.A., with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it, (c) ING Capital LLC, with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it, (d) Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Bank USA, with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it, (provided that Xxxxxxx Sachs Bank USA shall only be required to issue standby letters of credit) (e) Comerica Bank, with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it, and (f) any other Lender that becomes an Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.04, in each case, in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and each such Person’s successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.04. Any Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. Each Issuing Bank shall have a Letter of Credit commitment that is proportionate with its commitment under the Revolving Credit Facility, as set forth on Schedule 2.01(a) under the caption “L/C Commitment.”
“Issuing Bank Agreement” means an agreement referred to in Section 2.04 under which a Lender becomes an Issuing Bank.
“Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.
“Junior Debt” means Subordinated Debt (other than intercompany debt permitted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement (other than debt owing to a Restricted Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party by a Loan Party)).
“Junior Debt Documents” means any agreement, indenture and instrument pursuant to which any Junior Debt is issued, in each case as amended to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents.
“Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated among the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent and one or more representatives for holders of one or more classes of Indebtedness secured on a junior basis to the Liens securing the Obligations in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Borrower.
“Latest Maturity Date” means, with respect to the Incurrence of any Indebtedness or the issuance of any Equity Interests, the latest Maturity Date applicable to any Facility that is outstanding hereunder as determined on the date such Indebtedness is Incurred or such Equity Interests are issued.
“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents, 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.
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“L/C Commitment” means, with respect to any Person, the amount set forth opposite the name of such Person on Schedule 2.01(a) under the caption “L/C Commitment.”
“LC Disbursement” means a payment made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“LC Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its applicable percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time.
“LCA Election” has the meaning provided in Section 1.12.
“LCA Test Date” has the meaning provided in Section 1.12.
“Lead Arrangers” mean Barclays Bank PLC, BofA Securities Inc., ING Capital LLC, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Bank USA and Comerica Bank in their capacity as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.
“Lender” means (i) the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01(a), (ii) any other Person that shall become a party hereto as a “lender” pursuant to Section 10.07 and (iii) each Person that becomes a party hereto as a “lender” pursuant to the terms of Section 2.13, in each case other than a Person who ceases to hold any outstanding Loans or any Commitment.
“Lender Default” means (i) the refusal (in writing) or failure of any Revolving Credit Lender to make available its portion of any Incurrence of Revolving Credit Loans, which refusal or failure is not cured within two (2) Business Days after the date of such refusal or failure (other than if such Revolving Credit Lender’s refusal or failure is based on its written determination that one or more of the conditions set forth in Section 4.01, Section 4.02, or Section 4.03, as applicable, have not been satisfied); (ii) the failure of any Revolving Credit Lender to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Revolving Credit Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date when due; (iii) a Revolving Credit Lender has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder (other than if such Revolving Credit Lender’s notification is based on its written determination that one or more of the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 or Section 4.02, as applicable, have not been satisfied); (iv) the failure by a Revolving Credit Lender to confirm in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its obligations hereunder; provided that the Administrative Agent shall provide such Revolving Credit Lender at least three (3) Business Days to respond to the Administrative Agent’s request; provided, further, that such Revolving Credit Lender’s confirmation shall cure any failure of this clause (iv); (v) a Distressed Person has admitted in writing that it is insolvent or such Distressed Person becomes subject to a Lender-Related Distress Event; or (vi) a Revolving Credit Lender has become the subject of a Bail-In Action.
“Lender-Related Distress Event” means, with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender, that such Revolving Credit Lender or any person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender (each, a “Distressed Person”), as the case may be, is or becomes subject to a voluntary or involuntary case with respect to such Distressed Person under any debt relief law, or a custodian, conservator, receiver or similar official is appointed for such Distressed Person or any substantial part of such Distressed Person’s assets, or such Distressed Person or any person that directly or indirectly controls such Distressed Person
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is subject to a forced liquidation, or such Distressed Person makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or is otherwise adjudicated as, or determined by any governmental authority having regulatory authority over such Distressed Person or its assets to be, insolvent or bankrupt; provided that a Lender-Related Distress Event shall not be deemed to have occurred solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interests in any Lender or any person that directly or indirectly controls such Lender by a Governmental Authority or an instrumentality thereof or the appointment of a custodian, conservator, receiver or similar official by a supervisory authority or regulator under or based on the law in the country where such Lender or such parent company is subject to home jurisdiction, if applicable law requires that such appointment not be disclosed.
“Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.
“Letter of Credit Sublimit Expiration Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.04.
“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Eurocurrency Rate.”
“LIBOR Quoted Currency” means Dollars, for so long as there is a published LIBOR rate with respect thereto.
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment in the nature of a security interest, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge in the nature of a security interest, deemed trust, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing); provided that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed to be a Lien.
“Limited Condition Acquisition” means any acquisition by one or more of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries of any assets, business or Person permitted to be acquired by this Agreement, in each case whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.
“Loan” means any Revolving Credit Loan or Extended Revolving Credit Loan made by any Lender hereunder.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Collateral Documents, (iv) the Guaranty, (v) any Incremental Agreement, (vi) any Extension Agreement, (vii) any Customary Intercreditor Agreement entered into after the Closing Date to which the Collateral Agent and/or Administrative Agent is a party and (viii) and any other document related to this Agreement designated in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent as a “Loan Document.”
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, (i) the Borrower (ii) each other Guarantor.
“Losses” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.
“Management Stockholders” means the members of management of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries who are (directly or indirectly through one or more investment vehicles) investors in Borrower or any Parent Entity.
“Master Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract.”
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“Material Adverse Effect” means a circumstance or condition that would materially and adversely affect (a) the business or financial condition of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their payment obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party or (c) the rights and remedies of the Agents and the Lenders under the Loan Documents.
“Material Real Property” means any real property owned in fee by any Loan Party with a Fair Market Value (i) in the case of real property owned on the Closing Date, in excess of $1,000,000, determined on the Closing Date and (ii) in the case of real property acquired after the Closing Date, in excess of $1,000,000, determined on date of acquisition.
“Maturity Date” means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date and (b) any maturity date related to any Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable; provided that if either such day is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately preceding such day.
“Medicaid” means the medical assistance programs administered by state agencies and approved by CMS pursuant to the terms of Title XIX of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.
“Medicare” means the program of health benefits for the aged and disabled administered by CMS pursuant to the terms of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage” means, collectively, the real property mortgages, deeds of trust, trust deeds, debentures, deeds to secure debt and mortgages creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property made by any Loan Party in favor or for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, and any other mortgages executed and delivered pursuant to Section 4.02(a) (if applicable), Section 6.10 and Section 6.12.
“Mortgaged Properties” has the meaning specified in paragraph (f) of the definition of Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the immediately preceding six (6) years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Necessary Cure Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(b).
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 3.07(d).
“Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency” means any currency other than a LIBOR Quoted Currency.
“Non-Loan Party” means any Restricted Subsidiary of Borrower that is not a Loan Party.
“Note” means a Revolving Credit Note.
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“Obligations” means all (w) advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan and Letters of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest, fees and expenses that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest, fees and expenses are allowed claims in such proceeding, (x) Hedging Obligations (other than with respect to any Loan Party’s Hedging Obligations that constitute Excluded Swap Obligations) under each Secured Hedge Agreement and (y) Cash Management Obligations under each Secured Cash Management Agreement and, with respect to clauses (x) and (y), including all interest, fees and expenses that accrue after commencement by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under Debtor Relief Laws, regardless of whether such interest, fees and expenses are allowed claims in such proceeding, with respect to such Loan Party. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents include the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party under any Loan Document. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) unless otherwise agreed to by the Borrower, any Hedge Bank or Cash Management Bank, the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary under any Secured Hedge Agreement or any Secured Cash Management Agreement shall be secured and guaranteed pursuant to the Collateral Documents and the Guarantees only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other Obligations are so secured and guaranteed and (ii) any release of Collateral or Guarantors effected in a manner permitted by this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall not require the consent of any counterparty to any Secured Hedge Agreement or of the holders of Cash Management Obligations other than in their capacity as a Lender or an Agent.
“OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department.
“Organizational Documents” means (a) with respect to any corporation or company, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction (including the memorandum and articles of association or constitution and any certificates of change of name)); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation, registration or organization (or a trust deed for the relevant trust) and any agreement, declaration, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation, registration or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation, registration or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent or Lender, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Agent or Lender and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Agent or Lender having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a Lien under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, or enforced, any Loan Document or Letter of Credit, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan, Letter of Credit or Loan Document).
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary Taxes and any other property, intangible, mortgage recording or similar Taxes which arise from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a Lien 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 pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 3.07).
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“Outstanding Amount” means, with respect to the Revolving Credit Loans and Extended Revolving Credit Loans on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of the outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Extended Revolving Credit Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date.
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, 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 in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation; provided that, if the Overnight Rate shall be less than zero, such Overnight Rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.
“Parent Entity” means any Person that is a direct or indirect parent company (which may be organized as, among other things, a corporation or a partnership) of the Borrower.
“Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e).
“Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(e).
“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.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and in respect of which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate of a Loan Party is (or, if such plan were terminated would under Section 4062 or Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Perfection Certificate” means the Perfection Certificate with respect to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Permit” means all licenses, certificates, accreditations, product clearances or approvals, provider numbers or provider authorizations, supplier numbers, marketing authorizations, drug or device authorizations and approvals, other authorizations, franchises, qualifications, accreditations, registrations, permits, consents and approvals of a Loan Party issued or required under Laws applicable to the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or necessary in the manufacturing, importing, exporting, possession, ownership, warehousing, marketing, promoting, sale, labeling, furnishing, distribution or delivery of goods or services under Laws applicable to the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, “Permit” includes any Regulatory Required Permit.
“Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(j).
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“Permitted Acquisition Consideration” means, in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or other acquisition, the aggregate amount (as valued at the Fair Market Value of such Permitted Acquisition at the time such Permitted Acquisition is made) of, without duplication: (a) the purchase consideration paid or payable for such Permitted Acquisition, whether payable at or prior to the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition or deferred for payment at any future time, whether or not any such future payment is subject to the occurrence of any contingency, and including any and all payments representing the purchase price and any assumptions of Indebtedness and/or Guarantee Obligations, “earn-outs” and other agreements to make any payment the amount of which is, or the terms of payment of which are, in any respect subject to or contingent upon the revenues, income, cash flow or profits (or the like) of any Person or business and (b) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness Incurred in connection with such Permitted Acquisition; provided that, in each case, any such future payment that is subject to a contingency shall be considered Permitted Acquisition Consideration only to the extent of the reserve, if any, required under GAAP (as determined at the time of the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition) to be established in respect thereof by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Permitted Additional Debt” means (i) secured or unsecured bonds, notes or debentures (which bonds, notes or debentures, if secured, may be secured either by Liens on the Collateral that rank equal in priority with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations (but without regard to control of remedies) or by Liens on the Collateral that rank junior in priority relative to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations) or (ii) secured or unsecured loans or commitments to provide secured or unsecured loans (which loans, if secured, may be secured either by Liens on the Collateral that rank equal in priority with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations (but without regard to control of remedies) or by Liens on the Collateral that rank junior in priority relative to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations), in each case Incurred by the Borrower or a Guarantor; provided that (a) such Indebtedness has a final maturity date equal to or later than the Latest Maturity Date, (b) subject to customary differences for funded debt in lieu of a revolving facility, the covenants, events of default, Subsidiary guarantees and other terms for such Indebtedness or commitments (excluding interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest rate margins, rate floors, fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and redemption or prepayment terms and premiums determined by the Borrower to be market rates, margins, rate floors, fees, discounts, terms and premiums at the time of Incurrence of such Indebtedness) not materially more restrictive on the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, when taken as a whole, than the terms of this Agreement, when taken as a whole; provided that such terms shall not be deemed to be more restrictive solely as a result of (i) the inclusion in the documentation governing such Indebtedness or commitment of any Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant so long as the Administrative Agent shall have been given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement is amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant for the benefit of each Facility or (ii) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date at such time; provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five (5) Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees), (c) if such Indebtedness is secured, such Indebtedness shall not be secured by any property or assets other than the Collateral and shall be subject to an applicable Customary Intercreditor Agreement and (d) no Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Guarantor) shall be an obligor under such Indebtedness.
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“Permitted Additional Debt Documents” means any document or instrument (including any guarantee, security agreement or mortgage and which may include any or all of the Loan Documents) issued or executed and delivered with respect to any Permitted Additional Debt by any Loan Party.
“Permitted Additional Debt Obligations” means, if any secured Permitted Additional Debt has been Incurred and is outstanding, the collective reference to (a) the due and punctual payment of (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest at the applicable rate provided in the applicable Permitted Additional Debt Documents (including interest accruing during the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on any such Permitted Additional Debt, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment, redemption or otherwise and (ii) all other monetary obligations, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to any of the Permitted Additional Debt Secured Parties under the applicable Permitted Additional Debt Documents and (b) the due and punctual performance of all covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of the Borrower or any Loan Party under or pursuant to applicable Permitted Additional Debt Documents.
“Permitted Additional Debt Secured Parties” means the holders from time to time of the secured Permitted Additional Debt Obligations (and any representative on their behalf).
“Permitted Holder Group” means any “group” (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act) owning Equity Interests having the power to vote or direct the voting for the election of directors of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof) if a majority of such Equity Interests owned by the group is owned by Permitted Holders.
“Permitted Holders” means any of (a) the Sponsor and (b) the Management Stockholders.
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Indebtedness”), any Indebtedness Incurred in exchange for or as a replacement of (including by entering into alternative financing arrangements in respect of such exchange or replacement (in whole or in part), either by adding or replacing lenders, creditors, agents, borrowers and/or guarantors, or after the original instrument giving rise to such Indebtedness has been terminated and including, by entering into any new credit agreement, loan agreement, note purchase agreement, indenture or other agreement), or the net proceeds of which are Incurred for the purpose of modifying, extending, refinancing, renewing, replacing, redeeming, repurchasing, defeasing, amending, supplementing, restructuring, repaying or refunding (collectively to “Refinance” or a “Refinancing” or “Refinanced”), such Refinanced Indebtedness (or previous refinancing thereof constituting Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness); provided that (a) after giving effect to such Refinancing, the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof will not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Refinanced Indebtedness except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other amounts paid, and fees and expenses incurred, in connection with such Refinancing plus an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, (b) other than with respect to a Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(f), such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity and maturity date that is equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity and maturity date of the Refinanced Indebtedness, (c) (i) if such Refinanced Indebtedness is unsecured, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be unsecured and (ii) if such Refinanced Indebtedness is secured, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall either be unsecured
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or secured by the same collateral, and with the same (or junior) lien priority, as exists with respect to the Refinanced Indebtedness, (d) each of the obligors with respect to such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are Guarantors and (e) if such Refinanced Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(c), (i) to the extent such Refinanced Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders, when taken as a whole, as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being so Refinanced and (ii) the terms and conditions (including, if applicable, as to collateral but excluding as to subordination, interest rates (including through fixed interest rates), interest rate margins, rate floors, fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and redemption or prepayment terms and premiums) of any such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially more restrictive on the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, when taken as a whole, than the terms and conditions of the Refinancing Indebtedness; provided that such terms and conditions shall not be deemed to be more restrictive solely as a result of (i) the inclusion in the documentation governing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness of a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant so long as the Administrative Agent shall have been given prompt written notice thereof and this Agreement is amended to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant for the benefit of each Facility (provided, however, that if (x) the documentation governing the Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness that includes a Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant consists of a revolving credit facility (whether or not the documentation therefor includes any other facilities) and (y) such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant is a “springing” financial maintenance covenant, the Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant shall be included in this Agreement and such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall continue to not be deemed more restrictive solely as a result of such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant benefiting only such revolving credit facilities) or (ii) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of such Refinancing; provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower within such five (5) Business Day period that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees).
“Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership (including an exempted limited partnership), Governmental Authority or other entity, whether or not having separate legal personality.
“Platform” means IntraLinks, Syndtrak, ClearPar, or any substantially similar electronic transmission system.
“Present Fair Saleable Value” means the amount that could be obtained by an independent willing seller from an independent willing buyer if the assets of the applicable Person taken as a whole are sold on a going-concern basis with reasonable promptness in an arm’s-length transaction under present conditions for the sale of comparable business enterprises insofar as such conditions can be reasonably evaluated.
“Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant” means, at any time (x) any financial maintenance covenant that is not included in this Agreement at such time and (y) any financial maintenance covenant that is included in this Agreement at such time, but with covenant levels in this Agreement that are more restrictive on the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries.
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“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the U.S. or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.
“Prohibition on Money Laundering Law” means the Israeli Prohibition on Money Laundering Law 5760-2000, the Israel Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1939 and the Israel Combating Terrorism Law, 2016, and in each case, the regulations, rules, circulars and guidelines promulgated or published thereunder and Bank of Israel directives relating thereto.
“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to each Lender at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments of such Lender under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time; provided that if the Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, then the Pro Rata Share of each Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Share of such Lender immediately prior to such termination and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Protected Information” shall mean: (i) any information, in any form, that relates to an individual or that could reasonably be used to identify an individual, including personally identifiable information, personal data and protected health information, (ii) financial information, including payment card information, and (iii) any confidential or non-public information subject to obligations of confidentiality or non-disclosure by applicable laws, rules or regulations or by contract.
“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.
“Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.
“Qualifying IPO” means the issuance by the Borrower or any Parent Entity of its common Equity Interests in an underwritten primary public offering (other than a public offering pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8) pursuant to an effective registration statement filed with the SEC or any other national securities exchange in accordance with the Securities Act or any other applicable laws, as applicable (whether alone or in connection with a secondary public offering) or in a firm commitment underwritten offering (or series of related offerings of securities to the public pursuant to a final prospectus) made pursuant to the Securities Act or the or any other applicable laws, as applicable.
“Refinance, Refinanced and Refinancing” each has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.”
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“Refinanced Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.”
“Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(d).
“Registrar of Companies” means the Israeli Registrar of Companies.
“Registrar of Patents” means the Israeli Registrar of Patents, Designs and Trademarks.
“Registrar of Pledges” means the Israeli Registrar of Pledges.
“Release” means any release, spill, leak, discharge, abandonment, disposal, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, injecting, leaching, dumping, depositing, dispersing, allowing to escape or migrate into or otherwise enter the Environment (including within any building, structure, facility or fixture, subject in each case, to human occupation) of any Hazardous Materials.
“Reportable Event” means, with respect to any Pension Plan, any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.
“Request for Credit Extension” means, with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice.
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings and (b) Total Available Revolving Credit Commitments and aggregate unused Extended Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) the unused Available Revolving Credit Commitment or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders and (ii) a minimum of two unaffiliated Lenders shall be required to constitute Required Lenders.
“Research Committee” means the research committee established in accordance with the Research Law.
“Research Law” means the Israeli Encouragement of Research, Development and Technological Innovation in Industry Law, 5744-1984 and the regulations, rules, circulars and guidelines promulgated or published thereunder.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, director, treasurer or assistant treasurer, company secretary, or other similar officer or authorized signatory of a Loan Party and, as to any document delivered on the Closing Date, any secretary, assistant secretary or authorized signatory of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
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“Restricted Israeli Lender” means, at any time, any Israeli Lender that is at such time (or after giving effect to the making of any requested extension of credit hereunder, would be) in violation of Israeli Regulatory Guidelines.
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest in the Borrower or any Parent Entity, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest of the Borrower or any Parent Entity.
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of Borrower other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency 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 make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01(a) under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or 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 aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders shall be $100,000,000 on the Closing Date, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the sum of the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans held by such Revolving Credit Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office).
“Revolving Credit Extension Request” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Revolving Credit Facility” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment or that holds Revolving Credit Loans at such time.
“Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).
“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender.
“Revolving Outstandings” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any time, the Revolving Credit Exposure.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC business, and any successor thereto.
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“Sale Leaseback” means any transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries (a) sells, transfers or otherwise Disposes of any property, real or personal, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and (b) as part of such transaction, thereafter rents or leases such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold, transferred or Disposed.
“Same Day Funds” means with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available funds.
“Sanctions” has the meaning specified in Section 5.21(a).
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Section 6.01 Financials” means the financial statements delivered, or required to be delivered, pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) together with the Compliance Certificate.
“Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any agreement relating to Cash Management Services that is (a) entered into by and between Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and a Cash Management Bank and (b) specified in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent as constituting a “Secured Cash Management Agreement” hereunder.
“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any agreement in respect of any Swap Contract agreement specified by the Borrower and permitted under Section 7.03(h) that (a) is entered into by and between any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Hedge Bank and (b) is specified in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent as constituting a “Secured Hedge Agreement” hereunder.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, each Lender, each Issuing Bank, in each case with respect to the Facilities, each Hedge Bank that is party to any Secured Hedge Agreement, each Cash Management Bank that is party to a Secured Cash Management Agreement and each sub-agent pursuant to Section 9.01(c) appointed by the Administrative Agent with respect to matters relating to the Facilities or the Collateral Agent with respect to matters relating to any Collateral Document.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Security Agreement” means, collectively, (a) the Security Agreement executed by certain Loan Parties substantially in a form reasonable acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (b) each Security Agreement Supplement and each general security deed or specific security deed executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.
“Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the applicable Security Agreement.
“Signing Date” means October 18, 2021.
“Sold Entity or Business” has the meaning specified in the definition of the term “Consolidated EBITDA.”
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“Solvency” or “Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, at any date, that (a) the sum of such Person’s debts (including contingent liabilities) do not exceed the Present Fair Saleable Value of such Person’s present assets, (b) such Person’s capital is not unreasonably small in relation to its business as contemplated on such date and (c) such Person has not incurred and does not intend to incur, or believe that it will incur, debts (including current obligations) beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due (whether at maturity or otherwise). For purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).
“SPC” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(h).
“Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” means any Existing Revolving Credit Commitments belonging to a Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class.
“Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).
“Specified Transaction” means, with respect to any period (including any period prior to the Closing Date), any Investment, Disposition, Incurrence of Indebtedness, Refinancing, prepayment or repayment of Indebtedness, Restricted Payment, Subsidiary designation, provision of Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases, creation of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, restructuring, other strategic initiative (including cost saving initiative) or other action of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date or other event that by the terms of the Loan Documents requires “pro forma compliance” with a test, ratio or covenant hereunder or requires such test or covenant to be calculated on a “pro forma basis” or after giving “pro forma effect” thereto, other than, for the avoidance of doubt, any such action or other event that constitutes a “Transaction” as set forth in the definition thereof; provided that any increase in the Revolving Credit Commitment, for purposes of this “Specified Transaction” definition, shall be deemed to be fully drawn.
“Sponsor” means Apax Partners, L.P. and each of its Affiliates and any funds, partnerships or other investment vehicles managed or controlled by it or its Affiliates, but not including, however, any of their operating portfolio companies.
“Spot Rate” for a currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office 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 that the Administrative Agent may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent if the Person acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such currency.
“Statutory Reserves” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as a decimal established by the FRB and any other banking authority, domestic or foreign, to which the Administrative Agent or any Lender (including any branch, Affiliate, or other fronting office making or holding a Loan) is subject for Eurocurrency Liabilities (as defined in Regulation D of the FRB). Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency Liabilities (as defined in Regulation D of the FRB) and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D. Statutory Reserves shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
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“Subordinated Debt” means Indebtedness for borrowed money incurred by a Loan Party that is subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment of the Obligations of such Loan Party under the Loan Documents.
