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SECTION I
DEFINITIONS
(A) for purposes of any such calculation in respect of any Asset Disposition as referred to in Section 8.5 or any Investment (or series of related Investments) as referred to in Section 8.6(p), (1) income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the Property disposed of or contributed or otherwise transferred, as applicable, shall be excluded and (2) any Indebtedness which is retired in connection with such transaction shall be excluded and deemed to have been retired as of the first day of the applicable period; and
(B) for purposes of any such calculation in respect of any Acquisition as referred to in Section 8.6(h) or any other such transaction, (1) any Indebtedness incurred by any Consolidated Party in connection with such transaction (x) shall be deemed to have been incurred as of the first day of the applicable period and (y) if such Indebtedness has a floating or formula rate, shall have an implied rate of interest for the applicable period for purposes of this definition determined by utilizing the rate which is or would be in effect with respect to such Indebtedness as at the relevant date of determination, (2) if applicable, income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the Person or Property acquired shall be included beginning as of the first day of the applicable period, (3) any Indebtedness which is retired in connection with such transaction shall be excluded and deemed to have been retired as of the first day of the applicable period and (4) if an acquisition, pro forma adjustments may be included to the extent that such adjustments are consistent with the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” set forth in this Section 1.1 and give effect to events that are (x) directly attributable to such transaction, (y) expected to have a continuing impact on the Consolidated Parties and (z) factually supportable.
SECTION II
CREDIT FACILITIES
2.1. REVOLVING LOANS
(a) REVOLVING COMMITMENT. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in reliance upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make available to the Borrower such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of revolving credit loans requested by the Borrower in Dollars (“REVOLVING LOANS”) from time to time from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date, or such earlier date as the Revolving Commitments shall have been terminated as provided herein; provided, however, that the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans shall not exceed ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ($125,000,000) (as such aggregate maximum amount may be reduced from time to time as provided in Section 3.4 or increased from time to time as provided in Section 2.6, the “REVOLVING COMMITTED AMOUNT”); provided, further, (A) with regard to each Lender individually, such Lender’s outstanding Revolving Loans shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Revolving Committed Amount, and (B) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans plus LOC Obligations plus Swingline Loans shall not exceed the Revolving Committed Amount. The initial advance of the Revolving Loans on the Closing Date shall consist solely of Base Rate Loans. Thereafter, Revolving Loans may consist of Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or a combination thereof, as the Borrower may request; provided, however, that no more than 15 Eurodollar Loans shall be outstanding hereunder at any time (it being understood that, for purposes hereof, Eurodollar Loans with different Interest Periods shall be considered as separate Eurodollar Loans, even if they begin on the same date, although borrowings, extensions and conversions may, in accordance with the provisions hereof, be combined at the end of existing Interest Periods to constitute a new Eurodollar Loan with a single Interest Period). Revolving Loans hereunder may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof. All Revolving Loans outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Closing Date shall be deemed to remain outstanding to the Borrower hereunder on the terms set forth herein.
(b) REVOLVING LOAN BORROWINGS.
(i) NOTICE OF BORROWING. The Borrower shall request a Revolving Loan borrowing by written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) to the Administrative Agent not later than 12:30 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day prior to the date of the requested borrowing in the case of Base Rate Loans, and on the third Business Day prior to the date of the requested borrowing in the case of Eurodollar Loans. Each such request for borrowing shall be irrevocable and shall specify (A) that a Revolving Loan is requested, (B) the date of the requested borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (C) the aggregate principal amount to be borrowed, and (D) whether the borrowing shall be comprised of Base Rate Loans, Eurodollar Loans or a combination thereof, and if Eurodollar Loans are requested, the Interest Period(s) therefor. If the Borrower shall fail to specify in any such Notice of Borrowing (I) an
applicable Interest Period in the case of a Eurodollar Loan, then such notice shall be deemed to be a request for an Interest Period of one month, or (II) the type of Revolving Loan requested, then such notice shall be deemed to be a request for a Base Rate Loan hereunder. The Administrative Agent shall give notice to each affected Lender promptly upon receipt of each Notice of Borrowing pursuant to this Section 2.1(b)(i), the contents thereof and each such Lender’s share of any borrowing to be made pursuant thereto.
(ii) MINIMUM AMOUNTS. Except for Revolving Loans made for the purpose of reimbursing the Issuing Lender in respect of a drawing under a Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 2.2(e), each Eurodollar Loan that is a Revolving Loan shall be in a minimum aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000 and each Base Rate Loan that is a Revolving Loan shall be in a minimum aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 and, in each case, integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof (or the remaining amount of the Revolving Committed Amount, if less).
(iii) ADVANCES. Each Lender will make its Revolving Commitment Percentage of each Revolving Loan borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower as specified in Section 3.15(a), or in such other manner as the Administrative Agent may specify in writing, by 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date specified in the applicable Notice of Borrowing in Dollars and in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent either by disbursing such funds pursuant to written instructions from the Borrower or by crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of such office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.
(c) REPAYMENT. The Borrower hereby promises to pay the principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans in full on the Maturity Date, unless accelerated sooner pursuant to Section 9.2.
(d) INTEREST. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1,
(i) BASE RATE LOANS. During such periods as Revolving Loans shall be comprised in whole or in part of Base Rate Loans, such Base Rate Loans shall bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the Adjusted Base Rate.
(ii) EURODOLLAR LOANS. During such periods as Revolving Loans shall be comprised in whole or in part of Eurodollar Loans, such Eurodollar Loans shall bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate.
(e) REVOLVING NOTES. The Borrower hereby agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any Lender, the Borrower will execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note evidencing the Revolving Loans of such Lender, substantially in the form of
2.2. LETTER OF CREDIT SUBFACILITY
(a) ISSUANCE. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in reliance upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, the Issuing Lender agrees to issue, and each Revolving Lender severally agrees to participate in the issuance by the Issuing Lender of, standby and trade Letters of Credit in Dollars from time to time from the Closing Date until the date five (5) days prior to the Maturity Date as the Borrower may request, in a form acceptable to the Issuing Lender; provided, however, that (i) the LOC Obligations outstanding shall not at any time exceed FORTY MILLION DOLLARS ($40,000,000) (the “LOC COMMITTED AMOUNT”) and (ii) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans plus LOC Obligations plus Swingline Loans shall not at any time exceed the Revolving Committed Amount. No Letter of Credit shall (x) have an original expiry date more than one year from the date of issuance (provided that any such Letter of Credit may contain customary “evergreen” provisions pursuant to which the expiry date is automatically extended by a specific time period unless the Issuing Lender gives notice to the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit at least a specified time period prior to the expiry date then in effect) or (y) as originally issued or as extended, have an expiry date extending beyond the date five (5) days prior to the Maturity Date. The Issuing Lender shall not be required to issue any Letter of Credit which would violate any Requirement of Law applicable to the Issuing Lender. Each Letter of Credit shall comply with the related LOC Documents. The issuance and expiry dates of each Letter of Credit shall be a Business Day. For purposes of this Credit Agreement, the Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued on the Closing Date.
(b) NOTICE AND REPORTS. The request for the issuance of a Letter of Credit shall be submitted by an Executive Officer of the Borrower to the Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent at least three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of issuance. The Issuing Lender will provide to the Administrative Agent, at least quarterly and more frequently upon request, who will in turn disseminate to each of the Lenders a detailed report specifying the Letters of Credit which are then issued and outstanding and any activity with respect thereto which may have occurred since the date of the prior report, and including therein, among other things, the beneficiary, the face amount and the expiry date, as well as any payment or expirations which may have occurred.
(c) PARTICIPATION. Each Revolving Lender, upon issuance of a Letter of Credit (or, in the case of each Existing Letter of Credit, on the Closing Date), shall be deemed to have purchased without recourse a Participation Interest from the Issuing Lender in such Letter of Credit and the obligations arising thereunder and any collateral relating thereto, in each case in an amount equal to its pro rata share of the obligations under such Letter of Credit (based on the respective Revolving Commitment Percentages of the Revolving Lenders) and shall absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably assume and be obligated to pay to the Issuing Lender and discharge when due, its pro rata share of the obligations arising under such Letter of Credit. Without limiting the scope and nature of each Revolving Lender’s Participation Interest in any Letter of Credit, to the extent that the Issuing Lender has not been reimbursed as required hereunder or under any such Letter of Credit, each such Revolving Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender its pro rata share of such unreimbursed drawing in same day funds on the day of notification by the Administrative Agent of an unreimbursed drawing pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d) below. The obligation of each Revolving Lender to so reimburse the Issuing Lender shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by the occurrence of a Default, an Event of Default or any other occurrence or event. Any such reimbursement shall not relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as hereinafter provided.
(d) REIMBURSEMENT. In the event of any drawing under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender will promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. Unless the Borrower shall immediately notify the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender that the Borrower intends to otherwise reimburse the Issuing Lender for such drawing, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested that the Revolving Lenders make a Revolving Loan in the amount of the drawing as provided in subsection (e) below on the related Letter of Credit, the proceeds of which will be used to satisfy the related reimbursement obligations. The Borrower promises to reimburse the Issuing Lender on the day on which the Issuing Lender notifies the Borrower of a drawing under any Letter of Credit (either with the proceeds of a Revolving Loan obtained hereunder or deemed to have been requested hereunder or otherwise) in same day funds provided such notice is received by the Borrower from the Issuing Lender on or before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) (otherwise such payment shall be made on or before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the Business Day next succeeding the day such notice is received). The Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Issuing Lender interest on the unreimbursed amount of any drawing under a Letter of Credit at a per annum rate equal to (i) for the first two (2) Business Days following the date of the related drawing, the Adjusted Base Rate and (ii) thereafter, the Adjusted Base Rate plus 2%. The Borrower’s reimbursement obligations hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under all circumstances irrespective of any rights of setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment the Borrower may claim or have against the Issuing Lender (other than that the payment of such drawing by the Issuing Lender constituted gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Lender), the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Lenders, the beneficiary of the Letter of Credit drawn upon or any other Person, including without limitation any defense based on any failure of the Borrower or any other Credit Party to receive consideration or the legality, validity, regularity or unenforceability of the Letter of Credit. The Issuing Lender will promptly notify the Administrative Agent, who shall in turn, promptly notify the other Revolving Lenders of the amount of any unreimbursed drawing and each Revolving Lender shall promptly pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender in Dollars and in immediately available funds, the amount of such Revolving Lender’s pro rata share of such unreimbursed drawing. Such payment shall be made on the day such notice is received by such Revolving Lender from the Administrative Agent if such notice is received at or before 2:00 P.M. (New York City time), and otherwise such payment shall be made at or before 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the Business Day next succeeding the day such notice is received. If such Revolving Lender does not pay such amount to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender in full upon such request, such Revolving Lender shall, on demand, pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender interest on the unpaid amount during the period from the date of such drawing until such Revolving Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender in full at a rate per annum equal to, if paid within two (2) Business Days of
the date that such Revolving Lender is required to make payments of such amount pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Federal Funds Rate and thereafter at a rate equal to the Base Rate. Each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make such payment to the Issuing Lender, and the right of the Issuing Lender to receive the same, shall be absolute and unconditional, shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever and without regard to the termination of this Credit Agreement or the Commitments hereunder, the existence of a Default or Event of Default or the acceleration of the obligations of the Borrower hereunder and shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Simultaneously with the making of each such payment by a Revolving Lender to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender, such Revolving Lender shall, automatically and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Lender or such Revolving Lender, acquire a Participation Interest in an amount equal to such payment (excluding the portion of such payment constituting interest owing to the Issuing Lender) in the related unreimbursed drawing portion of the LOC Obligation and in the interest thereon and in the related LOC Documents, and shall have a claim against the Borrower with respect thereto.
(e) REPAYMENT WITH REVOLVING LOANS. On any day on which the Borrower shall have requested, or been deemed to have requested, a Revolving Loan advance to reimburse a drawing under a Letter of Credit, the Administrative Agent shall give notice to the Revolving Lenders that a Revolving Loan has been requested or deemed requested by the Borrower to be made in connection with a drawing under a Letter of Credit, in which case a Revolving Loan advance comprised of Base Rate Loans (or Eurodollar Loans to the extent the Borrower has complied with the procedures of Section 2.1(b)(i) with respect thereto) shall be immediately made to the Borrower by all Revolving Lenders (notwithstanding any termination of the Commitments pursuant to Section 9.2) pro rata based on the respective Revolving Commitment Percentages of the Revolving Lenders (determined before giving effect to any termination of the Commitments pursuant to Section 9.2) and the proceeds thereof shall be paid directly to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender for application to the respective LOC Obligations. Each such Revolving Lender hereby irrevocably agrees to make its pro rata share of each such Revolving Loan immediately upon any such request or deemed request in the amount, in the manner and on the date specified in the preceding sentence notwithstanding (i) the amount of such borrowing may not comply with the minimum amount for advances of Revolving Loans otherwise required hereunder, (ii) whether any conditions specified in Section 5.2 are then satisfied, (iii) whether a Default or an Event of Default then exists, (iv) failure for any such request or deemed request for Revolving Loan to be made by the time otherwise required hereunder, (v) whether the date of such borrowing is a date on which Revolving Loans are otherwise permitted to be made hereunder or (vi) any termination of the Commitments relating thereto prior to or contemporaneously with such borrowing. In the event that any Revolving Loan cannot for any reason be made on the date otherwise required above (including, without limitation, as a result of the commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the Borrower or any other Credit Party), then each such Revolving Lender hereby agrees that it shall forthwith purchase (as of the date such borrowing would otherwise have occurred, but adjusted for any payments received from the Borrower on or after such date and prior to such purchase) from the Issuing Lender such Participation Interests in the outstanding LOC Obligations as shall be necessary to cause each such Revolving Lender to share in such LOC Obligations ratably (based upon the respective Revolving Commitment Percentages of the Revolving Lenders (determined before giving effect to any termination of the
Commitments pursuant to Section 9.2)), provided that at the time any purchase of Participation Interests pursuant to this sentence is actually made, the purchasing Revolving Lender shall be required to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender, to the extent not paid to the Issuing Lender by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of subsection (d) above, interest on the principal amount of Participation Interests purchased for each day from and including the day upon which such borrowing would otherwise have occurred to but excluding the date of payment for such Participation Interests, at the rate equal to, if paid within two (2) Business Days of the date of the Revolving Loan advance, the Federal Funds Rate, and thereafter at a rate equal to the Base Rate.
