New Senior Notes has the meaning set forth in the recitals hereto.
Existing Senior Notes means the Existing 2020 Senior Notes and the Existing 2021 Senior Notes, collectively.
Senior Notes means $500,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the Borrower’s 6.75% senior unsecured notes due 2025 issued pursuant to the Senior Notes Indenture on the Closing Date.
Convertible Senior Notes means the Borrower’s 1.00% Convertible Senior Notes in the principal amount of $287,500,000 due 2020.
Existing Senior Secured Notes means the Borrower’s $800,000,000 8.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2019, issued pursuant to the Existing Senior Secured Notes Indenture.
Junior Notes means Note B-1, Note B-2, Note B-3 and Note B-4.
Existing Unsecured Notes the Borrower’s 11.5% Senior Notes due 2018, issued pursuant to the Existing Unsecured Indenture, outstanding on the Closing Date or subsequently issued in exchange for or in respect of any such notes.
Existing Senior Notes Indentures means, the indentures governing the Existing Senior Notes, each as may be amended or supplemented from time to time.
Permitted Convertible Notes means any unsecured notes issued by the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions of Section 6.01 that are convertible into a fixed number (subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, “make-whole” increases and other customary changes thereto) of shares of common stock of the Company (or other securities or property following a merger event or other change of the common stock of the Company), cash or any combination thereof (with the amount of such cash or such combination determined by reference to the market price of such common stock or such other securities); provided that, the Indebtedness thereunder must satisfy each of the following conditions: (i) both immediately prior to and after giving effect (including pro forma effect) thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall exist or result therefrom, (ii) such Indebtedness matures after, and does not require any scheduled amortization or other scheduled or otherwise required payments of principal prior to, and does not permit any Loan Party to elect optional redemption or optional acceleration that would be settled on a date prior to, the date that is six (6) months after the Maturity Date (it being understood that neither (x) any provision requiring an offer to purchase such Indebtedness as a result of change of control or other fundamental change (which change of control or other fundamental change, for the avoidance of doubt, constitutes a “Change of Control” hereunder), which purchase is settled on a date no earlier than the date twenty (20) Business Days following the occurrence of such change of control or other fundamental change nor (y) any early conversion of any Permitted Convertible Notes in accordance with the terms thereof, in either case, shall violate the foregoing restriction), (iii) such Indebtedness is not guaranteed by any Subsidiary of the Company other than the Subsidiary Borrowers or Subsidiary Guarantors (which guarantees, if such Indebtedness is subordinated, shall be expressly subordinated to the Secured Obligations on terms not less favorable to the Lenders than the subordination terms of such Subordinated Indebtedness), (iv) any cross-default or cross-acceleration event of default (each howsoever defined) provision contained therein that relates to indebtedness or other payment obligations of any Loan Party (such indebtedness or other payment obligations, a “Cross-Default Reference Obligation”) contains a cure period of at least thirty (30) calendar days (after written notice to the issuer of such Indebtedness by the trustee or to such issuer and such trustee by holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness then outstanding) before a default, event of default, acceleration or other event or condition under such Cross-Default Reference Obligation results in an event of default under such cross-default or cross-acceleration provision and (v) the terms, conditions and covenants of such Indebtedness must be customary for convertible Indebtedness of such type (as determined by the board of directors of the Company, or a committee thereof, in good faith).
2014 Notes means (i) the 4.850% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 issued by the Issuer on March 18, 2014 and (ii) the 4.45% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 and the 5.45% Senior Secured Notes due 2034 issued by the Issuer on August 21, 2014.
Subordinated Notes means the Initial Notes and the Exchange Notes and, more particularly, any Subordinated Note authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, including those Subordinated Notes issued or authenticated upon transfer, replacement or exchange.
Existing Senior Subordinated Notes means the Company’s existing 8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2015.
Existing Senior Notes Indenture means that certain Indenture dated as of March 16, 2011, by and between the Borrower, as issuer, and Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, as amended, restated, supplemented, renewed or extended or otherwise modified from time to time to the extent permitted by Section 7.15.
Convertible Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Senior Note Indentures means, collectively, the Senior Note (2020) Indenture, the Senior Note (2021) Indenture, the Senior Note (2022) Indenture and the Senior Note (2023) Indenture.
2017 Notes means the aggregate principal amount of US$600,000,000 of 6.25% Guaranteed Senior Notes Due 2017 issued pursuant to the 2017 Note Indenture.
Permitted Notes means (i) unsecured senior or senior subordinated debt securities of the Borrower, (ii) debt securities of the Borrower that are secured by a Lien on the Collateral ranking junior to the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to a Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement or (iii) debt securities of the Borrower that are secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations pursuant to a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement; provided that (a) in the case of debt securities issued in reliance on Section 7.03(s)(iii), such debt securities are issued for cash consideration, (b) the terms of such debt securities do not provide for any scheduled repayment, mandatory redemption or sinking fund obligations prior to the Maturity Date of the Term Facility (other than customary offers to repurchase upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and customary acceleration rights after an event of default), (c) the covenants, events of default, guarantees, collateral and other terms of which (other than interest rate and redemption premiums), taken as a whole, are not more restrictive to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries than those in this Agreement; provided that a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least three Business Days (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may reasonably agree) prior to the incurrence of such debt securities, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such debt securities 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, (d) at the time that any such Permitted Notes are issued (and after giving effect thereto) no Event of Default shall exist, (e) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.11 determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period for which financial statements were required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable (or if no Test Period cited in Section 7.11 has passed, the covenants in Section 7.11 for the first Test Period cited in such Section shall be satisfied as of the last four quarters ended), in each case, as if such Permitted Notes had been outstanding on the last day of such four quarter period, and (f) no Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Guarantor) shall be an obligor and no Permitted Notes shall be secured by any collateral other than the Collateral.
New Convertible Notes means the Company’s 5.0% Senior Unsecured Convertible Notes due 2023.
2022 Notes means the 4.875% Senior Notes due 2022, originally issued by Rowan Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
Senior Notes Documents means, collectively, the Senior Notes Indenture and all other loan agreements, indentures, note purchase agreements, promissory notes, guarantees, intercreditor agreements, assignment and assumption agreements and other instruments and agreements evidencing the terms of Senior Notes.
2019 Notes has the meaning set forth in the definition of “2018 Exchange Offers”.
2011 Notes means those certain notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of March 22, 2011 among the Company and the purchasers named in Schedule A thereto.
Senior Unsecured Notes means, collectively, the: (a) 6.50% Senior Notes due 2016, issued in the original principal amount of $214,800,000 pursuant to the 6.50% Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture; and (b) 5.75% Senior Notes due 2017, issued in the original principal amount of $750,000,000 pursuant to the 5.75% Senior Unsecured Notes Indenture.
New Secured Notes means the $550 million of first lien secured notes to be issued by New Valaris Holdco comprising (i) the Rights Offering New Secured Notes to be issued in the Rights Offering on the terms set forth in the New Secured Notes Term Sheet attached as Exhibit 2 to the Restructuring Term Sheet and the Rights Offering Procedures, (ii) the Holdback Notes to be issued on the terms set forth in the Backstop Agreement,
Existing Secured Notes means the 5.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2021 issued by the Issuer and the Existing Secured Notes Issuer.
Existing Convertible Notes means any convertible notes or other convertible debt securities of the Company outstanding on the date of this Agreement.