“Subordinated Intercompany Note” means the Intercompany Subordinated Note, dated as of the Closing Date, substantially in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent executed by the Borrower and each other Restricted Subsidiary.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the U.S. Borrower.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are Guarantors (excluding the Borrower).
“Successor Borrower” has the meaning specified in Section 7.04(a).
“Swap” means any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the xxxx to market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
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“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, fees, withholdings (including backup withholding) or similar charges imposed by a Governmental Authority, and all liabilities (including additions to tax, penalties and interest) with respect thereto.
“Test Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending on or prior to such date for which Section 6.01 Financials have been delivered; provided that prior to the first date the Section 6.01 Financials have been delivered, the Test Period in effect shall be the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended March 31, 2021. A Test Period may be designated by reference to the last day thereof (i.e. the March 31, 2021 Test Period refers to the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ended March 31, 2021), and a Test Period shall be deemed to end on the last day thereof.
“Threshold Amount” means $10,000,000.
“Total Available Revolving Credit Commitments” means, at any time, the aggregate of the Available Revolving Credit Commitments of all Lenders at such time.
“Total Leverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date of determination to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans.
“Total Revolving Outstandings” shall mean the aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Outstandings.
“Transaction Expenses” means any reasonable and documented fees or expenses incurred or paid by Sponsor, any Parent Entity, the Borrower, or any of their Affiliates in connection with the Transactions, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
“Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (b) the consummation of any other transactions in connection with the foregoing and (c) the payment of the reasonable and documented fees and expenses incurred in connection with any of the foregoing (including the Transaction Expenses).
“Type” means (a) as to any Revolving Credit Loan, its nature as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and (b) as to any Extended Revolving Credit Loan, its nature as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended form time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
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“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral.
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“United States Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(f)(ii)(C).
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) each Subsidiary of Borrower listed on Schedule 1.01B, (ii) any Subsidiary of Borrower designated by the Board of Directors of Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13 subsequent to the Closing Date and (iii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“U.S. Borrower” has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement.
“USA PATRIOT Act” means The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), as amended or modified from time to time.
“VAT” means the Israeli value added tax imposed pursuant to the Israel Value Added Tax Law of 1975 (including any successor law) or any similar Tax imposed by any other jurisdiction.
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any Person, shares of such Person’s Equity Interests having the right to vote for the election of members of the Board of Directors of such Person (or, in the case of an exempted limited partnership, such Person’s general partner), under ordinary circumstances.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
“Wholly-Owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Withdrawal Liability” means the liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
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“Withholding Agent” means any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and any other applicable withholding 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 powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Section 1.02. Other Interpretive Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:
(a) The meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
(b) The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
(i) Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.
(ii) The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.
(iii) 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.
(c) 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.”
(d) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(e) Any definition of or reference to any Loan Document, agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein).
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Section 1.03. Accounting Terms.
(a) All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Where reference is made to “Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis” or similar language, such consolidation shall not include any Subsidiaries of Borrower other than Restricted Subsidiaries.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, 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 Accounting Standards Codification Topic 825 – Financial Instruments, or any successor thereto (including pursuant to the FASB Accounting Standards Codification), to value any Indebtedness of Borrower or any Subsidiary at “fair value,” as defined therein.
Section 1.04. Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding up if there is no nearest number).
Section 1.05. References to Agreements, Laws, Etc.. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organizational Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are permitted by the relevant Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law unless the context requires otherwise, shall include without limitation (1) any applicable Israeli or foreign statute, law (including any rules or regulations promulgated under any such statute or law), regulation, treaty, rule, official directive, request or guideline of any of the Israeli or foreign national, state, local, municipal, or other governmental, fiscal, monetary or regulatory body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organization, whether or not having the force of law (but if not having the force of law, one which applies generally to the class or category of financial institutions of which any Lender or the Administrative Agent forms a part and compliance with which is in accordance with the general practice of those financial institutions), including the instructions of Israeli Supervisor of Banks with respect to proper conduct of banking affairs (“Hora’ot Xxxxx Bankai Takin”) if applicable to any such Person and (2) any applicable decision of any competent court or other judicial body” and “The “winding-up,” “dissolution,” “bankruptcy” or “administration” of a person shall be construed so as to include the seeking of liquidation, winding-up, bankruptcy, reorganization, dissolution, administration, arrangement, freeze order (Hakpa’at Halichim), adjustment, protection from creditors or relief of debtors or any proceedings equivalent or analogous to any of the foregoing under the law of the jurisdiction in which such person is incorporated or resides, as applicable, or any jurisdiction in which such person carries on business.
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Section 1.06. Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern Time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
Section 1.07. [Reserved].
Section 1.08. Timing of Payment or Performance. When the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as described in the definition of “Interest Period”) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day.
Section 1.09. Currency Equivalents Generally.
(a) For purposes of any determination under Article VI, Article VII (other than Section 7.09) or Article VIII or any determination under any other provision of this Agreement requiring the use of a current exchange rate, all amounts incurred, outstanding or proposed to be incurred or outstanding in currencies other than Dollars shall be translated into Dollars at the Exchange Rate then in effect on the date of such determination; provided, however, that (x) for purposes of determining compliance with Article VII with respect to the amount of any Indebtedness, Investment, Disposition, Restricted Payment or payment under Section 7.08 in a currency other than Dollars, no Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness or Investment is Incurred or Disposition, Restricted Payment or payment under Section 7.08 is made, (y) for purposes of determining compliance with any Dollar-denominated restriction on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, if such Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such Refinancing would cause the applicable Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency Exchange Rate in effect on the date of such Refinancing, such Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinanced Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being Refinanced except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably Incurred, in connection with such Refinancing and (z) for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.09 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness or Investment may be Incurred or Disposition, Restricted Payment or payment under Section 7.08 may be made at any time under such Sections. For purposes of Section 7.09, amounts in currencies other than Dollars shall be translated into Dollars at the applicable Exchange Rates used in preparing the most recently delivered Section 6.01 Financials on or prior to such date.
(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 with the Borrower’s consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) to appropriately reflect a change in currency of any country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to such change in currency.
Section 1.10. Additional Alternative Currencies.
(a) The Company may, from time to time, request that Revolving Credit Loans be made in a currency other than Dollars (each such currency, an “Alternative Currency”); provided that such requested currency is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars. In the case of any such request with respect to the making of Revolving Credit Loans, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
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(b) Any such request 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 in its sole discretion) and the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender thereof. Each Lender 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 Revolving Credit Loans in such requested currency.
(c) Any failure by a Lender to respond to such request within the time period specified in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be a refusal by such Lender to permit Revolving Credit Loans to be made in such requested currency. If the Administrative Agent and all the Lenders consent to making Revolving Credit Loans in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Borrowings of Revolving Credit Loans. If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency under this Section 1.10, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Borrower.
(d) Following the approval of such requested currency as an Alternative Currency hereunder, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders consenting to making Revolving Credit Loans in such requested currency and the Borrower may amend this Agreement from time to time in connection with the implementation and administration of any such Alternative Currency notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document.
Section 1.11. [Reserved].
Section 1.12. Limited Condition Acquisition.
In connection with any action being taken solely in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, for purposes of:
(i) determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires the calculation of the Total Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio;
(ii) determining the accuracy of representations and warranties and/or whether a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or any subset of Defaults or Events of Default (other than Events of Default pursuant to (a) or (f) of Section 8.01)); or
(iii) testing availability under baskets set forth in this Agreement (including baskets measured as a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA);
in each case, at the option of the Borrower (the Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Acquisition, an “LCA Election”), with such option to be exercised on or prior to the date of execution of the definitive agreements related to such Limited Condition Acquisition, the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder, shall be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (the “LCA Test Date”), and if, after giving pro forma effect to the Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions to be
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entered into in connection therewith (including any Incurrence of Indebtedness or Liens and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they had occurred at the beginning of the most recent Test Period ending prior to the LCA Test Date, the Borrower could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratio or basket, such ratio or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Borrower has made an LCA Election and any of the ratios or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCA Test Date are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio or basket, including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower or the Person subject to such Limited Condition Acquisition, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets or ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations. If the Borrower has made an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Acquisition, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of the incurrence ratios subject to the LCA Election on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of (i) the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or (ii) the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio or basket shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any Incurrence of Indebtedness or Liens and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated, except that (other than solely with respect to the incurrence ratios subject to the LCA Election) EBITDA and Consolidated Net Income of any target or targets of such Limited Condition Acquisition shall only be used in the determination of any incurrence ratio and/or asset-based basket if and when such Limited Condition Acquisition has been consummated.
Section 1.13. Pro Forma and Other Calculations.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, financial ratios and tests (including measurements of the Total Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio) shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.13. In addition, whenever a financial ratio or test is to be calculated on a pro forma basis or requires pro forma compliance, the reference to “Test Period” for purposes of calculating such financial ratio or test shall be deemed to be a reference to, and shall be based on, the most recently ended Test Period for which Section 6.01 Financials have been delivered.
(b) For purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test (including Consolidated EBITDA), Specified Transactions (with any Incurrence or Refinancing of any Indebtedness in connection therewith to be subject to clause (d) of this Section 1.13) that have been made (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Specified Transactions (and any increase or decrease in Consolidated EBITDA and the component financial definitions used therein attributable to any Specified Transaction) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period. If since the beginning of any applicable Test Period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary or was merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary since the beginning of such Test Period shall have made any Specified Transaction that would have required adjustment pursuant to this Section 1.13, then such financial ratio or test (including Consolidated EBITDA) shall be calculated to give pro forma effect thereto in accordance with this Section 1.13.
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(c) Whenever pro forma effect or a determination of pro forma compliance is to be given to a Specified Transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount of “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies or other synergies relating to any Specified Transaction (including the Transactions) which is being given pro forma effect or for which a determination of pro forma compliance is being made that have been realized or are expected to be realized and for which the actions necessary to realize such cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies or other synergies have been taken, have been committed to be taken, with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or which are expected to be taken (in the good faith determination of the Borrower) (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies and other synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions, cost synergies and other synergies were realized during the entirety of such period and “run rate” means the full recurring benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken, any action committed to be taken, any action with respect to which substantial steps have been taken or any action that is expected to be taken net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions, and any such adjustments shall be included in the initial pro forma calculations of such financial ratios or tests and during any subsequent Test Period in which the effects thereof are expected to be realized) relating to such Specified Transaction; provided that (A) a Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have certified to the Administrative Agent that such cost savings are reasonably identifiable and factually supportable and specify such amounts in reasonable detail, (B) such actions are taken, such actions are committed to be taken, actions respect to which substantial steps have been taken or actions are expected to be taken no later than four fiscal quarters after the date of consummation of such Specified Transaction, (C) no amounts shall be added to the extent duplicative of any amounts that are otherwise added back in computing Consolidated EBITDA (or any other components thereof), whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, with respect to such period and (D) the aggregate amount added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this Section 1.13(c) and any addback pursuant to clause (viii) of the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” for any Test Period shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period (with such calculation being made prior to giving effect to such addbacks).
(d) In the event that the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary Incurs (including by assumption or guarantee) or Refinances (including by redemption, repurchase, repayment, retirement or extinguishment) any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness Incurred or Refinanced under any revolving credit facility or line of credit unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and not replaced), in each case included in the calculations of any financial ratio or test, (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made, then such financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or Refinancing of Indebtedness, in each case to the extent required, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period.
(e) Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate, shall be determined to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the Borrower or applicable Restricted Subsidiary may designate. For purposes of making the computations referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period.
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Section 1.14. Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
ARTICLE II
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01. The Loans.
(a) The Revolving Credit Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make (or cause its Applicable Lending Office to make) loans denominated in Dollars (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) from time to time, on any Business Day on or after the Closing Date until the Maturity Date with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment. Within the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow, on a joint and several basis, under this Section 2.01(a), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(a). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided in Sections 3.02, 3.03 and 3.09 and the Administrative Agent shall provide notice to the Lenders of any Base Rate Loans and upon the reasonable request of a Lender the method of calculation of the Base Rate.
Section 2.02. Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a) Each Revolving Credit Borrowing and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which shall be given by a Committed Loan Notice. Each such Committed Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than (i) 11:00 a.m. three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) 10:00 a.m. on the Business Day of borrowing specified in the Committed Loan Notice for Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that if the Borrower wishes to request Eurocurrency Rate 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. four (4) Business Days prior to the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, 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; provided further, that unless required by Sections 3.02, 3.03 or 3.09 all Revolving Credit Loans shall be Eurocurrency Rate Loans. Not later than 11:00 a.m., three (3) Business Days before the requested date of such Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower whether or not the requested Interest Period has been consented to by all the Lenders. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv)
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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, and (vi) the currency of the Loans to be borrowed. If the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Eurocurrency Rate Loans with an Interest Period of one (1) month. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one (1) month. No Loan may be converted into or continued as a Loan denominated in a different currency, but instead must be prepaid in the original currency of such Loan and reborrowed in the other currency.
(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share of the applicable Class of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of such Loans as described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make (or cause its Applicable Lending Office to make) the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice; provided that on the Closing Date (or, with respect to any Incremental Facilities, on the relevant Incremental Facilities Closing Date), such funds may be made available at such earlier time as may be agreed among the relevant Lenders, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent for the purpose of consummating the Transactions (or any transactions to occur on the Incremental Facility Closing Date). Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.03, to the extent applicable, the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of the Administrative Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, all funds so received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.02(b) from the Lenders that are intended to be Borrowings shall be received by the Administrative Agent as an intermediary before such funds are transferred to the applicable Borrower.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, unless the Borrower pays the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith. During the existence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such rate. The determination of the Eurocurrency Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in the Prime Rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.
(e) Anything in subsections (a) to (d) above to the contrary notwithstanding, after giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than ten (10) Interest Periods in effect for Revolving Credit Borrowings.
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Section 2.03. [Reserved]
Section 2.04. Letters of Credit.
(a) Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit during the remaining life of the Letter of Credit.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the term of this Agreement. 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 or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, any Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. All Letters of Credit shall provide for drawings thereunder to be denominated in Dollars. An Issuing Bank shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if (i) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such Issuing Bank from issuing the Letter of Credit, or any law applicable to such Issuing Bank or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such Issuing Bank shall prohibit, or request that such Issuing Bank refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or the Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such Issuing Bank with respect to the Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such Issuing Bank is not compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such Issuing Bank any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which such Issuing Bank in good xxxxx xxxxx material to it or (ii) the issuance of the Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of such Issuing Bank applicable to letters of credit generally. No Issuing Bank shall be under any obligation to issue an amendment or extension to any Letter of Credit if (A) such Issuing Bank would have no obligation at such time to issue the Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.
(c) To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall deliver (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the relevant Issuing Bank) to the relevant Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least three Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and such Issuing Bank 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, or reinstated, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, extension, or reinstatement (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with this Section), the amount 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, or extend such Letter of Credit, and such Issuing Bank shall promptly deliver a copy of such notice by telecopy to the Administrative Agent. If requested by the applicable Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on such Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, or extension (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $15,000,000, (ii) the portion of the LC Exposure attributable to Letters of Credit issued by any Issuing Bank shall not exceed the L/C Commitment of such Issuing Bank; and (iii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the Total Available Revolving Credit Commitments.
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(d) Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any extension thereof, one year after the then-current expiration date at the time of such extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date (the “Letter of Credit Sublimit Expiration Date”).
(e) By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank or the Lenders, the Issuing Bank in respect of such Letter of Credit hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, 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. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Lender’s applicable percentage of each LC Disbursement made by such Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit, the occurrence and continuance of a Default, the reduction or termination of the Commitments or any force majeure or other event that under any rule of law or uniform practices to which any Letter of Credit is subject (including Section 3.14 of ISP 98 or any successor publication of the International Chamber of Commerce) or similar express terms of the Letter of Credit permits a drawing to be made under such Letter of Credit after the expiration thereof or of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(f) If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time on the day of receipt; provided that the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with the terms hereof that such payment be financed with a Base Rate Loan an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting Base Rate Loan. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lender’s applicable percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its applicable percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided herein with respect to Loans made by such Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such
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payment to the applicable Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse an Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of Base Rate Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement.
(g) The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in this Section 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 any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by an Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, (iv) any force majeure or other event that under any rule of law or uniform practices to which any Letter of Credit is subject (including Section 3.14 of ISP 98 or any successor publication of the International Chamber of Commerce) or similar express terms of the Letter of Credit permits a drawing to be made under such Letter of Credit after the expiration thereof or of the Commitments or (v) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder.
(h) The applicable Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. Such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower of such demand for payment if such Issuing Bank has made an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement.
(i) If an Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to Base Rate Loans.
(j) An Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. An Issuing Bank’s obligations to issue additional Letters of Credit hereunder may be terminated at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Issuing Bank; provided that after giving effect thereto there is at least one remaining Issuing Bank obligated to issue Letters of Credit. An Issuing Bank may resign upon 30 days’ notice to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement, termination, or resignation of an Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement, termination, or resignation shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid reasonable and documented fees accrued for the account of the replaced, terminated, or retiring Issuing Bank. From and after the effective date of any such replacement, the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the replaced Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter. After the replacement, termination, or resignation of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced, terminated, or retiring Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, termination, or resignation, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
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(k) If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon. The Borrower shall also deposit cash collateral in accordance with this paragraph. Each such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such 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 Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse any Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower 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 Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived.
(l) Any Lender may at any time become an Issuing Bank hereunder by written agreement between the Borrower and such Lender subject to notice to the Administrative Agent. From and after the effective date of any such Lender becoming an Issuing Bank, such Lender shall have the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement. Any Lender that becomes an Issuing Bank shall not cease to be an Issuing Bank hereunder if it later ceases to be a Lender hereunder.
(m) Each Issuing Bank that is not the same Person as the Person serving as the Administrative Agent shall notify the Administrative Agent of (i) the amount and expiration date of each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank at or prior to the time of issuance thereof, (ii) any amendment or modification to, or LC Disbursement under, any such Letter of Credit at or prior to the time of such amendment, modification or LC Disbursement and (iii) any termination, surrender, cancellation or expiry of any such Letter of Credit at or prior to the time of such termination, surrender, cancellation or expiration.
(n) If the Borrower so requests in relation to the issuance of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank 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 must permit the Issuing Bank 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 at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the Issuing Bank, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the Issuing Bank for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the Issuing Bank to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Sublimit Expiration Date.
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(o) Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the Issuing Bank and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued, (i) the rules of ISP98 shall be stated therein to apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance shall be stated therein to apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.
(p) Not later than the third Business Day following the last day of each month and at each issuance of a Letter of Credit (or at such other intervals as the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Bank shall agree), each Issuing Bank shall provide to the Administrative Agent a schedule of the Letters of Credit issued by it, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, showing the date of issuance of each Letter of Credit, the account party, the original amount, the expiration date, and the reference number of any Letter of Credit outstanding at any time during such month, and showing the aggregate amount (if any) payable by the Borrower to such Issuing Bank during such month.
(q) The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender (except for a Defaulting Lender) in accordance with its Pro Rata Share a per annum Letter of Credit fee equal to the product of (i) the Applicable Rate for Revolving Credit Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Such letter of credit fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and upon the termination of the respective Letter of Credit, in each case for the actual number of days elapsed over a 360-day year. Such letter of credit fees shall be due and payable on the last Business Day each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Sublimit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily maximum amount of each 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.
(r) The Borrower shall pay directly to each Issuing Bank for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank equal to 0.125% per annum (or such other lower amount as may be mutually agreed by the Borrower and the applicable Issuing Bank) of the maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount made be drawn immediately under such Letter of Credit) or such lesser fee as may be agreed with such Issuing Bank. Such fronting fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Such fronting fees shall be due and payable on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Sublimit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. In addition, the Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, directly to each Issuing Bank for its own account with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such Issuing Bank relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable within ten (10) Business Days of demand and are nonrefundable.
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Section 2.05. Prepayments.
(a) Optional Prepayments. The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent in the form of Exhibit B hereto, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars or one (1) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (2) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars shall be in a principal amount of $2,500,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof; (3) [reserved]; and (4) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in the case of each of clauses (2) and (3), the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such prepayment. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon and any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. At the Borrower’s election in connection with any prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(a), such prepayment shall not be applied to any Loan of a Defaulting Lender.
(b) Mandatory Prepayments.
(i) [Reserved].
(ii) [Reserved].
(iii) [Reserved].
(iv) [Reserved].
(v) [Reserved].
(vi) [Reserved].
(vii) If the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Revolving Credit Exposure at such time exceeds an amount equal to 100% of the Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect within two (2) Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall prepay Revolving Credit Loans in an aggregate amount sufficient to reduce such amount outstanding as of such date of payment to an amount not to exceed 100% of the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(viii) [Reserved].
(ix) With respect to each prepayment of Revolving Credit Loans and Extended Revolving Credit Loans elected by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.05(a), the Borrower may designate (i) the Class and Types of Loans that are to be prepaid and the specific Borrowing(s) pursuant to which made and (ii) the Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Loans to be prepaid; provided that (x) Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be designated for prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) only on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto unless all Eurocurrency Rate Loans with Interest Periods ending on such date of required prepayment and all Base Rate Loans have been paid in full; (y) each prepayment of any Loans made pursuant to a Borrowing shall be applied pro rata among such Loans of such Class (except that any prepayment made in connection with a reduction of the Commitments of
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such Class pursuant to Section 2.06 shall be applied pro rata based on the amount of the reduction in the Commitments of such Class of each applicable Lender); and (z) notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding clause (y), at the option of the Borrower, no prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) of Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be applied to the Loans of any Defaulting Lender. In the absence of a designation by the Borrower as described in the preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent shall, subject to the above, make such designation in a manner that minimizes the amount of any payments required to be made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 3.05.
(c) Interest, Funding Losses, Etc. All prepayments under this Section 2.05 shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan pursuant to Section 3.05.
Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section 2.05, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans is required to be made under this Section 2.05, prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, in lieu of making any payment pursuant to this Section 2.05, in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the Borrower may, in its sole discretion, deposit with the Administrative Agent the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made hereunder until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05. Such deposit shall constitute cash collateral for the Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be so prepaid; provided that the Borrower may at any time direct that such deposit be applied to make the applicable payment required pursuant to this Section 2.05.
(d) [Reserved].
Section 2.06. Termination or Reduction of Commitments.
(a) Optional. The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Commitments of any Class, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Commitments of any Class; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent two (2) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction and (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $1,000,000 or any whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. It being understood and agreed that (1) the Borrower may allocate any termination or reduction of Commitments among Classes of Commitments at its direction (including, for the avoidance of doubt, to the Commitments with respect to any Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments without any termination or reduction of the Commitments with respect to any Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of the same Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class) and (2) in connection with the establishment on any date of any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 2.15, the Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of any one or more Lenders providing any such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments on such date shall be reduced in an amount equal to the amount of Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments so extended on such date or, if agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, by any greater amount so long as the Borrower prepays the Existing Revolving Credit Loans of such Class owed to such Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to the extent necessary to ensure that after giving effect to such repayment or reduction, the Existing Revolving Credit Loans of such Class are held by the Lenders of such Class on a pro rata basis in accordance with their Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class after giving effect to such reduction; provided that after giving effect to any
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such reduction and to the repayment of any Loans made on such date, the aggregate amount of the revolving credit exposure of any such Lender does not exceed the Existing Revolving Credit Commitment thereof (such revolving credit exposure and Revolving Credit Commitment being determined in each case, for the avoidance of doubt, exclusive of such Lender’s Extended Revolving Credit Commitment and any exposure in respect thereof).