(f) DESIGNATION OF CONSOLIDATED PARTIES AS ACCOUNT PARTIES. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Credit Agreement, including without limitation Section 2.2(a), a Letter of Credit issued hereunder may contain a statement to the effect that such Letter of Credit is issued for the account of any Subsidiary of the Borrower, provided that notwithstanding such statement, the Borrower shall be the actual account party for all purposes of this Credit Agreement for such Letter of Credit and such statement shall not affect the Borrower’s reimbursement obligations hereunder with respect to such Letter of Credit.
(g) RENEWAL, EXTENSION. The renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit shall, for purposes hereof, be treated in all respects the same as the issuance of a new Letter of Credit hereunder.
(h) UNIFORM CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES. The Issuing Lender may have the Letters of Credit be subject to The Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (the “UCP”) or the International Standby Practices No. ISP1998 (the “ISP98”), in either case as published as of the date of issue by the International Chamber of Commerce, in which case the UCP or the ISP98, as applicable, may be incorporated therein and deemed in all respects to be a part thereof.
(i) INDEMNIFICATION; NATURE OF ISSUING LENDER’S DUTIES.
(i) In addition to its other obligations under this Section 2.2, the Borrower hereby agrees to pay, and protect, indemnify and save each Lender harmless from and against, any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, actual losses, costs, charges and reasonable expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) that such Lender may incur or be subject to as a consequence, direct or indirect, of (A) the issuance of any Letter of Credit or (B) the failure of such Lender to honor a drawing under a Letter of Credit as a result of any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de facto government or Governmental Authority (all such acts or omissions, herein called “GOVERNMENT ACTS”).
(ii) As between the Borrower and the Lenders (including the Issuing Lender), the Borrower shall assume all risks of the acts, omissions or misuse of any Letter of Credit by the beneficiary thereof. No Lender (including the Issuing Lender) shall be responsible: (A) for the form, validity, sufficiency, accuracy, genuineness or legal effect of any document submitted by any party in connection with the application
for and issuance of any Letter of Credit, even if it should in fact prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, inaccurate, fraudulent or forged; (B) for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign any Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, that may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason; (C) for errors, omissions, interruptions or delays in transmission or delivery of any messages, by mail, cable, telegraph, telex or otherwise, whether or not they be in cipher; (D) for any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under a Letter of Credit or of the proceeds thereof; and (E) for any consequences arising from causes beyond the control of such Lender, including, without limitation, any Government Acts. None of the above shall affect, impair, or prevent the vesting of the Issuing Lender’s rights or powers hereunder.
(iii) In furtherance and extension and not in limitation of the specific provisions hereinabove set forth, any action taken or omitted by any Lender (including the Issuing Lender), under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related certificates, if taken or omitted in good faith and without gross negligence, shall not put such Lender under any resulting liability to the Borrower or any other Credit Party. It is the intention of the parties that this Credit Agreement shall be construed and applied to protect and indemnify each Lender (including the Issuing Lender) against any and all risks involved in the issuance of the Letters of Credit, all of which risks are hereby assumed by the Borrower (on behalf of itself and each of the other Credit Parties), including, without limitation, any and all Government Acts. No Lender (including the Issuing Lender) shall, in any way, be liable for any failure by such Lender or anyone else to pay any drawing under any Letter of Credit as a result of any Government Acts or any other cause beyond the control of such Lender.
(iv) Nothing in this subsection (i) is intended to limit the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower contained in subsection (d) above. The obligations of the Borrower under this subsection (i) shall survive the termination of this Credit Agreement. No act or omission of any current or prior beneficiary of a Letter of Credit shall in any way affect or impair the rights of the Lenders (including the Issuing Lender) to enforce any right, power or benefit under this Credit Agreement.
(v) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 2.2(i), no Credit Party shall have any obligation to indemnify or reimburse any Lender (including the Issuing Lender) in respect of any liability incurred by such Lender (A) arising out of the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Lender, or (B) caused by such Lender’s failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after presentation to it of a request strictly complying with the terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit unless such payment is prohibited by any law, regulation, court order or decree.
(j) RESPONSIBILITY OF ISSUING LENDER. It is expressly understood and agreed that the obligations of the Issuing Lender hereunder to the Lenders are only those expressly set forth in this Credit Agreement and that the Issuing Lender shall be entitled to assume that the conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.2 have been satisfied unless it shall have acquired actual knowledge that any such condition precedent has not been satisfied;
(k) CONFLICT WITH LOC DOCUMENTS. In the event of any conflict between this Credit Agreement and any LOC Document (including any letter of credit application), this Credit Agreement shall control.
2.3. SWINGLINE LOAN SUBFACILITY
(a) SWINGLINE COMMITMENT. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and in reliance upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, the Swingline Lender, in its individual capacity, agrees to make certain revolving credit loans requested by the Borrower in Dollars to the Borrower (each a “SWINGLINE LOAN” and, collectively, the “SWINGLINE LOANS”) from time to time from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the purposes hereinafter set forth; provided, however, (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans outstanding at any time shall not exceed TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS ($20,000,000) (the “SWINGLINE COMMITTED AMOUNT”), and (ii) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans plus LOC Obligations plus Swingline Loans shall not exceed the Revolving Committed Amount. Swingline Loans hereunder shall be made as Base Rate Loans or Quoted Rate Swingline Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.3 and may be repaid and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(b) SWINGLINE LOAN ADVANCES.
(i) NOTICES; DISBURSEMENT. Whenever the Borrower desires a Swingline Loan advance hereunder it shall give written notice from an Executive Officer of the Borrower (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing) to the Swingline Lender not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day of the requested Swingline Loan advance. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify (A) that a Swingline Loan advance is requested, (B) the date of the requested Swingline Loan advance (which shall be a Business Day) and (C) the principal amount of the Swingline Loan advance requested. Each Swingline Loan shall be made as a Base Rate Loan or a Quoted Rate Swingline Loan and shall have such maturity date as the Swingline Lender and the Borrower shall agree upon receipt by the Swingline Lender of any such notice from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall initiate the transfer of funds representing the Swingline Loan advance to the Borrower by 3:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day of the requested borrowing.
(ii) MINIMUM AMOUNTS. Each Swingline Loan advance shall be in integral multiples of $100,000 (or the remaining amount of the Swingline Committed Amount, if less).
(iii) REPAYMENT OF SWINGLINE LOANS. The Borrower hereby promises to pay the outstanding principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of (A) the Maturity Date or (B) the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or the last day of a calendar month and is at least three Business days after such Swingline Loan is made. The Swingline Lender may, at any time, in its sole discretion, by written notice to the Borrower and the Revolving Lenders, demand repayment of its Swingline Loans by way of a Revolving Loan advance, in which case the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Loan advance comprised solely of Base Rate Loans in the amount of such Swingline Loans; provided, however, that any such demand shall be deemed to have been given one Business Day prior to the Maturity Date and on the date of the occurrence of any Event of Default described in Section 9.1 and upon acceleration of the indebtedness hereunder and the exercise of remedies in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.2. Each Revolving Lender hereby irrevocably agrees to make its pro rata share of each such Revolving Loan in the amount, in the manner and on the date specified in the preceding sentence notwithstanding (I) the amount of such borrowing may not comply with the minimum amount for advances of Revolving Loans otherwise required hereunder, (II) whether any conditions specified in Section 5.2 are then satisfied, (III) whether a Default or an Event of Default then exists, (IV) failure of any such request or deemed request for a Revolving Loan to be made by the time otherwise required hereunder, (V) whether the date of such borrowing is a date on which Revolving Loans are otherwise permitted to be made hereunder or (VI) any termination of the Commitments relating thereto prior to or contemporaneously with such borrowing. In the event that any Revolving Loan cannot for any reason be made on the date otherwise required above (including, without limitation, as a result of the commencement of a proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code with respect to the Borrower or any other Credit Party), then each Revolving Lender hereby agrees that it shall forthwith purchase (as of the date such borrowing would otherwise have occurred, but adjusted for any payments received from the Borrower on or after such date and prior to such purchase) from the Swingline Lender such Participation Interests in the outstanding Swingline Loans as shall be necessary to cause each such Revolving Lender to share in such Swingline Loans ratably based upon its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the Revolving Committed Amount (determined before giving effect to any termination of the Commitments pursuant to Section 3.4), provided that (A) all interest payable on the Swingline Loans shall be for the account of the Swingline Lender until the date as of which the respective Participation Interest is purchased and (B) at the time any purchase of Participation Interests pursuant to this sentence is actually made, the purchasing Revolving Lender shall be required to pay to the Swingline Lender, to the extent not paid to the Swingline Lender by the Borrower in accordance with the terms of subsection (c)(ii) below, interest on the principal amount of Participation Interests purchased for each day from and including the day upon which such borrowing would otherwise have occurred to but excluding the date of payment for such Participation Interests, at the rate equal to, if paid within two (2) Business Days of the date upon which such borrowing would otherwise have occurred, the Federal Funds Rate, and thereafter at a rate equal to the Adjusted Base Rate.
(c) INTEREST ON SWINGLINE LOANS.
(i) RATE OF INTEREST. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1, each Swingline Loan shall bear interest as follows:
(A) BASE RATE LOANS. If such Swingline Loan is a Base Rate Loan, at a per annum rate equal to the Adjusted Base Rate.
(B) QUOTED RATE SWINGLINE LOANS. If such Swingline Loan is a Quoted Rate Swingline Loan, at a per annum rate equal to the Quoted Rate applicable thereto.
(ii) PAYMENT OF INTEREST. The Borrower hereby promises to pay interest on Swingline Loans in arrears on each applicable Interest Payment Date (or at such other times as may be specified herein).
(d) SWINGLINE NOTE. The Borrower hereby agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by the Swingline Lender, the Borrower will execute and deliver to the Swingline Lender a promissory note evidencing the Swingline Loans of the Swingline Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit 2.3(d), with appropriate insertions as to date and principal amount (a “SWINGLINE NOTE”).
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2.5. TRANCHE B TERM LOAN.
(a) TRANCHE B TERM COMMITMENT. (i) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof (including paragraph (ii) below) and in reliance upon the representations and warranties set forth herein, each Lender severally agrees to make available to the Borrower on the Closing Date such Lender’s Tranche B Term Loan Percentage of a term loan in Dollars (the “TRANCHE B TERM LOAN”) in the aggregate principal amount of FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS ($450,000,000) (the “TRANCHE B TERM LOAN COMMITTED AMOUNT”). The full principal amount of the Tranche B Term Loan shall be disbursed on the Closing Date as a Base Rate Loan. Thereafter, the Term Loan may consist of Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or a combination thereof, as the Borrower may request; provided, however, that no more than 15 Eurodollar Loans shall be outstanding hereunder at any time (it being understood that, for purposes hereof, Eurodollar Loans with different Interest Periods shall be considered as separate Eurodollar Loans, even if they begin on the same date, although borrowings, extensions and conversions may, in accordance with the provisions hereof, be combined at the end of existing Interest Periods to constitute a new Eurodollar Loan with a single Interest Period). Amounts repaid or prepaid on the Tranche B Term Loan may not be reborrowed.
(ii) Any Continuing Tranche B Term Lender shall be deemed to continue such Lender’s Continuing Tranche B Term Loans to the extent requested by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.5(b). On the Closing Date, such Lender’s Continuing Tranche B Term Loans shall, to the extent requested by the Borrower, be continued for all purposes of this Credit Agreement as Tranche B Term Loans, and the Administrative Agent shall record in the Register the aggregate amounts of Continuing Tranche B Term Loans continued as Tranche B Term Loans. From and after the Closing Date, Continuing Tranche B Term Loans shall constitute Tranche B Term Loans for all purposes of this Credit Agreement.
(b) BORROWING PROCEDURES. The Borrower shall submit an appropriate Notice of Borrowing for the Tranche B Term Loan to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the Closing Date. Such Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and shall specify (i) that the funding of the Tranche B Term Loan is requested and (ii) that the funding of the Tranche B Term Loan shall be comprised of Base Rate Loans. Each Lender shall make its Tranche B Term Loan Percentage of the Tranche B Term Loan available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Schedule 2.1(a), or at such other office as the Administrative Agent may designate in writing, by 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Closing Date in Dollars and in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Each Continuing Tranche B Term Lender’s Continuing Tranche B Term Loans shall be continued as Tranche B Term Loans hereunder to the extent requested by the Borrower.
(c) MINIMUM AMOUNTS. Each Eurodollar Loan or Base Rate Loan that is part of the Tranche B Term Loan shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $2,000,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 (or the then remaining principal balance of the Tranche B Term Loan).
(d) REPAYMENT OF TRANCHE B TERM LOAN. The Borrower hereby promises to pay the outstanding principal amount of the Tranche B Term Loan in twenty-four (24) consecutive quarterly installments as follows (as such installments may hereafter be adjusted as a result of prepayments made pursuant to Section 3.3), unless accelerated sooner pursuant to Section 9.2:
(e) INTEREST. Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1, the outstanding Tranche B Term Loan shall bear interest at a per annum rate equal to:
(i) BASE RATE LOANS. During such periods as the Tranche B Term Loan shall be comprised in whole or in part of Base Rate Loans, such Base Rate Loans shall bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the Adjusted Base Rate.
(ii) EURODOLLAR LOANS. During such periods as the Tranche B Term Loan shall be comprised in whole or in part of Eurodollar Loans, such Eurodollar Loans shall bear interest at a per annum rate equal to the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate.
(f) TRANCHE B TERM NOTES. The Borrower hereby agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any Lender, the Borrower will execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note evidencing the Tranche B Term Loan of such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit 2.5(f), with appropriate insertions as to date and principal amount (a “TRANCHE B TERM NOTE”).
(a) The Borrower may at any time or from time to time after the Closing Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders) request (i) additional Tranche B Term Loans or one or more additional tranches of term loans (the “INCREMENTAL TERM LOANS”) or (ii) one or more increases in the amount of the Revolving Committed Amount (each such increase, a “REVOLVING COMMITMENT INCREASE”), provided that, (i) no Default or Event of Default shall exist and be continuing at the time that any such Incremental Term Loan is made or any such Revolving Commitment Increase becomes effective (and after giving effect thereto), and (ii) the Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio of the Borrower determined on a Pro Forma Basis as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower as if such Incremental Term Loans had been outstanding on the last day of such fiscal quarter shall be
(b) This Section 2.6 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.5 or 11.6 to the contrary.
SECTION III
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO CREDIT FACILITIES
(a) VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENTS
The Borrower shall have the right to prepay Loans in whole or in part from time to time upon providing at least three (3) Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent (which notice may be waived by the Administrative Agent) other than in connection with Revolving Loans; provided, however, that each partial prepayment of Loans (other than Swingline Loans) shall be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000,000 (or $500,000 in the case of Revolving Loans) and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof (or the then remaining principal balance of the Revolving Loans or the Tranche B Term Loan, as applicable, if less). Subject to the foregoing terms, amounts prepaid under this Section 3.3(a) shall be applied as the Borrower may elect; provided that if the Borrower shall fail to specify with respect to any voluntary prepayment, such voluntary prepayment shall be applied first to Swingline Loans, then Revolving Loans and then to the Tranche B Term Loan (and applied to the remaining Principal Amortization Payments ratably), in each case first to Base Rate Loans and then to Eurodollar Loans in direct order of Interest Period maturities. All prepayments under this Section 3.3(a) shall be subject to Section 3.12, but otherwise without premium or penalty, and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, shall be accompanied by interest on the principal amount prepaid through the date of prepayment.
(b) MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS
(i) (A) REVOLVING COMMITTED AMOUNT. If at any time, the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans plus LOC Obligations plus Swingline Loans shall exceed the Revolving Committed Amount, the Borrower immediately shall prepay the Revolving Loans and (after all Revolving Loans have been repaid) cash collateralize the LOC Obligations, in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess.
(B) LOC COMMITTED AMOUNT. If at any time, the sum of the aggregate principal amount of LOC Obligations shall exceed the LOC Committed Amount, the Borrower immediately shall cash collateralize the LOC Obligations in an amount sufficient to eliminate such excess.
(ii) EXCESS CASH FLOW. Within 105 days after the end of each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending on or about June 30, 2008), the Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an amount equal to (A) 50% (if the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of such fiscal year is equal to or greater than 4.00 to 1.00), 25% (if the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of such fiscal year is less than 4.00 to 1.00 but equal to or greater than 3.50 to 1.00) or 0% (if the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio as of the end of such fiscal year is less than 3.50 to 1.00) of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year minus (B) the amount of any voluntary prepayments made during such fiscal year of the Tranche B Term Loan or (to the extent accompanied by a permanent reduction in the Revolving Committed Amount) the Revolving Loans (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (vi) below).
(iii) ASSET DISPOSITIONS. Immediately upon the occurrence of any Asset Disposition Prepayment Event, the Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Asset Disposition not applied (or caused to be applied) by the Credit Parties during the related Application Period to make Eligible Reinvestments (in each case, such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (vi) below).
(A) INVOLUNTARY DISPOSITIONS. Immediately upon the occurrence of an Involuntary Disposition Prepayment Event, the Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the Excess Proceeds (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (vi) below).
(iv) DEBT ISSUANCES. Immediately upon the occurrence of a Debt Issuance Prepayment Event, the Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds of the related Debt Issuance (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (vi) below).
(v) [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED].
(vi) APPLICATION OF MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS. All amounts required to be paid pursuant to this Section 3.3(b) shall be applied as follows: (A) with respect to all amounts prepaid pursuant to Section 3.3(b)(i)(A), to Revolving Loans and (after all Revolving Loans have been repaid) to a cash collateral account in respect of LOC Obligations, (B) with respect to all amounts prepaid pursuant to Section 3.3(b)(i)(B), to a cash collateral account in respect of LOC Obligations, (C) with respect to all amounts prepaid pursuant to Section 3.3(b)(ii), as the Borrower may elect, and (D) with respect to all amounts prepaid pursuant to Sections 3.3(b)(iii) and 3.3(b)(iv), FIRST, to the Tranche B Term Loans (with such prepayment being applied ratably to the remaining Principal Amortization Payments thereof) and SECOND, to the Revolving Loans and (after all Revolving Loans have been repaid) to a cash collateral account in respect of LOC Obligations (without any reduction in the Revolving Committed Amount). Within the parameters of the applications set forth above, prepayments shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans and then to Eurodollar Loans in direct order of Interest Period maturities. All prepayments under this Section 3.3(b) shall be subject to Section 3.12, but otherwise without premium or penalty, and shall, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, be accompanied by interest on the principal amount prepaid through the date of prepayment.
(vii) PREPAYMENT ACCOUNT. If the Borrower is required to make a mandatory prepayment of Eurodollar Loans under this Section 3.3(b), the Borrower shall have the right, in lieu of making such prepayment in full, to deposit an amount equal to such mandatory prepayment with the Administrative Agent in a cash collateral account maintained (pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) by and in the sole dominion and control of the Administrative Agent. Any amounts so deposited shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the prepayment of such Eurodollar Loans and shall be applied to the prepayment of the applicable Eurodollar Loans at the end of the current Interest Periods applicable thereto
or, subject to the terms of Section 3.12, as earlier requested in writing by the Borrower. At the request of the Borrower, amounts so deposited shall be invested by the Administrative Agent in Cash Equivalents maturing prior to the date or dates on which it is anticipated that such amounts will be applied to prepay such Eurodollar Loans; any interest earned on such Cash Equivalents will be for the account of the Borrower and the Borrower will deposit with the Administrative Agent the amount of any loss on any such Cash Equivalents to the extent necessary in order that the amount of the prepayment to be made with the deposited amounts may not be reduced.
(viii) NOTICE OF MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS. The Borrower agrees to use reasonable efforts to notify the Administrative Agent of any mandatory prepayments of the Loans required to be made pursuant to this Section 3.3(b).
(a) VOLUNTARY REDUCTIONS. The Borrower may from time to time permanently reduce or terminate the Revolving Committed Amount in whole or in part (in minimum aggregate amounts of $2,500,000 or in integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof (or, if less, the full remaining amount of the then applicable Revolving Committed Amount)) upon five Business Days’ prior written notice to the Administrative Agent; provided, however, no such termination or reduction shall be made which would cause the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans plus LOC Obligations plus Swingline Loans to exceed the Revolving Committed Amount, unless, concurrently with such termination or reduction, the Revolving Loans are repaid to the extent necessary to eliminate such excess. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each affected Lender of receipt by the Administrative Agent of any notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 3.4(a).
(b) TERM LOAN COMMITMENTS. The Tranche B Term Loan Commitment of each Lender, if any, shall automatically terminate at such time as such Lender shall have made available to the Borrower such Lender’s share of the Tranche B Term Loan.
(c) MANDATORY REDUCTIONS. The Revolving Committed Amount and the Swingline Committed Amount automatically shall be permanently reduced from time to time in accordance with the terms of Section 3.3(b)(vi).
(d) MATURITY DATE. Unless terminated sooner pursuant to Section 3.4(a) or Section 9.2, the Revolving Commitments of the Lenders and the LOC Commitment of the Issuing Lender shall automatically terminate on the Maturity Date.
(e) GENERAL. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders (except to the extent that any Lender was a Defaulting Lender during the applicable period in which such fee accrued) in accordance with the terms of Section 3.5(a), on the date of each termination or reduction of the Revolving Committed Amount, the Unused Fee accrued through the date of such termination or reduction on the amount of the Revolving Committed Amount so terminated or reduced.
(a) UNUSED FEE. In consideration of the Revolving Commitments of the Lenders hereunder, the Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender (except to the extent that any Lender was a Defaulting Lender during the applicable period in which such fee accrued) a fee (the “UNUSED FEE”) on the Unused Revolving Committed Amount computed at a per annum rate for each day during the applicable Unused Fee Calculation Period (hereinafter defined) at a rate equal to the Applicable Percentage in effect from time to time. The Unused Fee shall commence to accrue on the Closing Date and shall be due and payable in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December (and on any date that the Revolving Committed Amount is reduced pursuant to Section 3.4(a) and on the Maturity Date) for the immediately preceding quarter (or portion thereof) (each such quarter or portion thereof for which the Unused Fee is payable hereunder being herein referred to as an “UNUSED FEE CALCULATION PERIOD”), beginning with the first of such dates to occur after the Closing Date.
(b) LETTER OF CREDIT FEES
(i) STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT ISSUANCE FEE. In consideration of the issuance of standby Letters of Credit hereunder, the Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender (except to the extent that any Lender was a Defaulting Lender during the applicable period in which such fee accrued) a fee (the “STANDBY LETTER OF CREDIT FEE”) on such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the average daily maximum amount available to be drawn under each such standby Letter of Credit computed at a per annum rate for each day from the date of issuance to the date of expiration equal to the Applicable Percentage. The Standby Letter of Credit Fee will be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December for the immediately preceding quarter (or a portion thereof) and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Commitments.
(ii) TRADE LETTER OF CREDIT DRAWING FEE. In consideration of the issuance of trade Letters of Credit hereunder, the Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender (except to the extent that any Lender was a Defaulting Lender during the applicable period in which such fee accrued) a fee (the “TRADE LETTER OF CREDIT FEE”) on such Lender’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the average daily maximum amount available to be drawn under each such trade Letter of Credit computed at a per annum rate for each day from the date of issuance to the date of expiration equal to 1.25%. The Trade Letter of Credit Fee will be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December for the immediately preceding quarter (or a portion thereof) and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Commitments.
(iii) ISSUING LENDER FEES. In addition to the Standby Letter of Credit Fee payable pursuant to clause (i) above and the Trade Letter of Credit Fee payable pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender without sharing by the other Lenders (i) a letter of credit fronting fee of 0.125% on the average daily maximum
amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit computed at a per annum rate for each day from the date of issuance to the date of expiration (which fronting fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December for the immediately preceding quarter (or a portion thereof)) and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Commitments and (ii) the customary charges from time to time of the Issuing Lender with respect to the issuance, amendment, transfer, administration, cancellation and conversion of, and drawings under, such Letters of Credit.
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT’S FEES. The Borrower hereby (i) absolutely accepts and assumes all of the duties, obligations and liabilities of the Sponsor in, to and under the Administrative Agent’s Fee Letter to the same extent as if the Borrower had executed the Administrative Agent’s Fee Letter and (ii) promises to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account and for the account of JPMorgan Securities Inc., as applicable, the fees referred to in the Administrative Agent’s Fee Letter.
3.6. CAPITAL ADEQUACY.
(a) If any Lender has determined, after the date hereof, that the adoption or the becoming effective of, or any change in, or any change by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof in the interpretation or administration of, any applicable law, rule or regulation regarding capital adequacy, or compliance by such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any such authority, central bank or comparable agency, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or assets as a consequence of its commitments or obligations hereunder to a level below that which such Lender could have achieved but for such adoption, effectiveness, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then, upon notice from such Lender through the Administrative Agent to the Borrower setting forth in reasonable detail the charge and the calculation of such reduced rate of return to the Borrower, the Borrower shall be obligated to pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction to the extent that such Lender reasonably determines that such additional amount is allocable to the existence of such Lender’s commitments or obligations hereunder. Each determination by any such Lender of amounts owing under this Section shall, absent demonstrable error, be conclusive and binding on the parties hereto.