(b) Mandatory. The Revolving Credit Commitments (other than any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) shall terminate on the applicable Maturity Date. With respect to each mandatory reduction and termination of Revolving Credit Commitments required in connection with the incurrence of any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower may designate (A) the Classes of Commitments to be reduced and terminated and (B) the corresponding Classes of Loans to be prepaid; provided that (x) any such reduction and termination shall apply proportionately and permanently to reduce the Commitments of each of the Lenders within any such Class and (y) after giving effect to such termination or reduction and to any prepayments of Loans or cancellation or cash collateralization of letters of credit made on the date of each such reduction and termination in accordance with this Agreement, the aggregate amount of such Lenders’ credit exposures shall not exceed the remaining Commitments of such Lenders’ in respect of the Class reduced and terminated.
(c) Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of unused portions of the unused Commitments of any Class under this Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of unused Commitments of any Class, the Commitment of each Lender of such Class shall be reduced by such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount by which such Commitments are reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in Section 3.07). All Commitment Fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.
Section 2.07. Repayment of Loans.
(a) [Reserved].
(b) Repayment of Revolving Credit Loans on the Maturity Date. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Appropriate Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all of its Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) [Reserved].
Section 2.08. Interest.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate for Eurocurrency Rate Loans then in effect for Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate then in effect for Base Rate Loans.
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(b) After the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall pay interest on past due amounts hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
(d) For the purposes of the Interest Act (Canada), (i) whenever a rate of interest or fee rate hereunder is calculated on the basis of a year (the “deemed year”) that contains fewer days than the actual number of days in the calendar year of calculation, such rate of interest or fee rate shall be expressed as a yearly rate by multiplying such rate of interest or fee rate by the actual number of days in the calendar year of calculation and dividing it by the number of days in the deemed year, (ii) the principle of deemed reinvestment of interest shall not apply to any interest calculation hereunder and (iii) the rates of interest stipulated herein are intended to be nominal rates and not effective rates or yields.
Section 2.09. Fees.
(a) Commitment Fee. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each (i) Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Pro Rata Share, a commitment fee (the “Commitment Fee”) equal to the per annum rate set forth in the definition of Applicable Rate on the average daily amount by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitment exceeds the sum of the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans. Changes in the Commitment Fee shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the end of such fiscal quarter. The Commitment Fee shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first full fiscal quarter to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility. The Commitment Fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears.
(b) Upfront Fees. The Borrower shall pay to each Lender on the Closing Date, an upfront fee in an amount of 0.25% of the Revolving Credit Commitments held by such Lender on the Closing Date.
(c) Other Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Agents such fees as shall have been separately agreed (including pursuant to the Administrative Agent Fee Letter) upon notice in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever (except as expressly agreed between the Borrower and the applicable Agent).
Section 2.10. Computation of Interest and Fees. All computations of interest on Base Rate Loans shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 days or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which such Loan is made, and shall not accrue on such Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which such Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any such Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one (1) day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. With respect to all Non-LIBOR Quoted Currencies, the calculation of the applicable interest rate shall be determined in accordance with market practice.
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Section 2.11. Evidence of Indebtedness.
(a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent, acting solely for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 5f.103-1(c), as agent for the Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of demonstrable error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), Class, amount, maturity and currency of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Section 2.11(a) and (b), and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Section 2.11(a) and (b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Section 2.12. Payments Generally.
(a) All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein or such later time as the Administrative Agent may otherwise determine in its reasonable discretion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent may require that any payments due under this Agreement be made in the United States. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Pro Rata Share (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Applicable Lending Office. Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, all payments received by the Administrative Agent after 3:00 p.m., in the case of payments in Dollars shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue.
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(b) If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided that if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.
(c) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Eurocurrency Rate Loans. If the Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(d) Unless the Borrower or any Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, then:
(i) if the Borrower failed to make such payment, each Lender shall forthwith on demand repay to the Administrative Agent the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Federal Funds Rate; and
(ii) if any Lender failed to make such payment, such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount thereof in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the “Compensation Period”) at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. When such Lender makes payment to the Administrative Agent (together with all accrued interest
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thereon), then such payment amount (excluding the amount of any interest which may have accrued and been paid in respect of such late payment) shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor upon the Borrower, and the Borrower shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the Compensation Period at a rate per annum equal to the rate of Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(d) shall be conclusive, absent demonstrable error.
(e) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(f) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any such participation on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or purchase its participation.
(g) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
(h) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.04. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the sum of the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.
(i) Any and all payments by or on behalf of any Loan Party under any Loan Document (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any gross-up or indemnification payments made under any Loan Document) are exclusive of VAT.
Section 2.13. Sharing of Payments. If, other than as provided elsewhere in this Agreement, any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share that it is owed (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b)
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purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided that (x) if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon, (y) the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant and (z) the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to any disproportionate payment obtained by a Lender of any Class as a result of the extension by Lenders of the maturity date or expiration date of some but not all Loans or Commitments of that Class or any increase in the Applicable Rate (or other pricing term, including any fee, discount or premium) in respect of Loans or Commitments of Lenders that have consented to any such extension to the extent such transaction is permitted hereunder. The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of demonstrable error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased. For purposes of clause (b) of the definition of “Excluded Taxes,” a Lender that acquires a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall be treated as having acquired such participation on the earlier date(s) on which such Lender acquired the applicable interest(s) in the Commitment(s) or Loan(s) (as applicable) to which such participation relates.
Section 2.14. Incremental Credit Extensions.
(a) The Borrower may at any time or from time to time after the Closing Date, by written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent, request one or more increases in the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class (each such increase, an “Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase” and all Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases, the “Incremental Facilities” and the commitments in respect thereof are referred to as the “Incremental Commitments”); provided that (i) no Event of Default pursuant to clauses (a) or (f) of Section 8.01 shall have occurred and be continuing or would exists after giving effect thereto and (ii) other than in the case of a Limited Condition Acquisition, which shall be subject to customary “Sungard” limitations, the representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension; provided, further, that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further, that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates
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(b) Each Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $2,500,000 (provided that such amount may be less than $2,500,000 if such amount represents all remaining availability under the limit set forth below) (and in minimum increments of $1,000,000 in excess thereof), and the aggregate amount of (x) the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases incurred pursuant to this Section 2.14 plus (y) the aggregate principal amount of Permitted Additional Debt incurred under Section 7.03(u)(i) shall not exceed an amount that would cause the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage to exceed 3.00:1.00, as of the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness or commitments, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such incurrence (assuming any such incurrence is fully drawn) (the “Incremental Amount”).
(c) (A) [Reserved].
(B) The Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase shall be on the same terms as, and be treated the same as, the Revolving Credit Commitments (including with respect to maturity date thereof) and shall be considered to be part of the Revolving Credit Facility (it being understood that, if required to consummate an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, additional upfront or similar fees may be payable to the lenders providing the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase).
(C) [Reserved].
(d) Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall be given in writing and shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases. Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases may be provided, subject to the prior written consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), by any existing Lender (it being understood that no existing Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment will have any obligation to provide a portion of any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase) or by any other bank, financial institution, other institutional lender or other investor (any such other bank, financial institution or other investor being called an “Additional Lender”); provided that the Administrative Agent shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) to such Lender’s or Additional Lender’s providing such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases if such consent would be required under Section 10.07(b) for an assignment of Loans or Commitments, as applicable, to such Lender or Additional Lender.
(e) Commitments in respect of Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases shall become Commitments (or in the case of an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase to be provided by an existing Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment, an increase in such Lender’s applicable Revolving Credit Commitment) under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Agreement”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed the Borrower, each Lender agreeing to provide such Commitment, if any, each Additional Lender, if any, and the Administrative Agent. The Incremental Agreement may, subject to Section 2.14(c), without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or advisable, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section (including, in connection with an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, to reallocate Revolving Credit Exposure on a pro rata basis among the relevant Revolving Credit Lenders). The effectiveness of any Incremental Agreement shall be subject to
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the satisfaction on the date thereof (each, an “Incremental Facility Closing Date”) and the occurrence of any extension of credit thereunder shall be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the parties thereto shall agree. The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement.
(f) No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases unless it so agrees and the Borrower shall not be obligated to offer any existing Lender the opportunity to provide any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increases.
(g) Upon each increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to this Section, each Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment of such Class immediately prior to such increase will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Lender providing a portion of the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase (each, an “Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase Lender”) in respect of such increase. If, on the date of such increase, there are any Revolving Credit Loans of such Class outstanding, such Revolving Credit Loans shall on or prior to the effectiveness of such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase be prepaid from the proceeds of additional Revolving Credit Loans made hereunder (reflecting such increase in Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class), which prepayment shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the Revolving Credit Loans of such Class being prepaid and any costs incurred by any Lender in accordance with Section 3.05. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.
(h) This Section 2.14 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.02(b) or 10.01 to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, any provisions of this Section 2.14 may be amended with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such amendment shall require any Lender to provide any Incremental Commitment without such Lender’s consent.
Section 2.15. Extensions of Revolving Credit Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments.
(a) (i) [Reserved].
(ii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class and/or the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class (and, in each case, including any previously extended Revolving Credit Commitments), existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related revolving credit loans under any such facility, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted or exchanged to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related revolving credit loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. Prior to entering into any Extension Agreement with respect to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, with such request offered equally to all Lenders of such Class) (a “Revolving Credit Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed
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terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established thereunder, which terms shall be similar to those applicable to the Existing Revolving Credit Commitments from which they are to be extended (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class”) except that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class, (x)(A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and prepayment premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be different than those for the Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class and/or (B) additional fees and/or premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A) and (y)(1) the undrawn revolving credit commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be different than those for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class and (2) the Extension Agreement may provide for other covenants and terms that apply to any period after the Latest Maturity Date; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, or otherwise, (I) the borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Existing Revolving Credit Loans of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Agreement and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class), (II) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the assignment and participation provisions set forth in Section 10.07 and (III) subject to the applicable limitations set forth in Section 2.07 and Section 2.06(b), permanent repayments of Extended Revolving Credit Loans (and corresponding permanent reduction in the related Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) shall be permitted as may be agreed between the Borrower and the Lenders thereof. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any Existing Revolving Credit Class converted or exchanged into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (together with any other Extended Revolving Credit Commitments so established on such date).
(b) The Borrower shall provide the applicable Extension Request to the Administrative Agent at least fifteen (15) Business Days (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may determine in its reasonable discretion) prior to the date on which Lenders under the Existing Class are requested to respond, and shall agree to such procedures, if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably, to accomplish the purpose of this Section 2.15. Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Revolving Credit Commitments (or any earlier Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) of an Existing Class subject to such Extension Request converted or exchanged into Extended Loans/Commitments shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Extension Request of the amount of its Revolving Credit Commitments (and/or any earlier extended Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) which it has elected to convert or exchange into Extended Loans/Commitments (subject to any minimum denomination requirements imposed by the Administrative Agent). In the event that the aggregate amount of Revolving Credit Commitments (and any earlier extended Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount
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of Extended Loans/Commitments requested pursuant to the Extension Request, Revolving Credit Commitments or earlier extended Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to or exchanged to Extended Loans/Commitments on a pro rata basis (subject to such rounding requirements as may be established by the Administrative Agent) based on the amount of Revolving Credit Commitments and earlier extended Extended Revolving Credit Commitments included in each such Extension Election or as may be otherwise agreed to in the applicable Extension Agreement.
(c) Extended Loans/Commitments shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Agreement”) to this Agreement (which, notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 10.01, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Loans/Commitments established thereby) executed by the Loan Parties and the Extending Lenders (and notice thereof together with the Extension Agreement delivered to the Administrative Agent). In connection with any Extension Agreement, the Borrower shall deliver an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (i) as to the enforceability of such Extension Agreement, this Agreement as amended thereby, and such of the other Loan Documents (if any) as may be amended thereby (in the case of such other Loan Documents as contemplated by the immediately preceding sentence) and covering customary matters and (ii) to the effect that such Extension Agreement, including the Extended Loans/Commitments provided for therein, does not breach or result in a default under the provisions of Section 10.01 of this Agreement.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (A) on any date on which any Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments is converted or exchanged to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above (an “Extension Date”), in the case of the Existing Revolving Credit Commitments of each Extending Lender under any Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class, the aggregate principal amount of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments so converted or exchanged by such Lender on such date (or by any greater amount as may be agreed by the Borrower and such Lender), and such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall be established as a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (together with any other Extended Revolving Credit Commitments so established on such date) and (B) if, on any Extension Date, any Existing Revolving Credit Loans of any Extending Lender are outstanding under the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment Class, such Existing Revolving Credit Loans (and any related participations) shall be deemed to be converted or exchanged to Extended Revolving Credit Loans (and related participations) of the applicable Class in the same proportion as such Extending Lender’s Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of such Class.
(e) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion that the allocation of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Agreement, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Agreement”) within fifteen (15) days following the effective date of such Extension Agreement, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Agreement shall (i) provide for the conversion or exchange and extension of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (and related Revolving
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Credit Exposure) in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (and related revolving credit exposure) of the applicable Extension Series into which such other commitments were initially converted or exchanged, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Agreement, in the absence of such error and (ii) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Agreement described in Section 2.15(c)).
(f) No conversion or exchange of Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Agreement in accordance with this Section 2.15 shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
(g) This Section 2.15 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.02(b) or Section 10.01 to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, any of the provisions of this Section 2.15 may be amended with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such amendment shall require any Lender to provide any Extended Loans/Commitments without such Lender’s consent.
Section 2.16. Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:
(a) The Commitment Fee shall cease to accrue on any of the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.09(a);
(b) The Commitment, Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 10.01); provided that any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender which affects such Defaulting Lender disproportionately when compared to the other affected Lenders, or increases or extends the Commitment of, or the date fixed for payments to, such Defaulting Lender, or reduces the amount of any principal, interest or fee payable to such Defaulting Lender, in each case shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender;
(c) [reserved];
(d) [reserved]; and
(e) In the event that the Administrative Agent and the Borrower each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Revolving Credit Loans of the other Revolving Credit Lenders as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with its Pro Rata Share; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of such Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; provided, further, that, subject to Section 10.22 and except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from such Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.
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ARTICLE III
TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
Section 3.01. Taxes.
(a) Except as required by Law, any and all payments by any Loan Party to or for the account of any Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Taxes. If any applicable Withholding Agent shall be required by any Laws to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under any Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender, (i) if such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions have been made (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01), each Lender (or an Agent receiving the payments for its own account) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such applicable Withholding Agent shall make such deductions, (iii) such applicable Withholding Agent shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty (30) days after the date of such payment by such applicable Withholding Agent to the relevant Governmental Authority (or, if receipts or evidence are not available within thirty (30) days, as soon as possible thereafter), such applicable Withholding Agent shall furnish to Borrower and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other evidence of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(b) In addition, the Loan Parties shall pay all Other Taxes.
(c) Without duplication of any amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or Section 3.01(b), the Borrower agrees to indemnify each Agent and each Lender for (i) the full amount of Indemnified Taxes (including any Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Agent or such Lender and (ii) any reasonable and documented expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, in each case whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided that no Lender shall be indemnified for any incremental interest, penalties or expense resulting from the failure of such Lender to notify the Borrower of the applicable indemnification claim within 180 days after such Lender receives written notice from the applicable taxing authority of the specific assessment or deficiency claim giving risk to such indemnification claim. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Payment under this Section 3.01(c) shall be made within ten (10) days after the date such Lender or such Agent makes a demand therefor.
(d) If any Lender or Agent determines, in its reasonable discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund in respect of any Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid to it by a Loan Party pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall promptly remit such refund as soon as practicable after it is determined that such refund pertains to Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Loan Party under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes
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giving rise to such refund) to the applicable Loan Party, net of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses (including any Taxes) of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant taxing authority with respect to such refund); provided that the applicable Loan Party, upon the request of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be, agrees promptly to return such refund to such party in the event such party is required to repay such refund to the relevant Governmental Authority. Such Lender or Agent, as the case may be, shall, at the applicable Loan Party’s request, provide the applicable Loan Party with a copy of any notice of assessment or other evidence of the requirement to repay such refund received from the relevant Governmental Authority (provided that such Lender or Agent may delete any information therein that such Lender or Agent reasonably deems confidential). Nothing contained herein shall interfere with the right of a Lender or Agent to arrange its tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit nor oblige any Lender or Agent to claim any tax refund or to make available its tax returns or disclose any information relating to its tax affairs or any computations in respect thereof or require any Lender or Agent to do anything that would prejudice its ability to benefit from any other refunds, credits, reliefs, remissions or repayments to which it may be entitled.
(e) Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(a) or (c) or Section 3.04(a) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to legal and regulatory restrictions) to designate another Applicable Lending Office for any Loan affected by such event; provided that no such designation shall be required to the extent that, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation would not materially eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or (c) or Lender and its Applicable Lending Office(s) would suffer material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage or be subject to an unreimbursed cost or expense; and provided, further, that nothing in this Section 3.01(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or (c) or Section 3.04(a).
(f) Each Lender shall, at such times as are reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with any documentation prescribed by Law, or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, certifying as to any entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from, or reduction in, any withholding Tax with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender under any Loan Document. In addition, each Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Laws or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Each such Lender shall, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders any such documentation (including any documentation specifically referenced below) expired, obsolete or inaccurate in any material respect, deliver promptly to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent updated or other appropriate documentation or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal ineligibility to do so. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 3.01(f), a Lender shall not be required to deliver any documentation that such Lender is not legally eligible to deliver.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:
(i) Each Lender that is a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter when required by applicable Laws or upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) two properly completed and duly signed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding; and
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(ii) Each Lender that is not a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter when required by applicable Laws or upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) the following, as applicable:
(A) two duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor forms) claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States of America is a party,
(B) two duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms),
(C) in the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate, in substantially the form of Exhibit O (any such certificate a “United States Tax Compliance Certificate”), or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to the effect that such Lender is not (A) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the U.S. Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the U.S. Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code, and that no payments in connection with the Loan Documents are effectively connected with such Lender’s conduct of a U.S. trade or business and (y) two duly completed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or any successor forms), or
(D) to the extent a Lender is not the beneficial owner (for example, where the Lender is a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes, or is a Lender that has granted a participation), Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY (or any successor forms) of the Lender, accompanied by a Form W-8ECI, Form X-0XXX xx X-0XXX-X, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Tax Compliance Certificate, Form W-9, Form W-8IMY (or other successor forms) or any other required information from each beneficial owner, as applicable (provided that if the Lender is a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes (and not a participating Lender) and one or more direct or indirect partners are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, the United States Tax Compliance Certificate may be provided by such Lender on behalf of such beneficial owner(s)).
(g) If a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by applicable Laws and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Laws (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA, to determine whether such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount, if any, to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this Section 3.01 (g), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
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(h) The Israeli Borrower and the U.S. Borrower shall each promptly obtain an Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate and shall each update such Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate for each calendar year, no later than December 15th of the preceding calendar year. Upon obtaining the initial Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate (and each annual update), each of the Israeli Borrower and the U.S. Borrower shall promptly provide a copy thereof to the Administrative Agent and to each Israeli Lender. If, at the time of any advance to the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and each Israeli Lender have not been provided with an Israeli Tax Withholding Certificate that is effective at such time with respect to the applicable advance, each Israeli Lender may withhold from such advance Israeli withholding Tax at the then applicable rate (as determined by each Israeli Lender); provided that, with respect to any advance made on or prior to November 15, 2021, if either the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower has not yet been able to obtain its initial Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate, each Israeli Lender will nevertheless make such advance to the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower (as applicable) free from Israeli withholding Tax if, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date of such advance, the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower, as applicable, provides to the Administrative Agent and to each Israeli Lender a copy of a written opinion addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Israeli Lender from a qualified Israeli legal counsel or accountant reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (it being agreed that PricewaterhouseCoopers and any other Big 4 accounting firm shall be considered as reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) to the effect that no withholding of Israeli withholding Tax is required under applicable Law to be made from the amount being advanced to the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower, as applicable; provided that, in such event, (X) the Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and each Israeli Lender from and against (i) any Taxes imposed by the Israel Tax Authority as a result of the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower (as applicable)’s failure to have obtained its initial Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate prior to the time of such advance and (ii) any reasonable and documented expenses related thereto and (Y) if the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower is ultimately unable to obtain the initial Israeli Withholding Tax Certificate by November 15, 2021 or if the Israel Tax Authority determines that a withholding of Israeli withholding Tax should have applied to any amount advanced to the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower prior to November 15, 2021, the Israeli Borrower or the U.S. Borrower, as applicable, shall promptly pay to the Israel Tax Authority an amount equal to the Israeli withholding Tax that should have been withheld under applicable Law with respect to each applicable advance plus, for the avoidance of doubt, any interest, additions to tax and penalties applicable thereto and send a written confirmation of such payment to the Administrative Agent and each Israeli Lender within five (5) Business Days following the payment.
(i) Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to deliver to the Loan Parties and to any successor Administrative Agent any documentation provided by such Lender to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 3.01(f) or (g).
(j) For purposes of this Section 3.01, the term “Lender” shall include any Issuing Bank.
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Section 3.02. Illegality.
(a) If any Lender reasonably determines that due to any Change in Law after the Signing Date it is unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority that is a court, statutory board or commission has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Eurocurrency Rate Loans, to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Adjusted Eurocurrency Rate as contemplated by this Agreement, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, in respect of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (A) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in Dollars shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist, (B) upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such Eurocurrency Rate Loans, that have become unlawful or, if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars, convert all Eurocurrency Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate in determining the applicable Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or promptly, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (C) upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under Section 3.05. If any Lender reasonably determines that due to any Change in Law after the Signing Date it is unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority that is a court, statutory board or commission has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Applicable Lending Office to make Loans to the Israeli Borrower, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, in respect of such Loans, (A) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Loans to the Israeli Borrower shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist, (B) upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay in the case of Loans that have become unlawful, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Loans to such day, or promptly, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (C) upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment under Section 3.05. In each case, each Lender agrees to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for any such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.
(b) If any provision of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents would obligate the Borrower to make any payment of interest or other amount payable to any Secured Party in an amount or calculated at a rate which would be prohibited by law, then, notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rate shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by applicable Law.
Section 3.03. Benchmark Replacement Setting. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document:
(a) Replacing USD LIBOR. On March 5, 2021 the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), the regulatory supervisor of USD LIBOR’s administrator (“IBA”), announced in a public statement the future cessation or loss of representativeness of overnight/Spot Next, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month and 12-month USD LIBOR tenor settings. On the earlier of (i) the date that all Available Tenors of USD LIBOR have either permanently or indefinitely ceased to be provided by IBA or have been announced by the FCA pursuant to public statement or publication of information to be no longer representative and (ii) the Early Opt-in Effective Date, if the then-current Benchmark is USD LIBOR, the Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any setting of such Benchmark on such day and all subsequent settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. If the Benchmark Replacement is Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will be payable on a quarterly basis.