(b) The Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 3.6 for any additional amounts incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the change of law giving rise to such additional amounts and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided that, if the change of law giving rise to such additional amounts is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive) that by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period; or
(b) the Required Lenders determine (which determination shall be conclusive) and notify the Administrative Agent that the Eurodollar Rate will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of funding Eurodollar Loans for such Interest Period;
(a) If, after the date hereof, the adoption of any applicable law, rule, or regulation, or any change in any applicable law, rule, or regulation, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank, or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, central bank, or comparable agency:
(i) shall subject such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) to any tax, duty, or other charge with respect to any Eurodollar Loans or its obligation to make Eurodollar Loans, or change the basis of taxation of any amounts payable to such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) under this Credit Agreement in respect of any Eurodollar Loans (other than Taxes and taxes imposed on the overall net income of such Lender by the jurisdiction in which such Lender has its principal office or such Applicable Lending Office);
(ii) shall impose, modify, or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, assessment, or similar requirement (other than the Eurodollar Reserve Requirement utilized in the determination of the Adjusted Eurodollar Rate) relating to any extensions of credit or other assets of, or any deposits with or other liabilities or commitments of, such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office), including the Commitment of such Lender hereunder; or
(iii) shall impose on such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) or the London interbank market any other condition affecting this Credit Agreement or any of such extensions of credit or liabilities or commitments;
(b) The Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 3.9 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the change of law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided that, if the change of law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
3.10. TREATMENT OF AFFECTED LOANS.
(a) to the extent that such Lender’s Eurodollar Loans have been so Converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurodollar Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and
(b) all Loans that would otherwise be made or Continued by such Lender as Eurodollar Loans shall be made or Continued instead as Base Rate Loans, and all Base Rate Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be Converted into Eurodollar Loans shall remain as Base Rate Loans.
(a) Except as otherwise provided herein, any and all payments by any Credit Party to or for the account of any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder or under any other Credit Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect thereto, EXCLUDING, in the case of each Lender and the Administrative Agent, taxes imposed on it as a result of a present or former connection between the Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (other than any such connection arising solely from the Administrative Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document) (all such non-excluded taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings, and liabilities being hereinafter referred to as “TAXES”). If any Credit Party shall be required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document to any Lender or the Administrative Agent, (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions of Taxes (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.11) such Lender or the Administrative Agent receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Credit Party shall make such deductions, (iii) such Credit Party shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable law, and (iv) such
Credit Party shall furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in Section 11.1, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no additional sums shall be payable pursuant to this Section 3.11(a) with respect to Taxes (A) that are attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with Section 3.11(d), or (B) that are United States withholding taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time the Lender becomes a party to this Credit Agreement or (C) unless imposed as a result of a change in treaty, law or regulation.
(b) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes and any other excise or property taxes or charges or similar levies which arise from any payment made under this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document or from the execution or delivery of, or otherwise with respect to, this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document (hereinafter referred to as “OTHER TAXES”).
(c) The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender and the Administrative Agent for the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes (including, without limitation, any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 3.11) paid by such Lender or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) and any liability (including penalties, interest, and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto.
(d) Each Lender that is not a United States person under Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, on or prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this Credit Agreement in the case of each Lender listed on the signature pages hereof and on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Lender in the case of each other Lender, and from time to time thereafter if requested in writing by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (but only so long as such Lender remains lawfully able to do so), shall provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with (i) Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 BEN or W-8 ECI, as appropriate, or any successor form prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender is entitled to benefits under an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party which reduces to zero the rate of withholding tax on payments of interest or certifying that the income receivable pursuant to this Credit Agreement is effectively connected with the conduct of a trade or business in the United States and/or (ii) any other form or certificate required by any taxing authority (including any certificate required by Sections 871(h) and 881(c) of the Code), certifying that such Lender is entitled to an exemption from tax on payments pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents. In addition, each Lender shall deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously delivered by such Lender. Each Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower at any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously delivered form to the Borrower (or any other form adopted by the United States taxing authorities for such purposes). Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, a Lender shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this paragraph that such Lender is not legally able to deliver.
(e) For any period with respect to which a Lender has failed to provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the appropriate form pursuant to Section 3.11(d) (unless such failure is due to a change in treaty, law, or regulation occurring subsequent to the date on which a form originally was required to be provided), such Lender shall not be entitled to indemnification under Section 3.11(a) or 3.11(b) with respect to Taxes imposed by the United
States; provided, however, that should a Lender, which is otherwise exempt from withholding tax, become subject to Taxes because of its failure to deliver a form required hereunder, the Borrower shall take such steps as such Lender shall reasonably request to assist such Lender to recover such Taxes.
(f) If any Credit Party is required to pay additional amounts to or for the account of any Lender pursuant to this Section 3.11, then such Lender will agree to use reasonable efforts to change the jurisdiction of its Applicable Lending Office so as to eliminate or reduce any such additional payment which may thereafter accrue if such change, in the judgment of such Lender, is not otherwise materially disadvantageous to such Lender.
(g) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Credit Parties hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Credit Parties contained in this Section 3.11 shall survive the repayment of the Loans, LOC Obligations and other obligations under the Credit Documents and the termination of the Commitments hereunder.
(h) If the Administrative Agent or any Lender receives a refund with respect to Taxes paid by the Borrower, which in the good faith judgment of such Lender is allocable to such payment, the Administrative Agent or Lender, respectively shall promptly pay such refund, together with any other amounts paid by the Borrower in connection with such refunded Taxes, to the Borrower, net of all out-of-pocket expenses of such Lender incurred in obtaining such refund, provided, however, that the Borrower agrees to promptly return such refund to the Administrative Agent or the applicable Lender, as the case may be, if it receives notice from the Administrative Agent or applicable Lender that such Administrative Agent or Lender is required to repay such refund. This section shall not be construed to require any Lender or the Administrative Agent to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to any Credit Party or any other Person.
(a) any payment, prepayment, or Conversion of a Eurodollar Loan or Quoted Rate Swingline Loan for any reason (other than in connection with any assignment by any Lender pursuant to Section 11.3(b), but including acceleration of the Loans pursuant to Section 9.2) on a date other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan; or
(b) any failure by the Borrower for any reason (including, without limitation, the failure of any condition precedent specified in Section 5 to be satisfied) to borrow, Convert, Continue, or prepay a Eurodollar Loan or Quoted Rate Swingline Loan on the date for such borrowing, Conversion, Continuation, or prepayment specified in the relevant notice of borrowing, prepayment, Continuation, or Conversion under this Credit Agreement.
(a) LOANS. Each Loan, each payment or (subject to the terms of Section 3.3) prepayment of principal of any Loan or reimbursement obligations arising from drawings under Letters of Credit, each payment of interest on the Loans or reimbursement obligations arising from drawings under Letters of Credit, each payment of Unused Fees, each payment of the Standby Letter of Credit Fee, each payment of the Trade Letter of Credit Fee, each reduction of the Revolving Committed Amount and each conversion or extension of any Loan, shall be allocated pro rata among the Lenders in accordance with the respective principal amounts of their outstanding Loans of the applicable type and Participation Interests in Loans of the applicable type and Letters of Credit.
(b) ADVANCES. No Lender shall be responsible for the failure or delay by any other Lender in its obligation to make its ratable share of a borrowing hereunder; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender to fulfill its obligations hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the date of any requested borrowing that such Lender does not intend to make available to the Administrative Agent its ratable share of such borrowing to be made on such date, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such borrowing, and the Administrative Agent in reliance upon such assumption, may (in its sole discretion but without any obligation to do so) make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall be able to recover such corresponding amount from such Lender. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower, and the Borrower shall promptly pay such corresponding amount to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover from the Lender or the Borrower, as the case may be, interest on such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the date such corresponding
amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such corresponding amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent at a per annum rate equal to (i) from the Borrower at the applicable rate for the applicable borrowing pursuant to the Notice of Borrowing and (ii) from a Lender at the Federal Funds Rate.
(a) The Lenders agree among themselves that, in the event that any Lender shall obtain payment in respect of any Loan, LOC Obligations or any other obligation owing to such Lender under this Credit Agreement through the exercise of a right of setoff, banker’s lien or counterclaim, or pursuant to a secured claim under Section 506 of Title 11 of the United States Code or other security or interest arising from, or in lieu of, such secured claim, received by such Lender under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law or otherwise, or by any other means, in excess of its pro rata share of such payment as provided for in this Credit Agreement, such Lender shall promptly purchase from the other Lenders a Participation Interest in such Loans, LOC Obligations and other obligations in such amounts, and make such other adjustments from time to time, as shall be equitable to the end that all Lenders share such payment in accordance with their respective ratable shares as provided for in this Credit Agreement. The Lenders further agree among themselves that if payment to a Lender obtained by such Lender through the exercise of a right of setoff, banker’s lien, counterclaim or other event as aforesaid shall be rescinded or must otherwise be restored, each Lender which shall have shared the benefit of such payment shall, by repurchase of a Participation Interest theretofore sold, return its share of that benefit (together with its share of any accrued interest payable with respect thereto) to each Lender whose payment shall have been rescinded or otherwise restored. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing such a Participation Interest may, to the fullest extent permitted by law and in a manner not inconsistent with this Credit Agreement, exercise all rights of payment, including setoff, banker’s lien or counterclaim, with respect to such Participation Interest as fully as if such Lender were a holder of such Loan, LOC Obligations or other obligation in the amount of such Participation Interest. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Credit Agreement, if any Lender shall fail to remit to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender an amount payable by such Lender to the Administrative Agent or such other Lender pursuant to this Credit Agreement on the date when such amount is due, such payments shall be made together with interest thereon for each date from the date such amount is due until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent or such other Lender at a rate per annum equal to, for the first two days, the Federal Funds Rate, and thereafter, the Adjusted Base Rate. If under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law, any Lender receives a secured claim in lieu of a setoff to which this Section 3.14 applies, such Lender shall, to the extent practicable, exercise its rights in respect of such secured claim in a manner consistent with the rights of the Lenders under this Section 3.14 to share in the benefits of any recovery on such secured claim.
3.15. PAYMENTS, COMPUTATIONS, ETC.
(a) GENERALLY. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all payments hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent in Dollars in immediately available funds, without setoff, deduction, counterclaim or withholding of any kind, at the Administrative Agent’s office specified in Schedule 2.1(a) not later than 2:00 P.M. (New York
City time) on the date when due. Payments received after such time shall be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day. The Borrower shall, at the time it makes any payment under this Credit Agreement, specify to the Administrative Agent the Loans, LOC Obligations, Fees, interest or other amounts payable by the Borrower hereunder to which such payment is to be applied (and in the event that it fails so to specify, or if such application would be inconsistent with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Lenders in such manner as the Administrative Agent may determine to be appropriate in respect of obligations owing by the Borrower hereunder, subject to the terms of Sections 3.3 and 3.13(a)). The Administrative Agent will distribute such payments to such Lenders, if any such payment is received prior to 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on a Business Day in like funds as received prior to the end of such Business Day and otherwise the Administrative Agent will distribute such payment to such Lenders on the next succeeding Business Day. Whenever any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day (subject to accrual of interest and Fees for the period of such extension), except that in the case of Eurodollar Loans, if the extension would cause the payment to be made in the next following calendar month, then such payment shall instead be made on the next preceding Business Day. Except as expressly provided otherwise herein, all computations of interest and fees shall be made on the basis of actual number of days elapsed over a year of 360 days, except with respect to computation of interest on Base Rate Loans which shall be calculated based on a year of 365 or 366 days, as appropriate. Interest shall accrue from and include the date of borrowing, but exclude the date of payment.
(b) ALLOCATION OF PAYMENTS AFTER ACCELERATION. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Credit Agreement to the contrary, after acceleration of the Credit Party Obligations pursuant to Section 9.2(b), all amounts collected or received by the Administrative Agent or any Lender on account of the Credit Party Obligations or in respect of the Collateral shall be applied as set forth in Section 6.5 of the Collateral Agreement.
(a) Each Lender shall maintain an account or accounts evidencing each Loan made by such Lender to the Borrower from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time under this Credit Agreement. Each Lender will make reasonable efforts to maintain the accuracy of its account or accounts and to promptly update its account or accounts from time to time, as necessary.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register pursuant to Section 11.3(b), and a subaccount for each Lender, in which Register and subaccounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the amount, type and Interest Period of each such Loan hereunder, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder from or for the account of any Credit Party and each Lender’s share thereof. The Administrative Agent will make reasonable efforts to maintain the accuracy of the subaccounts referred to in the preceding sentence and to promptly update such subaccounts from time to time, as necessary.
(c) The entries made in the accounts, Register and subaccounts maintained pursuant to clause (b) of this Section 3.16 (and, if consistent with the entries of the Administrative Agent, clause (a)) shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of the Credit Parties therein recorded; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain any such account, such Register or such subaccount, as applicable, or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Credit Parties to repay the Credit Party Obligations owing to such Lender.
SECTION IV
GUARANTY
(a) at any time or from time to time, without notice to any Guarantor, the time for any performance of or compliance with any of the Credit Party Obligations shall be extended, or such performance or compliance shall be waived;
(b) any of the acts mentioned in any of the provisions of any of the Credit Documents, any Hedging Agreement between any Consolidated Party and any Lender, or any Affiliate of a Lender, or any other agreement or instrument referred to in the Credit Documents or such Hedging Agreements shall be done or omitted;
(c) the maturity of any of the Credit Party Obligations shall be accelerated, or any of the Credit Party Obligations shall be increased, modified, supplemented or amended in any respect, or any right under any of the Credit Documents, any Hedging Agreement between any Consolidated Party and any Lender, or any Affiliate of a Lender, or any other agreement or instrument referred to in the Credit Documents or such Hedging Agreements shall be waived or released or any other guarantee of any of the Credit Party Obligations or any security therefor shall be released, impaired or exchanged in whole or in part or otherwise dealt with;
(d) any Lien granted to, or in favor of, the Administrative Agent or any Lender or Lenders as security for any of the Credit Party Obligations shall fail to attach or be perfected or shall be released; or
(e) any of the Credit Party Obligations shall be determined to be void or voidable (including, without limitation, for the benefit of any creditor of any Guarantor) or shall be subordinated to the claims of any Person (including, without limitation, any creditor of any Guarantor).
SECTION V
CONDITIONS
(a) EXECUTED CREDIT DOCUMENTS. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of duly executed copies of: (i) this Credit Agreement, (ii) the Collateral Documents (or amendments or confirmation of the Collateral Documents in forms agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) and (iii) all other Credit Documents requested by the Administrative Agent.
(b) CORPORATE DOCUMENTS. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following:
(i) CHARTER DOCUMENTS. Copies of the articles or certificates of incorporation or other charter documents of each Credit Party certified to be true and complete as of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental Authority of the state or other jurisdiction of its incorporation and certified by a secretary or assistant secretary of such Credit Party to be true and correct as of the Closing Date.
(ii) BYLAWS. A copy of the bylaws of each Credit Party certified by a secretary or assistant secretary of such Credit Party to be true and correct as of the Closing Date.
(iii) RESOLUTIONS. Copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of each Credit Party approving and adopting the Credit Documents to which it is a party, the transactions contemplated therein and authorizing execution and delivery thereof, certified by a secretary or assistant secretary of such Credit Party to be true and correct and in force and effect as of the Closing Date.
(iv) GOOD STANDING. Copies of (A) certificates of good standing, existence or its equivalent with respect to each Credit Party certified as of a recent date by the appropriate Governmental Authorities of the state or other jurisdiction of incorporation and each other jurisdiction in which the failure to so qualify and be in good standing could have a Material Adverse Effect and (B) to the extent available, a certificate indicating payment of all corporate or comparable franchise taxes certified as of a recent date by the appropriate governmental taxing authorities.
(v) INCUMBENCY. An incumbency certificate of each Credit Party certified by a secretary or assistant secretary to be true and correct as of the Closing Date.
(c) OPINION OF COUNSEL. The Administrative Agent shall have received, in each case dated as of the Closing Date and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent legal opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, counsel for the Credit Parties.
(d) PERSONAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL. The Administrative Agent shall have received:
(i) searches of Uniform Commercial Code filings in each jurisdiction where a filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing statements on file in such jurisdictions and evidence that no Liens on the Collateral exist other than Permitted Liens;
(ii) all certificates evidencing any certificated Capital Stock pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, together with duly executed in blank, undated stock powers attached thereto (unless, with respect to the pledged Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary, such stock powers are deemed unnecessary by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion under the law of the
jurisdiction of incorporation of such Person), in each case to the extent not previously delivered pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement; and
(iii) all instruments and chattel paper having a value in excess of $100,000 in the possession of any of the Credit Parties, together with allonges or assignments as may be necessary or appropriate to perfect the Administrative Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, in each case to the extent not previously delivered pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement.
(e) REAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL.
(i) executed amendments in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to the mortgages, deeds of trust or deeds to secure debt (each, as the same may be amended, modified, restated or supplemented from time to time, a “MORTGAGE INSTRUMENT” and collectively the “MORTGAGE INSTRUMENTS”) delivered pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement;
(f) EVIDENCE OF INSURANCE. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of copies of insurance policies or certificates of insurance of the Consolidated Parties evidencing liability and casualty insurance meeting the requirements set forth in this Credit Agreement, including, but not limited to, naming the Administrative Agent as additional insured (in the case of liability insurance) or loss payee (in the case of hazard insurance) on behalf of the Lenders to the extent not previously delivered under the Existing Credit Agreement.
(g) CONSENT. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of evidence that all material governmental, shareholder and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the Transaction have been obtained.
(h) SOLVENCY. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of a certificate executed by the chief financial officer of the Parent as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, regarding the Solvency of the Credit Parties on a consolidated basis.
(i) OFFICER’S CERTIFICATES. The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate or certificates executed by an Executive Officer of the Borrower as of the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, stating
that immediately after giving effect to the Transaction, (1) no Default or Event of Default exists and (2) all representations and warranties contained herein, in the other Credit Documents are true and correct in all material respects.
(j) FEES AND EXPENSES. Payment by the Credit Parties to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent of all fees and expenses relating to the Credit Facilities which are due and payable on the Closing Date, including, without limitation, payment to the Administrative Agent of the fees set forth in the Administrative Agent’s Fee Letter.
(k) PRO FORMA BALANCE SHEET; FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. The Lenders shall have received an unaudited pro forma consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower as of December 23, 2006, after giving effect to the Transactions and the consummation of the other transactions contemplated hereby.
(l) REALLOCATION AND ASSIGNMENTS.
(i) The Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent interest, letter of credit commissions and unused fees which are unpaid and accrued to the Closing Date under the Existing Credit Agreement.
(ii) The Lenders shall have made such payments and assignments among themselves and to the lenders under the Existing Credit Agreement, as directed by the Administrative Agent, so that the Commitments, Loans and Letters of Credit outstanding on the Closing Date are held by the Lenders in accordance with this Credit Agreement. Commitments, Loans and Letters of Credit (each as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) made or issued under the Existing Credit Agreement and outstanding on the Closing Date shall be continued outstanding hereunder as Commitments, Loans and Letters of Credit hereunder as provided in Section 2.7 and 2.2(a). Pursuant to the foregoing, funding for any Lender on the Closing Date may be made on a net basis as directed by the Administrative Agent.
(a) The Borrower shall have delivered (i) in the case of any Revolving Loan or any portion of the Tranche B Term Loan, an appropriate Notice of Borrowing or (ii) in the case of any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall have received an appropriate request for issuance in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.2(b);
(b) (i) The representations and warranties set forth in Section 6 shall, subject to the limitations set forth therein, be true and correct in all material respects as of such date (except for those which expressly relate to an earlier date in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date) and (ii) no
Default or Event of Default shall exist and be continuing either prior to or after giving effect thereto;
(c) In the case of a request for a Revolving Loan or a Letter of Credit, immediately after giving effect to the making of such Loan (and the application of the proceeds thereof) or to the issuance of such Letter of Credit, as the case may be, (i) the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans plus LOC Obligations plus Swingline Loans shall not exceed the Revolving Committed Amount, and (ii) the LOC Obligations shall not exceed the LOC Committed Amount.
SECTION VI
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
(a) The audited consolidated balance sheets and income statements of the Consolidated Parties for the fiscal years ended on or about June 24, 2006, June 30, 2005 and June 30, 2004 (including the notes thereto) (i) have been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, (ii) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby and (iii) present fairly (on the basis disclosed in the footnotes to such financial statements) in all material respects the consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Consolidated Parties as of such date and for such periods. The unaudited interim balance sheets of the Consolidated Parties as at the end of, and the related unaudited interim income statements for the fiscal quarter ended in, December 2006 (copies of which previously have been delivered to the Administrative Agent) (i) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby (except for the absence of footnotes and subject to year-end audit adjustments) and (ii) present fairly (on the basis disclosed in the footnotes to such financial statements) in all material respects the consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Consolidated Parties as of such date and for such periods.
(b) The pro forma consolidated balance sheet as of December 23, 2006 and the pro forma income statement of the Consolidated Parties for the six month period ending December 23, 2006 giving effect to the Transaction are based upon reasonable assumptions made known to the Lenders and upon information not known to be incorrect or misleading in any material respect.
(c) To the extent delivered, the financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(a) and (b) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (except as may otherwise
be permitted under Section 7.1(a) and (b)) and present fairly (on the basis disclosed in the footnotes to such financial statements) in all material respects the consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Consolidated Parties as of such date and for such periods (except for, in the case of the financial statements described in Section 7.1(b), the absence of footnotes and subject to year-end audit adjustments).
(a) During the five-year period prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made: (i) no ERISA Event has occurred, and, to the knowledge of the Executive Officers of the Credit Parties, no event or condition has occurred or exists as a result of which any ERISA Event could reasonably be expected to occur, with respect to any Plan; (ii) no “accumulated funding deficiency,” as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, whether or not waived, has occurred with respect to any Plan; (iii) each Plan has been maintained, operated, and funded in compliance with its own terms and in material compliance with the provisions of ERISA, the Code, and any other applicable Federal or state laws; and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen or is reasonably likely to arise on account of any Plan (other than a Permitted Lien).
(b) The actuarial present value of all “benefit liabilities” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA), whether or not vested, under each Single Employer Plan, as of the last annual valuation date prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made (determined, in each case, in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement
87, utilizing the actuarial assumptions used in such Plan’s most recent actuarial valuation report), did not exceed as of such valuation date the fair market value of the assets of such Plan by such amount as could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Neither any Consolidated Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has received any notification that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA), is insolvent (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA), or has been terminated (within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA), and no Multiemployer Plan is, to the knowledge of the Executive Officers of the Credit Parties, reasonably expected to be in reorganization, insolvent, or terminated.
(d) No prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) or breach of fiduciary responsibility has occurred with respect to a Plan which has subjected or may subject any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate to any liability under Sections 406, 409, 502(i), or 502(l) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or under any agreement or other instrument pursuant to which any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate has agreed or is required to indemnify any Person against any such liability.
(e) Neither any Consolidated Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has any material liability with respect to “expected post-retirement benefit obligations” within the meaning of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement 106. Each Plan which is a welfare plan (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA) to which Sections 601-609 of ERISA and Section 4980B of the Code apply has been administered in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of such sections.
(f) Neither the execution and delivery of this Credit Agreement nor the consummation of the financing transactions contemplated hereunder will involve any transaction which is subject to the prohibitions of Sections 404, 406 or 407 of ERISA or in connection with which a tax could be imposed pursuant to Section 4975 of the Code. The representation by the Credit Parties in the preceding sentence is made in reliance upon and subject to the accuracy of the Lenders’ representation in Section 11.15 with respect to their source of funds.
6.13. CORPORATE STRUCTURE; CAPITAL STOCK, ETC.
6.14. GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS, ETC.
(a) None of the transactions contemplated by this Credit Agreement (including, without limitation, the direct or indirect use of the proceeds of the Loans) will violate or result in a violation of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act or any of Regulations U and X. If requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a statement, in conformity with the requirements of FR Form U-1 referred to in Regulation U, that no part of the Letters of Credit or proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of “buying” or “carrying” any “margin stock” within the meaning of Regulations U and X, or for the purpose of purchasing or carrying or trading in any securities.
(b) None of the Consolidated Parties is (i) required to be registered as an “investment company”, or a company “controlled” by “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended or (ii) subject to regulation under any other Federal or state statute or regulation which limits its ability to incur Indebtedness.
(a) Each of the Real Properties and all operations at the Real Properties are in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws, there is no violation of any Environmental Law with respect to the Real Properties or the Businesses, and there are no conditions relating to the Real Properties or the Businesses that could give rise to liability under any applicable Environmental Laws.
(b) None of the Real Properties contains, or has previously contained, any Materials of Environmental Concern at, on or under the Real Properties in amounts or concentrations that constitute or constituted a violation of, or could give rise to liability under, Environmental Laws.
(c) No Consolidated Party has received any written or verbal notice of, or inquiry from any Governmental Authority regarding, any violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or potential liability regarding environmental matters or compliance with Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Real Properties or the Businesses, nor does any Executive Officer of any Credit Party have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice will be received or is being threatened.
(d) Materials of Environmental Concern have not been transported or disposed of from the Real Properties, or generated, treated, stored or disposed of at, on or under any of the Real Properties or any other location, in each case by or on behalf of any Consolidated Party in violation of, or in a manner that could give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law.
(e) No judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Executive Officers of the Credit Parties, threatened, under any Environmental Law to which any Consolidated Party is or will be named as a party, nor are there any consent decrees or other decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders, or other administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental Law with respect to the Consolidated Parties, the Real Properties or the Businesses.
(f) There has been no release, or threat of release, of Materials of Environmental Concern at or from the Real Properties, or arising from or related to the operations (including, without limitation, disposal) of any Consolidated Party in connection with the Real Properties or otherwise in connection with the Businesses, in violation of or in amounts or in a manner that could reasonably be expected to give rise to liability under Environmental Laws.
SECTION VII
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
(a) ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. As soon as available, and in any event within 105 days after the close of each fiscal year of the Consolidated Parties, a consolidated balance sheet of the Consolidated Parties as of the end of such fiscal year, together with related consolidated statements of income and cash flows for such fiscal year, in each case setting forth in comparative form consolidated figures for the preceding fiscal year, all such financial information described above to be in reasonable form and detail and audited by Deloitte and Touche LLP (or by any of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Ernst and Young or KPMG Peat Marwick) or any other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and whose opinion shall be to the effect that such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP (except for changes with which such accountants concur) and shall not be limited as to the scope of the audit or qualified as to the status of the Consolidated Parties as a going concern or any other material qualification or exception.
(b) QUARTERLY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. As soon as available, and in any event within 45 days (105 days in the case of the last fiscal quarter) after the close of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Consolidated Parties, a consolidated balance sheet of the Consolidated Parties as of the end of such fiscal quarter, together with related consolidated statements of income and cash flows for such fiscal quarter, in each case setting forth in comparative form consolidated figures for the corresponding period of the preceding fiscal year, all such financial information described above to be in reasonable form and detail and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, and accompanied by a certificate of an Executive Officer of the Borrower to the effect that such quarterly financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Consolidated Parties and have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, subject to changes resulting from audit and normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes.