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(b) Replacing Future Benchmarks. Upon the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders of each Class. At any time that the administrator of the then-current Benchmark has permanently or indefinitely ceased to provide such Benchmark or such Benchmark has been announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark pursuant to public statement or publication of information to be no longer representative of the underlying market and economic reality that such Benchmark is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored, the Borrower may revoke any request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Loans to be made, converted or continued that would bear interest by reference to such Benchmark until the Borrower’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark, and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans. During the period referenced in the foregoing sentence, the component of Base Rate based upon the Benchmark will not be used in any determination of Base Rate.
(c) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the implementation and administration of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement.
(d) Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this Section 3.03, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party hereto, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 3.03.
(e) Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark. At any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including Term SOFR or USD LIBOR), then the Administrative Agent may remove any tenor of such Benchmark that is unavailable or non-representative for Benchmark (including Benchmark Replacement) settings and (ii) the Administrative Agent may reinstate any such previously removed tenor for Benchmark (including Benchmark Replacement) settings.
(f) Definitions.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as applicable, (x) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period or (y) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, pursuant to this Agreement as of such date.
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“Benchmark” means, initially, USD LIBOR; provided that if a replacement of the Benchmark has occurred pursuant to this Section titled “Benchmark Replacement Setting,” then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate. Any reference to “Benchmark” shall include, as applicable, the published component used in the calculation thereof.
“Benchmark Replacement” means, for any Available Tenor:
(1) For purposes of clause (a) of this Section 3.03, the first alternative set forth below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent:
(a) the sum of: (i) Term SOFR and (ii) 0.11448% (11.448 basis points) for an Available Tenor of one-month’s duration, 0.26161% (26.161 basis points) for an Available Tenor of three-months’ duration, and 0.42826% (42.826 basis points) for an Available Tenor of six-months’ duration8, or
(b) the sum of: (i) Daily Simple SOFR and (ii) the spread adjustment selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the replacement of the tenor of USD LIBOR with a SOFR-based rate having approximately the same length as the interest payment period specified in clause (a) of this Section 3.03; and
(2) For purposes of clause (b) of this Section 3.03, the sum of (a) the alternate benchmark rate and (b) an adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), in each case, that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for such Available Tenor of such Benchmark giving due consideration to any evolving or then-prevailing market convention, including any applicable recommendations made by the Relevant Governmental Body, for U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time;
provided that, if the Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (1) or (2) above would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. For the avoidance of doubt, any such Benchmark Replacement shall meet the standards set forth in Proposed U.S. Treasury Regulations under Section 1.1001-6 (or any successor U.S. Treasury Regulations or other official Internal Revenue Service guidance promulgated that supersedes such Proposed U.S. Treasury Regulations) so as not to be treated as a “modification” (and therefor an exchange) of any Loans for purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.1001-3.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to
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permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of such Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to any then-current Benchmark other than USD LIBOR, the occurrence of a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the then-current Benchmark, the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark, announcing or stating that (a) such administrator has ceased or will cease on a specified date to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark, permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark or (b) all Available Tenors of such Benchmark are or will no longer be representative of the underlying market and economic reality that such Benchmark is intended to measure and that representativeness will not be restored.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which will include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for syndicated business loans; provided, that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.
“Early Opt-in Effective Date” means, with respect to any Early Opt-in Election, the sixth (6th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Early Opt-in Election is provided to the Lenders, written notice of objection to such Early Opt-in Election from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.
“Early Opt-in Election” means the occurrence of:
(1) | a notification by the Administrative Agent to (or the request by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent to notify) each of the other parties hereto that at least five currently outstanding U.S. dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time contain (as a result of amendment or as originally executed) a SOFR-based rate (including SOFR, a term SOFR or any other rate based upon SOFR) as a benchmark rate (and such syndicated credit facilities are identified in such notice and are publicly available for review), and |
(2) | the joint election by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to trigger a fallback from USD LIBOR and the provision by the Administrative Agent of written notice of such election to the Lenders. |
“Floor” means the benchmark rate floor, if any, provided in this Agreement initially (as of the execution of this Agreement, the modification, amendment or renewal of this Agreement or otherwise) with respect to USD LIBOR.
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“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any
successor thereto.
“SOFR” means a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight financing rate for such Business Day published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate) on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx (or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the administrator of the secured overnight financing rate from time to time).
“Term SOFR” means, for the applicable corresponding tenor, the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
“USD LIBOR” means the London interbank offered rate for U.S. dollars.
Section 3.04. Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
(a) If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law after the Signing Date, there shall be any actual increase in the cost (including any Tax) to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or a reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of the foregoing (excluding for purposes of this Section 3.04(a) any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from (i) Indemnified Taxes, (ii) Excluded Taxes, or (iii) reserve requirements contemplated by Section 3.04(c)), then from time to time within fifteen (15) Business Days after demand by such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail such actual increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such actual Lender for such increased cost or reduction.
(b) If any Lender determines that as a result of a Change in Law regarding capital adequacy or liquidity requirements after the Signing Date, has the effect of reducing the actual rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity, as applicable, and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then from time to time upon demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail the charge and the calculation of such actual reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such demand.
(c) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including eurocurrency funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of demonstrable error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such actual additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by
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such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent demonstrable error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided that the Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or cost from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice.
(d) Subject to Section 3.06(b), failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation.
(e) If any Lender requests compensation under this Section 3.04, then such Lender will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts to designate another Applicable Lending Office for any Loan affected by such event; provided that nothing in this Section 3.04(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.04(a), (b), (c) or (d).
(f) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3.04 to the contrary, no Lender shall receive compensation pursuant to this Section 3.04, unless such Lender certifies that it is generally seeking compensation from other borrowers in the U.S. leveraged loan market with respect to its similarly affected loans under agreements with such borrowers having provisions similar to this Section 3.04.
Section 3.05. Funding Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any actual loss and reasonable and documented cost or expense (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any lost profits) incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan; or
(b) any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower;
including any actual loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees actually paid to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained.
Section 3.06. Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.
(a) Any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article III shall deliver a certificate to the Borrower setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder which shall be conclusive in the absence of demonstrable error; provided that such Agent or such Lender need not disclose any information that is price-sensitive, confidential or legally restricted. In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.
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(b) With respect to any Lender’s claim for compensation under Section 3.02, Section 3.03, Section 3.04 or Section 3.09, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate such Lender for any amount incurred more than one hundred and eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the event that gives rise to such claim; provided that if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrower under Section 3.04, the Borrower may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans from one Interest Period to another, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 3.06(c) shall be applicable); provided that such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.
(c) If the obligation of any Lender to make or continue any Eurocurrency Rate Loan from one Interest Period to another shall be suspended pursuant to Section 3.06(b) hereof, such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be automatically converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by Section 3.02, on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 3.02, Section 3.03, Section 3.04 or Section 3.09 hereof that gave rise to such conversion no longer exist, to the extent that such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans.
(d) If any Lender gives notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances specified in Section 3.02, Section 3.03, Section 3.04 or Section 3.09 hereof that gave rise to the conversion of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans pursuant to this Section 3.06 no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when Eurocurrency Rate Loans made by other Lenders are outstanding, such Lender’s Base Rate Loans shall be automatically converted to Eurocurrency Rate Loans on the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans held by the Lenders holding Eurocurrency Rate Loans and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, interest rate basis, and Interest Periods) in accordance with their respective Commitments.
Section 3.07. Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances.
(a) If at any time (i) any Lender requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.04 as a result of any condition described in such Sections or any Lender ceases to make Eurocurrency Rate Loans as a result of any condition described in Section 3.02, or Section 3.04, (ii) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or (iii) any Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, on prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Lender, replace such Lender by requiring such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be waived by the Administrative Agent in such instance) all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (or, with respect to clause (iii) above, all of its rights and obligations with respect to the Class of Loans or Commitments that is the subject of the related consent, waiver or amendment) to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided that neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person; and provided, further, that in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, the applicable Eligible Assignees shall have agreed to the applicable departure, waiver or amendment of the Loan Documents; and provided, further, that in the case of any such assignment resulting from a request for reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction of such amounts thereafter.
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(b) Any Lender being replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) above shall (i) execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans; provided that the failure of any such Lender to execute an Assignment and Assumption shall not render such assignment invalid and such assignment shall be recorded in the Register and (ii) deliver Notes, if any, evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or Administrative Agent. Pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, (A) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans, (B) all obligations of the Borrower owing to the assigning Lender relating to the Loans and participations so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender to such assigning Lender concurrently with such assignment and assumption, and any amounts owing to the assigning Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) under Section 3.05 as a consequence of such assignment shall have been paid by the Borrower to the assigning Lender and (C) upon such payment and, if so requested by the assignee Lender, the assignor Lender shall deliver to the assignee Lender the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the Borrower, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the assigning Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder with respect to such assigned Loans, Commitments and participations, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such assigning Lender.
(c) [reserved].
(d) In the event that (i) the Borrower or the Administrative Agent has requested that the Lenders consent to a departure, termination, discharge or waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents or agree to any amendment thereto, (ii) the consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the agreement of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 or all the Lenders with respect to a certain Class of the Loans, or with respect to the Facilities as a whole and (iii) the Required Lenders have agreed to such consent, waiver or amendment, then any Lender who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender.”
(e) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each party hereto agrees that any assignment pursuant to the terms of this Section 3.07 may be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the assignee and that the Lender making such assignment need not be a party thereto.
Section 3.08. Survival. All of the Loan Parties’ obligations under Section 3.01, Section 3.04, Section 3.06 and Section 3.07 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment, the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations hereunder.
Section 3.09. Inability to Determine Rates. If the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders determine that for any reason adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or that the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, or that Dollar deposits (whether in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurocurrency market for the applicable amount and the Interest Period of such Eurocurrency
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Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing in Dollars of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 4.01. Conditions to Signing Date. The effectiveness of this Agreement on the Signing Date is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent, except as otherwise agreed between the Borrower and the Required Lenders:
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals, .pdf copies or facsimiles (followed promptly by originals, to the extent applicable) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party (to the extent applicable), each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its legal counsel:
(i) | executed counterparts of this Agreement and the Guaranty; |
(ii) | a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the condition set forth in clauses (b) and (c) below is satisfied; |
(iii) | copies of a recent Lien, bankruptcy, insolvency, judgment, copyright, patent and trademark search in each jurisdiction reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent with respect to the Loan Parties; |
(iv) | the Administrative Agent Fee Letter; |
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(v) | the (a) unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income and cash flows of Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for each fiscal quarter, if any, ended after December 31, 2020 and at least 45 days prior to the Signing Date and setting forth, with respect to statements of income and cash flows, comparative figures for the related period in the prior fiscal year and (b) audited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income and cash flows of Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, in each case, for the three fiscal years most recently ended at least 90 days before the Signing Date; |
(vi) | The representations and warranties set forth in Article V and in any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Signing Date; provided that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date |
(vii) | (i) The Administrative Agent shall have received, at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Signing Date, all documentation and other information about the Borrowers and the Guarantors as has been reasonably requested in writing at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Signing Date by the Administrative Agent that it reasonably determines is required by U.S., Guernsey and/or Israeli regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law and (ii) to the extent each Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, at least five (5) days prior to the Signing Date, any Lender that has requested, in a written notice to such Borrower at least ten (10) days prior to the Signing Date, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Borrower shall have received such Beneficial Ownership Certification. |
(b) Since December 31, 2020, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) No Default or Event or Default shall exist, or would result from the Transactions.
Section 4.02. Conditions to Closing Date. The obligation of the Lenders to make the Commitments available hereunder are subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent (the date of such satisfaction, the “Closing Date”), except as otherwise agreed between the Borrower and the Required Lenders (and, in the case of clause (d) below, each Lender):
(a) Each Collateral Document set forth on Schedule 1.01A required to be executed on the Closing Date as indicated on such schedule, duly executed by each Loan Party thereto, together with (except as provided in such Collateral Documents):
(i) the original certificates, if any, representing the pledged, mortgaged or charged equity referred to therein for Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Subsidiaries) organized under the laws of the U.S., Guernsey or the State of Israel and accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank and the original instruments evidencing the pledged debt referred to therein endorsed in blank;
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(ii) evidence that all financing statements (or equivalent) under the Uniform Commercial Code have been filed or are otherwise in a form appropriate for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code and evidence that all other actions, recordings and filings that the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been taken, completed or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent;
(iii) all of the Israeli Collateral Documents duly executed and in a form appropriate for filing with the Registrar of Companies, Registrar of Patents and/or the Registrar of Pledges (including, as required by applicable Law, duly executed copies of all necessary registration forms); and
(iv) the Perfection Certificate, executed and delivered by each Loan Party and the Collateral Agent.
(b) an opinion from Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx, LLP, New York counsel to the Loan Parties and (ii) an opinion from Meitar Law Offices, Israeli counsel to the Loan Parties;
(c) a certificate, in the form of Exhibit N, attesting to the Solvency of Borrower and its Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis) on the Closing Date after giving effect to the Transactions, from the Chief Financial Officer of Borrower or other Responsible Officer of Borrower;
(d) consummation of a Qualifying IPO.
(e) All reasonable and documented fees and expenses required to be paid hereunder, and in the case of reasonable and documented expenses, to the extent invoiced at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date (except as otherwise agreed by the Borrower) shall have been paid (which amounts may, at the Borrower’s option, be offset against the proceeds of the Facilities).
(f) The Collateral Agent shall have received an approval, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, from the Israeli Innovation Authority for the pledge and charge of the IIA-Funded Know-How in favor of the Collateral Agent as security for the Obligations (the “Initial IIA Approval”), subject only to the execution by the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties of the IIA Undertaking. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the relevant Israeli Loan Parties shall have used commercially reasonable efforts to deliver the IIA Approval without undue burden or expense, but shall nevertheless be unable to deliver the IIA Approval, delivery of the IIA Approval shall not be a condition precedent to the obligations of the Lenders hereunder on the Closing Date, but shall be required to be accomplished as provided in Schedule 6.12.
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(g) the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that the principal of and interest on, and all other amounts owing in respect of, Indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreement and the Existing Senior Facilities Agreement shall have been (or shall simultaneously be) paid in full, that the commitments to extend credit under the Existing Credit Agreement and the Existing Senior Facilities Agreement have been (or shall simultaneously be) canceled or terminated and letters of credit outstanding thereunder shall have expired with no pending drawings or been terminated or shall be, as of the date hereof, and, in each case, the delivery of a payoff letter evidencing the release of all related guarantees and Liens securing such Indebtedness (subject to any post-closing filings).
(h) Since December 31, 2020, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(i) No Default or Event or Default shall exist, or would result from the Transactions.
(j) The representations and warranties set forth in Article V and in any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date; provided that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date.
(k) The Administrative Agent’s receipt a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the condition set forth in clauses (h), (i) and (j) above is satisfied.
(l) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals, .pdf copies or facsimiles (followed promptly by originals, to the extent applicable) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party (to the extent applicable), each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its legal counsel:
(i) | in respect of the U.S. Loan Parties, certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit J-1 for each Loan Party which attach (A) resolutions or other action documentation, (B) incumbency certificates, (C) Organizational Documents and (D) good standing certificates; |
(ii) | in respect of the Israeli Loan Parties, certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit J-2 which attach: (A) the organization and existence of each Israeli Loan Party, (B) the Organizational Documents and an up-to-date extract from the Registrar of Companies of each Israeli Loan Party and (C) resolutions approving the Transactions and other legal matters (including confirmation of each Israeli Loan Party in accordance with Sections 256(d) and 282 of the Companies Law that all required authorizations and corporate approvals have been obtained) relating to the Israeli Loan Parties, the Loan Documents or the Transactions (as applicable). |
The Administrative Agent’s receipt of bring-down good standing certificates (or local law equivalents) from the Loan Parties.
In the event the Closing Date does not occur on or before the earlier of (x) 45 days after the Signing Date and (y) the public withdrawal of the U.S. Borrower’s Qualifying IPO, then this Agreement and the Lenders’ commitments hereunder shall automatically terminate without further action or notice.
Section 4.03. Conditions to Each Credit Extension. The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension and of any Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit (other than (i) a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or (ii) issue, amend, or extend any Letter of Credit, which may be subject to different conditions precedent and representations but only if so agreed by the Borrower and the applicable Lenders) is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension or the date of issuance, amendment, or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable; provided that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further, that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates.
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(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom or the issuance, amendment, or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a Committed Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) submitted by the Borrower shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.03(a) and (b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension. For the avoidance of doubt, no Restricted Israeli Lender shall be required to make any extension of credit hereunder.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each of Holdings, the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries represents and warrants to the Agents and the Lenders that:
Section 5.01. Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each other Restricted Subsidiary (a) is a Person duly incorporated, organized, registered or formed, and validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, registration or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) in the case of each Loan Party, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, (d) is in compliance with all Laws, orders, writs, injunctions and orders and (e) has all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to operate its business as currently conducted; except in each case referred to in clauses (b)(i), (c), (d) or (e), to the extent that failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. As of the Closing Date, no Israeli Loan Party will be a “company in violation” under Section 362A of the Companies Law.
Section 5.02. Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party, are within such Loan Party’s corporate, partnership or other powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) conflict with or contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organizational Documents, (b) result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under (other than under the Loan Documents), or require any payment to be made under (i) any Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c) violate any Law; except with respect to any conflict, breach or contravention or payment or violation (but not creation of Liens) referred to in clauses (b) or (c), to the extent that such conflict, breach, contravention or payment or violation could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 5.03. Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or (b) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents or the perfection of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents, except for (i) filings necessary to perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by the Loan Parties in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, (ii) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect and (iii) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which to obtain or make could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.04. Binding Effect. Each Loan Party has duly executed and delivered each Loan Document to which it is a party and each such Loan Document constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or law).
Section 5.05. Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.
(a) [Reserved].
(b) Since December 31, 2020, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that Borrower and its Subsidiaries may be required to restate historical financial statements as the result of the implementation of changes in GAAP or the interpretation thereof, and that such restatements will not result in a Default under the Loan Documents (including any effect on any conditions required to be satisfied on the Closing Date) to the extent that the restatements do not reveal any material omission, misstatement or other material inaccuracy in the reported information from actual results for any relevant prior period.
Section 5.06. Litigation. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.06, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened at law, in equity, in arbitration by or before any Governmental Authority, by or against the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or against any of their properties or revenues that either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 5.07. Ownership of Property; Liens. Each Loan Party and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has good and defensible title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, or easements or other limited property interests in, all property necessary in the ordinary conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens except for minor defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business or to utilize such assets for their intended purposes and Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and except where the failure to have such title or other interest could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.08. Environmental Compliance. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect:
(a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing against the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary alleging violation of, or liability under, any Environmental Law;
(b) There has been no Release and there is no threat of Release of Hazardous Materials by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary at, on, under or from any location in a manner which would reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under Environmental Laws;
(c) The Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries are in compliance with all Environmental Laws and have obtained, maintained and are in compliance with all permits, licenses and other approvals as required under any Environmental Law;
(d) In connection with the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, to the Borrower’s knowledge, no conditions or facts exist that would reasonably be expected result in liability under, or impose an obligation with respect to, Environmental Law.
Section 5.09. Taxes. The Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary have timely filed all federal, state, local, foreign and other Tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have timely paid all federal, state, local, foreign and other Taxes levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable (including as a withholding agent), except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP and except for failures to file or pay as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. There are no Tax audits, deficiencies, assessments or other claims with respect to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary that could, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.10. Compliance with ERISA and other Pension Laws; Labor Matters.
(a) Except as would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Pension Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state Laws, and (ii) each Foreign Plan established, sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party has been registered, established, invested, administered and maintained in compliance with all applicable Laws.
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(b) (i) No ERISA Event with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, (ii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA would result in such liability) under Section 4201 et seq. of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan, (iii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA and (iv) no Foreign Pension Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, except, with respect to each of the foregoing clauses of this Section 5.10(b), as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Except as would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (i) there are no strikes or other labor disputes against the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, (ii) hours worked by and payment made to employees of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Laws, (iii) the Borrower and the other Loan Parties have complied with all applicable labor Laws including work authorization and immigration and (iv) all payments due from the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries on account of employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the relevant party.
Section 5.11. Subsidiaries; Equity Interests. As of the Closing Date and after giving effect to the Transactions occurring on the Closing Date, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party has any Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.11, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrower and such Subsidiaries have been validly issued, and to the extent such concepts exist with respect to such Equity Interests, are fully paid and nonassessable and all Equity Interests owned by Borrower or any other Loan Party are owned free and clear of all Liens except (i) those created under the Collateral Documents and (ii) any Lien that is permitted by Section 7.01.
As of the Closing Date and after giving effect to the Transactions occurring on the Closing Date, Schedule 5.11 sets forth (a) the legal name, company registration number (if any) and jurisdiction of organization or incorporation of each Subsidiary, (b) sets forth the ownership interest of the Borrower and any of their Restricted Subsidiaries in each of their Subsidiaries, including the percentage of such ownership and (c) identifies each Person the Equity Interests of which are required to be pledged, charged and/or mortgaged on the Closing Date pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.
Section 5.12. Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.
(a) As of the Closing Date, none of the Collateral is comprised of any margin stock. No Loan Party is engaged, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock, and no proceeds of any Borrowings will be used for any purpose that violates Regulation U or Regulation X of FRB.
(b) None of the Loan Parties is an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
Section 5.13. Disclosure.
(a) None of the written factual information or written factual data (taken as a whole) heretofore or contemporaneously furnished by the Borrower, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any of its authorized representatives in writing to any Agent or any Lender on or before the Closing Date for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or any transaction contemplated herein contained any
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untrue statement of material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary to make such information and data (taken as a whole) not materially misleading at such time (after giving effect to all supplements so furnished prior to such time) in light of the circumstances under which such information or data was furnished; it being understood and agreed that for purposes of this Section 5.13(a), such factual information and data shall not include projections (including financial estimates, forecasts and other forward-looking information), pro forma financial information or information of a general economic or general industry nature.
(b) The projections contained in the information and data referred to in Section 5.13(a) were prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made; it being recognized by the Agents and the Lenders that such projections are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts, the projections are subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results and such differences may be material.
Section 5.14. Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. Each of the Loan Parties and the other Restricted Subsidiaries exclusively own, free and clear of all Liens, license or possess the right to use, all Intellectual Property used or held for use in or otherwise that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted, and without conflict with the rights of any Person, except to the extent such conflicts, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No such Intellectual Property rights nor the operation of the businesses of the Loan Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries infringe upon, misappropriate, dilute or violate any rights held by any Person except for such infringements, misappropriations, dilutions or violations, individually or in the aggregate, which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No claim or litigation regarding any such Intellectual Property rights is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing (including “cease and desist” letters and invitations to take a patent license) against any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Loan Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable Laws governing each such party’s collection, processing, transmission, transfer, use, disclosure, storage, disposal and security of Protected Information, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. In the past three (3) years, there has not been any data security breach or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, unauthorized access, use or disclosure of any Protected Information owned, stored, maintained or controlled by or on behalf of the Loan Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries, except where, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Loan Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries have adopted commercially reasonable privacy, data protection and information security organization, management, technologies, policies and procedures with respect to privacy, data protection, processing, security and the collection and use of Protected Information gathered or accessed in the course of their respective operations, except to the extent that any failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 5.15. Solvency. On the Closing Date after giving effect to the Transactions occurring on the Closing Date, Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent.