(c) OFFICER’S CERTIFICATE. At the time of delivery of the financial statements provided for in Sections 7.1(a) and 7.1(b) above, a certificate of an Executive Officer of the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit 7.1(c), (i) to the extent the covenant in
Section 7.10 is applicable, providing a detailed calculation of Consolidated EBITDA (with a break-out of each of the components of the definition thereof set forth in Section 1.1) for the applicable fiscal period, (ii) to the extent the covenant in Section 7.10 is applicable, demonstrating the Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio and (iii) stating that no Default or Event of Default exists as of the end of the applicable fiscal period, or if any Default or Event of Default does exist, specifying the nature and extent thereof and what action the Credit Parties propose to take with respect thereto.
(d) ANNUAL BUSINESS PLAN AND BUDGETS. Within 45 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower an annual business plan and budget of the Consolidated Parties containing, among other things, projected financial statements for the next fiscal year.
(e) COMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT. Within 105 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Credit Parties, a certificate (i) providing a detailed calculation of Excess Cash Flow (with a break-out of each of the components of the definition thereof set forth in Section 1.1) and (ii) containing information regarding the amount of all Asset Dispositions, Debt Issuances and Equity Issuances that were made during the prior fiscal year.
(f) ACCOUNTANT’S CERTIFICATE. Within the period for delivery of the annual financial statements provided in Section 7.1(a), a certificate of the accountants conducting the annual audit stating that they have reviewed this Credit Agreement as it relates to accounting matters and stating further whether, in the course of their audit, they have become aware of any Default or Event of Default with respect to such accounting matters and, if any such Default or Event of Default exists, specifying the nature and extent thereof, provided that such accountants shall not incur any liability to the Lenders by reason of any failure to obtain knowledge of any such Default or Event of Default that would not be disclosed in the course of their audit examination.
(g) REPORTS. Promptly upon transmission or receipt thereof, (i) copies of any filings and registrations with, and reports to or from, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any successor agency, and copies of all financial statements, proxy statements, notices and reports as any Consolidated Party shall send to its shareholders generally or to a holder of any Indebtedness owed by any Consolidated Party in its capacity as such a holder and (ii) upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, all written reports and written information to and from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, or any state or local agency responsible for environmental matters, the United States Occupational Health and Safety Administration, or any state or local agency responsible for health and safety matters, or any successor agencies or authorities concerning environmental, health or safety matters.
(h) NOTICES. Upon any Executive Officer of a Credit Party obtaining knowledge thereof, the Credit Parties will give written notice to the Administrative Agent immediately of (i) the occurrence of an event or condition consisting of a Default or Event of Default, specifying the nature and existence thereof and what action the Credit Parties propose to take with respect thereto, and (ii) the occurrence of any of the following with respect to any Consolidated Party (A) the pendency or commencement of any litigation, arbitral or governmental proceeding against such Person which is reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect, (B) the institution of any proceedings against such Person with respect to, or the receipt of notice by such Person of potential liability or responsibility for violation, or alleged violation of any Federal, state or local law, rule or regulation, including but not limited to, Environmental Laws, where such liability or the violation of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (C) the receipt by any Consolidated Party of notice from any regulatory agency or authority having jurisdiction in the matter regarding a material investigation of any of such Person under PACA.
(i) ERISA. Upon any Executive Officer of a Credit Party obtaining knowledge thereof, the Credit Parties will give written notice to the Administrative Agent promptly (and in any event within thirty Business Days) of any of the following which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) any event or condition, including, but not limited to, any Reportable Event, that constitutes, or might reasonably lead to, an ERISA Event; (ii) with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the receipt of notice as prescribed in ERISA or otherwise of any withdrawal liability assessed against the Credit Parties or any ERISA Affiliates, or of a determination that any Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or insolvent (both within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA); (iii) the failure to make full payment on or before the due date (including extensions) thereof of all amounts which any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate is required to contribute to each Plan pursuant to its terms and as required to meet the minimum funding standard set forth in ERISA and the Code with respect thereto; or (iv) any change in the funding status of any Plan as of the end of the applicable Plan year that could have a Material Adverse Effect, together with a description of any such event or condition or a copy of any such notice and a statement by an Executive Officer of the Borrower briefly setting forth the details regarding such event, condition, or notice, and the action, if any, which has been or is being taken or is proposed to be taken by the Credit Parties with respect thereto. Promptly upon request, the Credit Parties shall furnish the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with such additional information concerning any Plan as may be reasonably requested, including, but not limited to, copies of each annual report/return (Form 5500 series), as well as all schedules and attachments thereto required to be filed with the Department of Labor and/or the Internal Revenue Service pursuant to ERISA and the Code, respectively, for each “plan year” (within the meaning of Section 3(39) of ERISA).
(j) ENVIRONMENTAL. Upon the reasonable written request of the Administrative Agent following the occurrence of any event or the discovery of any condition which the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders reasonably believe(s) has caused (or could cause) the representations and warranties set forth in Section 6.16 to be untrue, the Credit Parties will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Administrative Agent, at the Credit Parties’ expense, a report of an environmental assessment of reasonable scope, form and depth, (including, where appropriate, invasive soil or groundwater sampling) by a consultant reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent as to the subject matter of such possible breach. If the Credit Parties fail to deliver such an environmental report within seventy-five (75) days after receipt of such written request then the Administrative Agent may arrange for same, and the Consolidated Parties hereby grant to the Administrative Agent and their representatives reasonable access to the Real Properties to reasonably undertake such an assessment (including, where appropriate, invasive soil or groundwater sampling). The reasonable cost of any assessment requested by the Administrative Agent pursuant to this provision will be payable by the Credit Parties on demand and added to the obligations secured by the Collateral Documents.
(k) ADDITIONAL PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS. At the time of delivery of the financial statements and reports provided for in Section 7.1(a), a report signed by an Executive Officer of the Borrower setting forth (i) a list of registration numbers for all federally registered Intellectual Property awarded to any Credit Party since the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year and (ii) a list of all applications for federal registration of the Intellectual Property submitted by any Credit Party to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or the U.S. Copyright Office since the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year and the status of each such application, all in such form as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(l) OTHER INFORMATION. With reasonable promptness upon any such request, such other information regarding the business, properties or financial condition of any Consolidated Party as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may reasonably request.
(a) Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, at all times maintain in full force and effect insurance (including worker’s compensation insurance, liability insurance, casualty insurance and business interruption insurance) in such amounts, covering such risks and liabilities and with such deductibles or self-insurance retentions as are in accordance with customary industry practice. The Administrative Agent shall be named as loss payee or mortgagee, as its interest may appear, and/or additional insured with respect to any such insurance providing coverage in respect of any Collateral, and each provider of any such insurance shall agree, by endorsement upon the policy or policies issued by it or by independent instruments furnished to the Administrative Agent, that it will give the Administrative Agent thirty (30) days prior written notice before any such policy or policies shall be amended or cancelled. The insurance coverage of the Consolidated Parties as of the Closing Date is outlined as to carrier, policy number, expiration date, type and amount on Schedule 7.6.
(b) In the event that the Consolidated Parties receive Net Cash Proceeds from property damage or casualty insurance in excess of $1,000,000 in aggregate amount during any fiscal year of the Consolidated Parties (“EXCESS PROCEEDS”) on account of Involuntary Dispositions, the Credit Parties shall, within the period of 540 days following the date of receipt of such Excess Proceeds, either (i) prepay the Loans (and cash collateralize the LOC Obligations) in accordance with the terms of Section 3.3(b)(iii)(B) or (ii) apply (or cause to be applied) an amount equal to such Excess Proceeds to make Eligible Reinvestments (including but not limited to the repair or replacement of the related Property); provided, however, that such Consolidated Party need not repair or replace the Property of such Consolidated Party so lost, damaged or destroyed to the extent the failure to make such repair or replacement (i) is desirable to the proper conduct of the business of such Consolidated Party and otherwise in the best
interest of such Consolidated Party; and (ii) would not materially impair the rights and benefits of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders under the Collateral Documents or any other Credit Document. All property damage or casualty insurance proceeds shall be subject to the security interest of the Administrative Agent (for the ratable benefit of the Lenders) under the Collateral Documents. Pending final application of any Excess Proceeds, the Credit Parties may apply such Excess Proceeds to temporarily reduce the Revolving Loans or to make Permitted Investments.
CONSOLIDATED NET SENIOR SECURED LEVERAGE RATIO.
When any (i) Revolving Loans, (ii) Swingline Loans or (iii) LOC Obligations (other than LOC Obligations that are cash-collateralized) are outstanding on the last day of any fiscal quarter, then Parent shall not, without the approval of the Required Revolving Lenders, permit the Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, as of the last day of such fiscal quarter, to exceed the applicable ratio set forth below; provided that this covenant will only apply to the Revolving Facility (except as otherwise provided in Section 9.1(c)(ii)):
(A) 100% of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Borrower;
(B) 100% of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of each Domestic Subsidiary owned by the Credit Parties; and
(C) 65% of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of each Material Foreign Subsidiary;
SECTION VIII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
(a) Indebtedness arising under this Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents (including the Incremental Term Loans);
(b) Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries set forth in Schedule 8.1 (and renewals, refinancings and extensions thereof on terms and conditions no less favorable to such Person than such existing Indebtedness);
(c) purchase money Indebtedness (including obligations in respect of Capital Leases, Synthetic Leases and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings) hereafter incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to finance the purchase, repair or improvement of capital assets and real property or assumed or acquired by any of the Consolidated Parties in connection with a Permitted Investment, provided that (i) the total of all such Indebtedness for all such Persons taken together shall not exceed an aggregate principal amount of $20,000,000 at any one time outstanding; (ii) unless non-recourse to the Consolidated Parties, such Indebtedness when incurred shall not exceed the purchase price of the asset(s) financed; and (iii) no such Indebtedness shall be refinanced for a principal amount in excess of the principal balance outstanding thereon at the time of such refinancing;
(d) obligations of any Consolidated Party in respect of Hedging Agreements entered into in order to manage existing or anticipated interest rate, exchange rate or commodity pricing risks and not for speculative purposes;
(e) Guaranty Obligations and intercompany Indebtedness permitted under Section 8.6 and Section 8.7;
(f) Indebtedness consisting of Qualified Preferred Stock, Subordinated Debt and/or Senior Unsecured Debt; provided that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Pro Forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating that, upon giving effect on a Pro Forma Basis to such transaction, the Consolidated Net Leverage Ratio would be less than or equal to the applicable Consolidated Net Leverage Level at such time;
(g) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding for all such Persons taken together not exceeding the greater of (i) the Foreign Borrowing Base as of the date of such incurrence or (ii) $20,000,000;
(h) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation to directors, former directors, employees or former employees of the Consolidated Parties;
(i) Unsecured Indebtedness consisting of promissory notes issued by the Parent or the Borrower to current or former officers, directors and employees, their respective estates, spouses or former spouses to finance the purchase or redemption of Capital Stock of the
Parent or Holdings LLC, provided that the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness incurred in any fiscal year shall not exceed $5,000,000;
(j) Indebtedness evidenced by the GLK Note;
(k) Indebtedness incurred by any Consolidated Party in connection with Permitted Acquisitions or Permitted Asset Dispositions under agreements providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, or from guarantees or letters of credit, surety bonds or performance bonds securing the performance of such Credit Party pursuant to such agreements;
(l) Indebtedness consisting of obligations of any Consolidated Party under incentive, non-compete, consulting, deferred compensation or other similar arrangements incurred by such Person in connection with the Transaction (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) and Permitted Acquisitions;
(m) Indebtedness incurred in connection with the financing of insurance premiums;
(n) Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case in connection with deposit accounts;
(o) [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED];
(p) Qualified Preferred Stock and/or Subordinated Debt so long as the Net Cash Proceeds thereof are concurrently applied to the prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Sections 3.3(b)(iv) and (v);
(q) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, obligations incurred in respect of Liens permitted under Section 8.2(e); and
(r) other Indebtedness in the aggregate principal amount for all Consolidated Parties not to exceed $40,000,000 at any time outstanding.
(a) Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent to secure the Credit Party Obligations;
(b) Liens existing as of the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 8.2; provided that no such Lien shall at any time be extended to or cover any Property other than the Property subject thereto on the Closing Date;
(c) Liens (other than Liens created or imposed under ERISA) for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies not yet delinquent or Liens for taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves determined in accordance with GAAP have been established (and as to which the Property subject to any such Lien is not yet subject to foreclosure, sale or loss on account thereof) or not otherwise required to be paid under Section 7.5;
(d) statutory and contractual Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen and suppliers and other Liens imposed by law or pursuant to customary reservations or retentions of title arising in the ordinary course of business, provided that such Liens (i) secure only amounts not overdue by more than 30 days or (ii) if more than 30 days overdue, are unfiled and no other action has been taken to enforce the same or are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves determined in accordance with GAAP have been established (and as to which the Property subject to any such Lien is not yet subject to foreclosure, sale or loss on account thereof) or not otherwise required to be paid under Section 7.5;
(e) Liens (other than Liens created or imposed under ERISA) incurred or deposits made by any Consolidated Party in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, bids, leases, government contracts, performance, surety, appeal and return-of-money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money);
(f) Liens in connection with attachments or judgments (including judgment or appeal bonds) provided that either (i) the judgments secured shall, within 30 days after the entry thereof, have been discharged or execution thereof stayed pending appeal, or shall have been discharged within 30 days after the expiration of any such stay or (ii) the judgments secured thereby do not constitute an Event of Default under Section 9.1(h);
(g) easements, rights-of-way, covenants, restrictions (including zoning and building code restrictions), minor defects or irregularities in title and other similar charges or encumbrances not, in any material respect, impairing the use of the encumbered Property for its intended purposes;
(h) Liens on Property of any Person securing purchase money Indebtedness (including obligations in respect of Capital Leases, Synthetic Leases and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings) of such Person permitted under Section 8.1(c), provided that any such Lien attaches to such Property concurrently with or within 90 days after the acquisition, repair, replacement or improvement (as applicable) thereof;
(i) leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses granted to others not interfering in any material respect with the business of any Consolidated Party;
(j) any interest or title of a lessor, licensor, sublessor or sublicensor under, and Liens arising from UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings, registrations or
agreements in foreign jurisdictions) relating to, leases or licenses not prohibited by this Credit Agreement;
(k) 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;
(l) Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase agreements permitted under Section 8.6;
(m) normal and customary rights of setoff upon deposits of cash in favor of banks or other depository institutions;
(n) Liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code on items in the course of collection;
(o) Liens arising from operation of the statutory trust under PACA or similar laws, provided that such Liens do not secure past due account payable balances exceeding $10,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding, unless, in respect of any such account payables, (i) appropriate legal or administrative action has been commenced and is being diligently pursued or defended by the applicable Consolidated Party and (ii) the ability of the applicable vendor to enforce any such Lien provided under PACA or similar laws has been stayed or otherwise legally prohibited during the pendency of such action;
(p) Liens on “farm products” (as defined in the Food Security Act) to the extent, in the case of any such Lien, that such Lien (i) was created by the Person (but not a Consolidated Party) which sold such Property to the applicable Consolidated Party and (ii) follows the Property by reason of the provisions of the Food Security Act notwithstanding the transfer of title to such Property to such Consolidated Party;
(q) Liens of sellers of goods to the Borrower and any of its Subsidiaries arising under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code or similar provisions of applicable law in the ordinary course of business, covering only the goods sold and securing only the unpaid purchase price for such goods and related expenses;
(r) Liens on Property of any Foreign Subsidiary securing Indebtedness of such Foreign Subsidiary to the extent permitted under Section 8.1(g);
(s) Liens in favor of sellers of Property attaching solely to cash earnest money deposits in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement in connection with a Permitted Acquisition;
(t) Liens arising from precautionary UCC financing statements regarding consignments;
(u) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof to the extent securing the financing of the premium payment with respect thereto and to the extent such payment is not delinquent;
(v) Liens encumbering customary initial deposits and margin deposits, and similar Liens and margin deposits, and similar Liens attaching to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(w) Liens in favor of financial institutions securing reimbursement obligations in respect of documentary letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances; provided that such Liens attach only to the goods covered thereby and the proceeds thereof;
(x) any interest of title of a purchaser under, and Liens arising from UCC financing statements relating to, any sale of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise thereof;
(y) Liens consisting of an agreement to sell, transfer or dispose of Property pursuant to a Permitted Asset Disposition; and
(z) other Liens not described above, provided that such Liens do not secure obligations in excess of $40,000,000 at any one time outstanding.
8.4. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, DISSOLUTION, ETC.
(a) Investments consisting of cash and Cash Equivalents;
(b) Investments consisting of accounts receivable created, acquired or made by any Consolidated Party in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms;
(c) Investments consisting of Capital Stock, obligations, securities or other property received by any Consolidated Party (i) in settlement of accounts receivable (created in the ordinary course of business) from bankrupt or insolvent obligors or disputes with customers and (ii) as partial consideration for a Permitted Asset Disposition;
(d) Investments existing as of the Closing Date and set forth in Schedule 8.6;
(e) Investments consisting of advances or loans to directors, officers, employees, agents, customers or suppliers that do not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding;
(f) Investments in any Credit Party (other than the Parent) and Investments by Consolidated Parties which are not Credit Parties in other Consolidated Parties;
(g) to the extent not required at such time to prepay the Loans pursuant to Section 3.3(b), any Eligible Reinvestment of the Net Cash Proceeds of (i) any Involuntary Disposition as contemplated by Section 7.6(b), (ii) any Asset Disposition as contemplated by Section 8.5(f) or (iii) any Equity Issuance;
(h) Investments consisting of an Acquisition by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, provided that (i) the Property acquired (or the Property of the Person acquired) in such Acquisition is used or useful in the same or a similar line of business as the Borrower and its Subsidiaries were engaged in on the Closing Date (and any reasonable extensions or expansions thereof or businesses ancillary or complementary thereto), (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received all items in respect of the Capital Stock or Property acquired in such Acquisition required to be delivered by the terms of Section 7.11 and/or Section 7.12, (iii) in the case of an Acquisition of the Capital Stock of another Person, the board of directors (or other comparable governing body) of such other Person shall have duly approved such Acquisition, (iv) if such transaction involves the purchase of an interest in a partnership between the Borrower as a general partner and entities unaffiliated with the Borrower as the other partners, such transaction shall be effected by having such equity interest acquired by a corporate holding company directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Borrower newly formed
for the sole purpose of effecting such transaction, (v) the aggregate consideration (including cash and non-cash consideration and any assumption of Indebtedness but excluding consideration consisting of any Capital Stock of the Parent issued to the seller of the Capital Stock or Property acquired in such Acquisition and the Net Cash Proceeds of any Equity Issuance by the Parent contemporaneously with such Acquisition) for any Acquisition shall not exceed $300,000,000 and (vi) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Pro Forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating that, upon giving effect to such Acquisition on a Pro Forma Basis, the Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio would be less than or equal to the then applicable Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Level;
(i) Investments consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business;
(j) to the extent constituting Investments, (i) Guaranty Obligations permitted by Section 8.1(e), (ii) Permitted Liens and (iii) transactions permitted by Section 8.4;
(k) Investments consisting of customary trade arrangements with customers in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices;
(l) Investments by the Parent consisting of obligations of directors and/or employees of any Consolidated Party in connection with such Person’s purchase of Capital Stock in the Parent or Holdings LLC;
(m) Investments made with the portion of Excess Cash Flow not required to prepay the Loans in accordance with Section 3.3(b)(ii);
(n) to the extent constituting Investments, the licensing or contribution of Intellectual Property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with Persons other than Consolidated Parties;
(o) Investments consisting of advances or loans (i) to the Parent in lieu of, and not exceeding the aggregate amount of, Restricted Payments to the Parent permitted under Section 8.7 and (ii) to Holdings LLC in lieu of, and not exceeding the aggregate amount of, Restricted Payments to Holdings LLC permitted under Section 8.7(j);
(p) other Investments not listed above (including, without limitation, Investments in Foreign Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures) in an aggregate net amount not to exceed $100,000,000 at any one time; provided, however, that, to the extent that any such Investment (or series of related Investments) made pursuant to this clause (p) consists of the contribution(s) or other transfer(s) of Property (other than cash) having an aggregate net book value in excess of $5,000,000 to a Joint Venture for consideration less than the fair market value of such Property, then the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Pro Forma Compliance Certificate demonstrating that, upon giving effect on a Pro Forma Basis to such Investment(s), the Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Ratio would be less than or equal to the Consolidated Net Senior Secured Leverage Level; and
(q) to the extent constituting Investments, the transactions permitted by clauses (j) and (k) of Section 8.9.
8.7. RESTRICTED PAYMENTS
SECTION IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
(a) PAYMENT. Any Credit Party shall
(i) default in the payment when due of any principal of any of the Loans or of any reimbursement obligations arising from drawings under Letters of Credit, or
(ii) default, and such default shall continue for three (3) or more Business Days, in the payment when due of any interest on the Loans or of any interest on reimbursement obligations arising from drawings under Letters of Credit, or of any Fees or other amounts owing hereunder, under any of the other Credit Documents or in connection herewith or therewith; or
(b) REPRESENTATIONS. Any representation, warranty or statement made or deemed to be made by any Credit Party herein, in any of the other Credit Documents, or in any statement or certificate delivered or required to be delivered pursuant hereto or thereto shall prove untrue in any material respect on the date as of which it was deemed to have been made; or
(c) COVENANTS. Any Credit Party shall
(i) default in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or agreement contained in Sections 7.2 (with respect to corporate existence), 7.8, 7.11 or 7.12 or Section 8; or
(ii) default in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or agreement contained in Section 7.10 (it being understood that (a) subject to the following clause (b), Section 7.10 may be enforced only by Required Revolving Lenders or by the Administrative Agent at the request of the Required Revolving Lenders and is subject to Section 9.3 (it being understood and agreed that any Default arising under Section 7.10 may be remedied by the payment in full of Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans and the reduction of the LOC Obligations to $0) and (b) Section 7.10 shall constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Tranche B Term Loans and Incremental Term Loans upon the earlier of (i) the date that is 60 days after the date the compliance certificate demonstrating such default is required to be delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(c) and (ii) the date on which the Lenders under the Revolving Facility exercise their right to accelerate the Loans as a result of such default);
(iii) default in the due performance or observance by it of any term, covenant or agreement (other than those referred to in subsections (a), (b) or (c)(i) or (ii) of this Section 9.1) contained in this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of at least 30 days after notice thereof by the Administrative Agent; or
(d) OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS. Except as a result of or in connection with a dissolution, merger or disposition of a Subsidiary not prohibited by Section 8.4 or Section 8.5, any Credit Document shall fail to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with its terms) or to give the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders the Liens, material rights, powers and privileges purported to be created thereby, or any Credit Party shall so state in writing; or
(e) GUARANTIES. Except as the result of or in connection with a dissolution, merger or disposition of a Subsidiary not prohibited by Section 8.4 or Section 8.5, the guaranty given by any Guarantor hereunder (including any Person after the Closing Date in accordance with Section 7.11) or any provision thereof shall cease to be in full force and effect, or any Guarantor (including any Person after the Closing Date in accordance with Section 7.11) hereunder or any Person acting by or on behalf of such Guarantor shall deny or disaffirm such Guarantor’s obligations under such guaranty, or any Guarantor shall default (beyond any applicable grace period) in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or agreement on its part to be performed or observed pursuant to any guaranty; or
(f) BANKRUPTCY, ETC. Any Bankruptcy Event shall occur with respect to any Consolidated Party other than any non-Material Domestic Subsidiary; or
(g) DEFAULTS UNDER OTHER INDEBTEDNESS. With respect to any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness outstanding under this Credit Agreement) in excess of $10,000,000 in the aggregate principal amount for the Consolidated Parties taken as a whole, (A) either (1) default in any payment shall occur and continue (beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any) with respect to any such Indebtedness (other than as a result of subordination provisions invoked by the Lenders), or (2) a default in the observance or performance relating to such Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event or condition shall occur or exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or permit, the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or trustee or agent on behalf of such holders) to cause, any such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity; or (B) any such Indebtedness shall be declared due and payable, or required to be prepaid other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment, prior to the stated maturity thereof; or
(h) JUDGMENTS. One or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against one or more of the Consolidated Parties other than any non-Material Domestic Subsidiary involving a liability of $10,000,000 or more in the aggregate (to the extent not paid or covered by insurance or indemnity provided by a carrier or indemnitor who has not disclaimed coverage and has the ability to perform) and any such judgments or decrees shall not have been paid, vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or
(i) ERISA. Any of the following events or conditions, if such event or condition could reasonably be expected to result in liability that would have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) any “accumulated funding deficiency,” as such term is defined in Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan, or any lien shall arise on the assets of any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate in favor of the PBGC or a Plan; (ii) an ERISA Event shall occur with respect to a Single Employer Plan, which is, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, likely to result in the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA; (iii) an ERISA Event shall occur with respect to a Multiemployer Plan or Multiple Employer Plan, which is, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, likely to result in (A) the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, or (B) any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate incurring any liability in connection with a withdrawal from, reorganization of (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA), or insolvency (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA) of such Plan; or (iv) any prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) or breach of fiduciary responsibility shall occur which may subject any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate to any liability under Sections 406, 409, 502(i), or 502(l) of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or under any agreement or other instrument pursuant to which any Consolidated Party or any ERISA Affiliate has agreed or is required to indemnify any person against any such liability; or
(j) SUBORDINATED FINANCINGS. (i) There shall occur and be continuing any “Event of Default” (or any comparable term) under, and as defined in, any Junior Financing Documentation, (ii) any of the Credit Party Obligations for any reason shall cease to be “Designated Senior Debt” (or any comparable term) under, and as defined in, any Junior Financing Documentation (other than the GLK Note), (iii) any Indebtedness other than the Credit Party Obligations shall constitute “Designated Senior Debt” (or any comparable term) under, and
as defined in, any Junior Financing Documentation or (iv) the subordination provisions set forth in any Junior Financing Documentation shall, in whole or in part, terminate, cease to be effective or cease to be legally valid, binding and enforceable against any holder of the applicable Subordinated Debt or Qualified Preferred Stock (other than in accordance with their respective terms); or
(k) OWNERSHIP. There shall occur a Change of Control.
(a) TERMINATION OF COMMITMENTS. Declare the Commitments terminated whereupon the Commitments shall be immediately terminated.
(b) ACCELERATION. Declare the Credit Party Obligations to be due and payable, whereupon the same shall be immediately due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Credit Parties.