Section 5.16. Collateral Documents. The Collateral Documents are effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties legal, valid and enforceable Liens on and in, the Collateral.
Section 5.17. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans shall be used in a manner consistent with the uses set forth in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.
Section 5.18. Senior Indebtedness. The Obligations constitute “Senior Indebtedness” (or similar or comparable term) of the Borrower any agreement, indenture or instrument pursuant to which any Subordinated Debt is Incurred.
Section 5.19. Patriot Act.
(a) Neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party is in violation of any laws relating to terrorism or money laundering, including Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist Financing, effective September 23, 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law.
(b) The use of proceeds of the Loans will not violate the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended or any of the foreign asset control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 C.F.R. Subtitle B, Chapter V).
Section 5.20. Anti-Corruption Laws. For the last five (5) years, the Borrower, each Person affiliated with or acting as a representative of the Borrower, and each other Loan Party have conducted their business in material compliance with the FCPA, Section E of Chapter 9 of the Israeli Penal Code, 5737-1977, the UK Xxxxxxx Xxx 0000 and other applicable anti-corruption laws and regulations (“Anti-Corruption Laws”) and have instituted and maintained policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the Anti-Corruption Laws.
Section 5.21. Sanctioned Persons. Each Loan Party represents that neither it nor any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of each of them, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative of such entity is an individual or entity (“Person”) currently the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the United States Government, including, without limitation, OFAC, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, the Israeli Ministry of Finance and Israeli Ministry of Defense or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is such entity located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions. The Borrower, each Person affiliated with or acting as a representative of the Borrower, and each other Loan Party have conducted their business in compliance with all applicable Sanctions and have instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with Sanctions. Each Loan Party on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries
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represents and covenants that it will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the transaction, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any Person (including any Person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions.
Section 5.22. Beneficial Ownership Certification. As of the Closing Date, to the best knowledge of each Borrower, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification provided on or prior to the Closing Date to any Lender in connection with this Agreement is true and correct in all respects.
Section 5.23. Affected Financial Institution. No Loan Party is an Affected Financial Institution.
ARTICLE VI
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation (other than Hedging Obligations, Cash Management Obligations and contingent indemnification obligations and other contingent obligations) hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, Borrower shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Section 6.01, Section 6.02 and Section 6.03) cause each Restricted Subsidiary to:
Section 6.01. Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:
(a) (i) commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021, within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower (or 120 days after the end of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021), an audited consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries and, if different, an audited consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related audited consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year (or, in lieu of such audited financial statements of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, a detailed reconciliation, reflecting such financial information for Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, on the other hand), setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail (together with, in all cases, customary management discussion and analysis, unless the Borrower’s Equity Interests are publicly traded) and prepared in accordance with GAAP, and except with respect to any such reconciliation, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall (i) be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and (ii) not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or any qualification as to the scope of such audit;
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(b) commencing with the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2022, within 45 days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower (or 60 days after the end of each of the first (3) three fiscal quarters ending after the Closing Date), a consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries and, if different, a consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related (i) consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended and (ii) consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the fiscal year then ended (or in lieu of such financial statements of Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, a detailed reconciliation, reflecting such financial information for Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on the other hand), all in reasonable detail (together with, in all cases, customary management discussion and analysis, unless the Borrower’s Equity Interests are publicly traded), certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (or, in the case of any reconciliation, Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) in accordance with GAAP, in each case subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end audit adjustments and to the absence of footnotes.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.01 (other than Sections 6.01(a)(ii) and (a)(iii)) may be satisfied with respect to financial information of Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries by furnishing (A) the applicable financial statements of any Parent Entity that holds the Equity Interests of Borrower or (B) if applicable, Borrower’s (or any Parent Entity’s) Form 10-K, 10-Q, Annual Information Form and quarterly financial statements, as applicable, filed with the SEC; provided that with respect to each of clauses (A) and (B), (i) to the extent such information relates to a Parent Entity, such information is accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to Borrower (or such parent), on the one hand, and the information relating to Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand and (ii) to the extent such information is in lieu of information required to be provided under Section 6.01(a), such materials are accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall (i) be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and (ii) not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or any qualification as to the scope of such audit.
Section 6.02. Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:
(a) together with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of Borrower;
(b) promptly after the same are publicly available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower files with the SEC or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor (other than amendments to any registration statement (to the extent such registration statement, in the form it became effective, is delivered to the Administrative Agent), exhibits to any registration statement and, if applicable, any registration statement on Form S-8) and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;
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(c) together with the delivery of the financial statements pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and each Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 6.02(a), (i) a report setting forth, certain intellectual property information required by the Security Agreement and the Israeli fixed charge over intellectual property entered into between the Israeli Borrower and the Collateral Agent (or confirming that there has been no change in such information since the Closing Date or the date of the last Compliance Certificate), (ii) a list of Subsidiaries that identifies each Immaterial Subsidiary as of the date of delivery of such Compliance Certificate or a confirmation that there is no change in such information since the later of the Closing Date or the date of the last such list and (iii) such other information required by the Compliance Certificate;
(d) with reasonable promptness, but subject to the limitations set forth in the last sentence of Section 6.09 and Section 10.08, such other information (financial or otherwise) as the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of any Lender may reasonably request in writing from time to time;
(e) within 14 days of any such change, any change in any Loan Party’s legal name, type or jurisdiction of organisation.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and (b) and Section 6.02(b) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s behalf on any Platform to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that: (i) upon written request by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent and (ii) the Borrower shall notify (which may be by facsimile or electronic mail) the Administrative Agent of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. Each Lender shall be solely responsible for timely accessing posted documents or requesting delivery of paper copies of such documents from the Administrative Agent and maintaining its copies of such documents.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges that certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities. The Borrower hereby agrees that it will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower materials that may be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower materials shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower materials “PUBLIC,” the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to treat such information as not containing any material non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws and (y) all materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information.”
Section 6.03. Notices. Promptly after a Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge thereof, notify the Administrative Agent, for prompt further distribution to each Lender, in writing:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default, which notice shall specify the nature thereof, the period of existence thereof and what action the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto;
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(b) any litigation or governmental proceeding (including, without limitation, pursuant to any Environmental Laws) pending against the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely and, if so determined, to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and
(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan or a Foreign Pension Event with respect to a Foreign Plan, in each case, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.04. Maintenance of Existence. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or incorporation and (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing, to the extent applicable), permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except in the case of clauses (a) and (b), (i) to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (other than with respect to the Borrower in clause (a)) or (ii) pursuant to a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or Section 7.05.
Section 6.05. Maintenance of Properties. Except if the failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties, rights and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and casualty or condemnation excepted, and (b) make all necessary renewals, replacements, modifications, improvements, upgrades, extensions and additions thereof or thereto in accordance with prudent industry practice and (c) prosecute, maintain, renew, defend and protect all of its Intellectual Property (including maintaining the confidentiality of its trade secrets or other confidential information), except as expressly permitted under this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.
Section 6.06. Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies (in the good faith determination of the Borrower), insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situated Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses as the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons (in the good faith determination of the Borrower). If any portion of any Mortgaged Property is at any time located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency) as a special flood hazard area with respect to which flood insurance has been made available under the Flood Insurance Laws, then the Borrower shall, or shall cause each Loan Party to, (i) maintain, or cause to be maintained, with a financially sound and reputable insurer, flood insurance in an amount reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and otherwise sufficient to comply with all applicable rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the Flood Insurance Laws and (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent evidence of such insurance in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, evidence of annual renewals of such insurance. Any such insurance maintained in the United States shall be endorsed or otherwise amended to name the Collateral Agent as additional insured, mortgagee and/or loss payee, as applicable.
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Section 6.07. Compliance with Laws. Comply in all respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions, decrees and judgments applicable to it or to its business or property (including, without limitation, Environmental Laws, ERISA, Anti-Corruption Laws, Sanctions, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Prohibition on Money Laundering Law), except if the failure to comply therewith would not, individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower, each Person affiliated with or acting as a representative of the Borrower, and each other Loan Party conduct their business in compliance with all applicable Sanctions and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with Sanctions.
Section 6.08. Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account, in which entries that are full, true and correct in all material respects and are in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be.
Section 6.09. Inspection Rights. Permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to, at the Borrower’s expense (subject to the limitations below) visit and inspect any of its properties and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public accountants, all at the reasonable expense of the Borrower and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower; provided that excluding any such visits and inspections during the continuation of an Event of Default, only the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders may exercise rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Section 6.09 and the Administrative Agent shall not exercise such rights more often than one (1) time during any calendar year; provided, further, that when an Event of Default exists, the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or any of their respective representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrower at any time during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall give the Borrower the opportunity to participate in any discussions with the Borrower’s independent public accountants. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.09, none of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary will be required to disclose or permit the inspection or discussion of, any document, information or other matter (i) that constitutes non-financial trade secrets or non-financial proprietary information, (ii) in respect of which disclosure to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or their respective representatives or contractors) is prohibited by Law or any binding agreement (other than intragroup agreements) or (iii) that is subject to attorney client or similar privilege or constitutes attorney work product.
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Section 6.10. Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security. At the Borrower’s expense, take all action necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to ensure that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (subject to the limitations set forth therein and in the Collateral Documents) continues to be satisfied, including:
(a) upon the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary, Wholly-Owned Israeli Subsidiary or Wholly-Owned Guernsey Subsidiary (in each case, other than an Excluded Subsidiary) by any Loan Party, the designation in accordance with Section 6.13 of any existing direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiary or Wholly-Owned Israeli Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, or any Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary:
(i) within forty-five (45) days after the end of such fiscal quarter in which such formation, acquisition, designation or occurrence or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion:
(A) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor under the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of the Material Real Properties owned by such Restricted Subsidiary in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(B) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (as appropriate) the Guaranty, Mortgages, pledges, assignments, the applicable Security Agreement Supplements, applicable Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements, a supplement to the perfection certificate and other security agreements and documents or joinders or supplements thereto (including, without limitation, with respect to Mortgages, the documents listed in Section 6.12(b)), as reasonably requested by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (consistent with the Mortgages, the applicable Security Agreement and other Collateral Documents in effect on the Closing Date), in each case to guaranty the Obligations and grant and perfect the Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement;
(C) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to deliver any and all certificates representing Equity Interests (other than Excluded Equity Interests and only to the extent certificated) that are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank (or any other documents customary under local Law) and instruments evidencing the Indebtedness held by such Restricted Subsidiary and required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (including the execution of the Subordinated Intercompany Note), indorsed in blank to the Collateral Agent;
(D) take and cause such Restricted Subsidiary and each direct or indirect parent of such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to take whatever action (including the recording of Mortgages, the filing of financing statements and delivery of share and membership interest certificates or promissory notes, if any) may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent to vest in the Collateral Agent (or in any representative of the Collateral Agent designated by it) valid and perfected Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms;
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(E) deliver to the Collateral Agent with respect to each Material Real Property, upon the Administrative Agent’s reasonable request, including, without limitation, the documents listed in Section 6.12(b);
(F) with respect to the Israeli Collateral Documents, promptly upon receipt of pledge registration certificates, deliver to the Collateral Agent an original of such certificate together with a copy of an extract from the relevant registry evidencing the registration of any such Israeli Collateral Document; and
(G) to the extent a Guarantee and/or perfected Lien is required from (or in respect of) a Subsidiary pursuant to clauses (b) to (d) above, deliver to the Collateral Agent such legal opinions (including opinions of local counsel for the Loan Parties or, if customary in the relevant jurisdiction, counsel for the Administrative Agent) and other documents as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Guarantee or Collateral Document.
If any Lender determines, acting reasonably, that any applicable Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for such Lender to hold or benefit from a Lien over real property pursuant to any Law of the United States or any State thereof, such Lender may notify the Administrative Agent and disclaim any benefit of such Lien to the extent of such illegality; provided that such determination or disclaimer shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such Lien for the benefit of any other Lender or Secured Party.
Section 6.11. Use of Proceeds . Use the proceeds of any Credit Extension in respect of the Revolving Credit Loans as of the Closing Date, whether directly or indirectly, in a manner consistent with the uses set forth in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement. The proceeds of any Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase and the proceeds of any Extended Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, may be used for working capital requirements and other general corporate purposes of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries including the financing of acquisitions, other investments and dividends, other distributions on account of the Equity Interests of the Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof) permitted hereunder and any other use not explicitly prohibited under the Loan Documents.
Section 6.12. Further Assurances and Post-Closing Conditions.
(a) Subject to the limitations set forth in the definition of Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and in the Collateral Documents, promptly upon reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (i) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation of any Collateral Document or other document or instrument relating to any Collateral and (ii) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent may reasonably request from time to time in order to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement, the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and the Collateral Documents.
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(b) In the case of any Material Real Property, provide the Collateral Agent with Mortgages and otherwise satisfy the applicable Collateral and Guarantee Requirements with respect to such Material Real Property within sixty (60) days (or such longer period as the Collateral Agent may agree in its sole discretion) of the acquisition of such Material Real Property in each case together with:
(i) evidence that counterparts of the Mortgages have been duly executed, acknowledged and delivered and are in form suitable for filing or recording in all filing or recording offices that the Collateral Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to create a valid and subsisting perfected Lien on the property and/or rights described therein in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and that all filing and recording taxes and fees have been paid or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent;
(ii) title policies in form and substance, with endorsements and in amounts, reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent (not to exceed the Fair Market Value of the Mortgaged Property covered thereby), issued, coinsured and reinsured by title insurers reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent, insuring the Mortgages to be valid subsisting Liens on the property described therein, free and clear of any other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 7.01, and providing for such other affirmative insurance (including endorsements for future advances under the Loan Documents) and such coinsurance and direct access reinsurance as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request;
(iii) a completed “Life-of-Loan” Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination, and if any improvements on such Mortgaged Property are located in a special flood hazard area, (a) notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster assistance duly executed by the Borrower and (b) evidence of flood insurance required by Section 6.06 in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; provided, that the relevant Loan Party shall not be required to execute and deliver any Mortgage on such real property until the Borrower has received confirmation from the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance as required by Section 6.06 is complete; and
(iv) opinions of local counsel for the Loan Parties (x) in states or provinces in which the Mortgaged Properties are located, with respect to the enforceability and perfection of the Mortgages and any related fixture filings and (y) in states in which the Loan Party granting the Mortgage is organized with respect to the due authorization, execution and delivery of the Mortgages, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
(c) The Borrower shall, or shall cause its Restricted Subsidiaries to execute and/or deliver the documents and/or complete the tasks set forth on Schedule 6.12, in each case within the time limits specified on such schedule (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its discretion).
Section 6.13. Designation of Subsidiaries. The Board of Directors of the Borrower may at any time designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary by notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that, in each case, (i) no Event of Default is then continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) after giving pro forma effect thereto the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio (calculated on a pro forma basis) is not greater than 4.50:1.00 as of the last
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day of the Test Period most recently ended after giving effect to such designation. The designation of any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date shall constitute an Investment by the Restricted Subsidiaries therein at the date of designation in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of the Restricted Subsidiaries’ investment therein. The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute the Incurrence at the time of designation of any Indebtedness or Liens of such Subsidiary existing at such time.
Section 6.14. Payment of Taxes. Borrower will pay and discharge, and will cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, all Tax imposed upon it or upon its income or profits, or upon any properties belonging to it, in each case on a timely basis, and all lawful claims which, if unpaid, may reasonably be expected to become a lien or charge upon any properties of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under this Agreement; provided that neither Borrower nor any of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such Tax which is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it has maintained adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or if the failure to pay would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, constitute a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.15. Nature of Business. The Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, will not fundamentally and substantively alter the character of their business, taken as a whole, from the business conducted by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, on the Closing Date and other business activities incidental, related or ancillary to any of the foregoing.
Section 6.16. End of Fiscal Years; Fiscal Quarters. The Borrower will not change its fiscal year from ending on December 31; provided, however, that the Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, change the financial reporting convention specified above to any other financial reporting convention reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), in which case the Borrower and the Administrative Agent will, and are hereby authorized by the Lenders to, make any adjustments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are necessary in order to reflect such change in financial reporting.
ARTICLE VII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation (other than Hedging Obligations, Cash Management Obligations and contingent indemnification obligations and other contingent obligations) hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, Borrower shall not nor permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly (and, in the case of Section 7.10, Borrower shall not):
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Section 7.01. Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, rights, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:
(a) Liens created pursuant to (i) the Loan Documents to secure the Obligations or permitted in respect of any Mortgaged Property by the terms of the applicable Mortgage, (ii) the Permitted Additional Debt Documents securing Permitted Additional Debt Obligations permitted to be incurred under Section 7.03(u) (provided that such Liens do not extend to any assets that are not Collateral); provided that (A) in the case of Liens on the Collateral securing Permitted Additional Debt Obligations that constitute First Lien Obligations pursuant to subclause (ii) above, the applicable Permitted Additional Debt Secured Parties (or a representative thereof on behalf of such holders) shall have entered into with the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent an Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement or another Customary Intercreditor Agreement which agreement shall provide that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Permitted Additional Debt Obligations shall rank equal in priority with the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations and (B) in the case of Liens on the Collateral securing Permitted Additional Debt Obligations that do not constitute First Lien Obligations pursuant to subclause (ii) above, the applicable Permitted Additional Debt Secured Parties (or a representative thereof on behalf of such holders) shall have entered into with the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or another Customary Intercreditor Agreement which agreement shall provide that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Permitted Additional Debt Obligations shall rank junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations and any other First Lien Obligations and (iii) any documentation in connection with any Incremental Commitments. Without any further consent of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be authorized to negotiate, execute and deliver on behalf of the Secured Parties any intercreditor agreement or any amendment (or amendment and restatement) to the Collateral Documents or a Customary Intercreditor Agreement to effect the provisions contemplated by this Section 7.01(a);
(b) Liens existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.01(b) or, to the extent not listed in such Schedule 7.01(b), such property or assets have a Fair Market Value on the Closing Date that does not exceed $1,000,000 in the aggregate; provided that (i) such Lien does not extend to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary other than (A) after acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien or financed by Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03 and (B) the proceeds and products thereof and (ii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the Closing Date and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to Refinance such Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03;
(c) Liens for Taxes, assessments or governmental charges which are not overdue for a period of more than sixty (60) days or if overdue by more than sixty (60) days which are either (i) being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP or (ii) with respect to which the failure to make payment could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(d) inchoate, statutory or common law Liens and other Liens arising by operation of law (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA), including landlords, lessors, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which secure amounts (i) that are not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or if more than thirty (30) days overdue, are unfiled (or if filed have been discharged or stayed) and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP or (ii) with respect to which the failure to make payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
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(e) (i) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation and (ii) pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(f) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of business to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money and Capitalized Leases), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations) incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(g) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions (including zoning restrictions), encroachments, protrusions and other similar encumbrances and minor title defects affecting real property which, in the aggregate, do not in any case materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and any exception on the final title polices issued in connection with the Mortgaged Property;
(h) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(g);
(i) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(f); provided that (i) such Liens attach concurrently with or within two hundred and seventy (270) days after the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement, lease or improvement (as applicable) of the property subject to such Liens, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness, replacements thereof and additions and accessions to such property and the proceeds and the products thereof and customary security deposits, and (iii) with respect to Capitalized Leases, such Liens do not at any time extend to or cover any assets (except for additions and accessions to such assets, replacements and products thereof and customary security deposits) other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Leases; provided that individual financings of equipment provided by one creditor may be cross-collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender;
(j) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of Law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business;
(k) Liens (i) of a collection bank (including those arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code) on the items in the course of collection, (ii) in favor of a banking or other financial institution arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits or other funds maintained with a financial institution (including the right of set off) and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry and (iii) attaching to commodity trading accounts, or other commodity brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business;
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(l) Liens (i) on cash advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment and (ii) consisting of an agreement to Dispose of any property in a Disposition permitted under Section 7.05, in each case, solely to the extent such Investment or Disposition, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien;
(m) [Reserved];
(n) Liens existing on property at the time of its acquisition or existing on the property (including capital stock) of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (other than by designation as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13), in each case after the Closing Date; provided that (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition or such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or property (other than the proceeds or products thereof and other than after-acquired property subjected to a Lien securing Indebtedness and other obligations incurred prior to such time and which Indebtedness and other obligations are permitted hereunder and require, pursuant to their terms at such time, a pledge of after-acquired property, it being understood that such requirement shall not be permitted to apply to any property to which such requirement would not have applied but for such acquisition), and (iii) any Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted under Section 7.03;
(o) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(p) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks or other financial institutions not given in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;
(q) Liens arising from precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings;
(r) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of the premiums with respect thereto;
(s) any zoning or similar law or right reserved to or vested in any Governmental Authority to control or regulate the use of any real property that does not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(t) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and the proceeds thereof securing such Person’s obligations in respect of commercial letters of credit issued for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or goods; or
(u) the modification, replacement, renewal or extension of any Lien permitted by clauses (b), (i) and (o) of this Section 7.01; provided that (i) the Lien does not extend to any additional property other than (A) after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien or financed by Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03, and (B) proceeds and products thereof; and (ii) the renewal, extension or refinancing of the obligations secured or benefited by such Liens is permitted by Section 7.03;
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(v) ground leases in respect of real property on which facilities owned or leased by the Borrower or any other Subsidiaries are located;
(w) Liens on property of a Non-Loan Party securing Indebtedness of such Non-Loan Party permitted to be incurred by Section 7.03;
(x) Liens solely on any xxxx xxxxxxx money deposits made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;
(y) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 7.01; provided that at the time of the incurrence thereof and after giving pro forma effect thereto and the use of proceeds thereof, the aggregate outstanding amount of Indebtedness and other obligations secured thereby does not exceed the greater of (x) $20,000,000 and (y) 50% of Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Lien is incurred; provided that if such Liens are on Collateral, then the Borrower may elect that the holders of the Indebtedness or other obligations secured thereby (or a representative or trustee on their behalf) shall have entered into with the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or another Customary Intercreditor Agreement providing that the Liens on the Collateral securing such Indebtedness or other obligations shall rank junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations. Without any further consent of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be authorized to negotiate, execute and deliver on behalf of the Secured Parties any Customary Intercreditor Agreement or any amendment (or amendment and restatement) to the Collateral Documents or the Customary Intercreditor Agreement to effect the provisions contemplated by this Section 7.01(y);
(z) Liens securing Swap Contracts submitted for clearing in accordance with applicable Law;
(aa) Liens on securities that are the subject of repurchase agreements constituting Cash Equivalents permitted under Section 7.02;
(bb) Liens on Equity Interests in joint ventures; provided that any such Lien is in favor of a creditor or partner of such joint venture;
(cc) Liens on cash and Cash Equivalents used to satisfy or discharge Indebtedness; provided that such satisfaction or discharge is permitted hereunder;
(dd) Liens given to a public utility or any municipality or governmental or other public authority when required by such utility or other authority in connection with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such Liens do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(ee) servicing agreements, development agreements, site plan agreements, subdivision agreements and other agreements with Governmental Authorities pertaining to the use or development of any of the real property of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that the same do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary including, without limitation, any obligations to deliver letters of credit and other security as required;
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(ff) the right reserved to or vested in any Governmental Authority by any statutory provision or by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require annual or other payments as a condition to the continuance thereof;
(gg) Liens then existing with respect to assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary on the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”; and
(hh) Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in favor of a Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor and Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor.
Section 7.02. Investments. Make any Investments, except:
(a) Investments by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in assets that were Cash Equivalents when such Investment was made;
(b) loans or advances to officers, directors, partners and employees of Borrower (or its general partner or any Parent Entity) or any Restricted Subsidiaries (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes, (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Equity Interests of Borrower (or any Parent Entity) (provided that the amount of such loans and advances shall be contributed to the Borrower in cash as common equity (or any other form of equity reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), which proceeds are used for the purchase of such Equity Interests) and (iii) for purposes not described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Investment is incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date;
(c) asset purchases (including purchases of inventory, supplies and materials), the lease or sublease of any asset, or licensing or contribution of Intellectual Property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(d) Investments (i) by any Loan Party in any other Loan Party (it being understood and agreed that any Investments by any Loan Party in any Non-Loan Party that is part of a series of simultaneous Investments by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in other Restricted Subsidiaries that result in the proceeds of the intercompany Investment being invested in any Loan Party shall be permitted pursuant to this clause (i)), (ii) by any Restricted Subsidiary in any Loan Party, (iii) by any Non-Loan Party in any other Non-Loan Party and (iv) by any Loan Party in any Non-Loan Party;
(e) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;
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(f) Investments consisting of Liens, Indebtedness, fundamental changes, Dispositions and Restricted Payments permitted under Section 7.01, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 7.05 (other than Section 7.05(e)) and Section 7.06, respectively; provided, however, that no Investments may be made solely pursuant to this Section 7.02(f);
(g) (i) Investments existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.02(g) and (ii) Investments consisting of any modification, replacement, renewal, reinvestment or extension of any Investment existing on the Closing Date; provided that the aggregate amount of the Investments permitted pursuant to this Section 7.02(g) is not increased from the aggregate amount of such Investments on the Closing Date except pursuant to the terms of such Investment as of the Closing Date or as otherwise permitted by this Section 7.02;
(h) Investments in Swap Contracts permitted under Section 7.03(h);
(i) promissory notes and other noncash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 7.05;
(j) the purchase or other acquisition of property and assets or businesses of any Person or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of such Person, or Equity Interests in a Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be a Restricted Subsidiary (including as a result of a merger or consolidation) (each, a “Permitted Acquisition”); provided that immediately before and immediately after giving pro forma effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Event of Default pursuant to clause (a) or (f) of Section 8.01 has occurred and is continuing;
(k) the Transactions;
(l) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit and customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;
(m) Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers or in settlement of delinquent obligations of, or other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business or upon the foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment;
(n) any additional Investments (including Investments in minority investments, Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries, Investments in joint ventures or similar entities that do not constitute Restricted Subsidiaries, Investments constituting Permitted Acquisitions and Investments in Restricted Subsidiaries that are not, and do not become, Subsidiary Guarantors), as valued at the Fair Market Value of such Investment at the time each such Investment is made; provided that the aggregate amount of such Investment shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Investments made pursuant to this Section 7.02(n) measured (as valued at the Fair Market Value at such time that the Investment is made) at the time such Investment is made, to exceed, after giving effect to such Investment, the sum of (i) the greater of (x) $20,000,000 and (y) 50% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to
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the date such Investment is incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date, (ii) the Available Equity Amount at such time and (iii) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make additional Investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Investment is made;
(o) advances of payroll payments to employees, directors, consultants, independent contractors or other service providers or other advances of salaries or compensation to employees, directors, consultants, independent contractors or other service providers, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;
(p) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of leases (other than Capitalized Leases) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(q) Investments to the extent that payment for such Investments is made solely with Qualified Equity Interests (other than any Cure Amount) of Borrower (or any Parent Entity);
(r) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the provision of credit card payment processing services;
(s) contributions to a “rabbi” trust for the benefit of employees, directors, consultants, independent contractors or other service providers or other grantor trust subject to claims of creditors in the case of a bankruptcy of the Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof);
(t) Investments by an Unrestricted Subsidiary entered into prior to the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”;
(u) Investments made to acquire, purchase, repurchase or retire Equity Interests of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof) owned by any employee equity ownership plan or similar plan of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof) or any Subsidiary;
(v) Investments held by any Person acquired by the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date or of any Person merged into the Borrower or merged, amalgamated or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 7.04 after the Closing Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger, amalgamate or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, amalgamation, merger or consolidation;
(w) Restricted Subsidiaries of Borrower may be established or created if Borrower and such Restricted Subsidiary comply with the requirements of Section 6.10, if applicable; provided that in each case, to the extent such new Restricted Subsidiary is created solely for the purpose of consummating a transaction pursuant to an acquisition permitted by this Section 7.02, and such new Restricted Subsidiary at no time holds any assets or liabilities other than any merger consideration contributed to it contemporaneously with the closing of such transactions, such new Restricted Subsidiary shall not be required to take the actions set forth in Section 6.10 until the respective acquisition is consummated (at which time the surviving entity of the respective transaction shall be required to so comply in accordance with the provisions thereof);
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(x) additional Investments; provided that after giving pro forma effect thereto, (i) the Total Leverage Ratio (calculated on a pro forma basis) is not greater than 2.50:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the making of such Investment and (ii) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(y) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of Uniform Commercial Code Article 3 endorsements for collection or deposit and Uniform Commercial Code Article 4 customary trade arrangements with customers consistent with past practices;
(z) [reserved]; and
(aa) Investments in Unrestricted Subsidiaries; provided that such Investments shall not exceed the greater of (x) $10,000,000 and (y) 25% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Investment is incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date.
Section 7.03. Indebtedness. Incur any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness of the Borrower and any Subsidiaries under the Loan Documents (including pursuant to Sections 2.14 and 2.15);
(b) [reserved];
(c) Indebtedness (i) listed on Schedule 7.03(c) and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness thereof and (ii) that is intercompany Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof;
(d) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness of any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary otherwise permitted hereunder (except that a Non-Loan Party may not, by virtue of this Section 7.03(d), guarantee Indebtedness that such Non-Loan Party could not otherwise incur under this Section 7.03); provided that (i) if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such Guarantee Obligation shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Guarantee of the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the subordination of such Indebtedness and (ii) no Guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary of any Indebtedness of a Loan Party shall be permitted unless such Restricted Subsidiary shall have also provided a Guarantee of the Obligations;
(e) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary to the extent constituting an Investment permitted by Section 7.02; provided that all such Indebtedness of any Loan Party owed to any Person that is not a Loan Party shall be subject to the Subordinated Intercompany Note;
(f) (i) Capitalized Lease Obligation and other Indebtedness (including Capitalized Leases) financing the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement, lease or improvement of fixed or capital assets; provided that (x) such Indebtedness is Incurred concurrently with or within two hundred seventy (270) days after the applicable acquisition, construction, repair, replacement, lease or improvement and (y) the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness pursuant to clause (i) (when aggregated with the amount of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to clause (ii) in respect of such Indebtedness then outstanding) shall not, except as
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contemplated by the definition of “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness,” exceed the greater of (a) $15,000,000 and (b) 35% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Indebtedness is Incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date, and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness set forth in the immediately preceding clause (i);
(g) [Reserved];
(h) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Contracts incurred in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes;
(i) Indebtedness assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment); provided that (A) the only obligors with respect to any Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (i) shall be those Persons who were obligors of such Indebtedness prior to such Permitted Acquisition (or in the case of a purchase of assets, the purchaser of such assets), (B) both immediately prior to and after giving effect thereto no Event of Default pursuant to clauses (a) or (f) of Section 8.01 shall exist or result therefrom, (C) the Borrower shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, comply with the applicable Collateral and Guarantee Requirements and Sections 6.10 and 6.12, (D) such Indebtedness was not created in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition, (E) such Indebtedness is only the obligation of the Person and/or Person’s Subsidiaries that are acquired or that acquired the relevant assets and such Indebtedness and (F) to the extent such Indebtedness is secured by a Lien on any assets or property of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, it shall be subject to any applicable limitations set forth in Section 7.01(n),;
(j) (i) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation to employees, directors, consultants, contract providers, independent contractors or other service providers of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof) and the Restricted Subsidiaries Incurred in the ordinary course of business; and (ii) Indebtedness consisting of (x) obligations of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof) or the Restricted Subsidiaries under deferred compensation arrangements to their employees, directors, consultants, independent contractors or other service providers, (y) other similar arrangements Incurred by such Persons in connection with Permitted Acquisitions or (z) any other Investment expressly permitted under Section 7.02;
(k) Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by the Borrower or Restricted Subsidiaries to their current or former officers, directors, partners, managers, and employees and their respective estates, spouses or former spouses to finance the retirement, acquisition, repurchase, purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Borrower (or any Parent Entity);
(l) unsecured Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by any Loan Party to current or former officers, managers, consultants, directors, employees and other service providers (or their respective spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or distributees) to finance the retirement, acquisition, repurchase, purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Borrower (or any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such Parent Entity uses the proceeds to finance the purchase or redemption (directly or indirectly) of its Equity Interests) either (x) to the extent permitted by Section 7.06 or (y) to the extent that such Indebtedness is not prepayable, no interest is paid or matures while there are any Commitments, Loans or other Obligations (other than Hedging Obligations, Cash Management Obligations and contingent indemnification obligations and other contingent obligations) outstanding hereunder; provided that Indebtedness pursuant to clause (y) is incurred by the Borrower and does not have the benefit of any guarantees;
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(m) Cash Management Obligations and other Indebtedness in respect of netting services, automatic clearinghouse arrangements, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case in connection with deposit accounts incurred in the ordinary course;
(n) Indebtedness consisting of (a) the financing of insurance premiums or (b) take or pay obligations entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(o) Indebtedness Incurred by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, banker’s acceptances, warehouse receipts or similar instruments issued or created in the ordinary course of business, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims;
(p) obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations provided by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments related thereto, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(q) [reserved];
(r) Indebtedness Incurred by a Non-Loan Party Subsidiary, and Guarantees thereof by Non-Loan Party Subsidiaries; provided that the aggregate amount of Indebtedness, measured at the time of Incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto and the use of the proceeds thereof, of Non-Loan Parties pursuant to this clause (r) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $15,000,000 and (y) 35% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Indebtedness is Incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date;
(s) additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount, measured at the time of Incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto and the use of the proceeds thereof, not to exceed the greater of (x) $20,000,000 and (y) 50% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Indebtedness is Incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date;
(t) [reserved];
(u) Indebtedness in respect of (i) Permitted Additional Debt; provided that, in the case of this clause (i), at the time of Incurrence thereof and after giving pro forma effect thereto and the use of the proceeds thereof, assuming that all commitments under any newly incurred Indebtedness were fully drawn, the aggregate amount of (X) the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness Incurred under this clause (u)(i) plus (Y) the aggregate amount of any Incremental Facilities that have been Incurred pursuant to Section 2.14(b) shall not exceed, as of the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness or commitments the Incremental Amount (assuming all such debt is secured on a first priority basis); provided that no Event of Default under clause
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(a) or (f) of Section 8.01 shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of the Incurrence of any such Indebtedness or after giving effect thereto and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to Refinance such Indebtedness; provided that without limitation of the requirements set forth in the definition of “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness,” such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall be of the type described in clause (i) or clause (ii) of the definition of “Permitted Additional Debt”;
(v) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the provision of credit card payment processing services;
(w) [reserved];
(x) Guarantee Obligations Incurred in the ordinary course of business in respect of obligations to suppliers, customers, franchisees, lessors, licensees, sublicensees or distribution partners;
(y) (i) unsecured Indebtedness in respect of obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to pay the deferred purchase price of goods or services or progress payments in connection with such goods and services; provided that such obligations are incurred in connection with open accounts extended by suppliers on customary trade terms in the ordinary course of business and not in connection with the borrowing of money and (ii) unsecured Indebtedness in respect of intercompany obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of accounts payable incurred in connection with goods sold or services rendered in the ordinary course of business and not in connection with the borrowing of money;
(z) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations (including earn-outs), in each case entered into in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, other Investments and the Disposition of any business, assets or Equity Interests permitted hereunder, other than Guarantee Obligations incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Equity Interests for the purpose of financing such acquisition;
(aa) [reserved];
(bb) [reserved];
(cc) additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount, measured at the time of Incurrence and after giving pro forma effect thereto and the use of the proceeds thereof, not to exceed the aggregate amount of capital contributions or other equity issuances received by the Borrower or any Parent Entity to the extent not included within the Available Equity Amount; and
(dd) all premiums (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges and additional or contingent interest on obligations described in clauses (a) through (cc) above.
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Section 7.04. Fundamental Changes. Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate, amalgamate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired), taken as a whole, to or in favor of any Person, except that:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any other Person may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Borrower or the Borrower may Dispose of all or substantially all of its business units, assets and other properties; provided that (i) the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person or, in the case of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation where the Borrower is not the continuing or surviving Person, the Person formed by or surviving any such merger, amalgamation or consolidation (if other than the Borrower) or in connection with a Disposition of all or substantially all of the Borrower’s assets, the transferee of such assets or properties, shall, in each case, be an entity organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia (the Borrower or such Person, as the case may be, being herein referred to as the “Successor Borrower”), (ii) the Successor Borrower (if other than the Borrower) shall expressly assume all the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents pursuant to a supplement hereto or thereto in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (iii) if such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition involves the Borrower and a Person that, prior to the consummation of such merger, amalgamation, consolidation, or Disposition, is not a Restricted Subsidiary (A) no Event of Default pursuant to clauses (a) or (f) of Section 8.01 shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition or would result from the consummation of such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition, (B) each Guarantor, unless it is the other party to such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition or unless the Successor Borrower is the Borrower, shall have confirmed by a supplement to the Guarantee that its Guarantee shall apply to the Successor Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement, (C) each Subsidiary grantor and each Subsidiary pledgor, unless it is the other party to such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition or unless the Successor Borrower is the Borrower, shall have by a supplement to the Loan Documents confirmed that its obligations thereunder shall apply to the Successor Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement, (D) each mortgagor of a Mortgaged Property, unless it is the other party to such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition or unless the Successor Borrower is the Borrower, shall have by an amendment to or restatement of the Mortgage confirmed that its obligations thereunder shall apply to the Successor Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement and (E) if reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall be required to deliver to the Administrative Agent an opinion of counsel to the effect that such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition does not breach or result in a default under this Agreement or any other Loan Document;
(b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any other Person may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into any one or more Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower) or any Restricted Subsidiary may Dispose of all or substantially all of its business units, assets and other properties; provided that (i) in the case of any merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition involving one or more Restricted Subsidiaries, (A) a Restricted Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving Person or the transferee of such assets or (B) the Borrower shall take all steps necessary to cause the Person formed by or surviving any such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or the transferee of such assets and properties (if other than a Restricted Subsidiary) to become a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) in the case of any merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition involving one or more Subsidiary Guarantors, a Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving Person or the Person formed by or surviving such merger, amalgamation or consolidation or the transferee of such assets and properties is a Loan Party (if other than a Subsidiary Guarantor) shall execute a supplement to the Guarantee, the Security Agreement and any applicable Mortgage, and a joinder to the Subordinated Intercompany Note, each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
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Collateral Agent in order for the surviving Person to become a Subsidiary Guarantor and pledgor, mortgagor and grantor of Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties and to acknowledge and agree to the terms of the Subordinated Intercompany Note, and (iii) if such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition involves a Restricted Subsidiary and a Person that, prior to the consummation of such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition, is not a Restricted Subsidiary (A); provided that no Event of Default pursuant to clauses (a) or (f) of Section 8.01 shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition or would result from the consummation of such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition and (B) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that such merger, amalgamation, consolidation or Disposition and such supplements to any Loan Document preserve the enforceability of the Guarantees and the perfection and priority of the Liens under the Collateral Documents;
(c) any Non-Loan Party may Dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower, a Guarantor or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower;
(d) any Subsidiary Guarantor may (i) merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into any other Subsidiary Guarantor, (ii) merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into any Non-Loan Party; provided that if such Subsidiary Guarantor is not the surviving entity, such merger, amalgamation or consolidation shall be deemed to be an “Investment” and subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7.02 and (iii) Dispose of any or all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary Guarantor;
(e) any Restricted Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if (x) Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders and (y) to the extent such Restricted Subsidiary is a Subsidiary Guarantor, any assets or business not otherwise Disposed of or transferred in accordance with Section 7.02 or 7.05, or, in the case of any such business, discontinued, shall be transferred to, or otherwise owned or conducted by, the Borrower or another Subsidiary Guarantor after giving effect to such liquidation or dissolution;
(f) the Transactions may be consummated;
(g) any Restricted Subsidiary may merge, consolidate or amalgamate with any other Person in order to effect an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02; provided that the continuing or surviving Person shall be a Restricted Subsidiary; and
(h) any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any other Person may be merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into any one or more Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower) or any Restricted Subsidiary may Dispose of all or substantially all of its business units, assets and other properties.
Section 7.05. Dispositions. Make any Disposition except:
(a) Dispositions of obsolete, worn out or surplus property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business and Dispositions of property no longer used or useful, or economically practicable to maintain, in the conduct of the business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries;
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(b) Dispositions of inventory and other assets in the ordinary course of business (including allowing any registrations or any applications for registration of any immaterial Intellectual Property to lapse or go abandoned in the ordinary course of business);
(c) Dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property that is promptly purchased or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property (which replacement property is actually promptly purchased);
(d) Dispositions of property to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such property is a Loan Party, (i) the transferee must be a Loan Party or (ii) to the extent such transaction constitutes an Investment, such transaction is permitted under Section 7.02;
(e) Dispositions permitted by Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(f)), Section 7.04 and Section 7.06 and Liens permitted by Section 7.01;
(f) Dispositions of Cash Equivalents;
(g) leases, subleases, non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses, in each case in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(h) transfers of property subject to Casualty Events upon receipt of the net cash proceeds of such Casualty Event;
(i) Dispositions of Investments in joint ventures to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements;
(j) Dispositions of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;
(k) the unwinding of any Swap Contract pursuant to its terms;
(l) dispositions of non-core assets acquired in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or Investment permitted hereunder;
(m) Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 7.05, if such Disposition shall be for Fair Market Value; provided that (i) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (m) for a purchase price in excess of the greater of (x) $2,500,000 and (y) 7.5% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Disposition is made (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date, a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary shall receive not less than 75% of such consideration in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents; provided, further, that, for purposes of determining what constitutes cash and Cash Equivalents under this clause (i), (A) any liabilities (as shown on the Borrower’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet provided hereunder or in the footnotes thereto) of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, other than liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the payment in cash of the Obligations, that are assumed by the transferee with respect to the
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applicable Disposition and for which the Borrower and all of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have been validly released by all applicable creditors in writing shall be deemed to be cash, (B) any securities received by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash (to the extent of the cash received) within 180 days following the closing of the applicable Disposition shall be deemed to be cash and (C) any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary in respect of the applicable Disposition having an aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause (C) that is outstanding at the time such Designated Non-Cash Consideration is received, not in excess of the greater of (x) $2,500,000 and (y) 7.5% of Consolidated EBITDA (measured as of the date such Disposition is made based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date) at the time of the receipt of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, with the Fair Market Value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value, shall be deemed to be cash and (ii) the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary complies with the applicable provisions of Section 2.05;
(n) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or discount without recourse accounts receivable arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the compromise or collection thereof;
(o) Dispositions listed on Schedule 7.05;
(p) the Disposition of the Equity Interests in, Indebtedness of, or other securities issued by, an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(q) the issuance of directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals in nominal amounts as required by applicable law; and
(r) additional Dispositions not to exceed the greater of (x) $10,000,000 and (y) 25% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Investment is incurred (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date
Section 7.06. Restricted Payments. Make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except:
(a) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower and to other Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Restricted Payment by a non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any other Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests of the relevant class of Equity Interests);
(b) (i) the Borrower and each other Restricted Subsidiary may (or may make Restricted Payments to permit any Parent Entity to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Equity Interests for another class of its (or such Parent Entity’s) Equity Interests or rights to acquire its Equity Interests or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new Equity Interests; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Equity Interests are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Equity Interests redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and each other Restricted Subsidiary may declare and make any Restricted Payment payable solely in the Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests not otherwise permitted by Section 7.03) of such Person;
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(c) Restricted Payments in connection with the Transactions;
(d) to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, the Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 7.02, Section 7.04 or Sections 7.07(d), (h) and (j);
(e) repurchases of Equity Interests in the ordinary course of business in the Borrower an any other Restricted Subsidiary (or any Parent Entity) deemed to occur upon exercise, vesting and/or settlement of Equity Interests if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price thereof or any portion of required withholding or similar taxes due upon the exercise, vesting and/or settlement thereof;
(f) the Borrower and any other Restricted Subsidiary may pay (or make Restricted Payments to allow any Parent Entity to pay) for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of it or any Parent Entity (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Equity Interests) held by any future, present or former employee, director, officer or other individual service provider (or any Affiliates, spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or distributees of any of the foregoing) of the Borrower (or any Parent Entity) or any Subsidiaries pursuant to any employee, management or director equity plan, employee, management or director stock option plan or any other employee, management or director benefit plan or any agreement (including any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or equity-based incentive plan, subscription agreement, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement) with any employee, director, officer or other individual service provider of Borrower (or any Parent Entity) or any Subsidiary; provided that any such payments, measured at the time made, do not exceed the greater of (x) $8,000,000 and (y) 20% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Restricted Payment is made (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date, in any calendar year plus (i) all net cash proceeds obtained by Borrower (or any Parent Entity of Borrower) during such calendar year from the sale or issuance of such Equity Interests to other present or former officers, employees, directors and other individual service provider in connection with any compensation and incentive arrangements plus (ii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiaries (or any Parent Entity thereof) during such calendar year; provided that any unused portion of the preceding basket calculated pursuant to clauses (i) through (ii) above for any calendar year may be carried forward to the next succeeding calendar year; provided, further, that cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the Borrower (or any Parent Entity) or any Subsidiaries from employees, directors, officers or other individual service provider of the Borrower, any of the Borrower’s Parent Entity or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Equity Interests of any of the Borrower’s Parent Entity will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Agreement;
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(g) the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments to any Parent Entity of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary:
(i) with respect to any taxable period for which the U.S. Borrower and/or any of the U.S. Borrower’s Subsidiaries are members of a consolidated, combined, unitary or similar tax group for U.S. federal and/or applicable state, local or foreign income tax purposes of which such Parent Entity is the common parent (a “Tax Group”), the proceeds of which will be used to pay the portion of any U.S. federal, state, local or foreign income taxes (as applicable) of such Tax Group for such taxable period that are attributable to the income of the U.S. Borrower and/or the applicable Subsidiaries; provided that (1) the cash distributions made pursuant to this paragraph (i) shall not exceed the tax liability that the U.S. Borrower and/or the applicable Subsidiaries (as applicable) would have paid were such taxes determined as if such entity(ies) were a stand-alone taxpayer or a stand-alone group for all taxable years ending after the date hereof, reduced by any such taxes directly paid by the U.S. Borrower and/or any of the Subsidiaries; and (2) the cash distributions made pursuant to this paragraph (i) in respect of any taxes attributable to the income of any Unrestricted Subsidiaries may be made only to the extent that such Unrestricted Subsidiaries have made cash payments for such purpose to the U.S. Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and (3) with respect to any taxable period ending prior to the Closing Date, distributions otherwise permitted under this paragraph (i) shall be permitted only to the extent such distributions relate to income or similar tax audit adjustments that arise after the Closing Date;
(ii) [reserved];
(iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay franchise or similar taxes, and other fees and expenses, required to maintain its (or any of its direct or indirect parents’) existence;
(iv) to finance any Investment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 7.02; provided that (A) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment and (B) the Borrower or such parent shall, immediately following the closing thereof, cause all property acquired (whether assets or Equity Interests) to be held by or contributed to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary;
(v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary costs, fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition, acquisition or Investment permitted by this Agreement; and
(vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, compensation, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees, consultants and other service providers of any Parent Entity or partner of the Borrower to the extent such salaries, compensation, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries;
(h) the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary may pay any dividend or distribution within sixty (60) days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Agreement (it being understood that a distribution pursuant to this Section 7.06(h) shall be deemed to have utilized capacity under such other provision of this Agreement);
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(i) the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary may (a) pay cash in lieu of fractional Equity Interests in connection with any dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or other similar permitted Investment) and (b) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms;
(j) in addition to the foregoing Restricted Payments (i) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make additional Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Restricted Payment is paid, (ii) the Borrower may make additional Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Restricted Payments are paid, (iii) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiaries may make additional Restricted Payments, measured at the time made, in an aggregate amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $12,000,000 and (y) 30% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrower for the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the date such Restricted Payment is made (measured as of such date) based upon the Section 6.01 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date and (iv) the Borrower may make additional Restricted Payments so long as (x) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (y) the Borrower is in compliance, on a pro forma basis, with a Total Leverage Ratio of 2.50:1.00;
(k) the declaration and payment by the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiaries of dividends on the common stock or common equity interests of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary following a public offering of such common stock or common equity interests, in an amount not to exceed 5% of the market capitalization of the Borrower per annum;
(l) the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiaries may pay (or may make Restricted Payments to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Restricted Payments in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager, consultant or other service provider (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) in connection with any repurchases of Equity Interests, including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options;
(m) payments made to optionholders of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiaries, or any Parent Entity in connection therewith, or as a result of, any distribution being made to shareholders of the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity (to the extent such distribution is otherwise permitted hereunder), which payments are being made to compensate such optionholders as though they were shareholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution (it being understood that no such payment may be made to an optionholder pursuant to this clause to the extent such payment would not have been permitted to be made to such optionholder if it were a shareholder pursuant to any other paragraph of this Section 7.06);
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(n) the declaration and payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Equity Interests of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any class or series of preferred stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case, Incurred in accordance with Section 7.03.