(c) CASH COLLATERAL. Direct the Borrower to pay (and the Borrower hereby promises to pay, upon receipt of such notice) to the Administrative Agent additional cash, to be held by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, in a cash collateral account as additional security for the LOC Obligations in respect of subsequent drawings under all then outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount equal to the maximum aggregate amount which may be drawn under all Letters of Credits then outstanding.
(d) ENFORCEMENT OF RIGHTS. Enforce any and all rights and interests created and existing under the Credit Documents including, without limitation, all rights and remedies existing under the Collateral Documents, all rights and remedies against a Guarantor and all rights of set-off.
SECTION X
AGENCY PROVISIONS
(a) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as its agent under this Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of this Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 10.5 and the first sentence of Section 10.6 hereof shall include its Affiliates and its own and its Affiliates’ officers, directors, employees, and agents): (i) shall not have any duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this Credit Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for any Lender; (ii) shall not be responsible to the Lenders for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Credit Document or any certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any of them under, any Credit Document, or for the value, validity, effectiveness,
genuineness, enforceability, or sufficiency of any Credit Document, or any other document referred to or provided for therein or for any failure by any Credit Party or any other Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (iii) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the performance or observance of any covenants or agreements by any Credit Party or the satisfaction of any condition or to inspect the Property (including the books and records) of any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates; and (iv) shall not be responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Credit Document, except to the extent that the taking of such action or omission is found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to constitute its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care. The Issuing Lender shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith until such time (and except for so long) as the Administrative Agent may agree at the request of the Required Lenders to act for the Issuing Lender with respect thereto; provided, however, that the Issuing Lender shall have all of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Administrative Agent in this Section 10 with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the Issuing Lender in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the application and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to the Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent” as used in this Section 10 included the Issuing Lender with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to the Issuing Lender.
(a) The provisions of this Credit Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Credit Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnified Parties) 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 Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Credit 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) of:
(A) the Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and
(B) the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Lender, provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender or the Issuing Lender shall be required for an assignment of a Term Loan to an assignee that is a Lender, Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment.
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s and its Affiliates’ or Approved Funds’ Commitment, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 in the case of Revolving Commitments and $1,000,000 in the case of Tranche B Term Loans unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent;
(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement in respect of the applicable class of Commitments or Loans; provided that this subsection shall not be construed to prohibit assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one class of Commitments or Loans;
(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500;
(D) in the case of an assignment by a Lender to a CLO managed by such Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender, unless such assignment shall have been approved by the Borrower (the Borrower agreeing that such an approval, if requested, will not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the assigning Lender shall retain the sole right to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, provided that the Assignment and Acceptance between such Lender and such CLO may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of such CLO, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 11.6(a) that affects such CLO; and
(E) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire in which the assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignee’s compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state securities laws.
(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, 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 Acceptance, be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance 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 3.9, 3.11, 3.12 and 11.5 for matters arising while such person was a Lender). If the assignee is not a United States person under Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, it shall deliver to the Credit Parties and the Administrative Agent certification as to exemption from deduction or withholding of Taxes. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 11.3 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 paragraph (c) of this Section.
(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and LOC Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “REGISTER”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders may 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, the Issuing Lender and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Acceptance executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed administrative questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Acceptance and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(c) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender or the Swingline Lender, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Credit Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Credit Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Consolidated Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender 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 Credit 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 the Credit Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of the Credit Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to
Section 11.6(A) that affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.9, 3.11 and 3.12 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 11.2 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 3.14 as though it were a Lender.
(i) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 3.9, 3.11 and 3.12 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. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.11 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 3.11(d) as though it were a Lender.
(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Credit Agreement (i) to secure obligations of such Lender to a Federal Reserve Bank as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A and any Operating Circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto, (ii) in the case of any Lender which has made Tranche B Term Loans and is an investment fund, to the trustee under the indenture to which such fund is a party in support of its obligations to such trustee for the benefit of the applicable trust beneficiaries and (iii) to appropriate entities within the Farm Credit System, as collateral security.
(e) Any Lender may furnish any information concerning the Consolidated Parties in the possession of such Lender from time to time to assignees and participants (including prospective assignees and participants), subject, however, to the provisions of Section 11.14 hereof.
(a) The Credit Parties jointly and severally agree to pay on demand all reasonable costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent in connection with the syndication, preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, and amendment of this Credit Agreement, the other Credit Documents, and the other documents to be delivered hereunder, including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Administrative Agent with respect thereto and with respect to advising the Administrative Agent as to its rights and responsibilities under the Credit Documents. The Credit Parties further jointly and severally agree to pay on demand all reasonable costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and one counsel to all of the Lenders, if any, in connection with the enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings, or otherwise) of the Credit Documents and the other documents to be delivered hereunder, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability, cost, or expense results from the gross negligence, bad faith, willful misconduct of the Person seeking reimbursement or a breach by such Person of its obligations hereunder.
The Credit Parties jointly and severally agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and each Lender and each of their Affiliates and their respective officers, directors, trustees, employees and agents (each, an “INDEMNIFIED PARTY”) from and against any and all obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits claims, damages, actual losses, liabilities, costs, expenses and disbursements (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees of the Administrative Agent and, except as provided below, one counsel to all of the Lenders and excluding taxes) that may be incurred by or awarded against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out of or in connection with or by reason of (including, without limitation, in connection with any investigation, litigation, or proceeding or preparation of defense in connection therewith) the Credit Documents, any of the transactions contemplated herein or the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Loans, except to the extent such claim, damage, loss, liability, cost, or expense results from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Party (or any of its Affiliates or any their respective officers, directors, trustees, employees or agents) or from a breach by such Indemnified Party (or any of its Affiliates or any their respective officers, directors, trustees, employees or agents) of its obligations hereunder. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 11.5 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any of the Credit Parties, their respective directors, shareholders or creditors or an Indemnified Party or any other Person or any Indemnified Party is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated. No party hereto shall assert any claim against any other party hereto, any of their Affiliates, or any of their respective directors, trustees, officers, employees, attorneys, agents, and advisers, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or otherwise relating to the Credit Documents, any of the transactions contemplated herein or the actual or proposed use of the proceeds of the Loans. The Borrower shall be entitled to assume the defense of any action for which indemnification is sought by an Indemnified Party hereunder with counsel of the Borrower’s choice at its expense (in which case the Borrower shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by an Indemnified Person except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to each Indemnified Party. Notwithstanding the election by the Borrower to assume the defense of any such action, each Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel and to participate in the defense of such action, and the Borrower shall bear the reasonable fees, costs, and expenses of
such separate counsel, if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the Borrower to represent such Indemnified Party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest; (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the Borrower and such Indemnified Party and such Indemnified Party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or additional to those available to the Borrower (in which case the Borrower shall not have the right to assume the defense or such action on behalf of such Indemnified Party); (iii) the Borrower shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party to represent it within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action; or (iv) the Borrower shall authorize such Indemnified Party to employ separate counsel at the Borrower’s expense.
(b) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the Credit Parties hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Credit Parties contained in this Section 11.5 shall survive the repayment of the Loans, LOC Obligations and other Credit Party Obligations and the termination of the Commitments hereunder.
(a) without the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby, neither this Credit Agreement nor any other Credit Document may be amended, changed, waived, discharged or terminated so as to
(i) extend any Commitment or the final maturity of any Loan or of any reimbursement obligation, or any portion thereof, arising from drawings under Letters of Credit, or extend or waive any Principal Amortization Payment of any Loan, or any portion thereof,
(ii) reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest on any Loan or of any reimbursement obligation, or any portion thereof, arising from drawings under Letters of Credit (other than as a result of waiving the applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates) or of any Fees,
(iii) reduce or waive the principal amount of any Loan or of any reimbursement obligation, or any portion thereof, arising from drawings under Letters of Credit,
(iv) increase the Commitment of a Lender over the amount thereof in effect (it being understood and agreed that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 5.2 or of any Default or Event of Default or mandatory reduction in the Commitments shall not constitute a change in the terms of any Commitment of any Lender),
(v) except as the result of or in connection with an Asset Disposition not prohibited by Section 8.5, release all or substantially all of the Collateral,
(vi) except as the result of or in connection with a dissolution, merger or disposition of a Consolidated Party not prohibited by Section 8.4 or Section 8.5, release the Borrower or substantially all of the other Credit Parties from its or their obligations under the Credit Documents,
(vii) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section 11.6 or Section 3.13(a),
(viii) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, or
(ix) consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower or all or substantially all of the other Credit Parties of any of its or their rights and obligations under (or in respect of) the Credit Documents except as permitted hereby or thereby;
(b) without the consent of Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders) holding in the aggregate at least a majority of the outstanding Tranche B Term Loans (and Participation Interests therein), Section 3.3(b)(vi) may not be amended, changed, waived, discharged or terminated so as to extend the time for or change the amount or the manner of application of proceeds of any mandatory prepayment required by Section 3.3(b)(ii), (iii) or (iv) hereof;
(c) without the consent of the Administrative Agent, no provision of Section 10 may be amended, changed, waived, discharged or terminated;
(d) without the consent of the Issuing Lender, no provision of Section 2.2 may be amended, changed, waived, discharged or terminated;
(e) without the consent of the Swingline Lender, no provision of Section 2.3 may be amended;
(f) without the consent of Lenders holding in the aggregate at least two-thirds of (i) the aggregate Revolving Commitments and the outstanding Tranche B Term Loans or (ii) if all of the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the outstanding Loans and LOC Obligations (including, without limitation, Participation Interests), amend this Section 11.6 to impose any greater restriction on the ability of any Lender to assign any of its rights and obligations hereunder; and
(g) Section 7.10 and defined terms used for purposes of Section 7.10 may be amended, modified, waived or eliminated with the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders.
(a) THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT AND, UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED THEREIN, THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document may be brought in the courts of the State of New York in New York County, or of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and, by execution and delivery of this Credit Agreement, each of the Credit Parties hereby irrevocably accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the nonexclusive jurisdiction of such courts. Each of the Credit Parties further irrevocably consents to the service of process out of any of the aforementioned courts in any such action or proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to it at the address set out for notices pursuant to Section 11.1, such service to become effective three (3) days after such mailing. Nothing herein shall affect the right of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to serve process in any other manner permitted by law or to commence legal proceedings or to otherwise proceed against any Credit Party in any other jurisdiction.
(b) Each of the Credit Parties hereby irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document brought in the courts referred to in subsection (a) above and hereby further irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
(c) TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE LENDERS AND EACH OF THE CREDIT PARTIES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS
CREDIT AGREEMENT, ANY OF THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
(a) This Credit Agreement shall become effective at such time on or after the Closing Date when it shall have been executed by each Credit Party and the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall have received copies hereof (telefaxed or otherwise) which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each Lender, and thereafter this Credit Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each Credit Party, the Administrative Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns.
(b) The term of this Credit Agreement shall be until the Credit Party Obligations under clause (i) of such definition (other than contingent indemnity obligations) are Fully Satisfied.
(a) no part of such funds constitutes assets allocated by such Lender to any separate account maintained by such Lender in which any employee benefit plan (or its related trust) has any interest;
(b) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes assets allocated to any separate account maintained by such Lender, such Lender has disclosed to the Borrower the name of each employee benefit plan whose assets in such account exceed 10% of the total assets of such account as of the date of such purchase (and, for purposes of this clause (b), all employee benefit plans maintained by the same employer or employee organization are deemed to be a single plan);
(c) to the extent that any part of such funds constitutes assets of an insurance company’s general account, such insurance company has complied with all of the requirements of the regulations issued under Section 401(c)(1)(A) of ERISA; or
(d) such funds constitute assets of one or more specific benefit plans which such Lender has identified in writing to the Borrower.
11.18. USA PATRIOT ACT
11.19. NO NOVATION; AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT.
(a) This Agreement does not extinguish the outstanding indebtedness evidenced by the Existing Credit Agreement or any Credit Documents or discharge or release any lien or security interest or any other security for the Loans or other obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement or any other Credit Document, all of which liens and security interests shall continue to secure the Loans and other Credit Party Obligations under this Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as a substitution or novation of the original indebtedness or of the instruments securing the same, which shall remain in full force and effect, except as amended hereby or by instruments executed concurrently herewith.
(b) This Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be an amendment to and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement. All extensions of credit under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Closing Date shall remain outstanding following the Closing Date as specified in Sections 2.7 and 2.2(a) and shall be continued under this Credit Agreement, as amended in the manner set forth herein. All references to the Existing Credit Agreement in any other agreement or document shall, on and after the Closing Date, be deemed to refer to the Existing Credit Agreement as amended and restated hereby. Each Credit Party agrees, acknowledges and affirms that (i) each of the Collateral Documents to which it is a party shall remain in full force and effect except to the extent amended in connection hereunder and shall constitute security for
all extensions of credit pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement as amended and restated hereby and (ii) any reference to the Existing Credit Agreement appearing in any such Collateral Document shall on and after the Closing Date be deemed to refer to the Existing Credit Agreement as amended and restated hereby.
(c) On the Closing Date, each Exiting Lender shall be deemed to agree that, upon its acceptance of the outstanding amounts owed to it under the Existing Credit Agreement on the Closing Date, such Exiting Lender shall have consented to the amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement as provided herein, the redesignation of certain Loans and Commitments (each as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) set forth in Sections 2.7 and 2.2(a) hereof and the assignment of the Loans and all other rights under the Existing Credit Agreement to the extent necessary to give effect to such redesignation set forth in Sections 2.7 and 2.2(a).