Section 7.07. Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of the Borrower, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than:
(a) transactions between or among the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction;
(b) transactions on terms substantially as favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate;
(c) the Transactions (including the issuance of Equity Interests to any officer, director, employee, consultant or other service provider of the Borrower or any Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity in connection therewith) and the payment of fees and expenses related to the Transactions;
(d) [reserved];
(e) Restricted Payments permitted under Section 7.06;
(f) loans and other transactions by and among the Borrower and/or one or more Subsidiaries to the extent permitted under this Article VII;
(g) employment, compensation, severance or termination arrangements between any Parent Entity, the Borrower or any Subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees and consultants (including management and employee benefit plans or agreements, subscription agreements or similar agreements pertaining to the repurchase of Equity Interests pursuant to put/call rights or similar rights with current or former employees, officers, directors consultants and stock option or incentive plans and other compensation arrangements) in the ordinary course of business and transactions pursuant to management equity plans, stock option plans and other employee benefit plans, agreements and arrangements;
(h) the payment of customary fees and reasonable out of pocket costs to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, directors, officers, managers, employees, consultants and other service providers of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity in the ordinary course of business to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries;
(i) transactions pursuant to permitted agreements in existence on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.07 or any amendment thereto to the extent such an amendment, taken as a whole, is not adverse to the Lenders in any material respect;
(j) customary payments by the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiaries to the Sponsor made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities (including in connection with acquisitions or
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divestitures), which payments are approved, as applicable pursuant to requirements of law or the relevant constituent documents of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, by the majority of the members of the Board of Directors or a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower in good faith and such payments shall not exceed 1.0% of the transaction value for each such transaction;
(k) transactions entered into by an Unrestricted Subsidiary with an Affiliate prior to the redesignation of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary;” provided that such transactions were not entered into in contemplation of such redesignation;
(l) the issuance or transfer of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Borrower (or any Parent Entity) to any Permitted Holder or to any former, current or future director, manager, officer, partner, member, employee, consultant or other service provider (or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing) of Borrower (or any Parent Entity), any of the Restricted Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent thereof;
(m) any issuance of Equity Interests, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities, Equity Interests or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and stock ownership plans approved by the Board of Directors of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Borrower, as the case may be;
(n) transactions with Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries for the purchase or sale of goods, products, parts and services entered into in the ordinary course of business in a manner consistent with prudent business practice followed by companies in the industry of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries;
(o) transactions with joint ventures for the purchase or sale of goods, equipment and services entered into in the ordinary course of business and in a manner consistent with prudent business practice followed by companies in the industry of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries;
(p) to the extent permitted by Sections 7.06(g)(i) and (iii), payments to any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to Tax sharing agreements among any such Parent Entity, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries on customary terms; provided that payments by Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries under any such Tax sharing agreements shall not exceed the excess (if any) of the amount they would pay on a standalone basis over the amount they actually pay to Governmental Authorities.
Section 7.08. Prepayments, Etc., of Indebtedness.
(a) Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner any Junior Debt (it being understood that payments of regularly scheduled interest and mandatory prepayments under such Junior Debt Documents shall be permitted), except for (i) the refinancing thereof with the net cash proceeds of any Indebtedness (to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness), (ii) the conversion thereof to Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any Parent Entity, (iii) prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments thereof prior to their scheduled maturity in an aggregate amount, measured at the time of payment, not to exceed the Available Equity Amount, (iv) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make additional prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments thereof prior to
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their scheduled maturity in an aggregate amount, measured at the time of payment, not to exceed the sum of the Available Amount and the Available Equity Amount and (v) prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments in respect of Junior Debt prior to their scheduled maturity so long as (x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (y) the Borrower is in compliance, on a pro forma basis, with a Total Leverage Ratio no greater than 2.50:1.00;
(b) Amend, modify or change in any manner materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders any term or condition of the Junior Debt Documents without the consent of the Required Lenders (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); and
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing and for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 7.08 shall prohibit (i) the repayment or prepayment of intercompany subordinated Indebtedness owed among the Borrower and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries, in either case unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Borrower has received a notice from the Collateral Agent instructing it not to make or permit the Borrower and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries to make any such repayment or prepayment or (ii) substantially concurrent transfers of credit positions in connection with intercompany debt restructurings so long as such Indebtedness is permitted by Section 7.03 after giving effect to such transfer.
Section 7.09. Financial Maintenance Covenants. Except with the written consent of the Required Lenders, permit the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio for any Test Period to be greater than 4.50:1.00; provided that the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio set forth in this Section 7.09 for any Test Period shall only be calculated if Revolving Credit Loans, undrawn Letters of Credit above $15.0 million and drawn and unreimbursed Letters of Credit are or would be outstanding in an amount exceeding 30% of the Revolving Credit Facility as of the last day of the applicable fiscal quarter of such Test Period.
Section 7.10. Negative Pledge. Enter into any agreement, instrument, deed or lease that prohibits or limits the ability of any Loan Party to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of their respective properties or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, for the benefit of the Secured Parties with respect to the Obligations or under the Loan Documents; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to:
(a) restrictions and conditions imposed by (A) Law, (B) any Loan Document, (C) any Permitted Additional Debt Documents related to any secured Permitted Additional Debt and (D) any documentation governing any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to Refinance any such Indebtedness referenced in clause (B);
(b) customary restrictions and conditions existing on the Closing Date or to any extension, renewal, amendment, modification or replacement thereof, except to the extent any such amendment, modification or replacement expands the scope of any such restriction or condition;
(c) restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale of a Subsidiary or any assets pending such sale; provided that such restrictions and conditions apply only to the Subsidiary or assets that is or are to be sold and such sale is permitted hereunder;
(d) customary provisions in leases, licenses and other contracts restricting the assignment thereof;
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(e) restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement to the extent such restriction applies only to the property securing such Indebtedness;
(f) any restrictions or conditions set forth in any agreement in effect at any time any Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (but not any modification or amendment expanding the scope of any such restriction or condition); provided that such agreement was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary and the restriction or condition set forth in such agreement does not apply to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary;
(g) restrictions or conditions in any Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03 that is incurred or assumed by Non-Loan Parties to the extent such restrictions or conditions are no more restrictive than the restrictions and conditions in the Loan Documents or, in the case of Subordinated Debt, are market terms at the time of issuance or, in the case of Indebtedness of any Non-Loan Party, are imposed solely on such Non-Loan Party and its Subsidiaries;
(h) restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business (or other restrictions constituting Liens permitted hereunder);
(i) restrictions set forth on Schedule 7.11 and any extension, renewal, amendment, modification or replacement thereof, except to the extent any such amendment, modification or replacement expands the scope of any such restriction or condition;
(j) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures permitted by Section 7.02 and applicable solely to such joint venture and entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(k) negative pledges and restrictions on Liens in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(f), (g), (i) or (r), but solely to the extent any negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the subject of such Indebtedness;
(l) customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(m) customary net worth provisions contained in real property leases entered into by Subsidiaries, so long as Borrower has determined in good faith that such net worth provisions could not reasonably be expected to impair the ability of its Subsidiaries to meet their ongoing obligation; and
(n) provisions restricting the granting of a Lien on Intellectual Property contained in licenses or sublicenses by the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries of such Intellectual Property, which licenses and sublicenses were entered into in the ordinary course of business (in which case such restriction shall relate only to such Intellectual Property).
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ARTICLE VIII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 8.01. Events of Default. Any of the following events referred to in any of clauses (a) through (j) inclusive of this Section 8.01 shall constitute an “Event of Default”:
(a) Non-Payment. Any Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, and in the currency required hereunder, any amount of principal of any Loan or (ii) within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or any other amount payable hereunder or with respect to any other Loan Document; or
(b) Specific Covenants. The Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in (i) any of Section 6.03(a) or Section 6.04 (solely with respect to the Borrower), provided that a thirty day grace period has elapsed or (ii) Article VII (other than Section 7.09) or Section 7.09; provided that an Event of Default shall not occur until the Cure Deadline has occurred; or
(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in Section 8.01(a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for thirty (30) days after receipt by the Borrower of written notice thereof by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or
(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document required to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be untrue in any material respect when made or deemed made; or
(e) Cross-Default. Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness hereunder) having an aggregate principal amount of not less than the Threshold Amount or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness, or any other event occurs (other than, with respect to Indebtedness consisting of Swap Contracts, termination events or equivalent events pursuant to the terms of such Swap Contracts), the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, all such Indebtedness to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem all such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity; provided that this clause (e)(B) shall not apply to (x) secured Indebtedness that becomes due or as to which an offer to prepay is required to be made as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, if such sale or transfer is permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such Indebtedness and (y) any Indebtedness permitted to exist or be incurred under the terms of this Agreement that is required to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (or as to which an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem is required to be made) in connection with any asset sale event,
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casualty or condemnation event, change of control (without limiting the rights of the Agents and the Lenders under Section 8.01(j) below), excess cash flow or other customary provision in such Indebtedness giving rise to such requirement to offer or prepay in the absence of any default thereunder; provided, further, that such failure is unremedied and is not waived by the holders of such Indebtedness; or
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. The Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any Immaterial Subsidiary or any Restricted Subsidiary that could at such time, upon designation by the Borrower, become an Immaterial Subsidiary) institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any Controller (as defined in the Corporations Act), receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any Controller (as defined in the Corporations Act), receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty calendar days (including in respect of the grant of a commencement of proceedings order (“tzav le-ptichat halichim”) pursuant to the Insolvency Law); or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for sixty calendar days; or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or
(g) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance or by an enforceable indemnity) and such judgment or order shall not have been satisfied, vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending an appeal for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days after the entry thereof; or
(h) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in liability of any Loan Party in an aggregate amount which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) a Foreign Pension Event occurs with respect to a Foreign Plan that would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or
(i) Invalidity of Collateral Documents. (i) Any material provision of any Collateral Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder (including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05) or as a result of acts or omissions by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent not taken by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or the satisfaction in full of all the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party contests in writing the validity or enforceability of any material provision of any Collateral Document; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Collateral Document (other than as a result of repayment in full of the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments and termination of the Aggregate Commitments), or purports in writing to revoke or rescind any Collateral Document or (ii) a material part of the Liens purported to be created by the Collateral Documents (subject to (x) the terms of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and (y) any
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Lien permitted by Section 7.01) cease to be perfected Liens in each case, other than (x) as a result of a release of Collateral permitted under Section 10.20, or (y) solely as a result of the Administrative Agent’s or the Collateral Agent’s failure to (1) maintain possession of any stock certificates, promissory notes or other instruments actually delivered to it under the Loan Documents or (2) file Uniform Commercial Code continuation statements; or
(j) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control.
Section 8.02. Remedies Upon Event of Default.
(a) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may and, at the request of the Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the U.S. Borrower, take any or all of the following actions:
(i) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans to be terminated, whereupon such commitments shall be terminated;
(ii) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;
(iii) [reserved]; and
(iv) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable Law;
provided that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) with respect to the Borrower, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans a shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
(b) [Reserved].
Section 8.03. [Reserved].
Section 8.04. Application of Funds. If the circumstances described in Section 2.12(h) have occurred, or after the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable a as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), including in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, reasonable and documented expenses and other amounts (other than principal and interest, but including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III) payable to each Agent in its capacity as such;
Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Secured Parties (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;
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Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest and accrued and unpaid fees on Letters of Credit (including, in each case, but not limited to, post-petition interest and fees), ratably among the Lenders and Issuing Banks in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal, Unreimbursed Amounts or face amounts of the Loans, reimbursement obligations in respect of Letter of Credit and obligations to cash collateralize Letter of Credit, Swap Termination Value under Secured Hedge Agreements and Cash Management Obligations, ratably among the Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;
Fifth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties that are due and payable to each Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date;
Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amounts received from any Guarantor shall be applied to any Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor.
Section 8.05. Permitted Holders’ Right to Cure.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.01(b), in the event that the Borrower fails to comply with the requirement of the Financial Covenant, any of the Permitted Holders, Borrower or any other Person designated by the Borrower shall have the right, during the period beginning at the start of the last fiscal quarter of the applicable Test Period and until on the tenth (10th) Business Day after the date on which financial statements with respect to the Test Period in which such covenant is being measured are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 (such date, the “Cure Deadline”), to make a direct or indirect equity investment in the Borrower in cash in the form of common Equity Interests (or other Qualified Equity Interests reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) (the “Cure Right”), and upon the receipt by the Borrower of net cash proceeds pursuant to the exercise of the Cure Right (the “Cure Amount”), the Financial Covenant shall be recalculated, giving effect to a pro forma increase to Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period in an amount equal to such Cure Amount; provided that such pro forma adjustment to Consolidated EBITDA shall be given solely for the purpose of determining the existence of a Default or an Event of Default under the Financial Covenant with respect to any Test Period that includes the fiscal quarter for which such Cure Right was exercised and not for any other purpose under any Loan Document.
(b) If, after the exercise of the Cure Right and the recalculations pursuant to clause (a) above, the Borrower shall then be in compliance with the requirements of the Financial Covenant during such Test Period, the Borrower shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the Financial Covenant as of the relevant date of determination with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply therewith at such date, and the applicable Default or Event of Default under Section 8.01 that had occurred shall be deemed cured; provided that (i) the Cure Right may be exercised on no more than five (5) occasions, (ii) in each four fiscal quarter period, there shall be at least two fiscal quarters in
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respect of which no Cure Right is exercised, (iii) with respect to any exercise of the Cure Right, the Cure Amount shall be no greater than the amount required to cause the Borrower to be in compliance with the Financial Covenant (such amount, the “Necessary Cure Amount”) (provided that if the Cure Right is exercised prior to the date financial statements are required to be delivered for such fiscal quarter, then the Cure Amount shall be equal to the amount reasonably determined by the Borrower in good faith that is required for purposes of complying with the Financial Covenant for such fiscal quarter (such amount, the “Expected Cure Amount”)), (iv) subject to clause (c) below, all Cure Amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining the Applicable Rate, any baskets, with respect to the covenants contained in the Loan Documents or the usage of the Available Amount or the Available Equity Amount and (v) the net cash proceeds from the Cure Right may not reduce the amount of Consolidated Total Debt (including, without limitation, by means of “cash netting”) for purposes of calculating compliance with the Financial Covenant for the fiscal quarter for which such Cure Right is deemed applied; provided the amount of Consolidated Total Debt may be reduced for purposes (i) other than determining compliance with the Financial Covenant and (ii) of determining compliance with the Financial Covenant in subsequent fiscal quarters, in each case, to the extent the Cure Right is applied to prepay Indebtedness.
(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, to the extent that the Expected Cure Amount is (i) greater than the Necessary Cure Amount, then such difference may be used for the purposes of determining any baskets (other than any previously contributed Cure Amounts), with respect to the covenants contained in the Loan Documents, the Available Amount or the Available Equity Amount and (ii) less than the Necessary Cure Amount, then not later than the applicable Cure Deadline, the Borrower must receive a direct or indirect equity investment in cash in the form of common Equity Interests (or other Qualified Equity Interests reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent), which cash proceeds received by Borrower shall be equal to the shortfall between such Expected Cure Amount and such Necessary Cure Amount.
Section 8.06. [Reserved]
ARTICLE IX
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS
Section 9.01. Appointment and Authorization of Agents.
(a) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to it by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall the Administrative Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” or “intermediary” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to any Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties.
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(b) [reserved].
(c) The Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents and each of the Secured Parties (in its capacities as a Lender and a potential Hedge Bank or Cash Management Bank) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of (and to hold any Lien created by the Collateral Documents for and on behalf of or on trust for) such Secured Party for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Administrative Agent, as “collateral agent” (and any co-agents, subagents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.02 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX (including Section 9.07, as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
Section 9.02. Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder) by or through Affiliates, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents as shall be deemed necessary by the Administrative Agent, and shall be entitled to rely on advice of counsel, both internal and external, and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent hereby appoints each other Secured Party as its sub-agent for the purpose of perfecting its Lien in any Collateral that can be perfected by possession or control under the UCC or other applicable law. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or sub-agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith by the Administrative Agent.
Section 9.03. Liability of Agents. No Agent-Related Person shall (a) be liable to any Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein) or (b) be responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Loan Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the perfection or priority of any Lien created or purported to be created under the Collateral Documents, or for any failure of any Loan Party or any other party to any Loan Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof.
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Section 9.04. Reliance by Agents.
(a) Each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication, signature, resolution, representation, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by such Agent. Each Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Agents shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Lenders or to any other Person to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any Loan Party or is cared for, protected or insured or that the Liens granted to an Agent under the Loan Documents or pursuant hereto have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise or to continue exercising at all or in any manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or available to each Agent in this Section 9.04 or in any of the Collateral Documents. Each Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document in accordance with a request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any instance) and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.
(b) For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 4.01, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.
Section 9.05. Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default, except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.” The Administrative Agent will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to any Event of Default as may be directed by the Required Lenders in accordance with Article VIII; provided that unless and until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Event of Default as it shall deem advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders.
Section 9.06. Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents. Each Lender acknowledges that no Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed material
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information in their possession. Each Lender represents to each Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of, and investigation into, the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties hereunder. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by any Agent herein, such Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any of the Loan Parties or any of their respective Affiliates which may come into the possession of any Agent-Related Person.
Section 9.07. Indemnification of Agents. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand each Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of any Loan Party and without limiting the obligation of any Loan Party to do so), pro rata, and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by it; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities resulting from such Agent-Related Person’s own gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, further, that no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be required by the Loan Documents) shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith for purposes of this Section 9.07. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Liabilities, this Section 9.07 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender or any other Person. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse the Administrative Agent upon demand for its ratable share of any costs or out-of-pocket reasonable and documented expenses (including Attorney Costs) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed for such reasonable and documented expenses by or on behalf of the Borrower; provided that such reimbursement by the Lenders shall not affect the Borrower’s continuing reimbursement obligations with respect thereto, if any. The undertaking in this Section 9.07 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the resignation of the Administrative Agent.
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Section 9.08. Agents in their Individual Capacities. Each Agent and its Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from, acquire Equity Interests in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with each of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates as though such Agent were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without notice to or consent of the Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, each Agent or its Affiliates may receive information regarding any Loan Party or any Affiliate of a Loan Party (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Loan Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them. With respect to its Loans, each Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” include Barclays in its individual capacity.
Section 9.09. Successor Agents. The Administrative Agent may resign as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent becomes a Defaulting Lender, then such Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, may be removed as the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, at the reasonable request of the Borrower and the Required Lenders. If the Administrative Agent resigns or is removed under this Agreement, the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which appointment of a successor agent shall require the consent of the Borrower at all times other than during the existence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) (which consent of the Borrower shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). If no successor agent is appointed prior to the effective date of the resignation (but not removal) of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may appoint, after consulting with the Borrower, a successor agent from among the Lenders. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as successor agent hereunder, the Person acting as such successor agent shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent and the term “Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor administrative agent (and the term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor collateral agent and/or supplemental agent, as described in Section 9.01(c)), and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s appointment, powers and duties as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall be terminated. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder as the Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article IX, Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it (i) while it was the Administrative Agent under this Agreement and (ii) after such resignation or removal for as long as the Administrative Agent continues to act in any capacity hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, including (a) acting as collateral agent or otherwise holding any collateral security on behalf of any of the Lenders and (b) in respect of any actions taken in connection with transferring the agency to any successor Administrative Agent. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent by the date which is thirty (30) days following the retiring (but not removed) Administrative Agent’s and Collateral Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s and Collateral Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and the Lenders shall perform all the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the
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Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor and upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable, or as the Required Lenders may reasonably request, in order to (a) continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents or (b) otherwise ensure that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement is satisfied, the Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges, and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents.
Section 9.10. Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, reasonable and documented expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and Section 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and
(c) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, reasonable and documented expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agents and their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and Section 10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
To the extent in accordance in the provisions of the Loan Documents, the Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including accepting some or all of the Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise) and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the
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Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, including under Sections 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code, or any similar Laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, (b) at any other sale or foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with any applicable Law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that would vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) in the asset or assets so purchased (or in the Equity Interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are used to consummate such purchase). In connection with any such bid, (i) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to form one or more acquisition vehicles to make a bid, (ii) to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles (provided that any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or Equity Interests thereof shall be governed, directly or indirectly, by the vote of the Required Lenders, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in clauses (a) through (f) of Section 10.01 of this Agreement), (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to assign the relevant Obligations to any such acquisition vehicle pro rata by the Lenders, as a result of which each of the Lenders shall be deemed to have received a pro rata portion of any Equity Interests and/or debt instruments issued by such an acquisition vehicle on account of the assignment of the Obligations to be credit bid, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action, and (iv) to the extent that Obligations that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used to acquire Collateral for any reason (as a result of another bid being higher or better, because the amount of Obligations assigned to the acquisition vehicle exceeds the amount of debt credit bid by the acquisition vehicle or otherwise), such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Lenders pro rata and the Equity Interests and/or debt instruments issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of the Obligations that had been assigned to the acquisition vehicle shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action.
Section 9.11. Collateral and Guaranty Matters. The Lenders irrevocably agree that any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document may be released or subordinated in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.20 or any Collateral Document.
Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders (or such other percentage of the Lenders whose consent may be required in accordance with Section 10.01) will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.11 and Section 10.20.
Section 9.12. Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers. None of the Lenders, Lead Arrangers or other Persons identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement as a “syndication agent,” “joint lead arranger,” or “joint bookrunner” shall have any right (other than the Lead Arrangers’ rights under Sections 10.04 and 10.05), power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than those applicable to all Lenders as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lenders, Lead Arrangers or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or the Borrower. Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lenders or other Persons so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.
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Section 9.13. Withholding Tax. If the Internal Revenue Service or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that the Administrative Agent did not properly withhold Tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any reason (including because the appropriate documentation was not delivered or was not properly executed or because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance that rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding Tax ineffective), such Lender shall indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent fully for all such Taxes and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Tax was correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority, but only to the extent any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Taxes. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise against any amount due the Administrative Agent under this Section 9.13. The agreements in this Section 9.13 shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 9.13 shall not limit or expand the obligations of the Borrower or any Guarantor under Section 3.01 or any other provision of this Agreement. For purposes of this Section 9.13, the term “Lender” shall include any Issuing Bank.
Section 9.14. Erroneous Payment.
(a) Each Lender and each Issuing Bank (and each Participant of any of the foregoing, by its acceptance of a participation) hereby acknowledges and agrees that if the Administrative Agent notifies such Lender or Issuing Bank that the Administrative Agent has determined in its sole discretion that any funds (or any portion thereof) received by such Lender or Issuing Bank (any of the foregoing, a “Recipient”) from the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) were erroneously transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Recipient (whether or not known to such Recipient) (whether as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees or otherwise; individually and collectively, a “Payment”), and demands the return of such Payment, such Recipient shall promptly, but in no event later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Payment as to which such a demand was made. A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Recipient under this Section shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(b) Without limitation of clause (a) above, each Recipient further acknowledges and agrees that if such Recipient receives a Payment from the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) (x) that is in an amount, or on a date different from, the amount and/or date specified in a notice of payment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates) with respect to such Payment (a “Payment Notice”), (y) that was not preceded or accompanied by a Payment Notice, or (z) that such Recipient otherwise becomes aware was transmitted, or received, in error or by mistake (in whole or in part), in each case, it understands and agrees at the time of receipt of such Payment that an error has been made (and that it is deemed to have knowledge of such error) with respect to such Payment. Each Recipient agrees that, in each such case, it shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent of such occurrence and, upon demand from the Administrative Agent, it shall promptly, but in no event later than one Business Day thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made.
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(c) Any Payment required to be returned by a Recipient under this Section shall be made in Same Day Funds in the currency so received, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Recipient to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect. Each Recipient hereby agrees that it shall not assert and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, hereby waives, any right to retain such Payment, and any claim, counterclaim, defense or right to set-off or recoupment or similar right to any demand by the Administrative Agent for the return of any Payment received, including without limitation any defense based on “discharge for value” or any similar doctrine.
(d) The Borrower and each other Loan Party hereby agrees that (x) in the event an erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) is not recovered from any Lender that has received such Payment (or portion thereof) for any reason, the Administrative Agent shall be subrogated to all the rights of such Lender with respect to such amount and (y) an erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay, discharge or otherwise satisfy any Obligations owed by the Borrower or any other Loan Party, except, in each case, to the extent such erroneous Payment is, and with respect to the amount of such erroneous Payment that is, comprised of funds of the Borrower or any other Loan Party.
Section 9.15. Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements. Except as otherwise expressly set forth herein or in any Guarantee or any Collateral Document, no Cash Management Bank, or Hedge Bank that obtains the benefits of any Guarantee or any Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof or of any Guarantee or any Collateral Document shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 9.15 to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the case may be.
Section 9.16. Intercreditor Agreements. The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are each hereby authorized to enter into the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and any Customary Intercreditor Agreement to the extent contemplated by the terms hereof, and the parties hereto acknowledge that the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and such Customary Intercreditor Agreement are binding upon them. Each Lender (a) hereby agrees that it will be bound by the provisions of the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and the Customary Intercreditor Agreement as if it were a signatory thereto and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor
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Agreement and the Customary Intercreditor Agreement and (b) hereby authorizes and instructs the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent to enter into the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and the Customary Intercreditor Agreement and to subject the Liens on the Collateral securing the Obligations to the provisions thereof. In addition, each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent to enter into (i) any amendments to the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and any Customary Intercreditor Agreement and (ii) any other intercreditor arrangements, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii) to the extent required to give effect to the establishment of intercreditor rights and privileges as contemplated and required by Section 7.01 of this Agreement, in each case, and without any further consent, authorization or other action by such Lender. Each Lender hereby agrees that no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against any Agent as a result of any action taken by such Agent pursuant to this Section or in accordance with the terms of the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and any Customary Intercreditor Agreement. The foregoing provisions are intended as an inducement to the Secured Parties to extend credit to the Borrower and such Secured Parties are intended third-party beneficiaries of such provisions and the provisions of the Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Equal Priority Intercreditor Agreement and any Customary Intercreditor Agreement.
Section 9.17. Certain ERISA Matters.
(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:
(i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise) of one or more Benefit Plans with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments or this Agreement,
(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement,
(iii) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement, or
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(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.
(b) In addition, unless either (1) sub-clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or (2) a Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with sub-clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that the Administrative Agent is not a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Letters of Credit, the Commitments and this Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related hereto or thereto).
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01. Amendments, Etc. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on behalf of, and acting at the direction of, the Required Lenders) and the Borrower or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (other than with respect to any Incremental Facilities to which such Lender has agreed) without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.02 or the waiver of any Default, Event of Default, mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of the Commitments or Loans shall not constitute an extension or increase of any Commitment of any Lender) (provided that any Lender, upon the request of the Borrower, may extend the maturity date of any of such Lender’s Commitments without the consent of any other Lender, including the Required Lenders);
(b) postpone any date scheduled for, or reduce the amount of, any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due under Section 2.07 or Section 2.08 without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.03 or the waiver of any Default, Event of Default, mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of the Commitments or Loans shall not constitute a postponement of any date scheduled for the payment of principal or interest);
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(c) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.03 or waiver of any Default, Event of Default or mandatory prepayment shall not constitute a reduction or forgiveness of principal), or (subject to clause (ii) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that any change to the definition of the Total Leverage Ratio or in the component definitions thereof shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest; provided that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate);
(d) (i) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section 10.01 , (ii) reduce the percentages specified in the definitions of the term “Pro Rata Share,” “Required Lenders” or “Required Lenders” or (iii) amend, modify or waive (x) Section 2.05(b)(ix) or (y) any provision that affects the pro rata sharing of payments, in each case without the written consent of each Lender; or
(e) other than in a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05, release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions (except as expressly permitted by the Collateral Documents or this Agreement), without the written consent of each Lender;
(f) amend any Alternative Currency provision hereunder pursuant to Section 1.10 without the written consent of each Lender consenting to making Revolving Credit Loans in such requested Alternative Currency;
(g) other than in a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05, release all or substantially all of the Guarantees in any transaction or series of related transactions (except as expressly permitted by the Collateral Documents or this Agreement), without the written consent of each Lender;
(h) amend, modify or waive any provision that specifically relates to a certain Class and/or that would result in a certain Class being treated less favorably than any other Class, without the consent of the Required Lenders of such Class;
(i) amend or modify the application of proceeds pursuant to Section 8.04 without the consent of each Lender; or
(j) amend or modify Section 6.11 without the consent of each Lender; or
(k) without the prior written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected hereby, (x) subordinate, or have the effect of subordinating, the Obligations hereunder to any other Indebtedness, or (y) subordinate, or have the effect of subordinating, the Liens securing the Obligations to Liens securing any other Indebtedness.
and provided, further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by each Issuing Bank in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement; (ii) [reserved]; (iii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, adversely affect the rights or duties of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or
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any other Loan Document; (iv) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Lead Arrangers so affected in addition to the Lenders required above, adversely affect the rights or duties of a Lead Arranger under this Agreement; and (v) the consent of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as the case may be, shall not be required to make any such changes necessary or advisable to be made in connection with the provision of any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment Increase or otherwise to effect the provisions of Section 2.14 or 2.15.
Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any Collateral Document to the contrary, the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, grant extensions of time for the satisfaction of any of the requirements under Sections 6.10 and 6.12 or any Collateral Documents in respect of any particular Collateral or any particular Subsidiary if it determines that the satisfaction thereof with respect to such Collateral or such Subsidiary cannot be accomplished without undue expense or unreasonable effort or due to factors beyond the control of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required to be satisfied under this Agreement or any Collateral Document.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to (x) cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or inconsistency (as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), including for the avoidance of doubt, any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document concerning any Loan Party organized under the under the laws of Guernsey or (y) effect administrative changes of a technical or immaterial nature and such amendment shall be deemed approved by the Lenders if the Lenders shall have received at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of such change and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, any guarantees, collateral security documents (including Customary Intercreditor Agreements) and related documents executed by Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement may be in a form reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and may be, together with this Agreement, amended, supplemented and waived with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of the Borrower without the need to obtain the consent of any other Lender if such amendment, supplement or waiver is delivered in order (i) to comply with local Law or advice of local counsel, (ii) to cure ambiguities, omissions, mistakes or defects, (iii) to cause such guarantee, collateral security document or other document to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or (iv) add syndication or documentation agents and make customary changes and references related thereto.
Upon notice thereof by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent with respect to the inclusion of any Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant, this Agreement shall be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender to include such Previously Absent Financial Maintenance Covenant on the date of the incurrence of the applicable Indebtedness to the extent required by the terms of such definition or section.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if there are any Mortgaged Properties, no amendment providing for an increase, extension or renewal of any of the Loans or Commitments may be closed until the Administrative Agent shall have received confirmation from each Lender that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance in accordance with clause (f)(vi) of the “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” is complete.
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Section 10.02. Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies.
(a) General. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be in writing (including by facsimile transmission). All such written notices shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to the applicable address, facsimile number or electronic mail address, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder shall be made as follows:
(i) if to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, to the address, facsimile number or electronic mail address specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02 or to such other address, facsimile number or electronic mail address as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties; and
(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, facsimile number or electronic mail address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party hereto; (B) if delivered by mail, four (4) Business Days after deposit in the mails, postage prepaid; (C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has been confirmed by telephone; and (D) if delivered by electronic mail (which form of delivery is subject to the provisions of Section 10.02(c)), when delivered; provided that notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II shall not be effective until actually received by such Person during the person’s normal business hours. In no event shall a voice mail message be effective as a notice, communication or confirmation hereunder.
(b) Effectiveness of Facsimile Documents and Signatures. Loan Documents may be transmitted and/or signed by facsimile or other electronic communication. The effectiveness of any such documents and signatures shall, subject to applicable Law, have the same force and effect as manually signed originals and shall be binding on all Loan Parties, the Agents and the Lenders. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Assignment and Assumption shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
(c) Reliance by Agents and Lenders. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof.
(d) Notice to other Loan Parties. The Borrower agrees that notices to be given to any other Loan Party under this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be given to the Borrower in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.02 with the same effect as if given to such other Loan Party in accordance with the terms hereunder or thereunder.
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Section 10.03. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by Law.
Section 10.04. Attorney Costs and Expenses. The Borrower agrees (a) if the Closing Date occurs, to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lead Arrangers, for all reasonable and documented or invoiced out-of-pocket costs and expenses associated with the syndication of the Revolving Credit Loans and the preparation, execution and delivery, administration, amendment, modification, waiver and/or enforcement of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated thereby are consummated), including all Attorney Costs of one primary counsel (and a single local counsel in each relevant jurisdiction or otherwise retained with the Borrower’s consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)) and (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders and the Lead Arrangers, for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (including Attorney Costs of one firm or counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent and, to the extent required, one firm or local counsel in each relevant local jurisdiction or otherwise retained with the Borrower’s consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed), which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions). Subject to the limitations above, the foregoing reasonable and documented costs and expenses shall include all reasonable and documented search, filing, recording and title insurance charges and fees related thereto, and other reasonable and documented or invoiced out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent. The agreements in this Section 10.04 shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations. All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be paid within ten (10) Business Days of receipt by the Borrower of an invoice relating thereto setting forth such reasonable and documented expenses in reasonable detail.
Section 10.05. Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower shall indemnify and hold harmless each Agent, each Lead Arranger, each Lender (without duplication) and their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors, and other representatives (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) and hold them harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities of any kind or nature and documented or invoiced out-of-pocket fees and expenses (and, in the case of Attorney Costs, reasonable Attorney Costs of one firm of counsel for all Indemnitees and, if necessary, one firm of local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions) for all Indemnitees taken as a whole (and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, of such other firm of counsel for such affected Indemnitee)) (collectively, the “Losses”) of any such Indemnitee arising out of or relating to any claim or any litigation or other proceeding
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(including any inquiry or investigation of the foregoing) (regardless of whether such Indemnitees is a party thereto and whether or not such proceedings are brought by the Borrower, its equity holders, its Affiliates, creditors or any other third person) that relates to the Transactions, including the financing contemplated hereby, any action taken in connection with this Agreement, including, but not limited to, the payment of principal, interest and fees (collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”) and any Losses that relate to any actual or alleged presence or Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, under or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any other liability arising under Environmental Law relating in any way to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that no Indemnitee will be indemnified for any Losses or related expenses to the extent it has resulted from (x) the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any of its Affiliates (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision), (y) a material breach of the obligations under the Loan Documents of such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision) or (z) any claim, litigation, investigation or other proceeding (other than a claim, litigation, investigation or other proceeding against any Agent, any Lead Arranger or any Person acting in a similar capacity, in each case, acting pursuant to the Loan Documents or in its capacity as such or of any of its Affiliates or its or their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives and the successors of each of the foregoing) solely between or among Indemnitees that does not arise from any act or omission by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates; provided, further, that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lead Arrangers to the extent fulfilling their respective roles as an agent or arranger under the Facilities and in their capacities as such, shall remain indemnified in respect of such claim, litigation, investigation or other proceeding, to the extent that none of the exceptions set forth in clauses (x), (y) or (z) of the immediately preceding proviso apply to such person at such time. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of any information or other materials obtained through IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement except to the extent that such damages have resulted from the willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of such Indemnitee or any of such Indemnitee’s Affiliates or any of its or their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or other representatives (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision). No Indemnitee and no Loan Party shall have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date); provided that nothing in this sentence shall limit the indemnification obligations of the Loan Parties set forth herein or in any other Loan Document. All amounts due under this Section 10.05 shall be paid within ten (10) Business Days after demand therefor; provided, however, that such Indemnitee shall promptly refund such amount to the extent that there is a final judicial or arbitral determination that such Indemnitee was not entitled to indemnification or contribution rights with respect to such payment pursuant to the express terms of this Section 10.05. The agreements in this Section 10.05 shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 10.05 shall not apply to Taxes other than Taxes that represent liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, etc., with respect to a non-Tax claim.
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Section 10.06. Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to any Agent or any Lender, or any Agent or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Agent or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any Agent plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate in the applicable currency of such recovery or payment.
Section 10.07. Successors and Assigns.
(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that, except as otherwise provided herein (including, without limitation, as permitted under Section 7.04 and Section 7.10), the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(e), (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a Lien subject to the restrictions of Section 10.07(g) or (iv) to an SPC in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(h) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 10.07(e) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees (“Assignees”) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:
(A) the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for any (i) Assignee, if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (f) has occurred and is continuing and (ii) any assignments to a Lender, Affiliates of a Lender, or an Approved Fund;
(B) the Administrative Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for (i) any assignment to an Agent or an Affiliate of an Agent and (ii) any assignments to a Lender, Affiliates of a Lender, or an Approved Fund;
(C) each Issuing Bank; and
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(D) [reserved].
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 (or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, or, if less, all of such Lenders’ remaining Loans of the applicable Class) (in the case of the Revolving Credit Facility or any Incremental Facilities) unless the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consents (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that (1) no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or (f) has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;
(B) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption;
(C) the Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent any documentation required by Sections 3.01(f) and (g); and
(D) the Assignee shall not be a Disqualified Lender (provided that for the purposes of this provision, Disqualified Lenders shall only be deemed to be Disqualified Lenders if a list of Disqualified Lenders has been made available to all Lenders and prospective Assignees by the Borrower); provided, further, that the Administrative Agent shall have no liability in respect of any mistaken assignment to a Disqualified Lender.
This paragraph (b) shall not prohibit any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities on a non-pro rata basis.
(c) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.07(d) and receipt by the Administrative Agent from the parties to each assignment of a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, which fee may be waived only by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, 10.04 and 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment). Upon request and the surrender by the assigning Lender of its Note (if any), the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this clause (c) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.07(e). For greater certainty, any assignment by a Lender pursuant to this Section 10.07 shall not in any way constitute or be deemed to constitute a novation, discharge, recession, extinguishment or substitution of the existing Indebtedness and any Indebtedness so assigned shall continue to be the same obligation and not a new obligations.
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(d) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of the Loans, owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent demonstrable error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, any Agent and any Lender (with respect to such Lender’s own Loans and/or Commitments only), at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(e) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or any Disqualified Lender; provided that for the purposes of this provision, Disqualified Lenders shall only be deemed to be Disqualified Lenders if a list of Disqualified Lenders has been made available to all Lenders by the Borrower) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in Section 10.01(a), (b), (c), (e) or (f) that directly and adversely affects such Participant. Subject to Section 10.07(f), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 (through the applicable Lender), subject to the requirements and limitations of such Sections (including Sections 3.01(e), (f) and (g); provided that a Participant shall be required to provide any documentation required to be provided thereunder solely to the participating Lender) and Sections 3.06 and 3.07, to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(b). To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.09 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant shall be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender. Any Lender that sells participations shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and the address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of each Participant’s participation interest in the Commitments and/or Loans (or other rights or obligations) held by it (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitments, Loans, or its other obligations under any Loan Document), except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive, absent demonstrable error, and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation interest as the owner thereof for all purposes notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, no Lender, by maintaining the Participant Register, undertakes any duty, responsibility or obligation to the Borrower (including, without limitation, that in no event shall any such Lender be a fiduciary of the Borrower for any purpose).
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(f) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01, 3.04 or 3.05 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent or except to the extent such entitlement to a greater payment results from a Change in Law after the Participant became a Participant.
(g) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a Lien on all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any other central bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a Lien; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(h) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any Lender (a “Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (an “SPC”) the option to provide all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement; provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Loan and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof. Each party hereto hereby agrees that (i) an SPC shall be entitled to the benefit of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05, subject to the requirements and limitations of such Sections (including Sections 3.01(e), (f) and (g), provided that an SPC shall be required to provide any documentation required to be provided thereunder solely to the Granting Lender) and Sections 3.06 and 3.07, to the same extent as if such SPC were a Lender, but neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by any SPC of such option shall increase the costs or expenses or otherwise increase or change the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement (including its obligations under Section 3.01, 3.04 or 3.05) except to the extent any entitlement to greater amounts results from a Change in Law after the grant to the SPC occurred, (ii) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would be liable and such liability shall remain with the Granting Lender and (iii) the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including the approval of any amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the lender of record hereunder. The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without prior consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, assign all or any portion of its right to receive payment with respect to any Loan to the Granting Lender and (ii) disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any surety or Guarantee Obligation or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (1) any Lender may in accordance with applicable Law create a Lien on all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any, held by it and (2) any Lender that is a Fund may create a Lien on all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any, held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such obligations or securities; provided that unless and
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until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the other provisions of this Section 10.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.
(j) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Lenders shall not be permitted to assign Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrower, any Subsidiary of Borrower, the Sponsor or any of their respective Affiliates.
(k) [Reserved].
(l) [Reserved].
(m) [Reserved].
(n) If any assignment or participation is made to any Disqualified Lender without the Borrower’s prior written consent in violation of Section 10.07(b)(ii)(D) above, the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to the applicable Disqualified Lender and the Administrative Agent, (A) terminate any Revolving Credit Commitment of such Disqualified Lender and repay all obligations of the Borrower owing to such Disqualified Lender in connection with such Revolving Credit Commitment and/or (B) require such Disqualified Lender to assign, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in this Section 10.07), all of its interest, rights and obligations under this Agreement to one or more Eligible Assignees at the lesser of (x) the principal amount thereof and (y) the amount that such Disqualified Lender paid to acquire such interests, rights and obligations, in each case plus accrued interest, accrued fees and all other amounts (other than principal amounts) payable to it hereunder.
(o) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Disqualified Lenders (A) will not (x) have the right to receive information, reports or other materials provided to Lenders by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, (y) attend or participate in meetings attended by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent or (z) access any electronic site established for the Lenders or confidential communications from counsel to or financial advisors of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders and (B) (x) for purposes of any consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of, or any action under, and for the purpose of any direction to the Administrative Agent or any Lender to undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, each Disqualified Lender will be deemed to have consented in the same proportion as the Lenders that are not Disqualified Lenders consented to such matter and (y) for purposes of voting on any plan of reorganization or plan of liquidation pursuant to any Debtor Relief Laws, each Disqualified Lender party hereto hereby agrees (1) not to vote on such plan, (2) if such Disqualified Lender does vote on such plan notwithstanding the restriction in the foregoing clause (1), such vote will be deemed not to be in good faith and shall be “designated” pursuant to Section 1126(e) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision in any other Debtor Relief Laws), and such vote shall not be counted in determining whether the applicable class has accepted or rejected such plan in accordance with Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code (or any similar provision in any other Debtor Relief Laws) and (3) not to contest any request by any party for a determination by the bankruptcy court (or other applicable court of competent jurisdiction) effectuating the foregoing clause (2).
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Section 10.08. Confidentiality. Each of the Agents, Lead Arrangers, Issuing Banks and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information and to not use or disclose such information, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees, trustees, investment advisors and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors and any numbering, administration or settlement service providers (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed