(b) Mandatory.
(i) The Aggregate Commitments under a Term Loan Tranche shall be automatically and permanently reduced to
zero on the date of the initial incurrence of Term Loans under such Term Loan Tranche, which in the case of the Initial Tranche A Term Commitments and Initial Tranche B Term Commitments shall be the Closing
Date (except as provided pursuant to the definitive documentation relating to any Term Loan Tranche that is in the form of a delayed draw facility).
(ii) Upon the incurrence by any Restricted Group Member of any Specified Refinancing Debt constituting
revolving credit facilities, the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Lenders under the Tranche of Revolving Credit Loans being refinanced shall be automatically and permanently reduced on a ratable basis by an amount equal to 100.0% of the
Commitments under such Specified Refinancing Debt constituting revolving credit facilities.
(iii) If after giving effect to any reduction or termination of Revolving Credit Commitments under this Section
2.06, the Letter of Credit Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Revolving Credit Facility at such time, the Letter of Credit Sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.
(iv) The aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments with respect to any Tranche of the Revolving Credit Facility
shall automatically and permanently be reduced to zero on the Maturity Date with respect to such Tranche of the Revolving Credit Facility.
(c)
Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the applicable Lenders of the applicable Facility of any termination
or reduction of the Commitments under any Term Loan Tranche, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Revolving Credit Commitment under this
Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of Commitments under a Facility or a Tranche thereof, the Commitment
of each Lender under such Facility or Tranche thereof shall be reduced by such Lender’s ratable share of the amount by which such Facility or Tranche thereof is reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in
Section
3.08). All facility fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Commitments and unpaid, shall be paid on the effective date of such termination. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent that any portion of the
Revolving Credit Loans have been refinanced with one or more new revolving credit facilities constituting Specified Refinancing Debt, any prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to this
Section 2.06 (other than any prepayments
of Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to
Section 2.06(b)(ii)) shall be allocated ratably among the Revolving Tranches.
Section 2.07
Repayment of Loans.
(i) The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Tranche A Term
Lenders the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Tranche A Term Loans outstanding in consecutive quarterly installments as follows (which installments shall, to the extent applicable, be reduced as a
result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Sections 2.05 and 2.06, or be increased as a result of any increase in the amount of Initial Tranche A
Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.14 (such increased amortization payments to be calculated in the same manner (and on the same basis) as the schedule set forth below for the Initial Tranche A Term Loans
made as of the Closing Date)):
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Date
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Amount
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The last Business Day of each fiscal quarter starting with the fiscal quarter ending on June 30, 2026 and through and including the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2028
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0.625% of the aggregate initial principal amount of the Initial Tranche A Term Loans on the Closing Date
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The last Business Day of each fiscal quarter starting with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2028 and through and including the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2030
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1.25% of the aggregate initial principal amount of the Initial Tranche A Term Loans on the Closing Date
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The last Business Day of each fiscal quarter starting with the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2030 and through and including the last full fiscal quarter ending prior to the Maturity Date
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1.875% of the aggregate initial principal amount of the Initial Tranche A Term Loans on the Closing Date
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Maturity Date for the Initial Tranche A Term Loans
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All unpaid aggregate principal amounts of any outstanding Initial Tranche A Term Loans
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(ii) The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable
account of the Tranche B Term Lenders the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans outstanding in equal consecutive quarterly installments, on the last Business Day of each fiscal quarter commencing on the last Business
Day of the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2026 in an amount equal to 0.25% of the aggregate initial principal amount of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans on the Closing Date (which installments shall, to the extent applicable, be reduced as a result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Sections 2.05 and 2.06, or be increased as a result of any
increase in the amount of Initial Tranche B Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.14 (such increased amortization payments to be calculated in the same manner (and on the same basis) as the amortization payments for the Initial Tranche B
Term Loans made as of the Closing Date)), with the remaining balance thereof payable on the Maturity Date for the Initial Tranche B Term Loans;
provided, however, that (i) if the date scheduled for any principal repayment installment
is not a Business Day, such principal repayment installment shall be repaid on the immediately preceding Business Day, (ii) the final principal repayment installment of the Initial Tranche
A Term Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date for the Initial Tranche A Term Loans and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Initial Tranche
A Term Loans outstanding on such date and (iii) the final principal repayment installment of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date for the Initial Tranche B Term Loans and in any event shall be in an amount equal
to the aggregate principal amount of all Initial Tranche B Term Loans outstanding on such date.
(b)
Revolving Credit Loans. The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Appropriate Lenders on the applicable Maturity Date for the
Revolving Credit Facilities of a given Tranche the aggregate principal amount of all of its Revolving Credit Loans of such Tranche outstanding on such date.
(c)
All Loans shall be repaid, whether pursuant to this
Section 2.07 or otherwise, in the currency in which they were made.
(a)
Each SOFR Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the sum of (A) Term SOFR
for such Interest Period,
plus (B) the Applicable Rate for SOFR Loans under such Facility.
(b) Each ABR Loan under a Facility shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date or conversion date, as applicable, at a rate per annum equal to the sum of
(A) the ABR, plus (B) the Applicable Rate for ABR Loans under such Facility.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall pay interest on all overdue Obligations hereunder, which shall include all Obligations following an
acceleration pursuant to Section 8.02 (including an automatic acceleration), at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on
past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(d)
Accrued interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein;
provided that in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than Revolving Credit Loans bearing interest based on the ABR that are repaid or prepaid without any corresponding termination or
reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments other than as set forth in
Section 2.14(e)), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment. Interest hereunder shall be
due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
(e)
Interest on each Loan shall be payable in the currency in which each Loan was made.
(f)
All computations of interest hereunder shall be made in accordance with
Section 2.10 of this Agreement.
Section 2.09
Fees. In addition to certain fees described in
Sections 2.03(h) and
(i):
(a)
Revolving Credit Commitments Commitment Fee. The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its
Pro Rata Share of each Tranche of the Revolving Credit Facility, a commitment fee (a “
Commitment Fee”) equal to the Applicable Commitment Fee,
multiplied by the daily
amount for the applicable fiscal quarter by which the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments under such Tranche exceed the sum of (A) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans under such Tranche and (B) the Outstanding Amount of L/C
Obligations under such Tranche, subject to adjustment as provided in
Section 2.17. The Commitment Fee shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility,
shall
be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears and shall be due and payable on January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 of each year, beginning with the first such date to occur following the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date for the
Revolving Credit Facility. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commitment Fee payable hereunder shall accrue and be payable in Dollars.
(b)
Other Fees. The Borrower shall pay to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in
the amounts and at the times so specified.
Section 2.10
Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive
Adjustments of Applicable Rate.
(a)
All computations of interest for ABR Loans when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and
actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or
any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid;
provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to
Section 2.12(a), bear interest
for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(b)
If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Borrower or for any other reason, the Borrower or the Lenders determine that (i) the
Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Borrower as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of such ratio would have resulted in higher interest and/or fees for any period, the Borrower shall be
obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order
for relief with respect to the Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and with any such demand by the Administrative Agent being excused), an amount equal to the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should
have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period. This
clause (b) shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable, under
Section
2.03(d)(iii),
Sections 2.03(h) or
(i),
Section 2.08 or under
Article VIII. Except in any case where a demand is excused as provided above, any additional interest and fees under this
Section 2.10(b)
shall not be due and payable until a demand is made for such payment by the Administrative Agent and accordingly, any nonpayment of such interest and fees as result of any such inaccuracy shall not constitute a Default (whether retroactively or
otherwise), and none of such additional amounts shall be deemed overdue or accrue interest at the Default Rate, in each case at any time prior to the date that is five (5) Business Days following such demand.
Section 2.11
Evidence
of Indebtedness.
(a)
The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and evidenced by one or more entries in the Register
maintained by the Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, in each case in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by each Lender shall be prima facie evidence
absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit the obligation of the Borrower
hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the
accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the written request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the
Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender, which execution and delivery the Administrative Agent shall record in the Register, which, to the extent consistent with the records in the Register, shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in
addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
(b)
In addition to the accounts and records referred to in
Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice
accounts or records and, in the case of the Administrative Agent, entries in the Register, evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records
maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.
(c)
Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to
Sections 2.11(a) and
(b), and by each Lender in its accounts or records
pursuant to
Sections 2.11(a) and
(b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case
of such accounts or records, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error;
provided that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or
any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such accounts or records shall not limit the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Section 2.12
Payments Generally; Administrative Agent’s Clawback.
(a)
General. All payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in Dollars and in immediately
available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its ratable share in respect of the relevant Facility or Tranche thereof (or other
applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 pm (New York City time) shall be deemed received on the
next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and
such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as applicable;
provided,
however, that, if such extension would cause payment of interest
on or principal of SOFR Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.
(b)
Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent.
(i) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Loans (or, in
the case of any Borrowing of ABR Loans, prior to 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative
Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.02(b) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding
amount. In such event, if any Lender does not in fact make its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then such Lender and the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand an amount
equal to such applicable share in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent to but excluding the date of payment to
the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation, plus any reasonable administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing and (B) in the case of a payment to be made
by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to ABR Loans under the applicable Facility. If both the Borrower and such Lender pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent
shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid (less interest and fees)
shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make its share of any Borrowing available to
the Administrative Agent.
(ii) Payments by the Borrower; Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent
shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or an L/C Issuer hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative
Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Appropriate Lenders or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable, the amount due. With
respect to any payment that the Administrative Agent makes for the account of the Lenders or any L/C Issuer hereunder as to which the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that any of
the following applies (such payment referred to as the “Rescindable Amount”): (1) the Borrower has not in fact made such payment; (2) the Administrative Agent has made a payment in excess of the amount
so paid by such Borrower (whether or not then owed); or (3) the Administrative Agent has for any reason otherwise erroneously made such payment; then each of the Lenders or the applicable L/C Issuers,
as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the Rescindable Amount so distributed to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including
the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on
interbank compensation.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(c)
Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the
foregoing provisions of this
Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in
Article IV are not satisfied or waived
in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender on demand, without interest.
(d)
Obligations of the Lenders Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and to make payments pursuant to
Section 9.07 are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to fund any such participation or to make any payment under
Section 9.07 on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its
corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or, to fund its participation or to make its payment under
Section 9.07.
(e)
Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a
representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
(f)
Insufficient Funds. If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, L/C Borrowings,
interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i)
first, toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to
such parties, and (ii)
second, toward payment of principal and L/C Borrowings then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and L/C Borrowings then due to such parties.
(g)
Unallocated Funds. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under
circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such
Lender’s ratable share of the sum of (a) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (b) the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or
other Obligations then owing to such Lender.
Section 2.13
Sharing of Payments.
If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations held
by it, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (a) notify the
Administrative Agent of such fact and (b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations in the participations in L/C Obligations held by them, as applicable, as shall be necessary to
cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as applicable, pro rata with each of them;
provided,
however,
that if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in
Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in
its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the
proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so
recovered, without further interest thereon. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but
subject to
Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and
binding in the absence of manifest error) of participations purchased under this
Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this
Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as
though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this
Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to (A) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in
Section
2.16, (B) the assignments and participations (including by means of a dutch auction, exchange, open market debt repurchase, or otherwise) described in
Section 10.07, (C) (i) the incurrence of any New Term Loans in accordance with
Section
2.14, (ii) the prepayment of Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with
Section 2.14(e) in connection with a Revolving Credit Commitment Increase or (iii) any Specified Refinancing Debt in accordance with
Section 2.18, (D) any
Extension described in
Section 2.19, or (E) any applicable circumstances contemplated by
Sections 2.05(b),
2.14,
2.17 or
3.08. For purposes of
clause (b) of the definition of “Excluded Taxes,” a
Lender that acquires a participation pursuant to this
Section 2.13 shall be treated as having acquired such participation on the earlier date(s) on which such Lender acquired the applicable interest(s) in the Commitment(s) or Loan(s) (as
applicable) to which such participation relates.
Section 2.14
Incremental Facilities.
(a)
The Borrower may, from time to time after the Closing Date, upon notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Person appointed by the Borrower to arrange an
incremental Facility (such Person (who may be the Administrative Agent, if it so agrees, or any other Person appointed by the Borrower), the “
Incremental Arranger”) specifying the proposed amount thereof and
the proposed currency denomination thereof, request (i) an increase in the Commitments under any Revolving Tranche (which shall be on the same terms as, and become part of, the Revolving Tranche proposed to be increased) (each, a “
Revolving Credit Commitment Increase”), (ii) an increase in any Term Loan Tranche then outstanding (which shall be on the same terms as, and become part of, the Term Loan Tranche proposed to be increased
hereunder (except as otherwise provided in
clause (d) below with respect to amortization)) (each, a “
Term Commitment Increase”), (iii) the addition of one or more new revolving credit facilities to
the Facilities, in each case, in such currency or currencies as the Borrower identifies in such notice (each, a “
New Revolving Facility” and, any advance made by a Lender thereunder, a “
New Revolving Loan”; and the commitments thereof, the “
New Revolving Commitment”) and (iv) the addition of one or more new term loan facilities (including one or more
delayed draw term loan facilities), in each case, in such currency or currencies as the Borrower identifies in such notice (each, a “
New Term Facility”, together with any New Revolving Facility, Term
Commitment Increase or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, the “
Incremental Facilities”; and any advance made by a Lender thereunder, a “
New Term Loan”; and the
commitments thereof, the “
New Term Commitment” and such New Term Commitment, together with the Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, the New Revolving Commitments and the Term Commitment Increase, the “
New Loan Commitments”) in an amount not to exceed the sum of:
(w) (i) the greater of (1) $
344,000,000 and (2) 100.0% of LTM EBITDA,
plus (ii)
the General Debt Basket Reallocated Amount,
minus (iii) the amount of any Indebtedness previously incurred in reliance on this
clause (w) as incremental facilities
incurred pursuant to this
Section 2.14, Incremental Equivalent Debt, Ratio Debt and/or Incurred Acquisition Indebtedness (and not redesignated as incurred under any other provision of the Incremental Amount in accordance with this
Agreement) (the “
Cash-Capped Incremental Facility”),
(x) an unlimited amount (the “Ratio-Based Incremental Facility”) so long as the Maximum Leverage Requirement is satisfied,
(y) an amount equal to (i) (A) all voluntary prepayments of Term Loans or any other long-term Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a senior or pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any New Term Loans that are secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu
basis with the Initial Term Loans) (including any payments made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) or Section 3.08(a)) and (B) all repurchases and/or cancellations of Term Loans or any other long-term Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien
on the Collateral on a senior or pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any New Term Loans that are secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans) in an amount equal to the amount of the Indebtedness retired in connection with such repurchase and (ii) (A) all voluntary prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans and
any other revolving credit loans that are secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any New Revolving Loans that are
secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans) (including any payments made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) or Section 3.08(a)) to the extent accompanied
by a corresponding, permanent reduction in the applicable revolving credit commitment, (B) all repurchases and/or cancellations of Revolving Credit Loans or any other revolving credit loans that are secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any New Revolving Loans that are secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a senior or pari
passu basis with the Initial Term Loans) in an amount equal to the amount of the Indebtedness retired in connection with such repurchase and (C) all voluntary prepayments, repurchases and/or cancellations of any other First Lien Specified
Debt, in each case under this clause (y), (1) including any payments made at a discount to par or via an open-market purchase or other privately negotiated transaction (with credit given for the actual amount of any cash payment) and (2) to
the extent not funded with the proceeds of long-term Indebtedness (it being agreed and understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that Indebtedness incurred pursuant to any revolving credit facility (including the Revolving Credit Facility) shall not
constitute long-term Indebtedness for such purpose), in each case less the amount of any Indebtedness previously incurred in reliance on this clause (y) as incremental facilities incurred pursuant to this Section 2.14, Incremental
Equivalent Debt, Ratio Debt and/or Incurred Acquisition Indebtedness (and not redesignated as incurred under any other provision of the Incremental Amount in accordance with this Agreement) (the “Prepayment-Based
Incremental Facility”), and
(z) (i) in the case of any New Revolving Facility or New Term Facility that effectively extends the maturity date of any First Lien Specified Debt, Junior Lien Specified Debt or Unsecured
Specified Debt, an amount equal to the portion of such First Lien Specified Debt, Junior Lien Specified Debt or Unsecured Specified Debt that will be replaced by such New Revolving Facility or New Term Facility (the “Effective Extension Incremental Facility”) and (ii) in the case of any New Revolving Facility or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase that effectively replaces any Commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility or any New Revolving
Facility or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase that is terminated pursuant to Section 3.08(a), an amount equal to the portion of such Commitments that will be so terminated;
(such sum of the foregoing clauses (w) through (z), at any such time and subject to Section 1.02(i), the “Incremental Amount”);
provided that any such request for an increase shall be in a minimum amount of the lesser of (x) $5,000,000 or, in the case of any
New Loan Commitments denominated in an Alternative Currency, the equivalent Dollar amount, and (y) the entire amount of any increase that may be requested under this Section 2.14;
provided, further, that for purposes of any New Loan Commitments established pursuant to
this Section 2.14, Incremental Equivalent Debt Incurred pursuant to Section 2.15 and any Ratio Debt:
(A)
unless the Borrower elects otherwise, (x) the Borrower shall be deemed to have used amounts under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (to the extent
compliant therewith) prior to using amounts under the Effective Extension Incremental Facility, the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility and (y) the Borrower shall be deemed to have used the
Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility prior to utilization of the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility;
(B)
New Loan Commitments pursuant to this
Section 2.14, Incremental Equivalent Debt pursuant to
Section 2.15 and Ratio Debt may be incurred
substantially concurrently under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (to the extent compliant therewith), the Effective Extension Incremental Facility, the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility and the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility or any
combination of any of the foregoing, and proceeds from any such incurrence may be utilized in a single transaction or series of related transactions by, unless the Borrower elects otherwise, first, calculating the incurrence under the
Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (without inclusion of (x) any amounts incurred substantially concurrently pursuant to the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility, (y) any amounts incurred substantially
concurrently under any fixed basket under
Section 7.01 or (z) any revolving credit loans incurred substantially concurrently with such single transaction or series of related transactions) and then calculating the incurrence under the
Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility (without inclusion of any amounts utilized pursuant to the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility) and then calculating the incurrence under the Effective Extension Incremental Facility and the Cash-Capped
Incremental Facility, as applicable;
(C)
all or any portion of Indebtedness originally designated as incurred under the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental
Facility shall automatically cease to be deemed incurred under the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility and shall instead be deemed incurred under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility from and after the
first date on which the Borrower would be permitted to incur all or such portion, as applicable, of the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (for the avoidance of doubt, which determination
shall be made without duplication of such Indebtedness originally designated as incurred under the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility) (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall have the effect of
increasing the Prepayment‑Based Incremental Facility and/or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility, as applicable, by all or such portion, as applicable, of the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness); and
(D)
solely for the purpose of cash netting in calculating the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio or the
Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio to determine the availability under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility at the time of incurrence any cash proceeds of any New Loan Commitments incurred pursuant to this
Section 2.14 and any
Incremental Equivalent Debt Incurred pursuant to
Section 2.15, in each case, incurred at such test date shall be excluded for purposes of calculating cash or Cash Equivalents.
The Borrower may designate any Incremental Arranger of any New Loan Commitments with such titles under the New Loan Commitments as Borrower may deem appropriate.
(b)
For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower will not be obligated to approach any Lender to participate in any New Loan Commitments. Any Lender approached to participate in any
New Loan Commitments may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to participate in such increase or new facility. The Borrower may also invite additional Eligible Assignees reasonably satisfactory to the Incremental Arranger and with the consent
of the Administrative Agent and, solely in connection with a Revolving Credit Commitment Increase or New Revolving Facility, each L/C Issuer (to the extent the consent of any of the foregoing would be required to assign Revolving Credit Loans or
Term Loans, as applicable, to such Eligible Assignee, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) to become Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement to this Agreement. Unless requested by the Borrower, neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent (in their respective capacities as such) shall be required to execute, accept or acknowledge any joinder agreement pursuant to this
Section 2.14 and such execution shall not be required for any
such joinder agreement to be effective;
provided that, with respect to any New Loan Commitments, the Borrower must provide to the Administrative Agent the documentation providing for such New Loan
Commitments.
(c)
If (i) a Revolving Tranche or a Term Loan Tranche is increased in accordance with this
Section 2.14 or (ii) a New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility is added in
accordance with this
Section 2.14, the Incremental Arranger and the Borrower shall determine the effective date (the “
Increase Effective Date”) and the final allocation of such increase, New Term
Facility or New Revolving Facility among the applicable Lenders. The Incremental Arranger shall promptly notify the applicable Lenders of the final allocation of such increase, New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility and the Increase Effective
Date. In connection with (i) any increase in a Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Tranche or (ii) any addition of a New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility, in each case, pursuant to this
Section 2.14, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents may be amended in writing (which may be executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Incremental Arranger (and the Lenders hereby authorize any such Incremental Arranger to execute and deliver any such
documentation)) in order to establish the New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility or to effectuate the increases to the Term Loan Tranche or Revolving Tranche and to reflect any technical changes necessary or appropriate to give effect to such
increase or new facility in accordance with its terms as set forth herein pursuant to the documentation relating to such New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility. As of the Increase Effective Date, in the case of an increase to an existing Term
Loan Tranche, the amortization schedule for such Term Loan Tranche then increased set forth in
Section 2.07(a) (or any other applicable amortization schedule for New Term Loans or Specified Refinancing Term Loans) shall be amended in
writing (which may be executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Incremental Arranger (and the Lenders hereby authorize any such Incremental Arranger to execute and deliver any such documentation)) to increase the
then-remaining unpaid installments of principal by an aggregate amount equal to the additional Loans under such Term Loan Tranche being made on such date, such aggregate amount to be applied to increase such installments ratably in accordance with
the amounts in effect immediately prior to the Increase Effective Date.
(d)
With respect to any Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term Commitment Increase or addition of New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility
pursuant to this
Section 2.14:
(i) no Event of Default (subject to Section 1.02(i)) would exist immediately after giving effect thereto;
(A) in the case of any increase of the Revolving Tranche, (1) the final maturity shall be the same as the Maturity Date applicable to the applicable Revolving Credit Facility, (2) no
amortization or mandatory commitment reduction prior to the Latest Maturity Date applicable to the Revolving Credit Facility shall be required and (3) the terms and documentation applicable to the Revolving Credit Facility shall apply (other
than with respect to pricing (except with respect to the Applicable Rate and any interest rate floors) and fees),
(B) in the case of any New Revolving Facility, (1) the final maturity shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date applicable to the Revolving Credit Facility, (2) no amortization
or mandatory commitment reduction prior to the Latest Maturity Date applicable to the Revolving Credit Facility shall be required and (3) such New Revolving Facility shall have terms that are substantially the same as those applicable to the
Revolving Credit Facility (other than with respect to pricing and fees) or that are otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (it being understood that certain provisions regarding prepayment, borrowing, participation and
commitment reduction may differ and that any terms that are applicable only after the Latest Maturity Date of the then existing Revolving Credit Facility shall be deemed acceptable to the Administrative Agent),
(C) in the case of an increase to an existing Term Loan Tranche, (1) the final maturity shall be the same as the Maturity Date applicable to the applicable Term Loan Tranche, (2) the
amortization shall be as described under clause (c) above and (3) the terms and documentation applicable to the applicable existing Term Loan Tranche shall apply (other than with respect to pricing (except with respect to the Applicable
Rate and any interest rate floors) and fees),
(D) in the case of any New Term Facility, the final maturity of the New Term Loans thereunder shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date for, and such New Term Loans shall not have
a Weighted Average Life to Maturity shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, any then outstanding Term Loans;
provided that (x) Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt
, (y)
any New Term Facility that (1) is syndicated primarily to persons regulated as banks in the primary syndication thereof, (2) when made, has scheduled amortization of at least
2.5% per year prior to maturity (other than with respect to customary initial grace periods, as determined in good faith by the Borrower), and (3) contains other provisions customary for “term A loans”
, as
reasonably determined by the Borrower
in consultation with the Administrative Agent (a “
Customary Term A Facility”), and (z) an aggregate principal amount of New Term Loans
under such New Term Facility
in an aggregate amount equal to (1) the greater of
(i) $344,000,000 and (ii) 100.0% of LTM EBITDA (the “
Inside
Maturity Basket”)
plus (2) the amount of prepayments of Term Loans previously incurred under the Inside Maturity Basket, in each case, may have a maturity date earlier than the Latest Maturity
Date for any then outstanding Term Loans and the Weighted Average Life to Maturity thereof may be shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any then outstanding Term Loans (it being agreed that no such final Stated
Maturity or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of New Term Facilities incurred pursuant to
clauses (y) and
(z) above shall be less than the final Stated
Maturity and remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Initial
Tranche A Term Loans); and
(E) (to the extent the initial Facilities are then outstanding) in the case of any New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility, the terms of such facility (other than pricing, final
maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity), taken as a whole, shall not be materially more restrictive than the terms of the
respective equivalent Class of
Initial
Tranche A Term
Loans, the Initial Tranche B Term Loans or the initial Revolving
Credit Facility,
as applicable, as
determined in good faith by the Borrower (but excluding any terms (x) that are added in the applicable initial Facility for the benefit of the Lenders thereunder pursuant to an amendment hereto (with no consent of the Lenders being required),
(y) that are only applicable to periods after the latest final maturity date of the applicable initial Facility existing at the time of the incurrence of such facility or (z) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) (as determined
by the Borrower in good faith) at the time of incurrence);
(iii) except as set forth in
subclause (f)(iv) below with respect to the All-in Yield applicable to any
New Term Facility described therein and
as set forth in subclauses (d)(ii)(B) and (d)(ii)(D) above with respect to final maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any New Term Facility
or terms of a New Revolving Facility, and subject to subclause (d)(ii)(E), any such New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility shall have such terms as are agreed to by the Borrower and the Incremental Arranger (including with
respect to the interest rate margins, OID, upfront fees (if any), interest rate “floors” (if any) and amortization schedule of such New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility, as applicable);
(iv) to the extent reasonably requested by the Incremental Arranger and expressly set forth in the documentation relating to such New Loan Commitments, the Incremental Arranger shall have
received legal opinions, resolutions, officers’ certificates, reaffirmation agreements and/or subsequent ranking agreements or amendment agreements to, confirmations of and/or lower ranking Collateral Documents, as applicable, consistent with
those delivered on the Closing Date under Section 4.01 or delivered from time to time pursuant to Section 6.12, Section 6.14 and/or Section 6.16 with respect to the Borrower and each material Guarantor that is
organized in a jurisdiction for which counsel to the Administrative Agent advises that such deliveries are reasonably necessary to preserve the Collateral in such jurisdiction (other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change
in Law, change in fact or change to counsel’s form of opinion); and
(v) subject to Section 1.02(i), except to the extent otherwise agreed by the applicable Incremental Arranger and the Borrower, no Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term
Commitment Increase, New Term Commitment or New Revolving Commitment shall become effective unless (x) the representations and warranties of each the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document
shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) on and as of the date of such effectiveness, except to the extent that such representations and
warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) as of such earlier date,
and except that for purpose of this clause (v), the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.05(a) and (b) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent financial statements furnished pursuant to Sections 6.01(a)
and (b), respectively, prior to such effectiveness or (y) in the event that such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term Commitment Increase, New Term Commitment or New Revolving Commitment is used to finance a Limited Condition Transaction, the Specified Representations, and in the case of any Limited Condition Transaction consisting of an acquisition, those representations of the seller or the
target company (as applicable) included in the acquisition agreement related to such acquisition that are material to the interests of the Lenders in respect of such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term Commitment Increase, New
Term Commitment or New Revolving Commitment and only to the extent that the Borrower or its applicable Subsidiary has the right to terminate its obligations under such acquisition agreement as a result of a
failure of such representations to be accurate, shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) on and as of the date of such
effectiveness, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or
warranty is already qualified by materiality) as of such earlier date.
Subject to the foregoing, the conditions precedent to each such increase or New Loan Commitment shall be solely those agreed to by the Lenders providing such increase or New Loan Commitment, as applicable, and the
Borrower.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) to the extent any terms of any Term Commitment Increase, Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility are more favorable (with respect to the
lenders thereunder) than the comparable terms hereunder (with respect to the Lenders under the
respective equivalent Class of Initial
Tranche A Term Loans, the Initial Tranche B Term
Loans or the
Initial Revolving Tranche, as applicable), such terms (if favorable to the applicable Lenders) may be, solely at the request of the Borrower, incorporated into this Agreement (or
any other applicable Loan Document) for the benefit of the applicable Lenders (to the extent applicable to such Lender) without further amendment requirements (it being agreed and understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that, at the option of the
Borrower and with the consent of the Administrative Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Borrower may, but shall not be required to, increase the Applicable Rate or amortization payments relating to any existing Term Facility to
bring such Applicable Rate in line with the relevant Term Commitment Increase or New Term Facility to achieve fungibility with such existing Term Facility) and (y) such terms other than the terms described in
clause (x) above may, solely at
the request of the Borrower, be incorporated into this Agreement (or any other applicable Loan Document) for the benefit of the applicable Lenders (to the extent applicable to such Lender) without further amendment requirements if reasonably
satisfactory to the Borrower, the Incremental Arranger and the Administrative Agent.
To the extent the Borrower establishes a New Revolving Facility, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend this Agreement to require borrowings and repayments on a pro rata basis among Revolving Tranches (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on the Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the Maturity
Date of any Revolving Credit Loan and (C) repayments made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of the Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of Revolving Credit Loans after the effective date of such New
Revolving Facility).
(e)
On the Increase Effective Date with respect to an increase to an Existing Revolving Tranche, (x) each Revolving Credit Lender immediately prior to such increase will
automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Lender providing a portion of the increase to the Revolving Credit Commitments (each, a “
Revolving Commitment Increase Lender”), and
each such Revolving Commitment Increase Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Revolving Credit Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding L/C Obligations such that, after giving effect
to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding participations hereunder in L/C Obligations will equal the Pro Rata Share of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving
Credit Lenders represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and (y) if, on the date of such increase, there are any Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, such Revolving Credit Loans shall on or prior to the Increase
Effective Date be prepaid from the proceeds of Revolving Credit Loans made hereunder (reflecting such increase in Revolving Credit Commitments), which prepayment shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the Revolving Credit Loans being prepaid
and any costs incurred by any Lender in accordance with
Section 3.06. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing,
pro rata borrowing and
pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence. The additional Term Loans made under the Term
Loan Tranche subject to the increases shall be made by the applicable Lenders participating therein pursuant to the procedures set forth in
Sections 2.01 and
2.02 and on the date of the making of such New Term Loans, and
notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in
Sections 2.01 and
2.02, such new Loans shall be added to (and form part of) each Borrowing of outstanding Term Loans under such Term Loan Tranche on a
pro rata basis (based on the relative sizes of the various outstanding Borrowings), so that each Lender under such Term Loan Tranche will participate proportionately in each then outstanding Borrowing of Term Loans under the Term
Loan Tranche.
(f)
For purposes of this
Section 2.14:
(i)
any New Revolving Facility and New Term Facility shall comply with the Incremental Debt Lien/Guarantee Parameters
;
(ii) any New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility, as applicable, shall, for purposes of prepayments, be treated substantially the same as
(and in any event no more favorably than) the
respective equivalent Class of Initial
Tranche A Term Loans, Initial Tranche B Term Loans or Initial Revolving Tranche, as applicable,
unless the Borrower otherwise elects (but in any event no more favorably than the
respective equivalent Class of Initial
Tranche A Term Loans
,
Initial Tranche B Term Loans or the Initial Revolving Tranche, as applicable), unless any such more favorable terms are applicable only after the Latest Maturity Date of the
respective equivalent Class of Initial
Tranche A Term Loans, Initial Tranche B Term Loans and the Initial Revolving Tranche
;
(iii)
any New Term Facility that is secured by a lien on the Collateral on a
pari passu basis with the Initial Term
Loans shall share ratably (or on a lesser basis) with respect to any mandatory prepayments of the Initial Term Loans (other than mandatory prepayments resulting from a refinancing of any Facility, which may be applied exclusively to the
Facility being refinanced, and other than any excess cash flow prepayments in respect of
Tranche B
Term Loans which may be applied ratably across all
Tranche
B Term
Loans)
; and
(iv)
solely with respect to any floating rate term “b” loans denominated in Dollars that are incurred on or prior to the date that is six (6) months after
the Closing Date under a New Term Facility as a Ratio-Based Incremental Facility that (v)
are
pari passu in right of payment with the Initial Tranche B Term
Loans, (w) are secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a
pari passu basis with the Initial Tranche B Term Loans, (x) mature on or prior to the Initial Tranche B Term Loans, (y) are in an original
principal amount that exceeds the greater of $344,000,000 and 100.0% of LTM EBITDA and (z) are not Acquisition Indebtedness, the All-in Yield payable by the Borrower in respect of such New Term Facility shall not be more than 100 basis points
higher than the All-in Yield payable by the Borrower in respect of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans unless the interest rate margin applicable to the Initial Tranche B Term Loans is increased by an amount necessary so that the difference
between the All-in Yield payable by the Borrower in respect of such New Term Facility and the All-in Yield payable by the Borrower in respect of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans is no greater than 100 basis points (this
clause (iv), the
“
MFN Provision”);
provided that (i) any increase in All-in Yield with respect to existing Initial Tranche B Term Loans due to the application of an interest rate
“floor” to any New Term Facility greater than the interest rate “floor” applicable to such existing Initial Tranche B Term Loans shall be effected solely through an increase in the interest rate “floor” applicable to such Initial Tranche B Term
Loans and (ii) for the avoidance of doubt, if such Initial Tranche B Term Loans are outstanding in the form of a U.S. Dollar-denominated Tranche and one or more non-U.S. Dollar-denominated Tranches are outstanding at such time, then this
clause
(iv) shall only apply to such Initial Tranche B Term Loans outstanding in the form of a U.S. Dollar-denominated Tranche; and
(v) (A) any New Term Facility may participate in any voluntary prepayment on a
pro rata basis, greater than
pro
rata basis or less than
pro rata basis with other then-outstanding Term Facilities and (B)(i) any New Term Facility that is a “term b facility,” as determined by the Borrower in good faith, may
participate in any mandatory repayments on a
pro rata basis or less than
pro rata basis (but not greater than
pro rata
basis) with the Initial Tranche B Term Loans and (ii) any New Term Facility that is a “term a facility,” as determined by the Borrower in good faith, may participate in any mandatory repayments on a
pro rata
basis or less than
pro rata basis (but not greater than
pro rata basis) with the Initial Tranche A Term Loans.
(g)
If the Incremental Arranger is not the Administrative Agent, the actions authorized to be taken by the Incremental Arranger herein shall be done in consultation with the
Administrative Agent and, with respect to the preparation of any documentation necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this
Section 2.14 (including amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents), any comments to
such documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent shall be reflected therein.
Section 2.15
Incremental Equivalent Debt.
(a)
Any Loan Party may from time to time after the Closing Date issue one or more series of senior secured, senior unsecured, senior subordinated or
subordinated notes, loans or Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt (such notes, loans and/or Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt, collectively, “
Incremental Equivalent Debt”) in an amount not to exceed the
Incremental Amount available at the time of incurrence (subject to
Section 1.02(i));
provided that (i) no Event of Default (subject to
Section 1.02(i)) would exist immediately after giving
effect to any such incurrence of Incremental Equivalent Debt and (ii) any such incurrence of Incremental Equivalent Debt shall be in a minimum amount of the lesser of (x) $5,000,000 (or the equivalent Dollar amount) and (y) the entire amount that
may be requested under this
Section 2.15;
provided,
further, that:
(A)
unless the Borrower elects otherwise, (x) the Borrower shall be deemed to have used amounts under the Ratio-Based Incremental
Facility (to the extent compliant therewith) prior to using amounts under the Effective Extension Incremental Facility, the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility and (y) the Borrower shall be deemed to
have used the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility prior to utilization of the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility;
(B)
New Loan Commitments pursuant to
Section 2.14, Incremental Equivalent Debt pursuant to this
Section 2.15 and Ratio Debt may be incurred
substantially concurrently under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (to the extent compliant therewith), the Effective Extension Incremental Facility, the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility and the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility or any
combination of any of the foregoing, and proceeds from any such incurrence may be utilized in a single transaction or series of related transactions by, unless the Borrower elects otherwise, first, calculating the incurrence under the
Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (without inclusion of (x) any amounts incurred substantially concurrently pursuant to the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility, (y) any amounts incurred substantially
concurrently under any fixed basket under
Section 7.01 or (z) any revolving credit loans incurred substantially concurrently with such single transaction or series of related transactions) and then calculating the incurrence under the
Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility (without inclusion of any amounts utilized pursuant to the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility) and then calculating the incurrence under the Effective Extension Incremental Facility and the Cash-Capped
Incremental Facility, as applicable;
(C)
all or any portion of Indebtedness originally designated as incurred under the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental
Facility shall automatically cease to be deemed incurred under the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility and shall instead be deemed incurred under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility from and after the
first date on which the Borrower would be permitted to incur all or such portion, as applicable, of the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility (for the avoidance of doubt, which determination
shall be made without duplication of such Indebtedness originally designated as incurred under the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility) (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall have the effect of
increasing the Prepayment-Based Incremental Facility and/or the Cash-Capped Incremental Facility, as applicable, by all or such portion, as applicable, of the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness); and
(D)
solely for the purpose of cash netting in calculating the Consolidated First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio or the
Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio to determine the availability under the Ratio-Based Incremental Facility at the time of incurrence any cash proceeds of any New Loan Commitments incurred pursuant to
Section 2.14, any
Incremental Equivalent Debt Incurred pursuant to this
Section 2.15, in each case, incurred at such test date shall be excluded for purposes of calculating cash or Cash Equivalents.
The Borrower may appoint any Person as arranger of such Incremental Equivalent Debt (such Person (who may be the Administrative Agent, if it so agrees), the “Incremental Equivalent Debt
Arranger”).
(b)
For purposes of this
Section 2.15,
(i)
any Incremental Equivalent Debt shall comply with the Incremental Debt Lien/Guarantee Parameters
;
(ii) the final maturity of any Incremental Equivalent Debt shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date for, and such Incremental Equivalent Debt shall
not have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, any then outstanding Term Loans;
provided that (x) Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt
, (y)
any Customary Term A Facility and (z) an aggregate principal amount of Incremental Equivalent Debt not in excess of the maximum aggregate principal amount then permitted to be
incurred in reliance on the Inside Maturity Basket, in each case, may have a maturity date earlier than the Latest Maturity Date for any then outstanding Term Loans and the Weighted Average Life to Maturity thereof may be shorter than the
remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any then outstanding Term Loans (it being agreed that no such final Stated Maturity or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred pursuant to
clauses (y) and
(z) above shall be less than the final Stated Maturity and remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Initial
Tranche
A Term Loans)
; and
(iii) any Incremental Equivalent Debt (other than any Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt) shall not be subject to any mandatory redemption or prepayment provisions or rights, except to
the extent any such mandatory redemption or prepayment is required to be applied
pro rata (or greater than
pro rata) to the Initial Term Loans and other
Incremental Equivalent Debt that is secured by a lien on the Collateral on a
pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans
(other than
(A)
mandatory prepayments resulting from a refinancing of any Facility, which may be applied exclusively to the Facility being refinanced
, (B) customary offers or obligations to repurchase, repay or redeem upon a
change of control or asset sale, casualty or condemnation event, (C) maturity payments and customary mandatory prepayments for Incremental Equivalent Debt incurred pursuant to the Inside Maturity Basket, which may have a maturity date earlier
than the Latest Maturity Date for any then outstanding Term Loans, (D) special mandatory redemptions in connection with customary escrow arrangements and customary acceleration rights after an event of default, (E) AHYDO Catch-up Payments, and
(F) any excess cash flow prepayments in respect of Incremental Equivalent Debt structured as term “b” loans, as reasonably determined by the Borrower, which prepayments may be applied ratably
to such Incremental
Equivalent Debt and the Tranche B Term
Loans).
Subject to the foregoing, the conditions precedent to each such incurrence shall be agreed to by the creditors providing such Incremental Equivalent Debt and the Borrower.
(c)
The Lenders hereby authorize the Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger and the Administrative Agent (and the Lenders hereby authorize the Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger and
the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver such amendments) to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary in order to secure any Incremental Equivalent Debt with the Collateral
and/or to make such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the incurrence of such Incremental
Equivalent Debt, in each case on terms consistent with this
Section 2.15. If the Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger is not the Administrative Agent, the actions authorized to be taken by the Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger herein
shall be done in consultation with the Administrative Agent and, with respect to applicable documentation (including amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents), any comments to such documentation reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent shall be reflected therein.
Section 2.16
Cash Collateral.
(a)
Upon the request of the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer (i) if the applicable L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of
Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing or (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit Sublimit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, the Borrower shall, in each case, promptly deliver to the
Administrative Agent Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to cover 103.0% of the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations. At
any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, promptly upon the request of the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to cover 103.0% of all Fronting Exposure of such Defaulting Lender after giving effect to
Section 2.17(a)(iv) and any Cash
Collateral provided by such Defaulting Lender.
(b)
All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked, deposit accounts at the Administrative Agent or the
Collateral Agent (or other financial institution selected by any of them). The Borrower, and to the extent provided by any Revolving Credit Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender, hereby grant to (and subject to the control of) the Administrative
Agent and the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the applicable L/C Issuer and the Revolving Credit Lenders, and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances
therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to
Section 2.16(c). If at any time
the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent as herein provided or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the applicable Fronting
Exposure and other obligations secured thereby, the Borrower and the relevant Defaulting Lender shall, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient
to eliminate such deficiency.
(c)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this
Section 2.16 or
Sections 2.03,
2.05,
2.06,
2.17,
8.02 or
8.04 in respect of Letters of Credit shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by a
Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided prior to any other application of such property as may be provided for herein.
(d)
Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or other obligations shall be released promptly following (i) the elimination of the
applicable Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to such release) or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance
with
Section 10.07(b)(viii))) or (ii) the Administrative Agent’s good faith determination that there exists excess Cash Collateral;
provided,
however, (x)
that Cash Collateral furnished by or on behalf of a Loan Party shall not be released during the continuance of a Default under
Sections 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) or an Event of Default (and following application as provided in
this
Section 2.16 may be otherwise applied in accordance with
Section 8.04) and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the applicable L/C Issuer may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support
future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.
Section 2.17
Defaulting Lenders.
(a)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting
Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:
(i)
That Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement
shall be restricted as set forth in
Section 10.01.
(ii)
Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether
voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to
Article VIII or otherwise, and including any amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by that Defaulting Lender pursuant to
Section 10.09), shall be applied at such time
or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows:
first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder;
second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any
amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the L/C Issuers hereunder;
third, if so reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent or reasonably requested by the applicable L/C Issuer, to be held as Cash Collateral for future funding
obligations of that Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Letter of Credit;
fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting
Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent;
fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit
account and released in order to satisfy obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement;
sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders or any L/C Issuer as a result of any non-appealable judgment of
a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender or any L/C Issuer against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement;
seventh, so long as no Default or Event of
Default pursuant to
Sections 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of any non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction
obtained by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and
eighth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by
a court of competent jurisdiction;
provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Borrowings in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded
its appropriate share and (y) such Loans or L/C Borrowings were made at a time when the conditions set forth in
Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Borrowings owed to,
all
non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Borrowings owed to, that Defaulting Lender. Any payments, prepayments or other
amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this
Section 2.17(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that
Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii)
That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive any commitment fee pursuant to
Section 2.09(a) for any
period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender) and (y) shall be limited in its right to
receive Letter of Credit fees as provided in
Section 2.03(h).
(iv)
During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each
non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit pursuant to
Section 2.03, the Pro Rata Share of
each
non-Defaulting Lender under a Revolving Tranche shall be determined without giving effect to the Commitment under such Revolving Tranche of that Defaulting Lender;
provided that the aggregate obligation of each
non-Defaulting Lender under a Revolving Tranche to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters
of Credit issued under such Revolving Tranche shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Commitment under such Revolving Tranche of that
non‑Defaulting Lender,
minus (2) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Loans under such Revolving Tranche of that Revolving Credit Lender. No
reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result
of such Non-Defaulting Lender’s increased exposure following such reallocation.
(b)
If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each L/C Issuer agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting
Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral),
that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded
participations in Letters of Credit to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their ratable shares (without giving effect to the application of
Section 2.17(a)(iv)) in respect of that Lender, whereupon that Lender
will cease to be a Defaulting Lender;
provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting
Lender; and
provided,
further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender
will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender having been a Defaulting Lender.
Section 2.18
Specified Refinancing Debt.
(a)
The Borrower may, from time to time after the Closing Date, add one or more new term loan facilities and new revolving credit facilities to the
Facilities (“
Specified Refinancing Debt”; and the commitments in respect of such new term facilities, the “
Specified Refinancing Term Commitment”; and such new term
facilities, “
Specified Refinancing Term Facilities”; and the commitments in respect of such new revolving credit facilities, the “
Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit
Commitment”) pursuant to procedures reasonably specified by any Person appointed by the Borrower, as agent under such Specified Refinancing Debt (such Person (who may be the Administrative Agent, if it so agrees), the “
Specified Refinancing Agent”) and reasonably acceptable to the Borrower, to refinance (including by extending the maturity):
(x) all or any portion of any Term Loan Tranches then outstanding under this Agreement,
(y) all or any portion of any Revolving Tranches then in effect under this Agreement or
(z) all or any portion of any Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, Term Commitment Increase, New Term Facility or New Revolving Facility then in effect that was incurred under Section
2.14, in each case pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment;
provided that:
(i) such Specified Refinancing Debt shall comply with the Incremental Debt Lien/Guarantee Parameters;
(ii) such Specified Refinancing Debt shall have such pricing and optional prepayment and other terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the applicable
Lenders thereof;
(iii) such Specified Refinancing Debt (x) to the extent constituting Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not have a maturity date (or have mandatory commitment
reductions or amortization) that is prior to the scheduled Maturity Date of the applicable Revolving Tranche being refinanced and (y) to the extent constituting Specified Refinancing Term Loans, shall have a maturity date that is not prior to
the date that is the Latest Maturity Date of, and will have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is not shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Term Loans being refinanced;
provided
that (x) Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt
, (y)
any Customary Term A Facility and (z) an aggregate principal amount of Specified Refinancing Term Loans not in excess of the
maximum aggregate principal amount then permitted to be incurred in reliance on the Inside Maturity Basket, in each case, may have a maturity date that is earlier than the Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans being refinanced and the Weighted
Average Life to Maturity thereof may be shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans being refinanced
(it being agreed that no such final Stated Maturity or Weighted Average
Life to Maturity of Specified Refinancing Debt incurred pursuant to clauses (y) and
(z) above
shall be less than the final Stated Maturity and remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Initial Tranche A
Term Loans);
(iv) such Specified Refinancing Debt, in the case of Specified Refinancing Term Loans, shall share ratably in any mandatory prepayments of the then outstanding Initial Term Loans
pursuant to
Section 2.05 (or otherwise provide for more favorable prepayment treatment for the then outstanding Initial Term Loans than the Specified Refinancing Term Loans), other than mandatory prepayments resulting from a refinancing
of any Facility, which may be applied exclusively to the Facility being refinanced
;
(v) such Specified Refinancing Debt, in the case of Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall provide that each Revolving Credit Borrowing
(including any deemed Revolving Credit Borrowings made pursuant to Section 2.03) and participations in Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.03 shall be allocated pro rata among the Revolving Tranches; and
(vi) the Net Cash Proceeds of such Specified Refinancing Debt shall be applied, substantially concurrently with the incurrence thereof, to the pro rata prepayment of outstanding Loans or
Commitments being so refinanced (or less than the pro rata prepayment of outstanding Loans made by any Term Lenders or the Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable, that will be lenders of the Specified Refinancing Debt, as approved by such Term
Lenders or the Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable); provided that in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, a corresponding amount of Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permanently reduced, in each
case pursuant to Sections 2.05 and 2.06, as applicable, and the payment of fees, expenses and premiums, if any, payable in connection therewith;
provided, however, that such Specified Refinancing Debt shall not have a principal or
commitment amount (or accreted value) greater than the Loans or Commitments being refinanced (plus an amount equal to accrued interest, fees, discounts, premiums and expenses).
Any Lender approached to provide all or a portion of any Specified Refinancing Debt may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide such Specified Refinancing Debt. To achieve the full amount of a requested issuance of Specified
Refinancing Debt, and subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and each L/C Issuer in the case of Specified Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Lenders in respect
of such Specified Refinancing Debt pursuant to a joinder agreement to this Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Specified Refinancing Agent. For the avoidance of doubt, any allocations of Specified Refinancing Debt shall
be made at the Borrower’s sole discretion, and the Borrower will not be obligated to allocate any Specified Refinancing Debt to any Lender.
(b)
The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to conditions as are mutually agreed with the participating Lenders providing such Specified Refinancing Debt and
to the extent reasonably requested by the Specified Refinancing Agent and expressly set forth in the documentation relating to such Specified Refinancing Debt, receipt by the Specified Refinancing Agent of legal opinions, board resolutions,
officers’ certificates and/or reaffirmation agreements with respect to the Borrower and the Guarantors, including any supplements or amendments to the Collateral Documents providing for such Specified Refinancing Debt to be secured thereby,
consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date under
Section 4.01 or delivered from time to time pursuant to
Sections 6.12,
6.14 and/or
6.16 (other than changes to such legal opinions resulting from a change in
Law, change in fact or change to counsel’s form of opinion). The Lenders hereby authorize the Specified Refinancing Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary in order to
establish new Tranches of Specified Refinancing Debt and to make such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Specified Refinancing Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such
new Tranches, in each case on terms consistent with and/or to effect the provisions of this
Section 2.18.
(c)
Each class of Specified Refinancing Debt incurred under this
Section 2.18 shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (x) not less than $5,000,000 (or the
equivalent Dollar amount) and (y) an integral multiple of $1,000,000 (or the equivalent Dollar amount) in excess thereof. Any Refinancing Amendment may provide for the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of the Borrower in respect of a
Revolving Tranche pursuant to any revolving credit facility established thereby, in each case on terms substantially equivalent to the terms applicable to Letters of Credit under the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(d)
The Specified Refinancing Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Refinancing Amendment. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the
effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment, this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to reflect the existence and terms of the Specified Refinancing Debt incurred pursuant thereto (including the
addition of such Specified Refinancing Debt as separate “Facilities” hereunder and treated in a manner consistent with the Facilities being refinanced, including for purposes of prepayments and voting). Any Refinancing Amendment may, without the
consent of any Person other than the Borrower, the Specified Refinancing Agent and the Lenders providing such Specified Refinancing Debt, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in
the reasonable opinion of the Specified Refinancing Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of or consistent with this
Section 2.18. In addition, if so provided in the relevant Refinancing Amendment and with the consent of each
L/C Issuer, participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the scheduled Maturity Date in respect of a Revolving Tranche shall be reallocated from Lenders holding Revolving Credit Commitments to Lenders holding extended revolving
commitments in accordance with the terms of such Refinancing Amendment;
provided,
however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the
relevant Lenders holding extended revolving commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such extended revolving commitments and the terms of such participation interests (including the commission applicable thereto) shall be
adjusted accordingly. If the Specified Refinancing Agent is not the Administrative Agent, the actions authorized to be taken by the Specified Refinancing Agent herein shall be done in consultation with the Administrative Agent and, with respect to
the preparation of any documentation necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this
Section 2.18 (including amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents), any comments to such documentation reasonably requested by
the Administrative Agent shall be reflected therein.
Section 2.19
Extension of Term
Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments.
(a)
The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the (i) Term Loans of one or more Tranches existing at the time of such request (each, an “
Existing Term Tranche”, and the Term Loans of such Tranche, the “
Existing Term Loans”) or (ii) Revolving Credit Commitments of one or more Tranches existing at the time of
such request (each, an “
Existing Revolving Tranche” and together with the Existing Term Tranches, each an “
Existing Tranche”, and the Revolving Credit Commitments of
such Existing Revolving Tranche together with the Existing Term Loans, the “
Existing Loans”), in each case, be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to
all or a portion of any principal amount of any Existing Tranche (any such Existing Tranche which has been so extended, an “
Extended Term Tranche” or “
Extended Revolving
Tranche”, as applicable, and each an “
Extended Tranche”, and the Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, of such Extended Tranches, the “
Extended
Term Loans” or “
Extended Revolving Commitments”, as applicable, and collectively, the “
Extended Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this
Section
2.19;
provided that (i) any such request shall be made by the Borrower to certain Lenders specified by the Borrower with Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, with a like maturity
date (whether under one or more Tranches) on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans or on the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable) and (ii) any applicable Minimum Extension
Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In order to establish any Extended Tranche, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “
Extended
Loans Agent”) (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the requested Lenders of the applicable Existing Tranche) (an “
Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended
Tranche to be established, which terms shall be substantially similar to those applicable to the Existing Tranche from which they are to be extended (the “
Specified Existing Tranche”), except that (w) all or
any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Tranches shall be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Tranche, (x) (A) the interest margins with respect to the Extended Tranche may be higher or lower than
the interest margins for the Specified Existing Tranche and/or (B) additional fees may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Tranche in addition to or in lieu of any increased margins contemplated by the preceding
clause (A),
(y) in the case of any Extended Term Tranche, such Extended Term Tranche shall share ratably in any mandatory prepayments of the then outstanding Initial Term Loans pursuant to
Section 2.05 (or otherwise provide for more favorable mandatory
prepayment treatment for the then outstanding Initial Term Loans than such Extended Term Tranche, other than mandatory prepayments resulting from a refinancing of any Facility, which may be applied exclusively to the Facility being refinanced), and
(z) in the case of any Extended Term Tranche (other than any Extended Term Tranche in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of the maximum aggregate principal amount then permitted to be incurred in reliance on a then-applicable Inside
Maturity Basket), so long as the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Extended Tranche would be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Specified Existing Tranche, amortization rates with respect to the Extended
Term Tranche may be higher or lower than the amortization rates for the Specified Existing Tranche, in each case to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment;
provided that, notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this
Section 2.19 or otherwise, assignments and participations of Extended Tranches shall be governed by the same or, at the Borrower’s discretion, more restrictive assignment and participation provisions
applicable to Initial Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable, set forth in
Section 10.07. No requested Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Existing Loans converted into an Extended Tranche
pursuant to any Extension Request and the commitment of any L/C Issuer to issue or maintain Letters of Credit shall not be extended pursuant to an extension of any Existing Revolving Tranche pursuant to this
Section 2.19 without its written
consent. Any Extended Tranche shall constitute a separate Tranche of Loans from the Specified Existing Tranches and from any other Existing Tranches (together with any other Extended Tranches so established on such date). On the Extension Date
applicable to any applicable Revolving Tranche under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Borrower shall prepay the Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances (to the extent participated to Revolving Credit Lenders) outstanding on such Extension Date
applicable to the relevant Revolving Tranche (and pay any additional amounts required pursuant to
Section 3.06) to the extent necessary to keep the outstanding Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances (to the extent participated to Revolving
Credit Lenders), as applicable, applicable to the non-extending Revolving Credit Lenders under such Revolving Tranche in accordance with any revised Pro Rata Share of a Revolving Credit Lender in respect of the extended Revolving Credit Facility
arising from any non-ratable Extension to the Revolving Credit Commitments under this
Section 2.19.
(b)
The Borrower shall provide the applicable Extension Request at least ten (10) Business Days (or such shorter period as the Extended Loans Agent may agree in its sole discretion)
prior to the date on which Lenders under the applicable Existing Tranche or Existing Tranches are requested to respond. Any Lender (an “
Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Specified
Existing Tranche converted into an Extended Tranche shall notify the Extended Loans Agent (each, an “
Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Extension Request of the amount of its
Specified Existing Tranche that it has elected to convert into an Extended Tranche. In the event that the aggregate amount of the Specified Existing Tranche subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Tranches requested pursuant
to the Extension Request, the Specified Existing Tranches subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Tranches on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Specified Existing Tranches included in each such Extension Election. In
connection with any extension of Loans pursuant to this
Section 2.19 (each, an “
Extension”), the Borrower and Extended Loans Agent shall agree to such procedures regarding timing, rounding, lender
revocation and other administrative adjustments to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this
Section 2.19. The
Borrower may amend, revoke or replace an Extension Request pursuant to procedures reasonably acceptable to the Extended Loans Agent at any time prior to the date on which Lenders under the applicable Existing Term Tranche or Existing Term Tranches
are requested to respond to the Extension Request.
(c)
Extended Tranches shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “
Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which may include
amendments to provisions related to maturity, interest margins or fees referenced in
clauses (x) and
(y) of
Section 2.19(a), or, in the case of Extended Term Tranches, amortization rates referenced in
clause (z) of
Section 2.19(a),
and which, in each case, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this
Section 2.19(c) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in
Section 10.01, shall not require the consent of any Lender
other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Tranches established thereby) executed by the Loan Parties, the Extended Loans Agent, and the Extending Lenders. Subject to the requirements of this
Section 2.19 and without
limiting the generality or applicability of
Section 10.01 to any Section 2.19
Additional Amendments (as defined below), any Extension
Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “
Section 2.19 Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
provided
that such Section 2.19
Additional Amendments do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.19
Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to consents applicable to holders of any Extended Tranches
provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Loan Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.19
Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with
Section 10.01;
provided,
further, that such
Extended Tranche
shall comply with the Incremental Debt Lien/Guarantee Parameters. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
Section 10.01, any such Extension Amendment may, without the consent
of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to any Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable judgment of the Borrower and the Extended Loans Agent, to effect the provisions of this
Section 2.19;
provided that the foregoing shall not constitute a consent on behalf of any Lender to the terms of any Section 2.19
Additional Amendment. The Lenders hereby authorize the Extended Loans Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary in order
to establish any Extended Loans and to make such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Extended Loans Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extended Loans, in each
case on terms consistent with and/or to effect the provisions of this
Section 2.19.
(d)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Tranche is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in
accordance with
clause (a) above (an “
Extension Date”), in the case of the Specified Existing Tranche of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such Specified Existing Tranche shall
be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Tranche so converted by such Lender on such date, and such Extended Tranches shall be established as a separate Tranche from the Specified Existing Tranche and from
any other Existing Tranches (together with any other Extended Tranches so established on such date).
(e)
If, in connection with any proposed Extension Amendment, any requested Lender declines to consent to the applicable extension on the terms and by the deadline set forth in the
applicable Extension Request (each such other Lender, a “
Non-Extending Lender”) then the Borrower may, on notice to the Extended Loans Agent and the Non-Extending Lender, replace such Non-Extending Lender by
causing such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to
Section 10.07 (with the assignment fee and any other costs and expenses to be paid by the Borrower in such instance) all of its rights and obligations under
this Agreement to one or more assignees;
provided that neither the Extended Loans Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender;
provided,
further, that the applicable assignee shall have agreed to provide Extended Loans on the terms set forth in such Extension Amendment;
provided,
further, that all obligations of the Borrower owing to the Non-Extending Lender relating to the Existing Loans so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender to such Non-Extending Lender
concurrently with such Assignment and Assumption. In connection with any such replacement under this
Section 2.19, if the Non-Extending Lender does not execute and deliver to the Extended Loans Agent a duly completed Assignment and
Assumption by the later of (A) the date on which the replacement Lender executes and delivers such Assignment and Assumption and (B) the date as of which all obligations of the Borrower owing to the Non-Extending Lender relating to the Existing
Loans so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender to such Non-Extending Lender, then such Non-Extending Lender shall be deemed to have executed and delivered such Assignment and Assumption as of such date and the Borrower shall be
entitled (but not obligated) to execute and deliver such Assignment and Assumption on behalf of such Non‑Extending Lender.
(f)
Following any Extension Date, with the written consent of the Borrower, any Non-Extending Lender may elect to have all or a portion of its Existing Loans deemed to be an
Extended Loan under the applicable Extended Tranche on any date (each date a “
Designation Date”) prior to the maturity date of such Extended Tranche;
provided that
such Lender shall have provided written notice to the Borrower and the Extended Loans Agent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to such Designation Date (or such shorter period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion);
provided,
further, that no greater amount shall be paid by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates to any such Non-Extending Lender as consideration
for its extension into such Extended Tranche than was paid to any Extending Lender as consideration for its Extension into such Extended Tranche. Following a Designation Date, the Existing Loans held by such Lender so elected to be extended will
be deemed to be Extended Loans of the applicable Extended Tranche, and any Existing Loans held by such Lender not elected to be extended, if any, shall continue to be “Existing Loans” of the applicable Tranche.
(g)
With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this
Section 2.19, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute optional or mandatory payments or
prepayments for purposes of
Sections 2.05(a) and
(b) and (ii) no Extension Request is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment;
provided that the Borrower may at its
election specify as a condition (a “
Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Request in Borrower’s sole
discretion and may be waived by the Borrower) of Existing Loans of any or all applicable Tranches be extended. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the transactions contemplated by this
Section 2.19 (including, for
the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Request) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including,
without limitation,
Sections 2.05(a) and
(b) and
2.07) or any other Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit any such Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this
Section 2.19.
Section 2.20
Permitted Debt Exchanges.
(a)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, a “
Permitted Debt Exchange Offer”)
made from time to time by the Borrower, the Borrower may from time to time following the Closing Date consummate one or more exchanges of Term Loans for Permitted Debt Exchange Notes (each such exchange a “
Permitted
Debt Exchange”) with any Lender (other than any Lender that, if requested by the Borrower, is unable to certify that it is either a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) or an institutional
“accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act)), so long as the following conditions are satisfied:
(i) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the final offering document in respect of a Permitted Debt Exchange Offer is delivered to the relevant Lenders,
(ii) the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of Term Loans exchanged shall equal no more than the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount
thereof) of Permitted Debt Exchange Notes issued in exchange for such Term Loans; provided that the aggregate principal amount of the Permitted Debt Exchange Notes may include accrued interest and
premium (if any) under the Term Loans exchanged and underwriting discounts, fees, commissions and other amounts referred to in clause (3) of the definition of “Refinancing Indebtedness” in connection with the issuance of such Permitted
Debt Exchange Notes,
(iii) the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of all Term Loans exchanged by the Borrower pursuant to any Permitted Debt Exchange shall automatically be
cancelled and retired by the Borrower on the date of the settlement thereof (and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, any applicable exchanging Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, or
such other form as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, in respect thereof pursuant to which the respective Lender assigns its interest in the Term Loans being exchanged pursuant to the Permitted Debt Exchange to the
Borrower for immediate cancellation),
(iv) if the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) tendered by Lenders in respect of the relevant Permitted Debt Exchange Offer (with no
Lender being permitted to tender a principal amount of Term Loans which exceeds the principal amount thereof actually held by it) shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of such Term Loans offered to be exchanged by the Borrower
pursuant to such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer, then the Borrower shall exchange Term Loans subject to such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer tendered by such Lenders ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts so
tendered,
(v) all documentation in respect of such Permitted Debt Exchange shall be consistent with the foregoing, and all written communications generally directed to the Lenders in connection
therewith shall be in form and substance consistent with the foregoing and made in consultation with the Borrower and the Exchange Agent and
(vi) any applicable Minimum Tender Condition (as defined below) shall be satisfied.
(b)
With respect to all Permitted Debt Exchanges effected by the Borrower pursuant to this
Section 2.20, (i) such Permitted Debt Exchanges (and the cancellation of the
exchanged Term Loans in connection therewith) shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of
Sections 2.05(a) or
(b) and (ii) such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer shall be made for not less than
$5,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of Term Loans;
provided that subject to the foregoing
clause (ii) the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “
Minimum Tender Condition”) to consummating any such Permitted Debt Exchange that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Permitted Debt Exchange Offer in Borrower’s discretion) of Term Loans of any or all
applicable classes be tendered.
(c)
In connection with each Permitted Debt Exchange, the Borrower and the Exchange Agent shall mutually agree to such procedures as may be necessary or advisable to accomplish the
purposes of this
Section 2.20 and without conflict with
Section 2.20(d);
provided that the terms of any Permitted Debt Exchange Offer shall provide that the date by which the relevant
Lenders are required to indicate their election to participate in such Permitted Debt Exchange shall be not less than a reasonable period (in the discretion of the Borrower and the Exchange Agent) of time following the date on which the Permitted
Debt Exchange Offer is made.
(d)
The Borrower shall be responsible for compliance with, and hereby agrees to comply with, all applicable securities and other laws and regulations in connection with each
Permitted Debt Exchange, it being understood and agreed that (x) none of the Exchange Agent, the Administrative Agent nor any Lender assumes any responsibility in connection with Borrower’s compliance with such laws and regulations in connection
with any Permitted Debt Exchange (other than the Borrower’s reliance on any certificate delivered pursuant to
Section 2.20(a) above for which such Lender shall bear sole responsibility) and (y) each Lender shall be solely responsible for
its compliance with any applicable “insider trading” laws and regulations to which such Lender may be subject under the Exchange Act, and/or other applicable securities laws and regulations.
(e)
If the Exchange Agent is not the Administrative Agent, the actions authorized to be taken by the Exchange Agent herein shall be done in consultation with the Administrative
Agent and, with respect to the preparation of any documentation necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this
Section 2.20, any comments to such documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent shall be
reflected therein.
ARTICLE III
TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
(a)
All payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any other Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding
for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If any applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from or in respect of any such payment,
then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law and, if such Tax is an
Indemnified Tax, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all such deductions or withholdings for Indemnified Taxes have been made (including such deductions and withholdings for Indemnified Taxes
applicable to additional sums payable under this
Section 3.01) the Administrative Agent (for amounts paid to the Administrative Agent in its own right) or Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such
deduction or withholding for Indemnified Taxes been made.
(b)
In addition but without duplication, the Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of the
Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.
(c)
Without duplication of amounts paid pursuant to
Section 3.01(a) or
Section 3.01(b), the Loan Parties shall jointly and severally
indemnify each Recipient, within 30 days after receipt by the applicable Loan Party of written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable
under this
Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to or for the account of such Recipient and any reasonable out-of-pocket expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto
(other than any interest or penalties resulting from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Recipient), whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental
Authority. A certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the calculation of the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own
behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e)
As soon as reasonably practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this
Section 3.01, such Loan Party shall deliver
to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(f)
If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to
this
Section 3.01 (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this
Section 3.01), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this
Section
3.01 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental
Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party (which request shall include a copy of any notice of assessment or other evidence of any requirement to repay such refund;
provided that, such indemnified party may redact any information therein that such indemnified party deems confidential), shall promptly repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this
Section
3.01(f) (
plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental
Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Section 3.01(f), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this
Section 3.01(f) the payment of which would
place the indemnified party in a less favorable net
after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise
to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This
Section 3.01(f) shall not be construed to require any indemnified
party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to any payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such
payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or
reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in clauses (h)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D)
of this Section 3.01(h)) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the
legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii)
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
(A)
any Lender that is a U.S. Person (or is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes if such Lender’s regarded
owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes (the “
Lender’s Regarded Owner”) is a U.S. person) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number as shall be requested by the
recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W‑9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Lender (or, if such Lender is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the Lender’s Regarded Owner) is
exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax;
(B)
any Non-U.S. Lender shall, to the extent it is legally eligible to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number as shall
be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of
the following is applicable:
(1)
in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of
interest under any Loan Document, a properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any applicable successor form), establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax
pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-8BEN or
IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any applicable successor form), claiming an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of
such tax treaty;
(2)
in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming that its extension of credit will generate U.S. effectively connected income, a properly completed and duly
executed
IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor form);
(3)
in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender (or, if a Non-U.S. Lender is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner for U.S. federal income tax purposes, the
Lender’s Regarded Owner) claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 871(h) or Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of
Exhibit H‑1 to the effect that such Non-U.S.
Lender (or the Lender’s Regarded Owner, as applicable) is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10-percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code or a “controlled
foreign corporation” that is related to the Borrower described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code, and that no payments under any Loan Document are effectively connected with such Lender’s (or the Lender’s Regarded Owner’s, as applicable)
conduct of a U.S. trade or business (a “
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-8BEN or
IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any applicable successor form); or
(4)
to the extent a Non-U.S. Lender (or, if a Non-U.S. Lender is disregarded as an entity separate from its owner for U.S.
federal income tax purposes, the Lender’s Regarded Owner) is not the beneficial owner (
e.g., where the Non-U.S. Lender (or the Lender’s Regarded Owner, as applicable) is a partnership or a participating
Lender), a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-8IMY (or any successor form), accompanied by a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-8ECI,
IRS Form W-8BEN or
IRS Form W‑8BEN-E, as applicable (or any applicable successor form), a certificate substantially in the form of
Exhibit H-2 or
Exhibit
H-3,
IRS Form W‑9 (or any successor form), and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable;
provided that if the Non-U.S.
Lender (or the Lender’s Regarded Owner, as applicable) is a partnership (and not a participating Lender) and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Non-U.S. Lender (or Lender’s Regarded Owner, as applicable) are claiming the portfolio
interest exemption, such Non-U.S. Lender shall provide a certificate substantially in the form of
Exhibit H-4 on behalf of such direct and indirect partner(s);
(C)
any Non-U.S. Lender shall, to the extent it is legally eligible to do so, deliver to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (in such number as shall be
requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Non-U.S. Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), any properly
completed and duly executed other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by
applicable Law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made;
(D)
if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to
comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times
prescribed by Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional
documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to (i) comply with their obligations under FATCA and (ii) determine whether such Lender has
complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. For purposes of this
Section 3.01(h)(ii)(D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of
this Agreement; and
(E)
the Administrative Agent, and any successor or supplemental Administrative Agent, shall deliver to the Borrower (in such number as shall be requested by
the recipient) on or prior to the date on which the Administrative Agent becomes the administrative agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower) either a
properly completed and duly executed (i) if it is a U.S. Person (or a disregarded entity of a U.S. Person for U.S. federal income tax purposes), a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-9 (or
any successor form) or (ii) if it is not a U.S. Person (or a disregarded entity of a U.S. Person for U.S. federal income tax purposes), a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-8IMY (or any
successor form), together with the required accompanying documentation, evidencing its agreement with the Borrower to assume primary withholding responsibility under Chapters 3 and 4 of the Code (with respect to amounts received under the Loan
Documents on account of any Lender) and a properly completed and duly executed
IRS Form W-8ECI (with respect to amounts received under the Loan Documents on its own account), with the effect that, in
either case, the Borrower will be entitled to make payments hereunder to the Administrative Agent without withholding or deduction on account of U.S. federal withholding Tax. Notwithstanding any provision of this
Section 3.01(h), the
Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver any form or other documentation that the Administrative Agent is not legally eligible to deliver as a result of a change in Law after the date of this Agreement.
Each Recipient agrees that if any documentation it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall promptly update and deliver such documentation to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal ineligibility to do so. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 3.01(h), no Lender shall be required to provide any
documentation that such Lender is not legally eligible to provide.
Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to deliver to the Loan Parties and to any successor Administrative Agent any documentation provided by such Lender to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section
3.01(h).
(i)
The agreements in this
Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a
Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.
(j)
For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this
Section 3.01, the term “
Lender” shall include any L/C Issuer, and the term
“applicable Law” includes FATCA.
Section 3.03
Illegality. If
any Lender reasonably determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by
reference to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or to determine or charge interest rates based upon Term SOFR or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of,
Dollars in the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (a) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue SOFR Loans or to convert ABR Loans to SOFR Loans shall be
suspended and (b) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining ABR Loans, the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Term SOFR component of the ABR, the interest rate on which ABR Loans of such
Lender, shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Term SOFR component of the ABR, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the
circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or convert all of such Lender’s SOFR Loans to ABR
Loans (the interest rate on which ABR Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Term SOFR component of the ABR). Upon any such prepayment or conversion,
the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under
Section 3.06. Each Lender agrees to designate a different Lending Office
if such designation will avoid the need for such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.
Section 3.04
Alternate Rate of Interest.
(a) Subject to
clauses (b),
(c),
(d),
(e) and
(f) of
this
Section 3.04, if:
(i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) (A) prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a SOFR Borrowing, that
adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining Term SOFR (including because the Term SOFR Reference Rate is not available or published on a current basis) for such Interest Period or (B) at any time, that adequate and reasonable
means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable Daily Simple SOFR; or
(ii)
the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that (A) prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a SOFR Borrowing, Term SOFR for
such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period or (B) at any time, Daily Simple SOFR will not adequately and fairly
reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail as promptly as practicable thereafter and, if such notice is given, the Borrower may revoke any Committed Loan
Notice for the affected Borrowing and, failing that, until (x) the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist with respect to the relevant Benchmark and (y) the
Borrower delivers a new Committed Loan Notice in accordance with the terms of
Section 2.02, any Committed Loan Notice that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a SOFR Borrowing and any Committed
Loan Notice that requests a SOFR Borrowing, shall instead be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for (x) an RFR Borrowing so long as Daily Simple SOFR is not also the subject of
Section 3.04(a)(i) or
(ii) above or (y) an
ABR Borrowing if Daily Simple SOFR also is the subject of
Section 3.04(a)(i) or
(ii) above, and any Committed Loan Notice that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, an RFR Borrowing, and
any Committed Loan Notice the requests an RFR Borrowing shall instead be deemed to be a Committed Loan Notice for an ABR Borrowing if Daily Simple SOFR is the subject of
Section 3.04(a)(i) or
(ii) above;
provided that if the circumstances giving rise to such notice affect only one Type of Borrowings, then all other Types of Borrowings shall be permitted. Furthermore, if any SOFR Loan or RFR Loan is outstanding on the date of the
Borrower’s receipt of the notice from the Administrative Agent referred to in this
Section 3.04(a) with respect to a Relevant Rate applicable to such SOFR Loan or RFR Loan, then until (x) the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and
the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist with respect to the relevant Benchmark and (y) the Borrower delivers a new Committed Loan Notice in accordance with the terms of
Section 2.02, (1)
any SOFR Loan shall on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan, be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, (x) an RFR Borrowing so long as Daily Simple SOFR is not also the
subject of
Section 3.04(a)(i) or
(ii) above or (y) an ABR Loan if Daily Simple SOFR also is the subject of
Section 3.04(a)(i) or
(ii) above, on such day and (2) any RFR Loan shall on and from such day be converted by
the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute an ABR Loan.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in
respect of any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then
(x) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with
clause (1) of the definition of “Benchmark Replacement”
for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any other Loan Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment
to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document and
(y) if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with
clause (2) of
the definition of “Benchmark Replacement” for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any other Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after
5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the date notice of such Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Lenders without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other
Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders.
(c)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from
time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other
party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(d)
The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of (i) any occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event, (ii) the implementation of any Benchmark
Replacement, (iii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes, (iv) the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to
clause (f) below and (v) the commencement or
conclusion of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Lender (or group of Lenders) pursuant to this
Section 3.04, including any
determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent
manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this
Section 3.04.
(e)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time (including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if
the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR) and either (A) any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative
Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B) the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is or will be no longer
representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for any Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or non-representative tenor and (ii) if a tenor that was removed pursuant to
clause (i) above either (A) is subsequently displayed on a screen or information service for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B) is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is or
will no longer be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of “Interest Period” for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed
tenor.
(f) Upon the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period, the Borrower may revoke any request for a SOFR Borrowing or RFR Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation
of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any request for a SOFR Borrowing into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to (A) an
RFR Borrowing so long as Daily Simple SOFR is not the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event or (B) an ABR Borrowing if Daily Simple SOFR is the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event. During any Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time
that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of ABR based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as applicable, will not be used in any determination of ABR. Furthermore, if any
SOFR Loan or RFR Loan is outstanding on the date of the Borrower’s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability Period with respect to a Relevant Rate applicable to such SOFR Loan or RFR Loan, then until such time as a
Benchmark Replacement is implemented pursuant to this Section 3.04, (1) any SOFR Loan shall on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan, be converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute, (x) an RFR
Borrowing so long as Daily Simple SOFR is not the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event or (y) an ABR Loan if Daily Simple SOFR is the subject of a Benchmark Transition Event, on such day and (2) any RFR Loan shall on and from such day be
converted by the Administrative Agent to, and shall constitute an ABR Loan.
Section 3.05
Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital
Adequacy and Liquidity Requirements.
(a)
If any Lender reasonably determines that as a result of the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any Law, in each case after the date hereof, or such
Lender’s compliance therewith, there shall be any material increase in the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Loan or (as applicable) issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or a material reduction
in the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of the foregoing (including Taxes on or in respect of its loans, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or
capital attributable thereto, but excluding for purposes of this
Section 3.05(a) any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from (i) Indemnified Taxes, (ii) Taxes described in
clauses (b) through
(d) of the
definition of Excluded Taxes and (iii) Connection Income Taxes), then within 15 days after demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail such increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance
with
Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction.
(b)
If any Lender reasonably determines that the introduction of any Law regarding capital adequacy and liquidity requirements or any change therein or in the interpretation
thereof, in each case after the date hereof, or compliance by such Lender (or its Lending Office) therewith, has the effect of materially reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a
consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then within 15 days after demand of such Lender setting forth in
reasonable detail the charge and the calculation of such reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with
Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as
will compensate such Lender for such reduction.
(c)
The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves or liquidity with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or
including SOFR funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each SOFR Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves or liquidity allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which
determination shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any liquidity requirement, reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or
financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the SOFR Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal
places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each
date on which interest is payable on such Loan;
provided that the Borrower shall have received at least 15 days’ prior written notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or
cost from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give written notice 15 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable 15 days from receipt of such written notice.
(d)
For purposes of this
Section 3.05, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines or directives
thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines, requirements and directives promulgated by the
Bank
for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities (other than foreign regulatory authorities in Switzerland), in each case
pursuant to
Basel III, shall, in each case, be deemed to have gone into effect after the date hereof and on the date enacted, adopted or issued.
Section 3.06
Funding Losses. Upon written demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis
for calculating such compensation, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any actual loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:
(a)
any continuation (if applicable), conversion, payment or prepayment of any SOFR Loans on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary,
mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);
(b)
any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan or pursuant to a conditional notice that has been revoked in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any SOFR Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower; or
(c)
any mandatory assignment of such Lender’s SOFR Loans pursuant to
Section 3.08 on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loans (including any loss
or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained but excluding anticipated profits). The Borrower shall also
pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.
Section 3.07
Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.
(a) A certificate of any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article III and setting forth in reasonable detail a calculation of the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it
hereunder shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods. With respect to any Recipient’s claim for compensation under Section
3.03, 3.04 or 3.05, the Loan Parties shall not be required to compensate such Recipient for any amount incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Recipient notifies the Borrower of the event that gives rise to
such claim; provided that, if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.
(b)
If any Lender requests compensation under
Section 3.05, or the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender, any L/C Issuer, or any Governmental
Authority for the account of any Lender or any L/C Issuer pursuant to
Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to
Section 3.03, then such Lender or the L/C Issuer, as applicable, will, if requested by the Borrower and
at the Borrower’s expense, use commercially reasonable efforts to designate another Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event;
provided that such efforts (i) would eliminate or
reduce amounts payable pursuant to
Sections 3.01 or
3.05, as applicable, in the future and (ii) would not, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, be disadvantageous in any material legal,
economic or regulatory respect to such Lender or its Lending Office or such L/C Issuer. The provisions of this
clause (b) shall not affect or postpone any Obligations of the Borrower or rights of such Lender pursuant to
Sections 3.01
and
3.05.
(c)
If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrower under
Section 3.05, the Borrower may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the
obligation of such Lender to make or continue from one Interest Period to another SOFR Loans, or to convert ABR Loans into SOFR Loans, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of
Section 3.07(e) shall be applicable);
provided that such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.
(d)
If the obligation of any Lender to make or continue from one Interest Period to another any SOFR Loans, or to convert ABR Loans into SOFR Loans shall be suspended pursuant to
Section
3.07(c) hereof, such Lender’s SOFR Loans, shall be automatically converted into ABR Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such SOFR Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by
Section 3.03,
on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in
Sections 3.03,
3.04 or
3.05 hereof that gave rise to such conversion no longer
exist:
(i)
to the extent that such Lender’s SOFR Loans have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such
Lender’s SOFR Loans shall be applied instead to its ABR Loans; and
(ii)
all Loans that would otherwise be made or continued from one Interest Period to another by such Lender as SOFR Loans shall be made or continued instead
as ABR Loans, and all ABR Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be converted into SOFR Loans shall remain as ABR Loans.
(e)
If any Lender gives notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances specified in
Sections 3.03,
3.04 or
3.05
hereof that gave rise to the conversion of such Lender’s SOFR Loans pursuant to this
Section 3.07 no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when SOFR Loans, made by other
Lenders are outstanding, such Lender’s ABR Loans shall be automatically converted, on the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding SOFR Loans to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans
held by the Lenders holding SOFR Loans, as applicable, and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, interest rate basis, and Interest Periods) in accordance with their respective Commitments.
(f)
A Lender shall not be entitled to any compensation pursuant to
Sections 3.03,
3.04 or
3.05 to the extent such Lender does not upon request certify that
it is imposing such charges or requesting such compensation from borrowers (similarly situated to the Borrower hereunder) under comparable syndicated credit facilities.
Section 3.08
Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances.
(a)
If at any time (i) the Borrower becomes obligated to pay additional amounts or indemnity payments described in
Sections 3.01 or
3.05 as a result of any condition
described in such Sections or any Lender ceases to make SOFR Loans, as and if applicable, as a result of any condition described in
Sections 3.03 or
3.04, (ii) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, (iii) any Lender becomes a
Non-Consenting Lender (as defined below in this
Section 3.08) or (iv) any Lender becomes a Non-Extending Lender (collectively, a “
Replaceable Lender”), then the Borrower may, on three (3) Business
Days’ prior written notice from the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and such Lender (for the avoidance of doubt, such notice shall be deemed provided on the same day that an amendment or waiver is posted to the Lenders for consent), either (x)
replace such Lender by causing such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to
Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be paid by the Borrower in such instance unless waived by the Administrative Agent) all of
its rights and obligations under this Agreement (or, in the case of a Non-Consenting Lender, all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Facility or Facilities for which its consent is required) to one or more
Eligible Assignees;
provided that neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person or (y) so long as no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, terminate the Commitment of such Lender or L/C Issuer, as applicable, and (1) in the case of a Lender (other than an L/C Issuer), repay all Obligations of the Borrower owing (and the amount of
all accrued interest and fees in respect thereof) to such Lender relating to the Loans and participations held by such Lender as of such termination date and (2) in the case of an L/C Issuer, repay all obligations of the Borrower owing to such L/C
Issuer relating to the Loans and participations held by such L/C Issuer as of such termination date and cancel or backstop on terms satisfactory to such L/C Issuer any Letters of Credit issued by it;
provided
that (i) in the case of any such replacement of, or termination of Commitments with respect to a Non-Consenting Lender such replacement or termination shall be sufficient (together with all other consenting Lenders including any other replacement
Lender) to cause the adoption of the applicable modification, waiver or amendment of the Loan Documents, (ii) in the case of any such replacement of, or termination of Commitments with respect to a Non-Extending Lender, such replacement Lender
shall have agreed to the applicable Extension and (iii) in the case of any such replacement as a result of the Borrower having become obligated to pay amounts described in
Sections 3.01 or
3.05, such replacement would eliminate or
reduce payments pursuant to
Sections 3.01 or
3.05, as applicable, in the future. Any Lender being replaced pursuant to this
Section 3.08(a) shall (i) execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such
Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Obligations and (ii) deliver any Notes evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (for return to the Borrower). Pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption,
(A) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as applicable, of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Obligations, (B) all Obligations relating to the Loans and participations (and the amount of
all accrued interest, fees and premiums in respect thereof) so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender to such assigning Lender concurrently with such Assignment and Assumption and (C) upon such payment and, if so requested by the
assignee Lender, the assigning Lender shall deliver to the assignee Lender the applicable Note or Notes executed by the Borrower, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the assigning Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender
hereunder with respect to such assigned Loans, Commitments and participations, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such assigning Lender. In connection with any such replacement, if any
such Replaceable Lender does not execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a duly executed Assignment and Assumption reflecting such replacement within two (2) Business Days of the date on which the assignee Lender executes and delivers such
Assignment and Assumption to such Replaceable Lender, then such Replaceable Lender shall be deemed to have executed and delivered such Assignment and Assumption without any action on the part of the Replaceable Lender. In connection with the
replacement of any Lender pursuant to this
Section 3.08(a), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such amounts as may be required pursuant to
Section 3.06.
(b)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, (i) any Lender that acts as an L/C Issuer may not be replaced hereunder at any time that it has any Letter of Credit
outstanding hereunder unless arrangements satisfactory to such L/C Issuer (including the furnishing of a backstop standby letter of credit in form and substance and issued by an issuer reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer or the depositing of
Cash Collateral into a cash collateral account in amounts and pursuant to arrangements consistent with the requirements of
Section 2.16) have been made with respect to such outstanding Letter of Credit and (ii) the Lender that acts as the
Administrative Agent may not be replaced hereunder in its capacity as the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent except in accordance with the terms of
Section 9.09.
(c)
In the event that (i) the Borrower or the Administrative Agent has requested the Lenders to consent to a waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents or to agree to any
amendment or other modification thereto, (ii) the waiver, amendment or modification in question requires the agreement of all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of
Section 10.01 or all the Lenders with respect to a certain class
of the Loans and (iii) the Required Lenders or Majority Lenders of the applicable class, as applicable, have agreed to such waiver, amendment or modification, then any Lender who does not agree to such waiver, amendment or modification, in each
case, shall be deemed a “
Non-Consenting Lender”;
provided that the term “Non-Consenting Lender” shall also include any Lender that (x) rejects (or is deemed to
reject) an Extension under
Section 2.19, which Extension has been accepted by at least the Majority Lenders of the respective Tranche of Loans whose Loans and/or Commitments are to be extended pursuant to such Extension and (y) does not
elect to become a lender in respect of any Specified Refinancing Debt pursuant to
Section 2.18.
For the avoidance of doubt, if any applicable Lender shall be deemed a Non-Consenting Lender and is required to
assign all or any portion of its Initial Tranche B Term Loans or its Initial Tranche B Term Loans are prepaid by the Borrower, pursuant to
Section 3.08(a) on or prior to the date that is six months after the Closing Date in connection with
any such waiver, amendment or modification constituting a Repricing Event, the Borrower shall pay such Non-Consenting Lender a fee equal to 1.00% of the principal amount of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans so assigned or prepaid.
(d)
Survival. All of the Loan Parties’ obligations under this
Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other
Obligations hereunder, any assignment by or replacement of a Lender and any resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent.
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 4.01
Conditions to the Initial Credit Extension on the Closing Date. The obligation of each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder on the Closing
Date is subject to satisfaction of each of the following conditions precedent, except as may be waived or otherwise agreed between the Borrower and the Lenders (subject to
Section 4.03):
(a)
The Administrative Agent shall have received all of the following, subject to
Section 6.16, each of which shall be originals or facsimiles or “pdf” files unless
otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, as applicable, each dated as of the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, as of a recent date before the Closing
Date), and each accompanied by their respective required schedules and other attachments (and set forth thereon shall be all required information with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, after giving effect to the Transactions occurring
on or before such date):
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(i)
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an executed counterpart of this Agreement from the Borrower;
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(ii)
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the Guaranty, duly executed by the Borrower and each Guarantor;
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(iii)
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the Intercompany Subordination Agreement;
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(iv)
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the Perfection Certificate;
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(v)
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the Security Agreement, duly executed by the Borrower and each Guarantor, together with:
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(A) subject to Section 4.03, to the extent required to be pledged under the terms of the Security Agreement, certificates, if any, representing the Equity Interests in each Wholly
Owned Subsidiary other than Immaterial Subsidiaries (and other than to the extent that such Equity Interests constitute Excluded Property), accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank (or stock transfer forms, as applicable) and
instruments evidencing the Pledged Debt (as defined in the Security Agreement) endorsed in blank (or instrument of transfer, as applicable);
(B) copies of proper financing statements, filed or duly prepared for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code in all applicable United States jurisdictions that the Collateral Agent may
deem reasonably necessary in order to perfect and protect the Liens on assets of each Loan Party created under the Security Agreement, covering the Collateral described in the Security Agreement;
(C) subject to Section 4.03, the results of the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent) filings, intellectual property lien searches, and tax and judgment lien searches made with
respect to the Loan Parties in the jurisdictions contemplated by the Perfection Certificate and copies of the financing statements (or similar documents) disclosed by such search and evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
that the liens indicated by such financing statements (or similar documents) are permitted by this Agreement;
(D) subject to Section 4.03, insurance certificates and endorsements with respect to the insurance policies contemplated by Section 6.07, naming the Collateral Agent as
additional insured or loss payee, as applicable; and
(E) subject to Section 4.03, all other documents and instruments required to create and perfect the Collateral Agent’s security interests in the
Collateral shall have been executed by each Loan Party, as applicable, and filed or delivered to the Collateral Agent and, if applicable, shall be in proper form for filing in accordance with applicable Law;
(vi) an Intellectual Property Security Agreement, duly executed by the Collateral Agent and each Loan Party that owns intellectual property that is required to be pledged in accordance
with the Security Agreement;
(vii) such customary documents and certifications (including Organization Documents and, if applicable, good standing certificates or certificates of status) as the Administrative Agent
may reasonably require to evidence (A) the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer of the Loan Parties acting as such in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (B) that each Loan Party is duly
organized or formed, and that each of them is validly existing and, to the extent applicable, in good standing, except to the extent that failure to be so qualified could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(viii) an opinion of (A) Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, special New York counsel to the Borrower and (B) each of Honigman LLP, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, Shumaker, Loop
& Kendrick, LLP and Polsinelli, local counsel to the Borrower, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(ix) a solvency
certificate executed by a senior financial officer (or an officer serving the equivalent function) of the Borrower (after giving effect to the Transactions occurring on the Closing Date) substantially in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit J;
(x)
a Note executed by the Borrower in favor of each Lender requesting a Note at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date;
(xi) a Committed Loan Notice and a Letter of Credit Application, if applicable, in each case relating to the initial Credit Extension to be made
on the Closing Date; and
(xii)
a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the conditions set forth in
Sections 4.01(b),
(d) and
(g)
have been satisfied.
(b)
Except as disclosed in Section 5.04 of the Schedules (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement as of November 16, 2025), or any other section of the Schedules as an exception to
a particular representation or warranty in the Acquisition Agreement if the relevance of such item to the representation in Section 5.04(c) of the Acquisition Agreement is reasonably apparent on the face of such disclosure, there has not occurred
any event that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement as of November 16, 2025).
(c)
The Borrower shall have provided at least three (3) Business Days (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) prior to the Closing Date all
documentation and other information about the Borrower and the Guarantors that is required by applicable regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation,
the PATRIOT Act and Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions issued by the U.S. Department of Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network under the Bank Secrecy Act (such rule published May 11, 2016 and effective May 11,
2018, as amended from time to time, the “
CDD Rule”) (which CDD Rule requirements shall be satisfied by delivering the LSTA form beneficial ownership certification) and requested in writing at least ten
Business Days (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) prior to the Closing Date by the Administrative Agent or the Arrangers.
(d)
Subject to
Section 4.03, (i) the Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations and (ii) the Specified Representations shall be true and correct in all material
respects, in each case, on, or as of, the Closing Date (except in the case of any Specified Acquisition Agreement Representation or Specified Representation which expressly relates to a given date or period, such representation and warranty shall
be true and correct in all material respects as of the respective date or for the respective period, as the case may be).
(e)
All fees required to be paid on the Closing Date pursuant to the Fee Letters, to the extent such expenses are invoiced at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date
(or such later date as the Borrower may reasonably agree) shall, upon the initial borrowing hereunder, have been paid or shall be paid substantially concurrently with the initial funding under this Agreement (which amounts may, at the Borrower’s
option, be offset against the proceeds of the Initial Term Loans or the proceeds of the funding of the Initial Revolving Credit Commitments).
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received:
(i) the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholder’s equity and cash flows for (x) the fiscal years ended December
31, 2023, December 31, 2024 and (y) each subsequent fiscal year ended at least 90 days prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholder’s equity and cash flows, as of (x) September 30, 2025 and (y)
the last day of each subsequent fiscal quarter (other than the fourth quarter of any fiscal year of the Borrower) ended after June 30, 2025 and at least 45 days prior to the Closing Date;
(iii) the audited consolidated balance sheet, (x) as of December 31, 2024 and (y) as of the last day of any subsequent fiscal year ended thereafter and on or prior to the date that is 120
days prior to the Closing Date, of OmniMax International, LLC and its Subsidiaries and the audited consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive operations, changes in equity and cash flows of OmniMax International, LLC and its
Subsidiaries, together with the notes thereto, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 and for any subsequent fiscal year ended thereafter and at least 120 days prior to the Closing Date;
(iv) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet, (x) as of June 27, 2025 and (y) as of the last day of each subsequent fiscal quarter (other than the fourth fiscal quarter of any fiscal
year) ended thereafter and on or prior to the date that is 60 days prior to the Closing Date, of OmniMax International, LLC and its Subsidiaries, and the unaudited consolidated statement of operations of OmniMax International, LLC and its
Subsidiaries for the 3- (in the case of first quarter financial statements), 6- (in the case of second-quarter financial statements), or 9- (in the case of third-quarter financial statements) month period then ended; and
(v) an unaudited pro forma consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its subsidiaries as of the date of the most recent consolidated balance
sheet delivered pursuant to the preceding clauses (iii) or (iv) and a pro forma statement of operations for the twelve-month period ending on such balance sheet date, in each case adjusted to give
effect to the Transactions, which need not be prepared in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or include adjustments for purchase accounting.
(g) Substantially concurrently with the initial Credit Extensions on the Closing Date, the Acquisition shall be consummated, in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Acquisition Agreement,
without giving effect to any modifications or amendments to the provisions thereof, or consents or waivers thereto, in each case by the Borrower, that in the aggregate are material and adverse to the Lenders (in their capacities as such), as
determined by the Borrower, without the prior consent of the Majority Lead Arrangers (as defined in the Fee Letter set forth in clause (i) of the definition thereof) (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned). For
purposes of the foregoing condition, it is hereby understood and agreed that (a) any adverse change or waiver of, or modification to, the definition of Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) contained in the Acquisition
Agreement shall be deemed to be material and adverse to the Lenders, (b)(i) any reduction of the purchase price (or amendment to the Acquisition Agreement related thereto) shall not be deemed to be material and adverse to the interests of the
Lenders so long as such reduction is applied to reduce any amounts to be funded under the Term Facilities (to be allocated among the Term Facilities as directed by the Borrower) and (ii) any increase in purchase price (or amendment to the
Acquisition Agreement related thereto which directly results in an increase in purchase price) shall not be deemed to be materially adverse to the Lenders if such increase is (at the Borrower’s option) (x) funded with amounts permitted to be drawn
under the Revolving Credit Facility on the Closing Date or (y) funded with common stock of the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries or additional cash on hand at the Borrower and its subsidiaries and/or the Borrower and its subsidiaries on the
Closing Date; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, any purchase price adjustments in accordance with the terms of the Acquisition Agreement shall be deemed not adverse to the interests of the Lenders and
(c) each Arranger shall be deemed to have consented to any such modification, amendment, consent or waiver unless they shall object thereto in writing (including via email) within three business days of receipt of written notice of such
modification, amendment, consent or waiver.
(h) The Closing Date Refinancing shall have been consummated, or shall be consummated substantially simultaneously with the initial borrowing under the Facilities on the Closing Date.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.03, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, each Lender as of the Closing Date shall be
deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required hereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have
received written notice from such Lender prior to the Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.
Section 4.02
Conditions to All Credit Extensions. The obligation of each Lender to honor any Request for Credit Extension (other than on the Closing Date, or with respect to a Committed Loan
Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of SOFR Loans) is subject to the satisfaction or due waiver in accordance with
Section 10.01 of the following conditions precedent (subject to
Section
1.02(i)):
(a)
The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in
Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material
respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier
date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects (and in all respects if any such representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality) as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this
Section
4.02, the representations and warranties contained in
Sections 5.05(a) and
(b) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent financial statements furnished pursuant to
Sections 6.01(a) and
(b), respectively,
prior to such proposed Credit Extension.
(b)
No Default or Event of Default shall exist at the time of or immediately after giving effect to such proposed Credit Extension.
The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the L/C Issuer shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
Section 4.03
Conditionality Provisions. Notwithstanding anything in the Fee Letter, the Loan Documents or any other letter agreement or other undertaking concerning the
financing of the Transactions to the contrary, the following provisions will apply:
(a) The only representations and warranties that will be made and the making of which shall be a condition to the availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date shall be the Specified Acquisition Agreement
Representations and the Specified Representations.
(b) Notwithstanding anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, it is understood that, other than with respect to (i) the execution and delivery by the Borrower and the Guarantors of the Security Agreement
and the Intellectual Property Security Agreement and (ii) the delivery of (x) Filing Collateral (as defined below) or (y) Stock Certificates (as defined below) representing equity securities of the Guarantors, to the extent any Guarantee, insurance
certificate or endorsement, security interest or Lien on any Collateral is not or cannot be provided and/or perfected on the Closing Date after the Borrower’s use of commercially reasonable efforts to do so or without undue burden or expense (provided that Stock Certificates for the entities comprising the Target and its Subsidiaries will only be required to be delivered on the Closing Date to the extent received from the Target), then the provision
of any Guarantee, insurance certificate or endorsement or the provision and/or perfection of a security interest or a Lien on such Collateral shall not constitute a condition precedent for purposes of Section 4.01 or otherwise an obligation of
the Borrower or its Subsidiaries on the Closing Date, but instead shall be required to be provided and/or delivered after the Closing Date in accordance with Section 6.16.
For purposes of this Section 4.03, “Filing Collateral” means Collateral, including Collateral constituting investment property, for which a security interest can be perfected by filing a UCC financing statement
and “Stock Certificates” means certificates representing Capital Stock of a Person (other than Immaterial Subsidiaries) (provided that the Borrower shall not be required to deliver Stock Certificates constituting Excluded Property) for which a
security interest can be perfected by delivering such certificates, together with undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank for each such certificate, as required to be delivered pursuant to the Security
Agreement.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower represents and warrants, in each case after giving effect to the Transactions occurring on or before such date, to the Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and the Lenders on the Closing Date, solely
with respect to the Specified Representations, and on each other date thereafter on which a Credit Extension is made, as provided in Section 4.02, that:
Section 5.01
Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries (subject, in
the case of
clause (c), to
Section 5.03) (a) is a Person duly organized, formed or incorporated, amalgamated or continued, validly existing and in good standing (to the extent such concept is applicable in the relevant jurisdiction)
under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan
Documents to which it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and is authorized to do business and in good standing (to the extent such concept is applicable in the relevant jurisdiction) under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or
operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and (d) has all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to operate its business as currently conducted; except in each case referred
to in
clauses (a) (other than with respect to the Borrower),
(b)(i),
(b)(ii) (other than with respect to the Borrower),
(c) and
(d), to the extent that any failure to be so or to have such would not
reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.02
Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such
Person is or is to be a party, are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action and do not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization
Documents or (b) violate any Law, except in the case of this
clause (b), to the extent that such violation would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.03
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents.
No approval, consent, exemption, authorization or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery, performance by, or enforcement
against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for the consummation of the Transactions, (b) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents or (c) the perfection or maintenance
of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents, except for (w) filings and registrations necessary to perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by the Loan Parties consisting of UCC financing statements and filings in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, (x) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect, (y)
those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings set out in the Collateral Documents and (z) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which
to obtain or make would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.04
Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party (to the
extent such concept is applicable in the relevant jurisdiction and subject, in each case, to
Section 5.03) that is party thereto. This Agreement and each other Loan Document constitutes, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan
Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms (except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors’
rights generally and by general principles of equity).
Section 5.05
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.
(a)
The audited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower (or of any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a Parent Holding Company allowed to be delivered pursuant to the
terms hereof) and its Subsidiaries most recently delivered pursuant to
Section 6.01(a) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower (or of any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a Parent
Holding Company allowed to be delivered pursuant to the terms hereof) and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period
covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein.
(b)
The unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower (or of any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a Parent Holding Company allowed to be delivered pursuant to
the terms hereof) and its Subsidiaries most recently delivered pursuant to
Section 6.01(b) (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein,
and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower (or of any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a Parent Holding Company allowed to be delivered pursuant to the terms hereof) and its
Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject to the absence of footnotes and to normal and recurring year-end audit adjustments.
(c)
Since the Closing Date, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(d) The Projections prepared by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its representatives and that have been made available to any Lenders or Agents in writing prior to the Closing Date in connection with the
Transactions or the other transactions contemplated hereby were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were believed by the Borrower to be reasonable in light of the conditions existing at the time
of delivery of such forecasts; it being understood that no assurance can be given that any particular projections will be realized, actual results may vary from such forecasts and that such variations may be material.
Section 5.06
Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or
before any Governmental Authority, against any Restricted Group Member, or against any of their properties or revenues that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.07
Use of Proceeds. The Borrower:
(a)
will only use the proceeds of the Initial Term Loans
made on the Closing Date to finance all or a portion of the Transaction, to finance any OID
and/or upfront fees and for working capital and other general corporate purposes; and
(b)
will use the Letters of Credit issued and the proceeds of all other Borrowings made on or after the Closing Date to finance the Transactions, the working capital needs of any
Restricted Group Member, for general corporate purposes of any Restricted Group Member (including acquisitions, restricted payments and other Investments permitted hereunder) and/or for any other purpose not prohibited by this Agreement;
provided
that the aggregate amount of Revolving Credit Loans made on the Closing Date to finance the Transaction and for working capital and general corporate purposes shall not exceed $25,000,000.
Section 5.08
Ownership of Property; Liens. Each Loan Party and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries has fee simple or other comparable valid title to, or leasehold
interests in, all real property necessary in the ordinary conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens except for minor defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business or to utilize such assets for
their intended purposes and Liens not prohibited by
Section 7.02, except where the failure to have such title or interests would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect on the use or
operation of any real property necessary for the ordinary conduct of the Borrower’s business, taken as a whole.
Section 5.09
Environmental Compliance. Except as would not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a)
the Restricted Group and their respective operations and properties are in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits and none of the Restricted
Group are subject to any Environmental Liability.
(b)
(i) None of the properties currently or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, formerly owned or operated by any Restricted Group Member is listed or, to the knowledge of the
Borrower, proposed for listing on the NPL or on the SEMS or any analogous foreign, state, provincial, territorial or local list, (ii) there is no asbestos or asbestos-containing material on any property currently owned or operated by any Restricted
Group Member requiring investigation, remediation, mitigation, removal, or assessment, or other response, remedial or corrective action, pursuant to any Environmental Law and (iii) Hazardous Materials have not been
Released and there exists no threat of Release of Hazardous Materials on any property currently or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, formerly owned or operated by any Restricted Group Member, except for such
Releases or threats of Releases that were in compliance with, or would not reasonably be expected to give rise to liability of any Restricted Group Member under any Environmental Law.
(c)
None of the Restricted Group is undertaking, either individually or together with other potentially responsible parties, any investigation, remediation, mitigation, removal,
assessment or remedial, response or corrective action relating to any actual or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials at any site, location or operation, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the
requirements of any Environmental Law.
(d)
All
Hazardous Materials Released, generated, used, treated, handled or stored at, or transported to or from, any
property currently or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, formerly owned or operated by any Restricted Group Member have been disposed of in a manner that would not reasonably be expected to result in liability to any Restricted Group Member.
(e)
None of the Restricted Group has received notice of or is subject to any claim, action, proceeding or suit with respect to any actual or alleged Environmental Liability.
Section 5.10
Taxes. The Restricted Group Members have filed or have caused to be filed all federal, state, local and other Tax returns and reports required to have been
filed (taking into account any valid extensions thereof), and have paid all Taxes (including in their capacity as withholding agents) levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those (a)
which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP or (b) with respect to which the failure to make such filing or payment would not
reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.11
Employee Benefit Plans.
(a)
Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (i) each Plan is in compliance with the applicable
provisions of ERISA, the Code and other applicable federal and state Laws and (ii) each Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code may rely upon an opinion letter for a prototype plan or has received a favorable
determination letter from the IRS to the effect that the form of such Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and the trust related thereto has been determined by the IRS to be exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the
Code, or an application for such a letter will be submitted to the IRS within the applicable required time period with respect thereto or is currently being processed by the IRS, and to the knowledge of any Loan Party, nothing has occurred that
would prevent, or cause the loss of, such tax-qualified status.
(b)
Except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Foreign Plan is in compliance with all requirements of
Law applicable thereto and the respective requirements of the governing documents for such plan.
(c) Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any
Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan and (ii) there has been no “prohibited transaction” within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 or 407 of ERISA (and not otherwise exempt under Section 408 of ERISA) with respect to
any Plan.
(d)
Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) No ERISA Event has occurred and neither any Loan Party nor, to the knowledge of any Loan
Party, any ERISA Affiliate is aware of any fact, event or circumstance that would reasonably be expected to constitute or result in an ERISA Event with respect to any Plan, Multiemployer Plan or Foreign Plan, (ii) each Loan Party and each ERISA
Affiliate has met all applicable requirements under the Pension Funding Rules in respect of each Plan, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards under such Pension Funding Rules has been applied for or obtained, (iii) there exists no Unfunded
Pension Liability, (iv) as of the most recent valuation date for any Plan, the present value of all accrued benefits under such Plan (based on the actuarial assumptions used to fund such Plan) did not exceed the value of the assets of such Plan
allocable to such accrued benefits, (v) neither any Loan Party nor, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, any ERISA Affiliate knows of any facts or circumstances that would reasonably be expected to cause the funding target attainment percentage (as
defined in Section 430(d)(2) of the Code) for any Plan, if applicable, to drop below 80.0% as of the most recent valuation date,
(vi) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability to the
PBGC other than for the payment of premiums, and there are no premium payments which have become due that are unpaid, (vii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Sections 4069 or
4212(c) of ERISA and (viii) no Plan has been terminated by the plan administrator thereof or by the PBGC and no event or circumstance has occurred or exists that would reasonably be expected to cause the PBGC to institute proceedings under Title IV
of ERISA to terminate any Plan or Multiemployer Plan.
Section 5.12
Subsidiaries; Capital Stock. All of the outstanding Capital Stock in the Restricted Subsidiaries
that are owned by a Loan Party have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (other than for those Restricted Subsidiaries that are limited liability companies and limited partnerships and to the extent such concepts are not
applicable in the relevant jurisdiction) and are owned free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens.
Section 5.13
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.
(a)
None of the Loan Parties is engaged, nor will any such Loan Party engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying Margin
Stock, or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock. Neither the making of any Credit Extension hereunder nor the use of proceeds thereof will violate any regulations of the FRB, including the provisions of
Regulations T, U or X of the FRB. No proceeds of any Borrowings and no Letters of Credit will be used to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying any Margin Stock;
provided that this sentence shall not be included in any representation or warranty in connection with the establishment of any New Loan Commitments or the incurrence of New Term
Loans unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower and the applicable lenders under any such facility.
(b)
None of the Loan Parties is, or is required to be, registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
Section 5.14
Disclosure. As of the Closing Date, no report, financial statement, certificate or other written information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party
(other than projected financial information, pro forma financial information and information of a general economic or industry nature) to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this
Agreement or delivered hereunder or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished), when taken as a whole, contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein (when taken as a whole), in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading;
provided that, with respect to projected and pro forma financial
information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time of preparation and delivery; it being understood that actual results may vary from such
forecasts and that such variances may be material. As of the Closing Date, in relation to the Initial Term Loans incurred by the Borrower on such date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification, if applicable, is, to the
knowledge of the Borrower, true and correct in all respects.
Section 5.15
Compliance with Laws. The Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary is in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all
orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently
conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.16
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. To the knowledge of the Borrower, the Borrower and each Guarantor owns, licenses or
possesses the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property rights (collectively, “
IP Rights”) that are necessary for the operation of
its respective business, as currently conducted, except to the extent such failure to own, license or possess, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and
provided that the foregoing shall not be deemed to constitute a representation that the Borrower and the Guarantors do not infringe or violate the IP Rights held by any other Person. To the knowledge of the Borrower, the conduct
of the business of the Borrower or Guarantors as currently conducted does not infringe upon or violate any IP Rights held by any other Person, except for such infringements and violations which, individually or in the aggregate, could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and no claim or litigation alleging any such infringement or violation is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing, which, either individually or in the aggregate,
would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.17
Solvency. On the Closing Date, immediately after giving
pro forma effect to the Transactions occurring on the
Closing Date, including the consummation of the Closing Date Refinancing and the incurrence of indebtedness and obligations being incurred on the Closing Date in connection with this Agreement and the Transactions occurring on the Closing Date, the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent.
Section 5.18
Perfection, Etc. Each Collateral Document delivered pursuant to this Agreement will, upon execution and delivery thereof, be
effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, legal, valid and enforceable Liens on, and security interests in, the Collateral described therein to the extent intended to be created thereby, except as
to enforcement, as may be limited by applicable domestic or foreign bankruptcy, winding-up, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization (by way of voluntary arrangement, schemes of arrangements or otherwise), moratorium and other similar laws
relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (a) when financing statements and other filings in the appropriate form are filed or registered, as
applicable, in the offices of the Secretary of State of each Loan Party’s jurisdiction of organization or formation and applicable documents are filed and recorded as applicable in the United States Copyright Office or the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and (b) upon the taking of possession or control by the Collateral Agent of such Collateral with respect to which a security interest may be perfected only by possession or control (which possession or control shall be given to the
Collateral Agent to the extent possession or control by the Collateral Agent is required by the applicable Collateral Document) the Liens created by the Collateral Documents shall constitute fully perfected Liens and, solely with respect to Equity
Interests (other than with respect to Equity Interests constituting Excluded Property), fully perfected Liens (subject to no other Liens other than Permitted Liens), in each case, so far as possible under relevant law on, and security interests in
(to the extent intended to be created thereby and required to be perfected under the Loan Documents), all right, title and interest of the grantors in such Collateral in each case free and clear of any Liens other than Liens permitted hereunder.
Section 5.19
Sanctions; OFAC.
(a)
Sanctions Laws and Regulations. The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is (i) in compliance with applicable Sanctions Laws and Regulations and (ii) in compliance, in
all material respects, with applicable anti-money laundering laws and regulations. No Borrowing or Letter of Credit, or use of proceeds therefrom, will violate or result in the violation of any Sanctions Laws and Regulations by any party hereto.
(b)
OFAC. None of the Borrower, its Subsidiaries or any director, officer or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, manager, agent or employee of the Borrower or any of their
respective Subsidiaries, in each case, is a Sanctioned Person. The Borrower will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the Loans or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person, (x) for the purpose of financing activities or
transactions of or with any Sanctioned Person, or dealings or investments in or with any Sanctioned Country or (y) in any manner that would constitute or give rise to a violation of Sanctions Laws and Regulations by any party hereto.
Section 5.20
Anti-Corruption Laws. No part of the
proceeds of any Loan will, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, be used for any improper payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or
anyone else acting in an official capacity, or any other party (if applicable) in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or
any other similar law relating to corruption or bribery that applies to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries (the “
Anti-Corruption Laws”). Each of the Borrower, each of its Subsidiaries and their
respective officers, directors and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, employees and agents are in compliance in all material respects with Anti-Corruption Laws.
Section 5.21
No Default. No
Default or Event of Default has occurred or is continuing under this Agreement.
ARTICLE VI
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation (other than any Remaining Obligations) hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit remains outstanding
(other than any Remaining Obligations), the Borrower shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02 and 6.03) cause each Restricted Subsidiary:
Section 6.01
Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for further distribution to each Lender:
(a)
within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year (or 120 days after the fiscal years ending December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2026) (or if such day is not a Business Day, on
the next succeeding Business Day) of the Borrower, commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated
statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case, starting with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2027, in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in
reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of any independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any qualification or exception as to “going concern” or scope of the audit (other than any such qualification, exception or explanatory paragraph that is expressly solely with
respect to, or expressly resulting solely from, (i) an upcoming maturity date under the Facilities
or other Indebtedness that is scheduled to occur within one year from the time such report and opinion are
delivered, (ii) any actual or potential inability to satisfy a financial maintenance covenant, including the Financial Covenants, on a future date or in a future period, (iii) the activities, operations, financial results, assets or liabilities of
any Unrestricted Subsidiary or (iv) a civil or criminal investigative demand, subpoena or other request for information arising from any investigation or inquiry by or on behalf of any Governmental Authority or any claim, complaint, other form of
accusation of a potential or actual charge or claim, litigation, investigation, arbitration or any other form of proceeding or inquiry arising from or relating to any of the foregoing (but which may contain an explanatory note or emphasis of matter
paragraph));
(b)
within 45 days (or 60 days with respect to each of the first three of such fiscal quarters for which quarterly financial statements are required to be delivered pursuant to this
Section 6.01(b)) after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower (or if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day), starting with the first fiscal quarter ended after the
Closing Date, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations and cash flows for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the
fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case, starting with the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2027, in comparative form the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the
previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes;
(d) if the Borrower has designated any of its Subsidiaries as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, and such Unrestricted Subsidiary would, if taken as a whole with all other Unrestricted Subsidiaries, constitute a
Material Subsidiary, then the annual and quarterly information required by Sections 6.01(a) and (b) above shall include a presentation, either on the face of the financial statements or in footnotes thereto, to reflect the
adjustments which would be necessary to eliminate the accounts of Unrestricted Subsidiaries from such financial statements (and which presentation, for the avoidance of doubt, need not be audited).
Notwithstanding the foregoing:
(A) the obligations in
clauses (a) and
(b) of this
Section 6.01 may be satisfied by furnishing, at the Borrower’s option, the applicable financial statements or, as applicable,
forecasts of (I) any successor of the Borrower, (II) any Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower that, together with its consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, constitutes substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its combined
and consolidated Subsidiaries (a “
Qualified Reporting Subsidiary”) or (III) any Parent Holding Company;
provided that to the extent such information relates to a
Qualified Reporting Subsidiary or a Parent Holding Company, such information is accompanied by customary consolidating information (which may be unaudited) that explains in reasonable detail the material differences between the information relating
to such Qualified Reporting Subsidiary or any Parent Holding Company, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Restricted Group on a standalone basis, on the other hand,
(B) (i) in the event that the Borrower (or any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a Parent Holding Company allowed to be delivered pursuant to the terms hereof) delivers to the Administrative Agent an
Annual Report on
Form 10-K for any fiscal year (or similar filing in the applicable jurisdiction or other reports or filings which contain the information contemplated
herein), as filed with the SEC or in such form as would have been suitable for filing with the SEC (or similar governing body in the applicable jurisdiction, in each case), within the time frames set forth in
clause (a) above, such
Form 10-K shall satisfy all requirements of
clause (a) of this
Section 6.01 with respect to such fiscal year to the extent that it contains the information and report and opinion required by
such
clause (a) and such report and opinion does not contain any qualification or exception as to “going concern” or the scope of the audit (other than any such qualification, exception or explanatory paragraph that is expressly permitted
to be contained therein under
clause (a) of this
Section 6.01) (but which may contain an explanatory note or emphasis of matter paragraph) and (ii) in the event that the Borrower (or any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a
Parent Holding Company allowed to be delivered pursuant to the terms hereof) delivers to the Administrative Agent a
Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for any fiscal
quarter (or similar filing in the applicable jurisdiction or other reports or filings which contain the information contemplated herein), as filed with the SEC or in such form as would have been suitable for filing with the SEC (or similar
governing body in the applicable jurisdiction, in each case), within the time frames set forth in
clause (b) above, such
Form 10-Q shall satisfy all requirements of
clause (b) of this
Section
6.01 with respect to such fiscal quarter to the extent that it contains the information required by such
clause (b), and
(C) any financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and 6.01(b) shall not be required to contain:
(i) purchase accounting adjustments relating to the Transactions or any other transactions permitted hereunder to the extent it is not practicable to include any such adjustments in
such financial statements,
(ii) segment reporting and disclosure (including any required by FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 280),
(iii) separate financial statements or other information contemplated by Rules 3-05, 3-09, 3-10, 3-16, Rule 13-01 and Rule 13-02 or 4-08 of Regulation S-X (or any successor provisions) or
any schedules required by Regulation S-X,
(iv) information required by Regulation G under the Exchange Act or Item 10, Item 302, Item 402 or Item 601 of Regulation S‑K (or any successor provision),
(vi) earnings per share information,
(vii) information regarding executive compensation and related party disclosure related to SEC Release Nos. 33-8732A, 34-54302A and IC-27444A,
(viii) other information customarily excluded from an offering circular, and
(ix) following the consummation of an acquisition in the applicable period or the period thereafter, the obligations in clauses (a) and (b) of this Section 6.01
with respect to the target of such acquisition may be satisfied by, at the option of the Borrower, (A) furnishing management accounts for the target of such acquisition or (B) omitting the target of such acquisition from the required financial
statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the applicable period and the period thereafter.
Section 6.02
Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the Administrative Agent:
(a)
no later than five (5) Business Days after the delivery of (i) the financial statements referred to in
Sections 6.01(a) and
(b) or (ii) an
Annual Report on Form 10-K or a Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (in either case, delivered pursuant to the last paragraph of
Section 6.01), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed
by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (which delivery may, unless the Administrative Agent or a Lender requests executed originals, be by electronic communication including fax or email and shall be deemed to be an original authentic counterpart
thereof for all purposes);
(b)
promptly after the same are available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower may file with the SEC under
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor, or with any national securities exchange, and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant
hereto;
(d)
promptly after the receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, copies of each notice or other correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable agency in any
applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction) concerning any material investigation or other material inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries;
(e)
promptly after the assertion or occurrence thereof, notice of any action arising under any Environmental Law against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or of any
noncompliance by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit, in each case that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(f)
promptly, such additional information regarding the business, legal, financial or corporate affairs of any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof as the Administrative
Agent or, following the occurrence and continuation of any Event of Default, any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request, except to the extent that the provision of any such information would breach any law
or contract to which the Borrower or a Subsidiary is a party.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a), (b), or (d) or Section 6.02(b) (or to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the
SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s (or any Parent Holding Company or Subsidiary of a Parent Holding Company allowed to be
delivered pursuant to the terms hereof) behalf on the Platform or another relevant internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored
by the Administrative Agent). The Administrative Agent shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for timely accessing posted documents.
The Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arrangers will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrower
hereunder (collectively, “
Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on
IntraLinks/IntraAgency,
SyndTrak or another similar electronic system (the “
Platform”) and (b) certain of the
Lenders (each, a “
Public Lender”) may have personnel who wish only to receive information that (i) is publicly available, (ii) is not material with respect to the Restricted Group or its respective securities
for purposes of applicable foreign, United States federal and state securities laws with respect to the Borrower or its Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market related
activities with respect to such Persons’ securities or (iii) constitutes information of a type that would be publicly available if the Restricted Group were public reporting companies (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) (such information,
“
Public Side Information”). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent may treat financial statements delivered pursuant to
Sections 6.01(a) and
(b) and
Compliance Certificates delivered pursuant to
Section 6.02(a) as being deemed to be suitable for posting on a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information”.
Section 6.03
Notices. Promptly, after a Responsible Officer of any Loan Party has obtained knowledge thereof, notify the Administrative
Agent:
(a)
of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(b)
of the institution of any material litigation not previously disclosed by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, or any material development in any material litigation that
is reasonably likely to be adversely determined, and would, in either case, if adversely determined be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(c)
(i) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event, where there is any reasonable likelihood of the imposition of liability on any Loan Party as a result thereof that would be reasonably
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (ii) promptly after any reasonable request therefor by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide copies of (A) any documents described in Section 101(k)(1) of ERISA that the Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate has received with respect to any Multiemployer Plan with respect to which there is any reasonable likelihood of a Material Adverse Effect or (B) any notices described in Section 101(l)(1) of ERISA that the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate has received with respect to any Multiemployer Plan with respect to which there is any reasonable likelihood of the imposition of liability that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
provided,
however, that if the Borrower has not requested or received such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Multiemployer Plan, the Borrower or
ERISA Affiliate shall promptly make a request for such documents and notices from such administrator or sponsor and shall provide copies of such documents and notices promptly after receipt thereof.
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the
Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 6.04
Payment of Taxes. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy as the same shall become due and payable, all Taxes (including in its capacity as withholding agent) imposed upon it or its
income, profits, properties or other assets except those (a) which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by any Restricted
Group Member or (b) with respect to which the failure to pay, discharge or satisfy the same would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.05
Preservation of Existence, Etc. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its
organization except in a transaction not prohibited by
Sections 7.03 or
7.04, (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing, if such concept is applicable in its jurisdiction of
organization), permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or as otherwise permitted
hereunder, and (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to preserve or renew all of its registered copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect or as otherwise permitted hereunder;
provided that nothing in this
Section 6.05 shall require the preservation, renewal or maintenance of, or prevent the abandonment by, any Restricted Group
Member of any registered copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks that any Restricted Group Member reasonably determines is not useful to its business or is no longer commercially desirable.
Section 6.06
Maintenance of Properties. Except if the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, maintain, preserve and
protect all of its tangible properties and equipment that are necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and casualty or condemnation excepted.
Section 6.07
Maintenance of Insurance. Except if the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, maintain in full force and effect, with insurance
companies that the Borrower believes (in the good faith judgment of the Borrower) are financially sound and responsible at the time the relevant coverage is placed or renewed, insurance in at least such amounts (after giving effect to any
self-insurance which the Borrower believes (in the good faith judgment of management of the Borrower) is reasonable and prudent in light of the size and nature of its business) and against at least such risks (and with such risk retentions) as are
usually insured against in the same general area by companies engaged in businesses similar to those engaged by the Restricted Group. Subject to
Section 6.16, the Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that at all
times from and after the Closing Date the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall be named as an additional insured with respect to liability policies (other than directors and officers policies and workers compensation)
maintained by the Borrower, the Borrower and each Guarantor and the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall be named as loss payee and mortgagee with respect to the property insurance maintained by the Borrower and each
Guarantor;
provided that, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing subject to
Section 2.05, (A) all proceeds from insurance policies shall be paid to the Borrower or
applicable Guarantor, (B) to the extent the Collateral Agent receives any proceeds, the Collateral Agent shall turn over to the Borrower any amounts received by it as an additional insured or loss payee under any property insurance maintained by
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (C) the Collateral Agent agrees that the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries shall have the sole right to adjust or settle any claims under such insurance.
Section 6.08
Compliance with Laws. Comply with all applicable Laws (including, without limitation, ERISA, the PATRIOT Act, Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions Laws and Regulations) in all material
respects and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or to its business or property, except if the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.09
Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account, in a manner to allow financial statements to be prepared in all material respects in conformity with GAAP consistently
applied in respect of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable (it being understood and agreed that Non-U.S. Subsidiaries may maintain individual books and
records in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles that are applicable in their respective jurisdiction of organization).
Section 6.10
Inspection Rights. Permit representatives of the Administrative Agent and, during the continuance of any Event of Default, of
each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties (subject to the rights of lessees or sublessees thereof and subject to any restrictions or limitations in the applicable lease, sublease or other written occupancy arrangement pursuant to which
any Restricted Group Member is a party), to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, managers, officers, and
independent public accountants (subject to such accountants’ customary policies and procedures), at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance written notice to the
Borrower;
provided that, excluding any such visits and inspections during the continuation of an Event of Default, (i) only the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders may exercise rights under this
Section
6.10, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall not exercise such rights more often than one time during any calendar year and (iii) such exercise shall be at the Borrower’s reasonable expense;
provided,
further, that when an Event of Default is continuing the Administrative Agent (or any of its respective representatives) may do any of the foregoing at the reasonable expense of the Borrower at any time and from
time to time during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance written notice. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall give the Borrower the opportunity to participate in any discussions with the Borrower’s accountants.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Section 6.10, none of the Restricted Group will be required to disclose or permit the inspection or discussion of, any document, information or other matter (i) that constitutes non-financial
trade secrets or non-financial proprietary information, (ii) in respect of which disclosure to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or their respective representatives or contractors) is prohibited by Law or any binding agreement or (iii) that
is subject to attorney client or similar privilege or constitutes attorney work product.
Section 6.11
Use of Proceeds. The Borrower will use the Letters of Credit and the proceeds of the Loans only as provided in
Sections 5.07,
5.13(a),
5.19
and
5.20.
Section 6.12
Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security.
(a) Upon the formation or acquisition of any new Wholly Owned Subsidiary (including, without
limitation, pursuant to an LLC Division or LP Division, or the creation of new Series LLC or Series LP) by any Loan Party after the Closing Date (
provided that each of (x) any Subsidiary Redesignation
resulting in an Unrestricted Subsidiary becoming a Restricted Subsidiary and (y) any Excluded Subsidiary ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary but remaining a Restricted Subsidiary shall be deemed to constitute the acquisition of a Restricted
Subsidiary for all purposes of this
Section 6.12) and/or (b) upon the acquisition of any property (other than Excluded Property) by any Loan Party, which property, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, is not already
subject to a perfected Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (and where such a perfected Lien would be required in accordance with the terms of the Collateral Documents or other Loan Documents), the Borrower
shall, at the Borrower’s expense:
(1)
in connection with such formation or acquisition of a Subsidiary pursuant to
Section 6.12(a), within the later of (x) 90 days after such
formation or acquisition or (y) the date of delivery of the next Compliance Certificate in accordance with
Section 6.02(a) after such formation or acquisition (or, in each case, such longer period as the Collateral Agent may agree in
its reasonable discretion), (A) cause each such Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary to duly execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Administrative Agent, and a joinder or supplement to the applicable Collateral Documents and (B) (if not already so delivered) deliver certificates (or the foreign equivalent thereof, as applicable) representing the Pledged Interests of
each such Subsidiary (if any) held by the applicable Loan Party accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank and instruments evidencing the Pledged Debt owing by such Subsidiary to any Loan
Party indorsed in blank to the Collateral Agent, together with, if requested by the Collateral Agent, supplements to the Security Agreement;
provided that no Excluded Property shall be required to be
pledged as Collateral,
(2)
in connection with such acquisition of any property pursuant to
Section 6.12(b), within the later of (x) 90 days after such acquisition or (y)
the date of delivery of the next Compliance Certificate in accordance with
Section 6.02(a) after such acquisition (or, in each case, such longer period as the Collateral Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion), cause each such
Loan Party to duly execute and deliver to the Collateral Agent one or more Security Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements and other Collateral Documents, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent (consistent, to the extent applicable, with the Security Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement and the other Collateral Documents (and
Section 6.14)), securing payment of all the Obligations of the
applicable Loan Party under the Loan Documents and establishing Liens on all such properties or property;
provided that such properties or property shall not be required to be pledged as Collateral, and
no Security Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements or other Collateral Documents shall be required to be delivered in respect thereof, to the extent that any such properties or property constitute Excluded
Property,
(3)
within the later of (x) 90 days after such formation or acquisition or (y) the date of delivery of the next Compliance Certificate in accordance with
Section 6.02(a)
after such formation or acquisition (or, in each case, such longer period as the Collateral Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion), take, and cause such Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary and each applicable Loan Party to
take, whatever action (including the filing of UCC financing statements, the giving of notices and delivery of stock and membership interest certificates or foreign equivalents representing the applicable Capital Stock) as may be necessary or
advisable in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent to vest in the Collateral Agent (or in any representative of the Collateral Agent designated by it), subject to
Section 5.03, valid and subsisting Liens on the properties
purported to be subject to the Security Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplements, supplements to other Collateral Documents and security agreements delivered pursuant to this
Section 6.12, in each case
to the extent required under the Loan Documents and subject to the Perfection Exceptions, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms,
and
(4)
at any time and from time to time, promptly execute and deliver any and all further instruments and documents and take all such other action as the
Collateral Agent in its reasonable judgment may deem necessary or desirable in obtaining the full benefits of, or in perfecting and preserving the Liens of, such guaranties, Security Agreement Supplements, Intellectual Property Security
Agreement Supplements, Collateral Documents and security agreements, in each case, with respect to guaranteeing and/or securing Obligations consistent with the terms hereof, in each case to the extent required under the Loan Documents and
subject to the Perfection Exceptions.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 6.12 or in Section 6.14 shall be deemed to require any Restricted Group Member to grant security interests or take steps with
respect to perfection thereof to the extent such steps are not required in the Collateral Documents entered into on the Closing Date (or after the Closing Date in accordance with Section 6.16) or to the extent in contravention with the
Perfection Exceptions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, the Borrower shall have the right, at any time, to designate an Excluded Subsidiary as a Guarantor (and to subsequently release such
Guarantee in accordance with Section 9.11(c)); provided that, in the case of a designation of a Non-U.S. Subsidiary, the jurisdiction of such Subsidiary shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable, shall have received a Beneficial Ownership Certification and all other documentation and other information about such Non-U.S.
Subsidiary as has been reasonably requested in writing by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or such Lenders that they reasonably determine is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money
laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act and Beneficial Ownership Regulation; provided, further, that in no circumstance shall
an Excluded Subsidiary become a Guarantor unless designated in writing as a Guarantor by the Borrower in its sole discretion.
Section 6.13
Compliance with Environmental Laws. Except, in each case, to the extent that the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) comply, and
take commercially reasonable efforts to cause all lessees operating or occupying its properties to comply with all Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; (b) obtain, maintain and renew all applicable Environmental Permits required under
Environmental Laws for its operations and properties; and (c) to the extent required under Environmental Laws, conduct any investigation, mitigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any cleanup, removal or remedial, corrective or other
response action necessary to respond to and remove and clean up all Releases of Hazardous Materials from any of its properties, in accordance with the requirements of applicable Environmental Laws;
provided,
however, that no Restricted Group Member shall be required to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial, corrective or other action to the extent that its obligation to do so is being contested in good
faith and by proper proceedings and appropriate reserves are being maintained with respect to such circumstances in accordance with GAAP.
Section 6.14
Further Assurances.
(a)
Promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, or the Collateral Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, and subject to the limitations described in
Section
6.12, (i) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or other document or instrument relating to any Collateral or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof and (ii) do, execute,
acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or the Collateral Agent or any Lender through the
Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in order to grant, preserve, protect and continue the validity, perfection and priority of the security interests created or intended to be created by the Collateral Documents.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Documents, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall be required to make any filings or take any other actions to perfect, evidence or create the Lien on and security interest in any
intellectual property except for filings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office and the filing of UCC financing statements, and neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall be required to
reimburse the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent for any costs incurred in connection with any filings or actions to perfect, evidence or create the Lien on and security interest in any intellectual property other than in connection with
such filings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or the United States Copyright Office and the filing of such UCC financing statements.
(b)
Promptly following any request therefor, provide information and documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with
applicable “know your customer” requirements under applicable anti-money-laundering laws, the PATRIOT Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
Section 6.15
Maintenance of Ratings. So long as the Initial Tranche B Term Loans remain outstanding, use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and maintain (but not obtain or maintain a
specific rating) (i) (a) a rating of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans from Moody’s, and (b) a rating of the Initial Tranche B Term Loans from S&P and (ii) a public corporate credit rating and a public corporate family rating (but no specific
ratings in either case) in respect of the Borrower from each of S&P and Moody’s (it being understood and agreed that “commercially reasonable efforts” shall in any event include the payment of customary rating agency fees and cooperation with
information and data requests by Moody’s and S&P in connection with their ratings process).
Section 6.16
Post-Closing Undertakings. Within the time
periods specified on
Schedule 6.16 hereto (as each may be extended by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion), complete such undertakings as are set forth on
Schedule 6.16 hereto.
Section 6.17
No Change in Line of Business. Not engage in any material lines of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the
Borrower
on the Closing Date after giving
pro forma effect to the Transactions or any business reasonably related, complementary, synergistic or ancillary thereto or reasonable extensions thereof (or other lines of
business which are permitted as Investments).
Section 6.18
Transactions with Affiliates.
(a)
Not enter into or conduct any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any
Affiliate of the Borrower (an “
Affiliate Transaction”) involving value in excess of the greater of (i) $
17,200,000 and (ii) 5.0% of LTM EBITDA unless:
(1) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction, taken as a whole, are not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, than those that could be
obtained in a comparable transaction at the time of such transaction or the execution of the agreement providing for such transaction in arm’s length dealings with a Person who is not such an Affiliate; and
(2) in the event such Affiliate Transaction involves an aggregate value in excess of the greater of (i) $51,600,000 and (ii) 15.0% of LTM EBITDA, the terms of such transaction have been
approved by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Borrower.
Any Affiliate Transaction shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements set forth in clause (2) of this paragraph if such Affiliate Transaction is approved by a majority of the Disinterested Directors of
the Borrower, if any.
(b)
The provisions of the preceding paragraph will not apply to:
(1) any Restricted Payment or other transaction permitted to be made or undertaken pursuant to Section 7.05 (including Permitted Payments) or any Permitted Investment;
(2) any issuance, transfer or sale of (a) Capital Stock, options, other equity-related interests or other securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise
to any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower or future, current or former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its direct or indirect parents and (b) directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign nationals as required under applicable law;
(3) any Management Advances and any waiver or transaction with respect thereto;
(4) (a) any transaction between or among the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary (or entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction), or between or among
Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) any merger, amalgamation or consolidation with any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower; provided that such direct or indirect parent shall have no material
liabilities and no material assets other than cash, Cash Equivalents and the Capital Stock of the Borrower and such merger, amalgamation or consolidation is otherwise not prohibited under this Agreement;
(5) the payment of compensation, fees, costs, reimbursements and expenses to, and indemnities (including under insurance policies) and reimbursements, employment and severance
arrangements, and employee benefit and pension expenses provided on behalf of, or for the benefit of, future, current or former employees, directors, officers, managers, contractors, consultants, distributors or advisors (or their respective
Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower, any direct or indirect parent thereof or any Restricted Subsidiary (whether directly or indirectly and including through their Controlled Investment Affiliates or
Immediate Family Members);
(6) the entry into and performance of obligations of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries under the terms of any transaction arising out of, and any payments pursuant to or
for purposes of funding, any agreement or instrument in effect as of or on the Closing Date, as these agreements and instruments may be amended, modified, supplemented, extended, renewed or refinanced from time to time in accordance with the
other terms of this covenant or to the extent not disadvantageous in any material respect in the reasonable determination of the Borrower to the Lenders when taken as a whole as compared to the applicable agreement as in effect on the Closing
Date;
(7) any transaction effected as part of a Qualified Securitization Financing or Receivables Facility, any disposition or acquisition of Securitization Assets, Receivables Assets or
related assets in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing or Receivables Facility;
(8) transactions with customers, vendors, clients, joint venture partners, suppliers, contractors, distributors or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary
course of business or consistent with past practice, which are fair to the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the Borrower, or are on terms, taken as a whole, that are not materially less favorable as
might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated party;
(9) any transaction between or among the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (or any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction) or joint venture
(regardless of the form of legal entity) in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has invested (and which Subsidiary or joint venture would not be an Affiliate of the Borrower but for the Borrower’s or a Subsidiary’s ownership of Equity
Interests in such joint venture or Subsidiary);
(10) any issuance, sale or transfer of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the Borrower, any direct or indirect parent thereof or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries or options, warrants or other rights to acquire such Capital Stock and the granting of registration and other customary rights (and the performance of the related obligations) in connection therewith or any contribution
to capital of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(13) the Transactions and the payment of all fees, costs and expenses (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees, costs and expenses) related to the Transactions;
(14) transactions in which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor stating that such
transaction is fair to the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or meets the requirements of Section 6.18(a)(1);
(15) the existence of, or the performance by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of its obligations under the terms of, any equityholders, investor rights or similar agreement
(including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreements related thereto) to which it is party as of the Closing Date and any similar agreement that it (or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) may enter into thereafter; provided that the existence of, or the performance by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) of its obligations under any future amendment to any such
existing agreement or under any similar agreement entered into after the Closing Date will only be permitted under this clause (15) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new agreement are not otherwise, when taken as a
whole, more disadvantageous to the Lenders in any material respect in the reasonable determination of the Borrower than those in effect on the Closing Date;
(16) any purchases by Affiliates of the Borrower of Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock of the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries the majority of which Indebtedness or
Disqualified Stock is purchased by Persons who are not Affiliates of the Borrower; provided that such purchases by Affiliates of the Borrower are on the same terms as such purchases by such Persons who
are not Affiliates of the Borrower;
(17) (i) investments by Affiliates in securities or loans of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (and payment of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by such
Affiliates in connection therewith) so long as the investment is being offered by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary generally to other non-affiliated third party investors on the same or more favorable terms and (ii) payments to
Affiliates in respect of securities or loans of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries contemplated in the foregoing subclause (i) or that were acquired from Persons other than the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries,
in each case, in accordance with the terms of such securities or loans;
(18) payments by any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, the Borrower or its Subsidiaries pursuant to any tax sharing agreements or other agreements in respect of Permitted Tax
Amounts among any such direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, the Borrower and/or its Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;
(19) payments, Indebtedness and Disqualified Stock (and cancellation of any thereof) of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and Preferred Stock (and cancellation of any thereof)
of any Restricted Subsidiary to any future, current or former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or any of its direct or indirect parents pursuant to any management equity plan, stock option plan, phantom equity plan or any other management, employee benefit or other compensatory plan or agreement (and any successor plans or
arrangements thereto), employment, termination or severance agreement, or any stock subscription or equityholder agreement with any such employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled
Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) that are, in each case, approved by the Borrower in good faith;
(20) any management equity plan, stock option plan, phantom equity plan or any other management, employee benefit or other compensatory plan or agreement (and any successor plans or
arrangements thereto), employment, termination or severance agreement, or any stock subscription or equityholder agreement between the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries and any distributor, employee, director, officer, manager,
contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) approved by the reasonable determination of the Borrower or entered into in connection with the Transactions;
(21) any transition services arrangement, supply arrangement or similar arrangement entered into in connection with or in contemplation of the disposition of assets or Capital Stock in
any Restricted Subsidiary permitted under Section 7.04 or entered into with any Business Successor, in each case, that the Borrower determines in good faith is either fair to the Borrower or otherwise on customary terms for such type of
arrangements in connection with similar transactions;
(22) transactions entered into by an Unrestricted Subsidiary with an Affiliate prior to the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary as described under
the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary” and pledges of Capital Stock of Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
(23) (i) any lease entered into between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as lessee, and any Affiliate of the Borrower, as lessor and (ii) any operational services or other
arrangement entered into between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and any Affiliate of the Borrower, in each case, which is approved by the reasonable determination of the Borrower;
(24) intellectual property licenses and research and development agreements in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(25) payments to or from, and transactions with, any Subsidiary or any joint venture in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice (including any cash management
arrangements or activities related thereto);
(26) the payment of fees, costs and expenses related to registration rights and indemnities provided to equityholders pursuant to equityholders, investor rights, registration rights or
similar agreements;
(27) transactions undertaken in the ordinary course of business pursuant to membership in a purchasing consortium; and
(28) Permitted Intercompany Activities, Permitted Tax Restructurings, Intercompany License Agreements and related transactions.
In addition, if the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (i) purchases or otherwise acquires assets or properties from a Person which is not an Affiliate, the purchase or
acquisition by an Affiliate of the Borrower of an interest in all or a portion of the assets or properties acquired shall not be deemed an Affiliate Transaction (or cause such purchase or acquisition by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary to
be deemed an Affiliate Transaction) or (ii) sells or otherwise disposes of assets or other properties to a Person who is not an Affiliate, the sale or other disposition by an Affiliate of the Borrower of an interest in all or a portion of the
assets or properties sold shall not be deemed an Affiliate Transaction (or cause such sale or other disposition by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary to be deemed an Affiliate Transaction).
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation (other than any Remaining Obligations) hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain
outstanding (other than any Remaining Obligations), (A) except with respect to Section 7.03 and Section 7.06, the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Restricted Subsidiary to and (B) with respect to Section 7.03 and
Section 7.06, the Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Guarantor to:
Section 7.01
Indebtedness.
(a)
Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness);
provided that the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may incur
Indebtedness (including Acquired Indebtedness) in an amount not to exceed the Incremental Amount available as of the date of Incurrence (subject to
Section 1.02(i));
provided,
however, that such Indebtedness, other than
(x) Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt,
(y) any Customary Term A Facility and (z) debt incurred
pursuant to the Inside Maturity Basket, has a (i) Stated Maturity that is no earlier than the latest Maturity Date applicable with respect to any then outstanding Term Loans and (ii) a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is no shorter than the
then longest remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any then outstanding Term Loans (
with respect to
clauses (y) and
(z) above, it being agreed that no such final Stated Maturity or Weighted
Average Life to Maturity shall be less than the final Stated Maturity and remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Initial
Tranche A Term Loans) (such Indebtedness Incurred and Disqualified Stock and
Preferred Stock issued, “
Ratio Debt”);
provided,
further, that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness (including
Acquired Indebtedness) Incurred pursuant to the foregoing by Non-Loan Party Subsidiaries shall not exceed the Non-Loan Party Sublimit as of the date of Incurrence (subject to
Section 1.02(i)).
(b)
The provisions of
Section 7.01(a) will not prohibit the incurrence of the following Indebtedness (collectively, “
Permitted Debt”):
(1)
(w) Indebtedness incurred under the Loan Documents, including any refinancing thereof in accordance with
Section 2.18, (x) Credit Agreement
Refinancing Debt and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof (or successive refinancings thereof that each constitute Refinancing Indebtedness), (y) Incremental Equivalent Debt and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof (or
successive refinancings thereof that each constitute Refinancing Indebtedness) and (z) Permitted Debt Exchange Notes;
(2) Guarantees by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary so long as the incurrence of such
Indebtedness or other obligations is not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement;
(3) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Restricted Subsidiary or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided,
however, that:
(a) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock or any other event which results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted
Subsidiary, and
(b) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an incurrence of such
Indebtedness by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable;
(4) Indebtedness represented by (a) any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause (1) of this Section 7.01(b)) outstanding on the Closing Date and
any Guarantees thereof and, to the extent the outstanding principal amount thereof is in excess of $10,000,000, listed on Schedule 7.01, (b) Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in respect of any Indebtedness described in this clause
(4) or clauses (2) or (5) of this Section 7.01(b) or incurred pursuant to Section 7.01(a) and (c) Management Advances;
(5)
Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred or issued to finance (i) an acquisition or Investment (“
Incurred Acquisition Indebtedness”) in an aggregate principal amount outstanding not to exceed the sum of (x) the greater of (a) $120,400,000 and (b) 35.0% of LTM EBITDA
plus (y) the
Incremental Amount available as of the date of incurrence or (ii) Acquired Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount outstanding not to exceed the sum of (x) the greater of (a) $120,400,000 and (b) 35.0% of LTM EBITDA
plus (y) an unlimited amount so long as immediately after giving
pro forma effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness the Borrower would be in compliance with the
Financial Covenants;
provided that:
(a) in the case of Incurred Acquisition Indebtedness, (A) other than
(1) Extendable Bridge Loans/Interim Debt
, (2) any
Customary Term A Facility and (3) debt incurred pursuant to the Inside Maturity Basket, such Indebtedness shall have a Stated Maturity that is no earlier than the latest Maturity Date applicable with respect to any then outstanding Term Loans
and a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is no shorter than the then longest remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any then outstanding Term Loans (
with respect to
clauses (2) and
(3)
above, it being agreed that no such final Stated Maturity or Weighted Average Life to Maturity shall be less than the final Stated Maturity and remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Initial
Tranche A
Term Loans), and (B) the aggregate principal amount outstanding of such Indebtedness incurred by Non-Loan Parties pursuant to
clause (i)(y) above shall not exceed the available Non-Loan Party Sublimit, and
(b) in the case of Acquired Indebtedness, (A) such Indebtedness was in existence prior to such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation, (B) such Indebtedness was not created in
contemplation of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and (C) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition or Investment, no Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing;
(6) Swap Obligations (excluding Swap Obligations which are entered into for speculative purposes);
(7) Indebtedness (i) represented by Finance Lease Obligations or Purchase Money Obligations in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal
amount of all other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this
clause (7)(i) and then outstanding, does not exceed the greater of (a) $120,400,000 and (b)
35.0% of LTM EBITDA at the time of incurrence, and
any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof and (ii) arising out of Sale and Leaseback Transactions in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness incurred
pursuant to this
clause (7)(ii) and then outstanding, does not exceed the greater of (a) $172,000,000 and (b)
50.0% of LTM EBITDA at the time of incurrence, and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect
thereof;
(8) Indebtedness in respect of (a) workers’ compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits, property, casualty or liability insurance, self-insurance obligations,
customer guarantees, performance, indemnity, surety, judgment, bid, appeal, advance payment (including progress premiums), customs, tariff, value added or other tax or other guarantees or other similar bonds, instruments or obligations,
completion guarantees and warranties or relating to liabilities, obligations or guarantees incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (b) the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft
or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (c) customer deposits and advance payments (including progress premiums) received from customers for goods or services
purchased in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (d) letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances, discounted bills of exchange, discounting or factoring of receivables or payables for credit management purposes,
warehouse receipts, guarantees or other similar instruments or obligations issued or entered into, or relating to liabilities or obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; (e) Cash
Management Agreements; and (f) Settlement Indebtedness;
(9) Indebtedness arising from agreements providing for guarantees, indemnification, obligations in respect of earn-outs, deferred purchase price or other adjustments of purchase price
or, in each case, similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets, a Person (including any Capital Stock of a Subsidiary) or Investment (other than Guarantees of
Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring or disposing of such business, assets, Person or Investment for the purpose of financing such acquisition or disposition);
(11) Indebtedness of non-Guarantors in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (i) $172,000,000 and (ii) 50.0% of LTM EBITDA at the time of incurrence, and any
Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(12) (a) Indebtedness issued by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to any future, present or former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their
respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower in each case to finance the purchase or redemption of Capital Stock of the
Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof that is not prohibited by Section 7.05 and (b) Indebtedness consisting of obligations under deferred compensation or any other similar arrangements incurred in the ordinary course of
business, consistent with past practice or in connection with the Transactions, any Investment or any acquisition (by merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise);
(13) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply
arrangements, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;
(14)
Indebtedness in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness incurred
pursuant to this
clause (14) and then outstanding, will not exceed the sum of (x) the greater of (i) $344,000,000 and (ii) 100.0% of LTM EBITDA plus (y) the Restricted Payment Reallocated Amount, and any Refinancing Indebtedness in
respect thereof;
provided that available amounts under this
clause (14) shall be reduced by the then-outstanding amount of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the
General Debt Basket Reallocated Amount and reallocated to the Incremental Amount;
(15) Indebtedness in respect of any Qualified Securitization Financing or any Receivables Facility in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken together with the
principal amount of all other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this
clause (15) and then outstanding, does not exceed the greater of (i) $172,000,000 and (ii)
50.0% of LTM EBITDA and any Refinancing
Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(16) any obligation, or guaranty of any obligation, of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to reimburse or indemnify a Person extending credit to customers of the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice for all or any portion of the amounts payable by such customers to the Person extending such credit;
(17)
Indebtedness to a customer to finance the acquisition of any equipment necessary to perform services for such customer;
provided that the terms of such Indebtedness are consistent with those entered into with respect to similar Indebtedness prior to the Closing Date, including, if so consistent, that (i) the repayment of such Indebtedness is
conditional upon such customer ordering a specific amount or volume, as applicable, of goods or services and (ii) such Indebtedness does not bear interest or provide for scheduled amortization or maturity;
(18) Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent that the net proceeds thereof are promptly deposited with an applicable trustee or agent to
satisfy or discharge any Ratio Debt, debt incurred pursuant to this Section 7.01, Incremental Equivalent Debt and/or Credit Agreement Refinancing Debt or exercise the applicable borrower’s or issuer’s legal defeasance or covenant
defeasance, in each case, in accordance with the relevant documents governing such Indebtedness;
(19) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries arising pursuant to any Permitted Intercompany Activities, Permitted Tax Restructuring and related transactions;
(22) obligations in respect of Disqualified Stock in an amount not to exceed the greater of (i) $68,800,000 and (ii) 20.0% of LTM EBITDA outstanding at the time of incurrence;
(23) Indebtedness incurred for the benefit of joint ventures in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (i) $51,600,000 and (ii) 15.0% of LTM EBITDA outstanding at the
time of incurrence and any Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(25) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, Guarantees in the ordinary course of business of the obligations of suppliers, customers, franchisees and licensees of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries.
For purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount of any particular Indebtedness incurred pursuant to and in compliance with, this Section 7.01:
(a) in the event that all or any portion of any item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in this Section 7.01, the Borrower, in its sole
discretion, will classify, and may from time to time reclassify pursuant to clause (b) below, such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) and only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in Section 7.01(a)
or one of the clauses of Section 7.01(b);
(b)
additionally, subject to
clause (c) below, all or any portion of any item of Indebtedness may later be reclassified as having been incurred pursuant to any type of
Indebtedness described in this
Section 7.01 so long as such Indebtedness is permitted to be incurred pursuant to such provision and any related Liens are permitted to be incurred at the time of reclassification;
provided that any Indebtedness incurred by any Loan Party pursuant to one of the clauses of
Section 7.01(b) shall automatically cease to be deemed incurred or outstanding for purposes of such clause of
Section 7.01(b)
and shall automatically be deemed incurred for the purposes of
Section 7.01(a) from and after the first date on which the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries could have incurred such Indebtedness under
Section 7.01(a) without
reliance on such clause of
Section 7.01(b);
(c) all Indebtedness outstanding on the Closing Date under this Agreement shall be deemed incurred on the Closing Date under clause (1) of Section 7.01(b);
(d) in the case of any Refinancing Indebtedness, when measuring the outstanding amount of such Indebtedness, such amount shall not include the aggregate amount of accrued and unpaid interest, dividends,
premiums (including tender premiums), defeasance costs, underwriting discounts, fees, costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) in connection with such refinancing;
(e) Guarantees of, or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments relating to, or Liens securing, Indebtedness that is otherwise included in the determination
of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be included;
(f) if obligations in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments are being treated as incurred pursuant to any clause of Section 7.01(b) or Section 7.01(a)
and the letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or other similar instruments relate to other Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be included;
(g) the principal amount of any Disqualified Stock of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary, will be equal to the greater of the maximum mandatory redemption or
repurchase price (not including, in either case, any redemption or repurchase premium) or the liquidation preference thereof;
(h) Indebtedness permitted by this covenant need not be permitted solely by reference to one provision permitting such Indebtedness but may be permitted in part by one such provision and in part by one or more
other provisions of this covenant permitting such Indebtedness;
(i) notwithstanding anything in this covenant to the contrary, in the case of any Indebtedness incurred to refinance Indebtedness initially incurred in reliance on a clause of Section 7.01(b) measured
by reference to a percentage of LTM EBITDA at the time of incurrence, if such refinancing would cause the percentage of LTM EBITDA restriction to be exceeded if calculated based on the percentage of LTM EBITDA on the date of such refinancing, such
percentage of LTM EBITDA restriction shall not be deemed to be exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced, plus
accrued and unpaid interest, dividends, premiums (including tender premiums), defeasance costs, underwriting discounts, fees, costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) in connection with such refinancing;
and
(j) the amount of Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal amount thereof will be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
Accrual of interest, accrual of dividends, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness, the payment of
dividends in the form of additional shares of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock or the reclassification of commitments or obligations not treated as Indebtedness due to a change in GAAP, will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness
for purposes of this Section 7.01.
If at any time an Unrestricted Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary as of such date (and, if such Indebtedness is not
permitted to be incurred as of such date under this Section 7.01, the Borrower shall be in default of this covenant).
For purposes of determining compliance with any
Dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the
Dollar equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term debt, or first
committed, in the case of revolving credit debt;
provided that if such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the
applicable
Dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such
refinancing, such
Dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing
Indebtedness does not exceed (a) the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced,
plus (b) the aggregate amount of accrued and unpaid interest, dividends, premiums (including tender premiums),
defeasance costs, underwriting discounts, fees, costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) in connection with such refinancing.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this covenant, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary may incur pursuant to this covenant shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a
result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies. The principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, shall be calculated based on
the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such respective Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.
With respect to any Indebtedness that was permitted to be incurred hereunder on the date of such incurrence, any Increased Amount of such Indebtedness shall also be permitted hereunder after the date of such
incurrence.
This Agreement will not treat (1) unsecured Indebtedness as subordinated or junior to secured Indebtedness merely because it is unsecured or (2) senior Indebtedness as subordinated or junior to any other senior
Indebtedness merely because it has a junior priority with respect to the same collateral or is secured by different collateral or because it is guaranteed by different obligors.
Section 7.02
Limitations on Liens. Create, incur or permit to exist any Lien on any of its assets or properties (each, a “
Subject Lien”), except if such Subject Lien is a
Permitted Lien
.
With respect to any Lien that was permitted to secure such Indebtedness at the time of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any Increased Amount of such Indebtedness.
Section 7.03
Fundamental Changes.
Merge, dissolve, liquidate, amalgamate, consolidate with or into another Person, or dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in
favor of any Person, except that, (other than in the case of
clause (e) below) so long as no Event of Default would result therefrom:
(a)
the Borrower or any Guarantor may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into, or directly or indirectly dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to (upon voluntary
liquidation or otherwise) the Borrower, as applicable (including a merger, the purpose of which is to reorganize the Borrower or the Borrower into a new jurisdiction) or any other Person;
provided that (A)
the surviving person (if other than the Borrower or the Borrower or, in the case of a merger or sale of assets of a Guarantor, a Guarantor) shall be a person organized under the laws of an Applicable Jurisdiction and shall expressly assume the
obligations of the Borrower or such Guarantor under the Loan Documents, as applicable, pursuant to documents reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (B) the surviving person (if other than the Borrower or the Borrower or, in the case
of a merger or sale of assets of a Guarantor, a Guarantor) shall provide any documentation and other information about such person as shall have been reasonably requested in writing by any Lender through the Administrative Agent that such Lender
shall have reasonably determined is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including Title III of the PATRIOT Act;
(c)
any Guarantor may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into, or directly or indirectly dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to (upon voluntary liquidation or
otherwise) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
provided that if the transferor in such a transaction is a Loan Party, then either (i) the transferee must either be the Borrower or a Guarantor (or
become a Guarantor concurrently with the transaction) or (ii) if
clause (i) does not apply, to the extent such Disposition of assets shall be deemed to constitute either an Investment or Disposition, such Investment is a Permitted
Investment or Indebtedness of a Non-Loan Party Subsidiary in accordance with
Section 7.01, respectively, or such Disposition is a Disposition permitted hereunder;
(d)
any Guarantor may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into, or directly or indirectly dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to (upon voluntary liquidation or
otherwise) any other Person in order to effect (i) a Permitted Investment or Indebtedness of a Non-Loan Party Subsidiary in accordance with
Section 7.01, respectively, and/or (ii) a Disposition permitted hereunder;
(e)
the Restricted Group may consummate the Transactions;
(f)
the Restricted Group may engage in any Permitted Tax Restructuring;
(g)
any Guarantor may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into, or directly or indirectly dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to (upon
voluntary liquidation or otherwise) any Person, so long as (i) such transaction is undertaken in good faith to improve the tax efficiency of any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries, and (ii) after giving effect
to such transaction, each of the security interest of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral, taken as a whole, and the value of the Guarantees, taken as a whole, is not materially impaired (as determined in good faith by the Borrower);
(h) the Borrower may contribute Capital Stock of any or all of its subsidiaries to any Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; and
(i) any Permitted Investment and/or Disposition permitted hereunder may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation.
For the avoidance of doubt, notwithstanding anything else contained herein, any LLC Conversion shall be permitted under this Agreement and each other Loan Document.
Section 7.04
Asset Dispositions.
(a)
Cause or make any Asset Disposition, unless:
(1) The Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, receives consideration (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility for, any
liabilities, contingent or otherwise) at least equal to the fair market value (such fair market value to be determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such Asset Disposition), as determined in good faith by the Borrower, of the shares
and assets subject to such Asset Disposition (including, for the avoidance of doubt, if such Asset Disposition is a Permitted Asset Swap);
(2) in any such Asset Disposition, or series of related Asset Dispositions (except to the extent the Asset Disposition is a Permitted Asset Swap), with a purchase price in excess of the
greater of (i) $68,800,000 and (ii) 20.0% of LTM EBITDA, at least 75% of the consideration from such Asset Disposition received by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents; provided that, for purposes of this clause (2), the following will be deemed to be cash:
(i)
the assumption by the transferee of Indebtedness or other liabilities (including by way of relief from, or by any other Person assuming responsibility
for, any such Indebtedness or other liabilities, contingent or otherwise) of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower or a Guarantor) or the release of the Borrower or such Restricted
Subsidiary from all liability on such Indebtedness or other liability in connection with such Asset Disposition;
(ii)
securities, notes or other obligations or other property received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted by
the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents, or by their terms are required to be satisfied for cash and Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received), in each case, within 365 days
following the closing of such Asset Disposition;
(iii)
Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such Asset Disposition, to the extent that,
immediately following such Asset Disposition, neither the Borrower nor any other Restricted Subsidiary Guarantees the payment of such Indebtedness;
(iv)
consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Borrower (other than Subordinated Indebtedness) received after the Closing Date from Persons who are not
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; and
(v)
any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in such Asset Dispositions having an aggregate fair market
value, taken together with all other Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this covenant that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (i) $
86,000,000 and (ii)
25.0% of LTM EBITDA, with the fair market value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration being measured at the time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value; and
(3)
within 540 days from the later of (A) the date of such Asset Disposition and (B) the receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds from such Asset Disposition (as may
be extended by an Acceptable Commitment as set forth below), an amount equal to the Net Cash Proceeds from such Asset Disposition is applied, to the extent the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, elects:
(a) to prepay Loans and other Permitted Debt in accordance with
Section 2.05(b)(ii);
(i) to invest (including capital expenditures) in Additional Assets (including by means of an investment in Additional Assets by a Restricted Subsidiary); or
(ii) to invest (including capital expenditures) in any one or more businesses, properties or assets that replace the businesses, properties and/or assets that are the subject of such
Asset Disposition, with any such investment made by way of a capital or other lease valued at the present value of the minimum amount of payments under such lease (as reasonably determined by the Borrower);
provided, however, that a binding agreement shall be treated as a
permitted application of Net Cash Proceeds from the date of such commitment provided that an amount equal to Net Cash Proceeds will be applied to satisfy such commitment within 180 days after the end of such 540-day period (an “Acceptable Commitment”);
(c) to make any other Permitted Investment; or
(d) any combination of the foregoing;
provided that (1) pending the final application of the amount of any such Net Cash Proceeds pursuant to Section
2.05(b)(ii) and this Section 7.04, the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiaries may apply such amount of Net Cash Proceeds temporarily to reduce
Indebtedness under the Revolving Credit Facility or otherwise apply such amount of Net Cash Proceeds in any manner not prohibited by this Agreement, and (2) the Borrower (or any Restricted Subsidiary, as
applicable) may elect to invest in Additional Assets prior to receiving the Net Cash Proceeds attributable to any given Asset Disposition (provided that such investment shall be made no earlier than the
earliest of notice to the Administrative Agent of the relevant Asset Disposition, execution of a definitive agreement for the relevant Asset Disposition, and consummation of the relevant Asset Disposition) and deem the amount so invested to be
applied pursuant to and in accordance with clause (b) above with respect to such Asset Disposition.
Section 7.05
Restricted Payments.
(a)
(1)
Declare or pay any dividend or make any distribution on or in respect of the Borrower’s or any Restricted Subsidiary’s Capital Stock (including any such
payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries) except:
(a) dividends, payments or distributions payable in Capital Stock of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock) or in options, warrants or other rights to purchase such Capital Stock
of the Borrower;
(b) dividends, payments or distributions payable to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (and, in the case of any such Restricted Subsidiary making such dividend or distribution, to
holders of its Capital Stock other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary on no more than a pro rata basis); and
(c) dividends or distributions payable to any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to fund interest payments in respect of Indebtedness of such direct or indirect parent which is
guaranteed by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(2) purchase, repurchase, redeem, retire or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof held by Persons other than
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(3) purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment, any Subordinated
Indebtedness (other than (a) any such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case, due within one
year of the date of purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement and (b) any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause (3) of Section 7.01(b)); or
(4) make any Restricted Investment;
(any such dividend, distribution, payment, purchase, redemption, repurchase, defeasance, other acquisition, retirement or Restricted Investment referred to in clauses (1) through (4) above are referred
to herein as a “Restricted Payment”), if at the time the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary makes such Restricted Payment:
(x) (i) solely in the case of a Restricted Payment made under
clauses (1) or
(2) above, an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would immediately
thereafter result therefrom) and (ii) solely in the case of a Restricted Payment under
clauses (3) or
(4) above, an Event of Default pursuant to
Section 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) shall have occurred and be
continuing (or would immediately thereafter result therefrom);
or
(y) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Closing Date (and not returned or rescinded)
(including Permitted Payments made pursuant to
clause (1) (without duplication) and
clause (7) of
Section 7.05(b), but excluding all other Restricted Payments permitted by
Section 7.05(b)) would exceed the sum of
(without duplication):
(i) 50% of Consolidated Net Income for the period (treated as one accounting period) from the first day of the fiscal quarter in which the Closing Date occurs to the end of the most
recent fiscal quarter ending prior to the date of such Restricted Payment for which consolidated financial statements are available (which may, at the Borrower’s election, be internal financial statements) (or, in the case such Consolidated Net
Income is a deficit, zero);
(ii) 100% of the aggregate amount of cash, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Borrower from the issue or sale of its Capital Stock
or as the result of a merger or consolidation with another Person subsequent to the Closing Date or otherwise contributed to the equity (in each case other than through the issuance of Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) of the
Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (including the aggregate principal amount of any Indebtedness of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary contributed to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary for cancellation) or that becomes part of the
capital of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary through consolidation or merger subsequent to the Closing Date (other than (A) Net Cash Proceeds or property or assets or marketable securities received from an issuance or sale of such Capital
Stock to a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, (B) cash
or property or assets or marketable securities to the extent that any Restricted Payment has been made from such proceeds in reliance on clause (6) of Section 7.05(b) and (C) Excluded Contributions);
(iii) 100% of the aggregate amount of cash, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities, received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from the
issuance or sale (other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries for the benefit of their employees to the extent funded by the Borrower
or any Restricted Subsidiary) by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary subsequent to the Closing Date of any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock that has been converted into or exchanged for Capital Stock of the
Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock), plus, without duplication, the amount of any cash, and the fair market value of property or assets or marketable securities,
received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary upon such conversion or exchange;
(iv) 100% of the aggregate amount received in cash and the fair market value, as determined in good faith by the Borrower, of marketable securities or other property received by means
of: (i) the sale or other disposition (other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) of, or other returns on Investment from, Restricted Investments made by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries and repurchases and redemptions
of, or cash distributions or cash interest received in respect of, such Investments from the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries and repayments of loans or advances, and releases of guarantees, which constitute Restricted Investments by the
Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case after the Closing Date; or (ii) the sale or other disposition (other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) of the Capital Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or a dividend,
payment or distribution from an Unrestricted Subsidiary (other than to the extent of the amount of the Investment that constituted a Permitted Investment or was made under clause (17) of Section 7.05(b) and will increase the
amount available under the applicable clause of the definition of “Permitted Investment” or clause (17) of Section 7.05(b), as applicable) or a dividend from a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date;
(v) in the case of the redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or the merger, amalgamation or consolidation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary into the
Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary or the transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date, the fair market value of the Investment in such
Unrestricted Subsidiary (or the assets transferred), as determined in good faith by the Borrower at the time of the redesignation of such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time of such merger, amalgamation or
consolidation or transfer of assets (after taking into consideration any Indebtedness associated with the Unrestricted Subsidiary so designated or merged, amalgamated or consolidated or Indebtedness associated with the assets so transferred),
other than to the extent of the amount of the Investment that constituted a Permitted Investment or was made under clause (17) of Section 7.05(b) and will increase the amount available under the applicable clause of the
definition of “Permitted Investment” or clause (17) of Section 7.05(b), as applicable; and
(vi) the greater of (A) $137,600,000 and (B) 40.0% of LTM EBITDA (the foregoing clause (y), the “Available Amount Builder Basket”).
(b)
Section 7.05(a) will not prohibit any of the following (collectively, “
Permitted Payments”):
(1) the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions
of this Agreement or the redemption, repurchase or retirement of Indebtedness if, at the date of any redemption notice, such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Agreement as if it were and is deemed at such time to be a
Restricted Payment at the time of such notice;
(2)
(a) any prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition of Capital Stock, including any accrued and
unpaid dividends thereon (“
Treasury Capital Stock”) or Subordinated Indebtedness made by exchange (including any such exchange pursuant to the exercise of a conversion right or privilege in connection
with which cash is paid in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares) for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof to the extent contributed to the
Borrower (in each case, other than Disqualified Stock or Designated Preferred Stock) (“
Refunding Capital Stock”), (b) the declaration and payment of dividends on Treasury Capital Stock out of the proceeds
of the substantially concurrent sale or issuance (other than to a Subsidiary of the Borrower or to an employee stock ownership plan or any trust established by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) of Refunding Capital Stock and (c) if
immediately prior to the retirement of Treasury Capital Stock, the declaration and payment of dividends thereon was permitted under
clause (13) of this
Section 7.05(b), the declaration and payment of dividends on the Refunding
Capital Stock (other than Refunding Capital Stock the proceeds of which were used to redeem, repurchase, retire or otherwise acquire any Capital Stock of a direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) in an aggregate amount per year no greater
than the aggregate amount of dividends per annum that were declarable and payable on such Treasury Capital Stock immediately prior to such retirement;
(3) any prepayment, purchase, repurchase, exchange, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition of Subordinated Indebtedness made by exchange for, or out of the
proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Refinancing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.01;
(4) any prepayment, purchase, repurchase, exchange, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition of Preferred Stock of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary made
by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Preferred Stock of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, that, in each case, is permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.01;
(5) any prepayment, purchase, repurchase, exchange, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition of Subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower or a Restricted
Subsidiary or Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary:
(a) from Net Cash Proceeds to the extent permitted under
Section 7.04, but only if the Borrower shall have first complied with the terms described under
Section 2.05(b)(ii); or
(b) to the extent required by the agreement governing such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, following the occurrence of (i) a Change of Control (or other
similar event described therein as a “change of control”) or (ii) an Asset Disposition (or other similar event described therein as an “asset disposition” or “asset sale”), but only if the Borrower shall have first complied with the terms
described under “Change of Control” or Section 7.04, as applicable, and purchased all Loans tendered pursuant to the offer to repurchase all the Loans required thereby, prior to purchasing, repurchasing, redeeming, defeasing or
otherwise acquiring or retiring such Subordinated Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock; or
(c) consisting of Acquired Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness incurred in connection with or contemplation of such acquisition);
(6) a Restricted Payment to pay for the prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition of Capital Stock of the Borrower or any direct
or indirect parent thereof held by any future, present or former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower pursuant to any management equity plan, stock option plan, phantom equity plan or any other management, employee benefit or other compensatory plan or agreement (and any
successor plans or arrangements thereto), employment, termination or severance agreement, or any stock subscription or equityholder agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any principal and interest payable on any Indebtedness issued
by the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof in connection with such prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition), including any Capital Stock rolled over, accelerated or paid
out by or to any employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect
parent of the Borrower in connection with any transaction;
provided,
however,
that the aggregate Restricted Payments
made under this clause do not exceed the greater of (i) $34,400,000 and (ii) 10.0% of LTM EBITDA in any calendar year (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to the immediately succeeding calendar year
);
provided,
further, that such amount in any calendar year may be increased by an amount not to exceed:
(a) the cash proceeds from the sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Borrower and, to the extent contributed to the capital of the Borrower, the cash proceeds from
the sale of Capital Stock of any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower, in each case, to any future, present or former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment
Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower that occurred after the Closing Date, to the extent the cash proceeds from the sale of such Capital Stock have
not otherwise been applied to the payment of Restricted Payments by virtue of clause (y) of Section 7.05(a); plus
(b) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries (or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to the extent
contributed to the Borrower) after the Closing Date; less
(c) the amount of any Restricted Payments made in previous calendar years pursuant to subclauses (a) and (b) of this clause (6);
provided that the Borrower may elect to apply all or any portion of the aggregate increase contemplated by subclauses
(a) and (b) of this clause (6) in any fiscal year; provided, further, that (i) cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary from any future, present or former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower or its Restricted
Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower in connection with a repurchase of Capital Stock of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof and (ii) the repurchase of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of
options, warrants or similar instruments if such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price thereof and payments, in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of such Capital Stock or withholding to pay other taxes payable in
connection therewith, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii), will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Agreement;
(7) the declaration and payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or Preferred Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary issued in
accordance with Section 7.01;
(8) payments made or expected to be made by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (including, for purposes of clarity, payments by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to an any
direct or indirect parent of the Borrower so that such parent may make payments) in respect of withholding or similar taxes payable in connection with the exercise or vesting of Capital Stock or any other equity award by any future, present or
former employee, director, officer, manager, contractor, consultant or advisor (or their respective Controlled Investment Affiliates or Immediate Family Members) of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any direct or indirect parent of
the Borrower and purchases, repurchases, redemptions, defeasances or other acquisitions or retirements of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of stock options, warrants, equity-based awards or other rights in
respect thereof if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the exercise price thereof or payments in respect of withholding or similar taxes payable upon exercise or vesting thereof;
(9) dividends, loans, advances or distributions to any
direct or indirect parent of the Borrower or other payments by the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary in amounts equal to (without duplication):
(a) the amounts required for any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to pay any Parent Entity Expenses or any Permitted Tax Amounts; and
(b) amounts constituting or to be used for purposes of making payments to the extent specified in clauses (2), (3), (5), (13), (15) and (19)
of Section 6.18(b);
(10)
(a) the declaration and payment of dividends on the common stock or common equity interests of the Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof (and
any equivalent declaration and payment of a distribution of any security exchangeable for such common stock or common equity interests to the extent required by the terms of any such exchangeable securities and any Restricted Payment to any
such direct or indirect parent to fund the payment by such direct or indirect parent of dividends on such entity’s Capital Stock), in an amount in any fiscal year not to exceed
5.0% of the Market Capitalization;
or (b) in lieu of all or a portion of the dividends permitted by
clause (a), any prepayment, purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance, discharge, retirement or other acquisition of the Borrower’s Capital Stock (and any equivalent
declaration and payment of a distribution of any security exchangeable for such common stock or common equity interests to the extent required by the terms of any such exchangeable securities and any Restricted Payment to any such direct or
indirect parent to fund the payment by such direct or indirect parent of dividends on such entity’s Capital Stock) for aggregate consideration that, when taken together with dividends permitted by
clause (a), does not exceed the amount
contemplated by
clause (a) (in each case, at the Borrower’s option, tested at the time of the Borrower’s binding commitment to undertake such transaction or upon the consummation of such transaction);
(11) payments by the Borrower, or loans, advances, dividends or distributions to any direct or indirect parent thereof to make payments, to holders of Capital Stock of the Borrower or any
direct or indirect parent thereof in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of such Capital Stock; provided, however, that any such payment, loan, advance,
dividend or distribution shall not be for the purpose of evading any limitation of this covenant or otherwise to facilitate any dividend or other return of capital to the holders of such Capital Stock (as determined in good faith by the
Borrower);
(12)
Restricted Payments that are made (a) in an amount not to exceed the amount of Excluded Contributions or (b) in an amount equal to the amount of Net Cash
Proceeds from an asset sale or Disposition in respect of property or assets acquired, if the acquisition of such property or assets was financed with Excluded Contributions;
(i) the declaration and payment of dividends on Designated Preferred Stock of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued after the Closing Date;
(ii) the declaration and payment of dividends to a direct or indirect parent of the Borrower in an amount sufficient to allow such direct or indirect parent to pay dividends to holders
of its Designated Preferred Stock issued after the Closing Date; and
(iii) the declaration and payment of dividends on Refunding Capital Stock that is Preferred Stock;
provided, however, that, in the case of subclause (ii), the
amount of dividends paid to a Person pursuant to such clause shall not exceed the cash proceeds received by the Borrower or the aggregate amount contributed in cash to the equity of the Borrower (other than through the issuance of Disqualified
Stock or an Excluded Contribution of the Borrower), from the issuance or sale of such Designated Preferred Stock; provided that in the case of clauses (i) and (iii), for the most recently
ended four fiscal quarters for which consolidated financial statements are available (which may, at the Borrower’s election, be internal financial statements) immediately preceding the date of issuance of such Designated Preferred Stock or
declaration of such dividends on such Refunding Capital Stock, after giving effect to such payment on a pro forma basis, the Borrower would be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness
pursuant to the test set forth in Section 7.01(a);
(14) distributions, by dividend or otherwise, or other transfer or disposition of shares of Capital Stock of, or equity interests in, an Unrestricted Subsidiary (or a Restricted Subsidiary
that owns one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries and no other material assets), or Indebtedness owed to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary by an Unrestricted Subsidiary (or a Restricted Subsidiary that owns one or more Unrestricted
Subsidiaries and no other material assets), in each case, other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries, substantially all the assets of which are cash and Cash Equivalents or proceeds thereof;
(15) distributions or payments of Securitization Fees, sales contributions and other transfers of Securitization Assets or Receivables Assets and purchases of Securitization Assets or
Receivables Assets pursuant to a Securitization Repurchase Obligation, in each case in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing or Receivables Facility;
(16) any Restricted Payment made in connection with the Transactions and any fees, costs and expenses (including all legal, accounting and other professional fees, costs and expenses)
related thereto or used to fund amounts owed to Affiliates in connection with the Transactions (including dividends to any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to permit payment by such direct or indirect parent of such amounts);
(17) (i) Restricted Payments (including loans or advances) in an aggregate amount outstanding at the time made not to exceed the greater of (a) $
120,400,000
and (b)
35.0% of LTM EBITDA at such time;
provided that available amounts under this
clause (i) shall be reduced by the then-outstanding amount of any
Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Restricted Payment Reallocated Amount or the then-outstanding amount of any Investment made pursuant to
clause (21)(y) of the definition of “Permitted Investments” with an amount reallocated to such
clause (21) from this clause (17), as applicable; and (ii) any Restricted Payments, so long as, (x) immediately after giving
pro forma effect to the payment of any such Restricted Payment and the
incurrence of any Indebtedness the net proceeds of which are used to make such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 3.35 to 1.00 and (y) no Event of Default pursuant to
Section 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) shall have occurred or be continuing;
(18) mandatory redemptions of Disqualified Stock issued as a Restricted Payment or as consideration for a Permitted Investment;
(19) (i) the redemption, defeasance, repurchase, exchange or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Guarantor or the making of any Restricted
Investment in an aggregate amount outstanding at the time made, taken together with all other redemptions, defeasances, repurchases, exchanges or other acquisitions or retirements of Subordinated Indebtedness or Restricted Investments made
pursuant to this
clause (i), not to exceed the greater of (a) $137,600,000 and (b) 40.0% of LTM EBITDA at such time;
provided that available amounts under this
clause (i) shall be
reduced by the then-outstanding amount of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the Restricted Payment Reallocated Amount or the then-outstanding amount of any Investment made pursuant to
clause (21)(y) of the definition of “Permitted
Investments” with an amount reallocated to such clause (21) from this clause (19), as applicable; and
(ii) the redemption, defeasance, repurchase, exchange or other acquisition or retirement of Subordinated
Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Guarantor, so long as, (x) immediately after giving
pro forma effect to the payment of any such Restricted Payment and the incurrence of any Indebtedness the net
proceeds of which are used to make such Restricted Payment, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio shall be no greater than 3.60 to 1.00 and (y) no Event of Default pursuant to
Section 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) shall have
occurred or be continuing;
(20) payments or distributions to dissenting stockholders pursuant to applicable law (including in connection with, or as a result of, exercise of dissenters’ or appraisal rights and the
settlement of any claims or action (whether actual, contingent or potential)), pursuant to or in connection with a merger, amalgamation, consolidation or transfer of assets that complies with Section 7.03;
(21) Restricted Payments to a direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to finance Investments that would otherwise be permitted to be made pursuant to this covenant if made by the
Borrower; provided that (a) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment (or anytime following the closing of such Investment with respect to
earn-out or similar payments), (b) such direct or indirect parent shall, promptly following the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Capital Stock) to be contributed to the capital of the Borrower or one of its
Restricted Subsidiaries or (2) the merger or amalgamation of the Person formed or acquired by or merged or consolidated with the Borrower or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (to the extent not prohibited by Section 7.03) to consummate
such Investment, (c) such direct or indirect parent and its Affiliates (other than the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) receives no consideration or other payment in connection with such transaction except to the extent the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary could have given such consideration or made such payment in compliance with this Agreement, (d) any property received by the Borrower shall not increase amounts available for Restricted Payments pursuant to clause (b)
of Section 7.05(y), except to the extent the fair market value at the time of such receipt of such property exceeds the Restricted Payment made pursuant to this clause (21) and (e) such Investment shall be deemed to be made by
the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to another provision of this covenant (other than pursuant to clause (12) hereof) or pursuant to the definition of “Permitted Investment” (other than pursuant to clause (12)
thereof);
(22) investments or other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed an amount equal to the Retained Declined Proceeds;
(23) any Restricted Payment made in connection with a Permitted Intercompany Activity, Permitted Tax Restructuring or related transactions; and
(24) any Restricted Payment payable solely in the Capital Stock of any Parent Holding Company.
(c)
For purposes of determining compliance with this covenant, in the event that a Restricted Payment or Investment (or portion thereof) meets the criteria of more than one of the
categories of Permitted Payments described in the clauses above, or is permitted pursuant to
Section 7.05(a) and/or one or more of the clauses contained in the definition of “Permitted Investment,” the Borrower will be entitled to divide or
classify (or later divide, classify or reclassify in whole or in part in its sole discretion) such Restricted Payment or Investment (or portion thereof) in any manner that complies with this covenant, including as an Investment pursuant to one or
more of the clauses contained in the definition of “Permitted Investment”;
provided that any Restricted Payment permitted pursuant to one of the clauses of
Section 7.05(b) (other than
Section
7.05(b)(17)(ii) or
Section 7.05(b)(19)(ii), as applicable) shall automatically cease to be deemed permitted or outstanding for purposes of such clause of
Section 7.05(b), and shall automatically be deemed permitted for the
purposes of
Section 7.05(b)(17)(ii) or
Section 7.05(b)(19)(ii), as applicable, from and after the first date on which the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries could have incurred such Restricted Payment under
Section 7.05(b)(17)(ii)
or
Section 7.05(b)(19)(ii), as applicable, without reliance on such other clause of
Section 7.01(b);
provided,
further, that any Investment
permitted pursuant to one of the clauses of the definition of “Permitted Investment” (other than
clause (34)(y) thereof) shall automatically cease to be deemed permitted or outstanding for purposes of such clause of the definition of
“Permitted Investment” and shall automatically be deemed permitted for the purposes of
clause (34)(y) thereof from and after the first date on which the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries could have incurred such Investment under
clause
(34)(y) of the definition of “Permitted Investment” without reliance on such other clause of such definition.
The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the fair market value on the date of such Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be paid, transferred or issued by the Borrower or
such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, pursuant to such Restricted Payment. The fair market value of any cash Restricted Payment shall be its face amount, and the fair market value of any non-cash Restricted Payment, property or assets other
than cash shall be determined conclusively by the Borrower acting in good faith.
In connection with any binding commitment or entry into a definitive agreement relating to an Investment, the Borrower or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary may designate such Investment as having occurred on the
date of the binding commitment or entry into the definitive agreement relating thereto (such date, the “Election Date”) if, after giving pro forma effect to such
Investment and all related transactions in connection therewith (including any contemplated incurrence of Indebtedness) and any related pro forma adjustments, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries would have been permitted to make such
Investment on the relevant Election Date in compliance with this Agreement, and any related subsequent actual making of such Investment will be deemed for all purposes under this Agreement to have been made on such Election Date, including for
purposes of calculating any ratio, compliance with any test, usage of any baskets hereunder (if applicable) and Consolidated EBITDA and for purposes of determining whether there exists any Default or Event of Default (and all such calculations on
and after the Election Date (other than for purposes of determining (i) actual compliance with the Financial Covenants and (ii) the Applicable Rate or the Applicable Commitment Fee) until the termination, expiration, passing, rescission, retraction or rescindment of such binding commitment or definitive agreement shall be made on a pro forma basis giving effect
thereto and all related transactions in connection therewith); provided that the foregoing shall not limit the application of Section 1.02(i), to the extent applicable.
For the avoidance of doubt, this covenant shall not restrict the making of, or dividends or other distributions in amounts sufficient to make, any AHYDO Catch-up Payment with respect to any Indebtedness of any direct
or indirect parent of the Borrower, the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted to be incurred under this Agreement.
Section 7.06
Burdensome Agreements.
(a) Create or otherwise cause or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual restriction on the ability of any Loan Party other than the Borrower to pay dividends or make any
other distributions on its Capital Stock;
provided that (x) the priority of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or
liquidating distributions being paid on common stock and (y) the subordination of (including the application of any standstill requirements to) loans or advances made to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to other Indebtedness incurred by
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not be deemed to constitute such an encumbrance or restriction.
(b) The provisions of Section 7.06(a) will not prohibit:
(1) any encumbrance or restriction (x) for the benefit of the Lenders with respect to the Facilities and the Obligations or under the Loan Documents or (y) pursuant to any instrument or
agreement in effect at or entered into on the Closing Date;
(3)
any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to applicable law, rule, regulation or order;
(4) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement or instrument of a Person or relating to any Capital Stock or Indebtedness of a Person, entered into on or before the date on
which such Person was acquired by or merged, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, or was designated as a Restricted Subsidiary or on which such agreement or instrument is assumed by the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an acquisition of assets (other than Capital Stock or Indebtedness incurred as consideration in, or to provide all or any portion of the funds utilized to consummate, the transaction or
series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was acquired by the Borrower or was merged, consolidated or otherwise combined with or into the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or entered into
in contemplation of or in connection with such transaction) and outstanding on such date; provided that, for the purposes of this clause, if another Person is the successor company, any Subsidiary of
such Person or agreement or instrument of such Person or any such Subsidiary shall be deemed acquired or assumed by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary when such Person becomes the successor company;
(5) any encumbrance or restriction:
(a) that restricts in a customary manner the subletting, assignment or transfer of any property or asset that is subject to a lease, license or similar contract or agreement, or the
assignment or transfer of any lease, license or other contract or agreement;
(b) contained in mortgages, pledges, charges or other security agreements permitted under this Agreement or securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary permitted
under this Agreement to the extent such encumbrances or restrictions restrict the transfer or encumbrance of the property or assets subject to such mortgages, pledges, charges or other security agreements;
(c) contained in any trading, netting, operating, construction, service, supply, purchase, sale or other agreement to which the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party
entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice; provided that such agreement prohibits the encumbrance of solely the property or assets of the Borrower or such
Restricted Subsidiary that are subject to such agreement, the payment rights arising thereunder or the proceeds thereof and does not extend to any other asset or property of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary or the assets or property
of another Restricted Subsidiary; or
(d) pursuant to customary provisions restricting dispositions of real property interests set forth in any reciprocal easement agreements of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(6) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to Purchase Money Obligations and Finance Lease Obligations permitted under this Agreement, in each case, that impose encumbrances or
restrictions on the property so acquired;
(7) any encumbrance or restriction imposed pursuant to an agreement entered into for the direct or indirect sale or disposition to a Person of all or substantially all the Capital Stock
or assets of the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (or the property or assets that are subject to such restriction) pending the closing of such sale or disposition;
(8) customary provisions in leases, licenses, equityholder agreements, joint venture agreements, organizational documents and other similar agreements and instruments;
(9) encumbrances or restrictions arising or existing by reason of applicable law or any applicable rule, regulation or order, or required by any regulatory authority;
(10) any encumbrance or restriction on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past
practice;
(11) any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to Swap Obligations;
(12) other Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock of Non-Loan Party Subsidiaries permitted to be incurred or issued subsequent to the Closing Date pursuant to the provisions
of
Section 7.01 that impose restrictions solely on the
Non-Loan Party Subsidiaries party thereto and/or their Subsidiaries;
(13) restrictions created in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing or Receivables Facility that, in the good faith determination of the Borrower, are necessary or
advisable to effect such Securitization Facility or Receivables Facility;
(14) any encumbrance or restriction arising pursuant to an agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred subsequent to the Closing Date pursuant to the
provisions of the covenant described under Section 7.01 if (i) the encumbrances and restrictions contained in any such agreement or instrument taken as a whole are not materially less favorable to the Lenders than the encumbrances and
restrictions contained in this Agreement, together with the security documents associated therewith or (ii) either (a) the Borrower determines at the time of entry into such agreement or instrument that such encumbrances or restrictions will
not adversely affect, in any material respect, the Borrower’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Loans or (b) such encumbrance or restriction applies only during the continuance of a default in respect of a payment relating
to such agreement or instrument;
(15) any encumbrance or restriction existing by reason of any lien permitted under Section 7.02;
(16) any encumbrance or restriction arising pursuant to the Transaction Documents; or
(17)
any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to an agreement or instrument effecting a refinancing of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to, or that otherwise
refinances, an agreement or instrument referred to in the clauses above or this
clause (17) (an “
Initial Agreement”) or contained in any amendment, supplement or other modification to an agreement
referred to in the clauses above or this
clause (17);
provided,
however, that the encumbrances and restrictions with respect to such Guarantor contained
in any such agreement or instrument are no less favorable in any material respect to the Lenders taken as a whole than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the Initial Agreement or Initial Agreements to which such refinancing or
amendment, supplement or other modification relates (as determined in good faith by the Borrower).
Section 7.08
Financial Covenants.
(a) With respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and Initial Tranche A Facility only, except with the written consent of the Required Pro Rata Lenders, permit the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio of the
Borrower as of the last day of any Test Period (commencing with the Test Period for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2026) set forth below to be greater than the ratio set forth below opposite such period (the “Leverage
Covenant Ratio”):
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Test Period
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Consolidated Total Net
Leverage Ratio
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For any fiscal quarter ending on or after June 30, 2026 but on or prior to December 31, 2026
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5.25 to 1.00
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For any fiscal quarter ending after December 31, 2026 but on or prior to June 30, 2027
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5.00 to 1.00
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For any fiscal quarter ending after June 30, 2027 but on or prior to December 31, 2027
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4.75 to 1.00
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For any fiscal quarter ending after December 31, 2027 but on or prior to June 30, 2028
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4.50 to 1.00
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For any fiscal quarter ending after June 30, 2028
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4.25 to 1.00
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provided that the Leverage Covenant Ratio may be increased, at the Borrower’s option, by 0.50x (or such lesser
amount as would be required by clause (iv) below) solely with respect to the Test Period for each of the four immediately succeeding fiscal quarters ending on or after the consummation of a Qualifying Material Acquisition (each such increase, a “Leverage Covenant Increase”); provided, further, that (i) in order to initiate a Leverage Covenant Increase, the Borrower shall
provide written notice to the Administrative Agent notifying the Administrative Agent and Lenders that there is a Leverage Covenant Increase in effect by a date no later than fifteen (15) Business Days after consummating such Qualifying Material
Acquisition, (ii) there shall be no more than one Leverage Covenant Increase in effect at any one time, (iii) at least one full fiscal quarter shall have passed during which a Leverage Covenant Increase was not in effect or the Borrower would
otherwise have complied with the Leverage Covenant Ratio without giving effect to the Leverage Covenant Increase before the Borrower may elect to initiate an additional Leverage Covenant Increase and (iv) no
Leverage Covenant Increase may increase the Leverage Covenant Ratio above 5.25 to 1.00.
(b)
With respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and Initial Tranche A Facility only, except with the written consent of
the Required Pro Rata Lenders, permit the Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio of the Borrower as of the last day of any Test Period (commencing with the Test Period for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2026) to be less than 3.00 to 1.00.
ARTICLE VIII
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 8.01
Events of Default. Any of the following shall
constitute an “
Event of Default”:
(a)
Non-Payment. The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to pay (i) when due and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or (ii) within five
(5) Business Days after the same becomes due and payable, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation, any fee due hereunder or any other amount payable hereunder or with respect to any other Loan Document; or
(b)
Specific Covenants. The Borrower or any other Loan Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of
Section 6.05(a) (solely
with respect to the Borrower) or
6.11 (solely with respect to
Section 5.07) or in any Section of
Article VII (subject to, in the case of the Financial Covenants, the proviso at the end of this
clause (b));
provided, that a Default or Event of Default under
Section 7.08 (a “
Financial Covenant Event of Default”) shall not constitute an Event of
Default with respect to any Tranche B Term Loan or any Specified Refinancing Debt (unless refinancing the Revolving Credit Facility or, if such Specified Refinancing Debt is in the form of a Customary Term A Facility, the Initial Tranche A Term
Loans) (or, if applicable, for any New Revolving Facility or New Term Loans under a Customary Term A Facility that have elected, with the consent of the Borrower, to not receive the benefit of the Financial Covenants) unless and until the Required
Pro Rata Lenders shall have terminated their Revolving Credit Commitments and declared the Initial Tranche A Term Loans and all amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility to be due and payable and such termination and acceleration has
not been rescinded; or
(c)
Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any covenant or agreement (other than those specified in
Sections 8.01(a) or
(b) above)
contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 30 days after notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower; or
(d)
Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan
Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document required to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect (or in any respect if such representation or warranty is already
qualified by materiality) when made or deemed made and, to the extent capable of being cured, such representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact is not corrected or clarified within 30 days after the Borrower has knowledge of such
inaccurate or misleading representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact;
provided that this
clause (d) shall be limited on the Closing Date to the
Specified Representations;
provided,
further,
that to the extent that a Default or Event of Default arises under this
clause
(d) in relation to the inaccuracy of any calculation of the Financial Covenants, such Default or Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to any Tranche B Term Loan or any Specified Refinancing Debt
(unless refinancing the Revolving Credit Facility or, if such Specified Refinancing Debt is in the form of a Customary Term A Facility, the Initial Tranche A Term Loans) (or, if applicable, for any New Revolving Facility or New Term Loans under a
Customary Term A Facility that have elected, with the consent of the Borrower, to not receive the benefit of the Financial Covenants) unless and until the Required Pro Rata Lenders shall have terminated their Revolving Credit Commitments and
declared the Initial Tranche A Term Loans and all amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility to be due and payable and such termination and acceleration has not been rescinded;
provided,
further, that to the extent that a Default or Event of Default arises under this
clause (d) in relation to the failure of any representation or warranty to be true and correct at the time of an
incurrence of only Revolving Credit Loans or issuance of Letters of Credit and not an incurrence of Term Loans, such Default or Event of Default shall constitute a Default or Event of Default only with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and
not any Term Facility, unless and until the Required Revolving Lenders shall have terminated their Revolving Credit Commitments and declared all amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility to be due and payable and such termination and
acceleration has not been rescinded; or
(e)
Cross-Default. Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary:
(A) fails to make any payment beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in
respect of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness hereunder and intercompany Indebtedness) having an aggregate outstanding principal amount equal to or greater than the Threshold Amount (any such Indebtedness, “Material Indebtedness”);
(B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement relating to Material Indebtedness, or any other event occurs under Material Indebtedness
(other than a
default or an event of default in respect of the observance of or compliance with any financial maintenance covenant, which is addressed by
clause (C) below), and any applicable grace or cure period under the applicable Material
Indebtedness has expired, such that the holder or holders of such Material Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) have caused, or are permitted to cause such Indebtedness to
become due, in each case, prior to its Stated Maturity;
provided that this
clause (e)(B) shall not apply to (x) secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the sale or transfer or other
Disposition (including a Casualty Event) of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such Indebtedness and such Indebtedness is repaid when required under the documents
providing for such Indebtedness, (y) events of default, termination events or any other similar event under the documents governing Swap Contracts for so long as such event of default, termination event or other similar event does not result in
the occurrence of an early termination date or any acceleration of any amounts or other Indebtedness payable thereunder or (z) Indebtedness that upon the happening of any such default or event automatically converts into Equity Interests (other
than Disqualified Stock or, in the case of a Restricted Subsidiary, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock) in accordance with its terms;
provided,
further, that this
clause (e)(B) shall automatically cease to apply if the applicable failure or event giving rise hereto is validly waived by the holders of such Material Indebtedness in accordance with the terms of
the documents governing such Material Indebtedness prior to any termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments or acceleration of the Loans pursuant to
Section 8.02; or
(C)
fails to observe or perform any other agreement relating to any Material Indebtedness containing or otherwise requiring observance or compliance with a
financial maintenance covenant and the holder or holders of such Material Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) have caused such Indebtedness to become due, prior to its Stated
Maturity (“
Acceleration”);
provided, however, that if such holder or holders (or a trustee or an
agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) irrevocably rescind such Acceleration, the Event of Default with respect to this clause (e) shall automatically cease from and after such date; or
(f)
Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. The Borrower or any Material Subsidiary:
(i) institutes, resolves to institute or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, in each case relating to a winding-up, an administration, a
dissolution, or a composition thereof;
(ii) makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other action is commenced (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise);
(iii)
appoints, resolves to appoint, applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, trustee, custodian,
conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, judicial manager, provisional liquidator, administrator, receiver and manager, controller, monitor or similar officer (any such person, a “
Custodian”) for it or for
all or substantially all of its property;
(iv)
has a Custodian appointed with respect thereto without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed
for 60 days; or
(v) becomes subject to any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law (including, without limitation, for the appointment of any Custodian with respect thereto) relating to such Person or to
all or substantially all of its property without the consent of such Person, and such proceeding continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 days; or
(g)
Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) The Borrower or any Material Subsidiary admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due,
or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued, commenced or levied against all or substantially all of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 60 days after its
issue, commencement or levy; or
(h)
Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount (as to all such
judgments and orders) equal to or greater than the Threshold Amount (to the extent not paid and not covered by (i) independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer has been notified of such judgment or order and does not deny coverage or
(ii) an enforceable indemnity to the extent that such Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary shall have made a claim for indemnification and the applicable indemnifying party shall not have disputed such claim) and there is a period of 60 consecutive
days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal, bond or otherwise, is not in effect; or
(i)
ERISA. (i) One or more ERISA Events occur or there is or arises an Unfunded Pension Liability (taking into account only Plans with positive Unfunded Pension Liability)
which ERISA Event or
ERISA Events or Unfunded Pension Liability or Unfunded Pension Liabilities results or would reasonably be expected to result in liability of any Loan
Party in an aggregate amount which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment
with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of any Loan Party in an aggregate amount which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material
Adverse Effect; or
(j)
Invalidity of Certain Loan Documents. Any material provision of any Collateral Document and/or any Guaranty (in each case, subject to the Perfection Exceptions), at any
time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder (including as a result of a transaction permitted under
Section 7.03 or
Section 7.04) or satisfaction in full of all
the Obligations (other than any Remaining Obligations) ceases to be in full force and effect (except that any such failure to be in full force and effect with respect to the documents referred to in
clause (vii) of the definition of “Loan
Documents” shall constitute an Event of Default only if the Borrower receives notice thereof and the Borrower fails to remedy the relevant failure in all material respects within fifteen days of receiving said notice); or any Lien purported to be
created under the Collateral Documents and to extend to assets that are material to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis shall cease to be a valid and perfected Lien on the assets covered thereby (except to the extent that any
such loss of perfection results from
(A) the Collateral Agent
no longer having possession of certificates actually delivered to it representing securities pledged under the Collateral
Documents or
(B) UCC continuation statements
not being timely filed); or any Loan Party contests in writing the validity or enforceability of any provision of this Agreement, any
Collateral Document and/or any Guaranty; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Collateral Document or Guaranty (other than as a result of repayment in full of the Obligations (other than
any Remaining Obligations) and termination of the Aggregate Commitments), or purports in writing to revoke or rescind any Collateral Document or Guaranty or the Liens created thereby (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement or the
Collateral Documents);
or
(k)
Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control
.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, (x) no Event of Default or breach of any representation or warranty in
Article V or any covenant in
Article VI or
VII shall constitute
a Default or Event of Default if such Event of Default or breach of such representation or warranty in
Article V or such covenant in
Article VI or
VII would not have occurred but for a fluctuation (or other adverse change)
in Exchange Rates, (y) any Default or Event of Default that occurs due to the taking of any action by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is not then permitted by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, shall be deemed not
to “exist” or be “continuing” (or other similar expression) on the earlier to occur of (i) the date on which such action would be permitted at such time to be taken under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents pursuant to an applicable
amendment or waiver permitting such action, or otherwise, and (ii) the date on which such action is unwound or otherwise modified to the extent necessary for such revised action to be permitted at such time by this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents (including after giving effect to any amendments or waivers hereto or thereto) and (z) any Default or Event of Default resulting from the failure to deliver a notice pursuant to
Section 6.03(a) shall cease to exist and be cured in
all respects if the underlying Default or Event of Default giving rise to such notice requirement shall cease to exist and/or be cured unless the Borrower had actual knowledge of such failure to provide such notice at the time that it failed to
timely deliver such notice.
Section 8.02
Remedies upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing (including any Event of Default arising by virtue of the termination and declaration contemplated by the proviso to
Section
8.01(b)), the Administrative Agent may, or at the request of the Required Lenders shall
(and, if a Financial Covenant Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may, or at the request of
the Required Pro Rata Lenders only, shall, and in such case, without limiting the proviso in
Section 8.01(b), only with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the Initial Tranche A Facility, any Letters of Credit, L/C Credit Extensions
and L/C Obligations), take any or all of the following actions:
(a)
declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and
obligation shall be terminated;
(b)
declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan
Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;
(c)
require that the
Borrower Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations
(in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and/or
(d)
exercise on behalf of itself, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders under the Loan Documents, under any
document evidencing Indebtedness in respect of which the Facilities have been designated as “
Designated Senior Debt” (or any comparable term) and/or under applicable Law;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of any Event of Default under Sections
8.01(f) or (g) (with respect to the Borrower or any other Loan Party) or Section 8.01(l), the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically
terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Borrower to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid
shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary or in any other Loan
Document, neither the Administrative Agent nor, for the avoidance of doubt, any Lender, may exercise any remedies or otherwise take any other action with respect to any Default or Event of Default for which notice has been provided to the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or otherwise reported publicly pursuant to a press release or SEC filing or reported to Lenders pursuant to a posting to the Platform more than two years prior to such exercise of remedies or other action;
provided that such two year limitation shall not apply if (i) the Administrative Agent has commenced any remedial action in respect of any such Default or Event of Default or (ii) any Loan Party has actual
knowledge of such Default or Event of Default and failed to notify the Administrative Agent as required hereby.
Section 8.04
Application of Funds. After the exercise of remedies provided for in
Section 8.02 (or after an actual or deemed entry of
an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under any Debtor Relief Law), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall, subject to the provisions of
Sections 2.16 and
2.17, be applied by the Administrative Agent
subject to the terms of any Applicable Intercreditor
Arrangement in the following order:
(a)
first, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, disbursements and other charges of
counsel payable under
Section 10.04,
Section 10.05 and amounts payable under
Article III and amounts owing in respect of (x) the preservation of Collateral or the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral or (y)
with respect to enforcing the rights of the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents) payable to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in their respective capacity as such;
(b)
second, to payment in full of Unfunded Advances/Participations (the amounts so applied to be distributed between or among, as applicable, the Administrative Agent and the
L/C Issuers pro rata in accordance with the amounts of Unfunded Advances/Participations owed to them on the date of any such distribution) and
to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees,
indemnities, expenses and other amounts (other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit fees) payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers (including fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel payable under
Sections 10.04 and
10.05)
arising under the Loan Documents and amounts payable under
Article III, ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this
clause (b) held by them;
(c)
third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit fees and interest on the Loans and L/C Borrowings, ratably among the
Lenders and the L/C Issuers in proportion to the respective amounts described in this
clause (c) held by them;
(d)
fourth, (i) to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans and the L/C Borrowings, that portion of the Obligations of the Loan
Parties then owing in respect of regularly scheduled payments or termination payments (whether as a result of the occurrence of any event of default or other termination event) under the Secured Hedge Agreements and that portion of the Obligations
of the Loan Parties then owing under the Secured Cash Management Agreements and (ii) to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprising the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit to the extent not otherwise
Cash Collateralized by the Borrower pursuant to
Sections 2.03 and
2.16, ratably among the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, the Hedge Banks
party to such Secured Hedge Agreements and the Cash Management Banks party to such Secured Cash Management Agreements in proportion to the respective amounts described in this
clause (d) held by them;
provided
that (x) any such amounts applied pursuant to the foregoing
clause (ii) shall be paid to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the applicable L/C Issuers to Cash Collateralize such L/C Obligations, (y) subject to
Sections
2.03(d) and
2.16, amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to this
clause (d) shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur and (z) upon
the expiration of any Letter of Credit without any pending drawing, the
pro rata share of Cash Collateral attributable to such expired Letter of Credit shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the priority of payments
set forth in this
Section 8.04;
(e)
fifth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties owing under or in respect of the Loan Documents or under Secured Hedge Agreements and the Secured Cash
Management Agreements that are then due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties, and not otherwise paid pursuant to
clause (d) above, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations
then owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties; and
(f)
last, after all of the Obligations have been paid in full (other than any Remaining Obligations), to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law;
provided that no amounts received from any Guarantor shall be applied to Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor.
If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired without any pending drawing, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if
any, in accordance with the priority of payments set forth above. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements shall be excluded from the application of payments described
above if the Administrative Agent has not received written notice thereof, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as applicable. Each
Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank not a party to this Agreement that has given the notice contemplated by the preceding sentence shall, by such notice, be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent
pursuant to the terms of Article IX for itself and its Affiliates as if a “Lender” party hereto.
It is understood and agreed by each Loan Party and each Secured Party that the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall have no liability for any determinations made by it in this
Section 8.04, in each
case except to the extent resulting from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of, or material breach of the Loan Documents by, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable (as determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision). Each Loan Party and each Secured Party also agrees that the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent may (but shall not be required to), at any time and in its sole discretion, and with no
liability resulting therefrom, petition a court of competent jurisdiction regarding any application of Collateral in accordance with the requirements hereof or any Applicable Intercreditor
Arrangement, and the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to wait for, and may conclusively rely on, any such determination.
ARTICLE IX
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS
Section 9.01
Appointment and Authorization of Agents.
(a)
Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints Bank of America, N.A. and its successors and permitted assigns to act on its behalf as Administrative Agent hereunder and
under the other Loan Documents (subject to the provisions in
Section 9.09), and designates and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to
exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The
Administrative Agent may perform any of its duties through its officers, directors, agents, employees, or affiliates. The provisions of this
Article IX (other than
Sections 9.09,
9.11,
9.13,
9.14 and
9.15
to the extent of the rights of the Borrower or the other Loan Parties and the obligations and agreements of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties for the benefit of the Borrower or the other Loan Parties, in each case
expressly set forth therein) are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and no Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
contained elsewhere herein or in any other Loan Document, no Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall any Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or
participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against any Agent. Regardless of whether a Default has occurred
and is continuing and without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to any Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express)
obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties;
additionally, each Lender agrees that it will not assert any claim against the Administrative Agent based on an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.
(b)
Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and such L/C Issuer shall have all
of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Agents in this
Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the
applications and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Agent” as used in this
Article IX and in the definition of “Agent-Related Person” included such L/C Issuer with respect to such
acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to such L/C Issuer.
(c)
The Administrative Agent shall also act as the Collateral Agent under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a Lender, L/C Issuer (if
applicable) and a potential Cash Management Bank party to a Secured Cash Management Agreement and/or a potential Hedge Bank party to a Secured Hedge Agreement) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent
of (and to hold any security interest, charge or other Lien created by the Collateral Documents for) such Lender for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of
the Secured Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Collateral Agent (and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Collateral Agent pursuant to
Section 9.02
for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this
Article
IX (including
Section 9.07, as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the Collateral Agent under the Loan Documents) and
Section 10.04 as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto and all
references to Administrative Agent in this
Article IX shall, where applicable, be read as including a reference to the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Lenders hereby expressly authorize (i) the
Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, as applicable, to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the Loan Documents to which the Administrative Agent is a party and (ii) the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent, as applicable, to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, any and all documents (including releases, payoff letters and similar documents) with respect to the Collateral and the rights of the Secured Parties with respect
thereto (including any intercreditor agreement), as contemplated by and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents and acknowledge and agree that any such action by any Agent shall bind the Lenders (including
in its capacities as a Lender, L/C Issuer (if applicable) and a potential Cash Management Bank party to a Secured Cash Management Agreement and/or a potential Hedge Bank party to a Secured Hedge Agreement).
Section 9.02
Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties and exercise its rights and powers under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder) by or through
agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent and any such sub agent may perform any and all of its
duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Agent-Related Persons. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct by the Administrative Agent, as determined by a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction. The exculpatory provisions of this
Article IX shall apply to any such sub agent and
to the Agent-Related Persons of the Administrative Agent and any such sub agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative
Agent.
Section 9.03
Liability of Agents.
(a)
No Agent-Related Person shall be (i) liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or
the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, to the extent determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction), (ii) liable for any action taken or not
taken by it or its Related Parties under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document (A) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under
the circumstances as provided in
Sections 10.01 and
8.02) or (B) in the absence of its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, as determined by the final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction,
in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein, (iii) responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any
other Loan Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (iv) responsible for or
have any duty to ascertain or inquire into the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or the creation, perfection or priority
of any Lien, or security interest created or purported to be created under the Collateral Documents, or for any failure of any Loan Party or any other party to any Loan Document to perform its obligations hereunder, (v) responsible for or have any
duty to ascertain or inquire into the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral or (vi) responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into the satisfaction of any condition set forth in
Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than
to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of
the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any
liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions relating to Disqualified Institutions. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not (x) be
obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or participant or prospective Lender or participant is a Disqualified Institution or
a Net Short Lender or (y) have any liability with respect to or
arising out of any assignment or participation of loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to, or the restriction on any exercise of rights or remedies of, any Disqualified Institution
or any Net Short
Lender.
(b)
As to any matters not expressly provided for herein and in the other Loan Documents (including enforcement or collection), neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral
Agent, as applicable, shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the
Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, pursuant to the terms in the Loan Documents), and, unless and until revoked in writing, such instructions shall be binding upon each Lender and each L/C
Issuer;
provided,
however, that neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall be required to take any action that (i) the
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, in good faith believes exposes it to liability unless the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, receives an indemnification satisfactory to it from the Lenders and
the L/C Issuers with respect to such action or (ii) is contrary to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or applicable law, including any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any requirement of Law relating to bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any requirement of Law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief
of debtors;
provided,
further, that the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, may seek clarification or direction from the Required Lenders
prior to the exercise of any such instructed action and may refrain from acting until such clarification or direction has been provided. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall have any duty to disclose,
except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of their Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by any Person serving
as an Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.
(c)
Any assignor of a Loan or seller of a participation hereunder shall be entitled to rely conclusively on a representation of the assignee Lender or Participant in the relevant
Assignment and Assumption or participation agreement, as applicable, that such assignee or purchaser is not a Disqualified Institution.
Section 9.04
Reliance by Agents.
(a)
Each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication, signature, resolution, representation, notice, request, consent,
certificate, instrument, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message, electronic mail message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution statement or other document or conversation reasonably believed by it
to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and reasonably believed by it to have been made by the proper Person,
and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that
such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan. Each Agent may consult with, and rely upon (and be fully protected in
relying upon), advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by such Agent. Each Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any
Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any instance) as it deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be
indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Each Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in
refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document in accordance with a request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any instance) and such request and any
action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.
(b)
For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in
Sections 4.01 and
4.02, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to
have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received
written notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date, specifying its objection thereto.
Section 9.05
Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default, unless the Administrative Agent shall have received
written notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. The Administrative Agent will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. The
Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to any Event of Default as may be directed by the Required Lenders or the Required
Pro Rata Lenders, as applicable, in accordance with
Article VIII;
provided,
however, that unless and until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such
action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Event of Default as it shall deem advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be liable for,
or be responsible for any loss, cost or expense suffered by the Borrower, any Subsidiary, any Lender or any L/C Issuer as a result of any determination of the outstanding Revolving Credit Commitments, any of the component amounts thereof or any
portion thereof attributable to each Lender or L/C Issuer, or any Exchange Rate or
Dollar-equivalent in the absence of its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, to the extent
determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 9.06
Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents. Each Lender acknowledges that no Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by any Agent
hereafter taken, including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender
as to any matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed material information in their possession. Each Lender represents to each Agent that (i) the Loan Documents set forth the terms of a commercial lending facility, (ii) it is
engaged in making, acquiring or holding commercial loans and in providing other facilities set forth herein as may be applicable to such Lender, in each case in the ordinary course of business, and not for the purpose of purchasing, acquiring or
holding any other type of financial instrument (and each Lender agrees not to assert a claim in contravention of the foregoing), (iii) it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of, and investigation into, the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries,
and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties hereunder and (iv) it is
sophisticated with respect to decisions to make, acquire and/or hold commercial loans and to provide other facilities set forth herein, as may be applicable to such Lender, and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision
to make, acquire and/or hold such commercial loans or to provide such other facilities, is experienced in making, acquiring or holding such commercial loans or providing such other facilities. Each Lender also represents that it will,
independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower and
the other Loan Parties.
Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by any Agent herein, such Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender
with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any of the Loan Parties or any of their respective Affiliates which may come into the possession of
any Agent-Related Person. Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement on the Closing Date, or delivering its signature page to an Assignment and Assumption or any other Loan Document pursuant to which it shall become a Lender
hereunder, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Loan Document and each other document required to be delivered to, or be approved by or satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders on the
Closing Date.
Section 9.07
Indemnification of Agents. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated,
each Lender shall, on a ratable basis based on such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of all the Facilities, indemnify upon demand each Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of any Loan Party and without limiting the obligation
of any Loan Party to do so), and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person in each case from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by such Agent-Related Person (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such Agent-Related Person
in its capacity as L/C Issuer);
provided,
however, that no Lender shall be liable for any Indemnified Liabilities incurred by an Agent-Related Person to the extent
such Indemnified Liabilities are determined in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent-Related Person’s own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct;
provided,
however, that no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be required by the Loan
Documents) shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct for purposes of this
Section 9.07;
provided,
further, that to the
extent any L/C Issuer is entitled to indemnification under this
Section 9.07 solely in its capacity and role as an L/C Issuer, only the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be required to indemnify such L/C Issuer under this
Section 9.07
(which indemnity shall be provided by such Lenders based upon their respective Pro Rata Share of the Revolving Credit Facility). In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Liabilities, this
Section
9.07 shall apply whether or not any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender or any other Person. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse the Administrative Agent upon demand for its Pro Rata
Share of any costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or
enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the
extent that the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of the Borrower;
provided that such reimbursement by the Lenders shall not affect the Borrower’s continuing
reimbursement obligations with respect thereto;
provided,
further, that failure of any Lender to indemnify or reimburse the Administrative Agent shall not relieve
any other Lender of its obligation in respect thereof. The undertaking in this
Section 9.07 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the resignation or removal of the Administrative
Agent.
Section 9.08
Agents in Their Individual Capacities. Any Agent and its Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from, acquire Capital Stock in and
generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with each of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates as though it were not an Agent or an L/C Issuer hereunder and without notice to or
consent of the Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, an Agent or its Affiliates may receive information regarding any Loan Party or its Affiliates (including information that may be subject to confidentiality
obligations in favor of such Loan Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that such Agent shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them. With respect to its Loans, such Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this
Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though it were not an Agent or an L/C Issuer, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” include such Agent in its individual capacity (unless otherwise expressly indicated or
unless the context otherwise requires).
Section 9.09
Successor Agents.
(a) The Administrative Agent (which for purposes of this
Section 9.09 shall also apply to the Administrative Agent in its role as
Collateral Agent) may resign at any time by giving 30 days’ prior written
notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower, whether or not a successor Administrative Agent has been appointed. If the
Administrative Agent or a controlling Affiliate of the Administrative Agent is subject to an Agent-Related Distress Event, the Borrower may remove the Administrative Agent upon ten days’ written notice to the Lenders. Upon any such resignation or
removal, the Required Lenders shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York or an Affiliate of any such entity. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed
and shall have accepted such appointment prior to the effective date of the resignation or removal, then the retiring Administrative Agent or, solely to the extent the retiring Administrative Agent does not promptly so appoint a successor agent and
the Borrower did not previously withhold its consent to a successor Administrative Agent appointed by the Required Lenders, the Borrower may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be an entity engaged in
the business of agenting syndicated loans with an office in New York, New York or an Affiliate of any such entity;
provided that any such appointment by the Borrower shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. (New
York City time), on the fifth Business Day after the Borrower has notified all Lenders of such appointment, so long as the Borrower has not received, by such time, written notice from Lenders comprising Required Lenders objecting to such
appointment
and appointing (effective immediately) a successor Administrative Agent acceptable to the Borrower. In either case, such appointment shall be subject to the prior written approval of the
Borrower (which approval may not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and shall not be required while an Event of Default under
Sections 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) has occurred and is continuing). Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Administrative Agent by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall succeed to, and become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent.
Upon the acceptance of appointment as Administrative Agent by a successor Administrative Agent, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Prior to any retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall take such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor
Administrative Agent its rights as Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents.
(b)
Notwithstanding
clause (a) of this
Section 9.09, in the event no successor Administrative Agent shall
have been so appointed and shall have accepted such appointment prior to the effective date of the resignation or removal, the resignation or removal shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, whereupon, on the date of effectiveness of such
resignation or removal, (i) the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents;
provided that, solely for purposes
of maintaining any security interest granted to the Administrative Agent under any Security Agreement for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall continue to be vested with such security interest as
collateral agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and continue to be entitled to the rights set forth in such Security Agreement and Loan Document, and, in the case of any Collateral in the possession of the Administrative Agent, shall
continue to hold such Collateral, in each case until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and accepts such appointment in accordance with this
Section 9.09 (it being understood and agreed
that the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall have no duty or obligation to take any further action under any Security Agreement, including any action required to maintain the perfection of any such security interest) and (ii) the
Required Lenders shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent;
provided that (A) all payments required to be made
hereunder or under any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Person other than the Administrative Agent shall be made directly to such Person (but only to the extent that such Person shall have provided to the
Borrower all information customary or necessary in order to permit the making of such payment) and (B) all notices and other communications required or contemplated to be given or made to the Administrative Agent shall directly be given or made to
each Lender. Following the effectiveness of the Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal from its capacity as such, the provisions of this
Article IX and
Section 10.04, as well as any exculpatory, reimbursement and
indemnification provisions set forth in any other Loan Document, shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or
omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring or removed Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent and in respect of the matters referred to in the proviso under
clause (i) above.
Section 9.10
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, administrative receivership, judicial management, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization (by way of voluntary arrangement, schemes of arrangement or otherwise), arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of
any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on the Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a)
to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations that are owing
and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel to the extent provided for herein and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under
Sections 2.03(h) and
(i),
2.09 and
10.04)
allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b)
to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any administrator, administrative receiver,
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, judicial manager, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event
that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agents and their
respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts, in each case, due the Administrative Agent under
Sections 2.09 and
10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization (by way of voluntary arrangement, schemes
of arrangement or otherwise), arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
Section 9.11
Collateral and
Guaranty Matters. Except with respect to the exercise of setoff rights in accordance with
Section 10.09 or with respect to a Secured Party’s right to file a proof of claim in an insolvency proceeding, no Secured Party shall have any
right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce any Guarantee of the Obligations, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies under the Loan Documents may be exercised solely by the Administrative
Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, on behalf of the Secured Parties in accordance with the terms thereof. Each Secured Party agrees that it shall not, and hereby waives any right to, take or institute any actions or proceedings,
judicial or otherwise, for any such right or remedy under any Loan Document against any Loan Party or any past, present, or future Subsidiary of any Loan Party concerning any Collateral, or any other property of any Loan Party or any past, present
or future Loan Party other than through the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable;
provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, this sentence may be enforced against any Secured Party by
the Required Lenders, any Agent or the Borrower (or any of its Affiliates) and each Secured Party expressly acknowledge that this sentence shall be available as a defense of the Borrower (or any of its Affiliates) in any such action, proceeding or
remedial procedure. Each Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, will be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Collateral and of the Guarantees of the Obligations, to have agreed to the foregoing provisions.
Each of the Lenders (including in their capacities as potential or actual Hedge Banks party to a Secured Hedge Agreement and potential or actual Cash Management Banks party to a Secured Cash Management Agreement) and
each L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent hereby irrevocably agree:
(a)
that any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent under any Loan Document shall be automatically released (and following such
automatic release the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent shall execute any appropriate release documentation to document or evidence such release at the Borrower’s reasonable request and sole expense):
(i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations in cash and in immediately available funds (other than any Remaining Obligations) and the
expiration without any pending drawing or termination of all Letters of Credit (other than any Remaining Obligations),
(ii) if the property subject to such Lien is sold, disposed of or distributed as part of or in connection with any transaction or series of related transactions not prohibited hereunder
or under any other Loan Document, in each case to a Person that is not a Loan Party (including pursuant to any Receivables Facility permitted under this Agreement),
(iii) subject to Section 10.01, if such release is approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders,
(iv) if the property subject to such Lien constitutes or becomes Excluded Property as a result of an occurrence not prohibited hereunder, or
(v) if the property subject to such Lien is owned by a Guarantor, upon release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guaranty, any Collateral Document or hereunder, as
applicable, pursuant to clause (c) below;
(b)
that any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent under any Loan Document shall be, upon the written request of the Borrower to
the Administrative Agent (x) subordinated (and the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent shall execute any appropriate documentation to document or evidence such subordination at the Borrower’s reasonable request and sole expense) to the holder
of any Permitted Lien on such property that is permitted by
clauses (1),
(2),
(5),
(6),
(7),
(8),
(9),
(11) (solely with respect to cash deposits),
(12),
(14) (to the
extent either (x) the Indebtedness so refinanced was senior to the Obligations or (y) the Liens securing such Indebtedness so refinanced were senior to the Liens securing the Obligations),
(16),
(17),
(20) (with respect to the Liens securing Acquired Indebtedness),
(21) (solely to the extent relating to a Lien securing Indebtedness and other obligations under
clauses
(11) or
(17) (solely with respect to the assets so financed by such customer) of
Section 7.01(b)),
(23),
(25),
(26) (solely to the extent the Lien of the Collateral Agent
on such property is not, pursuant to such agreements, permitted to be senior to or
pari passu with such Liens),
(27),
(28) (other than with respect to
self-insurance arrangements),
(29) (only for so long as required to be secured for such letter of intent or investment),
(30),
(34),
(35),
(39),
(40) and
(41) of the definition thereof and/or (y) released (and the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent shall execute any appropriate documentation to document or evidence such release at the Borrower’s reasonable request and
sole expense) to the holder of any Permitted Lien on such property that is permitted by
clauses (1),
(2),
(6),
(7),
(9),
(11) (solely with respect to cash deposits),
(12) (solely to the extent
the Lien of the Collateral Agent on such property is not, pursuant to such agreements, permitted),
(14) (solely to the extent the Lien of the Collateral Agent on such property is not, pursuant to the agreements being refinanced, permitted)
,
(16) (solely to the extent the Lien of the Collateral Agent on such property is not, pursuant to such agreements, permitted),
(17),
(21) (solely to the extent relating to a Lien securing
Indebtedness and other obligations under
clauses (11) or
(17) (solely with respect to the assets so financed by such customer) of
Section 7.01(b)),
(23),
(25),
(26) (solely to the extent the Lien of
the Collateral Agent on such property is not, pursuant to such agreements, permitted),
(27),
(28) (other than with respect to self-insurance arrangements),
(29) (only for so long as required to be secured for such letter of
intent or investment),
(30),
(34),
(35),
(40) and
(41) of the definition thereof;
(c)
that any Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations under the applicable Guaranty, Collateral Document or hereunder, as applicable (and following such
automatic release the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent shall execute any appropriate documentation to document or evidence such release and/or subordination at the Borrower’s reasonable request and sole expense):
(i) if in the case of any Subsidiary, such Person ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary or otherwise becomes an Excluded Subsidiary as a result of a transaction or designation permitted
hereunder (
other than upon the basis of such Subsidiary becoming a non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary solely as a result of the sale of its Equity Interests to a Person that is an Affiliate of the Borrower that is
not bona fide or is made with the sole intention of causing the release of such Subsidiary from its Guarantee of the Obligations);
(ii) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations in cash and in immediately available funds (other than any Remaining Obligations) and the
expiration without any pending drawing or termination of all Letters of Credit (other than any Remaining Obligations); or
(iii) if such Guarantor was designated as such pursuant to the last sentence of
Section 6.12, if the Borrower so elects, so long as any
Indebtedness of such Subsidiary then outstanding could have been incurred by such Subsidiary (either (x) when so incurred or (y) at the time of the release of such Guarantee) and such Subsidiary is not otherwise required to be a Guarantor at
the time of such release in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; and
(d) that they shall establish, enter into (or amend, renew, extend, supplement, restate, waive or otherwise modify) intercreditor arrangements as expressly contemplated by this Agreement (including, without
limitation, those consistent with either (x) the terms of Exhibit F‑1 or F-2 (which shall be deemed satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent) or (y) any other terms set forth in this Agreement, in each case, to
the extent the Indebtedness being incurred and secured in connection therewith is not prohibited from being incurred under Sections 7.01 and 7.02 of this Agreement, which the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall be
required to enter into upon the delivery of a certificate described in the following paragraph).
In each case as specified in this Section 9.11, the applicable Agent will (and each Lender irrevocably authorizes the applicable Agent to), at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan
Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release or subordination of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents, or to evidence the release of such
Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty or Collateral Documents, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.11.
Additionally, upon reasonable request of the Borrower, the Collateral Agent will return possessory Collateral held by it that is released from the security interests created by the Collateral Documents pursuant to this
Section 9.11; provided that in each case of this Section 9.11, prior to the Administrative Agent’s or Collateral Agent’s execution of any release or intercreditor documentation (but without
effecting the releases and/or subordinations described in this Section 9.11), upon the Collateral Agent’s reasonable request, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer
of the Borrower certifying that any such transaction has been consummated in compliance with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and that such release is not prohibited hereby. In the event that the Collateral Agent loses or misplaces any
possessory collateral delivered to the Collateral Agent by the Borrower, upon reasonable request of the Borrower the Collateral Agent shall provide a loss affidavit to the Borrower, in the form customarily provided by the Collateral Agent in such
circumstances.
Section 9.12
Other Agents; Arranger and Managers. None of the Lenders or other Persons identified on the facing page or signature pages of this Agreement as a “documentation agent,” “joint lead
arranger,” or “joint bookrunner” shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement other than those applicable to all Lenders as such;
provided that each
Arranger shall be entitled to any express rights given to that Arranger under any Loan Document. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lenders or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any
Lender. Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lenders or other Persons so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.
Section 9.13
Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements. No Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank that obtains the benefits of
Section 8.04, any Guaranty or any
Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof or of any Guaranty or any Collateral Document shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in
respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Article
IX to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured
Hedge Agreements unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as
applicable. By accepting the benefits of the Collateral, each Secured Party that is a party to any such arrangement in respect of Secured Cash Management Agreements or Secured Hedge Agreement, as applicable, shall be deemed to have appointed the
Administrative Agent to serve as administrative agent under the Loan Documents, and shall be deemed to have appointed the Collateral Agent to serve as collateral agent under the Loan Documents and agreed to be bound by the Loan Documents as a
Secured Party thereunder, subject to the limitations set forth in this paragraph.
Section 9.14
Appointment of Supplemental Agents, Incremental Arrangers, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arrangers and Specified Refinancing Agents.
(a)
It is the purpose of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that there shall be no violation of any Law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking
corporations or associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and in particular in case of the enforcement of any of
the Loan Documents, or in case the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent deems that by reason of any present or future Law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the other
Loan Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are hereby authorized to appoint an additional individual or institution selected by them in
their sole discretion as a separate trustee, co-trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, administrative sub-agent or administrative co-agent, as applicable (any such additional individual or institution being referred to herein individually
as a “
Supplemental Agent” and collectively as “
Supplemental Agents”).
(b)
In the event that the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent appoints a Supplemental Agent with respect to any Collateral, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or
duty expressed or intended by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent with respect to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such
Supplemental Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Supplemental Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such Collateral, and
every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan Documents and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent or such
Supplemental Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this
Article IX and of
Sections 10.04 and
10.05 (obligating the Borrower to pay the Administrative Agent’s and the Collateral Agent’s expenses and to indemnify the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent) that refer to the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Agent and all references therein to the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent
shall be deemed to be references to the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent and/or such Supplemental Agent, as the context may require.
(c)
Should any instrument in writing from the Borrower or any other Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Agent so appointed by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent
for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon
request by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent. In case any Supplemental Agent, or a successor thereto, shall become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Agent,
to the extent permitted by Law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, until the appointment of a new Supplemental Agent.
(d)
In the event that the Borrower appoints or designates any Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent pursuant to
Sections 2.14,
2.15 and
2.18, as applicable, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or duty expressed or intended by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to an agent or arranger with
respect to New Loan Commitments, Incremental Equivalent Debt or Specified Refinancing Debt, as applicable, shall be exercisable by and vest in such Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent to the
extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to the New Loan Commitments, Incremental
Equivalent Debt or Specified Refinancing Debt, as applicable, and to perform such duties with respect to such New Loan Commitments, Incremental Equivalent Debt or Specified Refinancing Debt, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan
Documents and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either the Administrative Agent or such Incremental
Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this
Article IX and of
Sections 10.04 and
10.05 (obligating the Borrower to pay the Administrative Agent’s and the
Collateral Agent’s expenses and to indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent) that refer to the Administrative Agent and/or the Collateral Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt
Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent and all references therein to the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent shall be deemed to be references to the Administrative Agent and/or Collateral Agent and/or such Incremental Arranger,
Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent, as the context may require. Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints any Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent
to act on its behalf hereunder and under the other Loan Documents pursuant to
Sections 2.14,
2.15 and
2.18, as applicable, and designates and authorizes such Incremental Arranger, Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or
Specified Refinancing Agent to take such actions on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to such Incremental Arranger,
Incremental Equivalent Debt Arranger or Specified Refinancing Agent by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto.
Section 9.15
Intercreditor Agreement. Without limiting
Section 9.11, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent are authorized by the Lenders and other Secured Parties to, (i) enter
into any intercreditor agreement expressly contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) enter into any Collateral Document or (iii) make or consent to any filings or take any other actions in connection therewith (and any
amendments, amendments and restatements, restatements or waivers of or supplements to or other modifications to, such agreements in connection with the incurrence by any Loan Party of any Indebtedness of such Loan Party that is permitted to be
secured pursuant to
Sections 7.01 and
7.02 of this Agreement, in order to permit such Indebtedness to be secured by a valid, perfected lien on the Collateral (with such priority as may be designated by such Loan Party, to the extent
such priority is permitted by the Loan Documents)), and the parties hereto acknowledge that any intercreditor agreement, Collateral Document, consent, filing or other action will be binding upon them. Each Lender and other Secured Party (a) hereby
agrees that it will be bound by and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of any intercreditor agreement (if entered into by the Collateral Agent) and (b) hereby authorizes and instructs the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent
to enter into any intercreditor agreement expressly contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document or Collateral Document (and any amendments, amendments and restatements, restatements or waivers of or supplements to or other
modifications to, such agreements in connection with the incurrence by any Loan Party of any Indebtedness of such Loan Party that is permitted to be secured pursuant to
Sections 7.01 and
7.02 of this Agreement, in order to permit
such Indebtedness to be secured by a valid, perfected lien on the Collateral (with such priority as may be designated by such Loan Party, to the extent such priority is permitted by the Loan Documents)), and to subject the Liens on the Collateral
securing the Obligations to the provisions thereof.
Section 9.16
Withholding Tax. To the extent required by any applicable Law, the Administrative Agent may withhold from any payment to any Lender an amount equivalent to any applicable withholding
Tax. Without limiting or expanding the provisions of
Section 3.01, each Lender shall indemnify the Administrative Agent against, and shall make payable in respect thereof within 30 days after demand therefor, any and all Taxes and any and
all related losses, claims, liabilities and expenses (including fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent) incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or any other
Governmental Authority as a result of the failure of the Administrative Agent to properly withhold tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any reason (including, without limitation, because the appropriate documentation was
not delivered or not property executed, or because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance that rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding tax ineffective). A certificate as to the amount of
such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such
Lender under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph. The agreements in this paragraph shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative
Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations under any Loan Document. For the avoidance of doubt, for purposes of this
Section 9.16, the term
“Lender” shall include any L/C Issuer.
Section 9.17
Credit Bidding. Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent (and the Collateral Agent at the direction of the Administrative Agent), at the
direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including by accepting some or all of the Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise)
and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, including under
Sections 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, or any other Debtor Relief Laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, or (b) at any other sale, foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt
conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with any applicable law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the
Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid by the Administrative Agent at the direction of the Required Lenders on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent
interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that shall vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) for the asset or
assets so purchased (or for the equity interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are issued in connection with such purchase). In connection with any such bid, (i) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to
form one or more acquisition vehicles and to assign any successful credit bid to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, (ii) each of the Secured Parties’ ratable interests in the Obligations which were credit bid shall be deemed without any further
action under this Agreement to be assigned to such vehicle or vehicles for the purpose of closing such sale, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles (
provided that any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or equity interests thereof, shall be governed, directly or
indirectly, by, and the governing documents shall provide for, control by the vote of the Required Lenders or their permitted assignees under the terms of this Agreement or the governing documents of the applicable acquisition vehicle or vehicles,
as applicable, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in
Section 10.01 of this Agreement), (iv) the Administrative Agent on behalf of such
acquisition vehicle or vehicles shall be authorized to issue to each of the Secured Parties, ratably on account of the relevant Obligations which were credit bid, interests, whether as equity, partnership, limited partnership interests or
membership interests, in any such acquisition vehicle and/or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action and (v) to the extent that Obligations
that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used to acquire Collateral for any reason (as a result of another bid being higher or better, because the amount of Obligations assigned to the acquisition vehicle exceeds the amount of
Obligations credit bid by the acquisition vehicle or otherwise), such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Secured Parties pro rata with their original interest in such Obligations and the equity interests and/or debt instruments
issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of such Obligations shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action. Notwithstanding that the ratable portion of the
Obligations of each Secured Party are deemed assigned to the acquisition vehicle or vehicles as set forth in
clause (ii) above, each Secured Party shall execute such documents and provide such information regarding the Secured Party (and/or
any designee of the Secured Party which will receive interests in or debt instruments issued by such acquisition vehicle) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request in connection with the formation of any acquisition vehicle, the
formulation or submission of any credit bid or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such credit bid.
Section 9.18
Certain ERISA Matters.
(a)
Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto
to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Agents and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:
(i)
such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code) of one or more Benefit Plans with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments or this Agreement,
(ii)
the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent
qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate
accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable
with respect to, and the conditions for exemptive relief thereunder will be satisfied in connection with
, such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and
performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement,
(iii)
(A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “
Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of
Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such
Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments, and this
Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments, and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through
(g) of
Part I of PTE 84‑14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of
Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to
, and the conditions for exemptive relief thereunder will be satisfied in connection with, such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this
Agreement, or
(iv)
such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Agents and such Lender.
(b)
In addition, unless either (1)
subclause (i) in the immediately preceding
clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or (2) a Lender has provided another
representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with
subclause (iv) in the immediately preceding
clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y)
covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Agents and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other
Loan Party, that the Agents are not a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement (including in
connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Agents under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related hereto or thereto).
Section 9.19
Erroneous Payments.
Without limitation of any other provision in this Agreement, if at any time the Administrative Agent makes a payment hereunder in error to any Lender Recipient Party, whether or not in respect of an Obligation due and
owing by the Borrower at such time, where such payment is a Rescindable Amount, then in any such event, each Lender Recipient Party receiving a Rescindable Amount severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the
Rescindable Amount received by such Lender Recipient Party in immediately available funds in the currency so received, with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such Rescindable Amount is received by it to but excluding the
date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. Each Lender Recipient Party irrevocably
waives any and all defenses, including any “discharge for value” (under which a creditor might otherwise claim a right to retain funds mistakenly paid by a third party in respect of a debt owed by another) or similar defense to its obligation to
return any Rescindable Amount. The Administrative Agent shall inform each Lender Recipient Party promptly upon determining that any payment made to such Lender Recipient Party comprised, in whole or in part, a Rescindable Amount.
Section 10.01
Amendments, Etc. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement or the applicable Loan Document, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to
any departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders (or by the Administrative Agent at the instruction of the Required Lenders) and the Borrower or the applicable Loan
Party, as applicable, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent (other than with respect to any amendment or waiver contemplated in
clause (h) below, which shall only require the consent of certain Lenders as set forth therein), and each
such amendment, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given;
provided,
however, that no such
amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a)
extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender, or reinstate the Commitment of any Lender after the termination of such Commitment pursuant to
Section 8.02, in each
case without the written consent of such Lender (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in
Section 4.02 or the waiver of (or amendment to the terms of) any Default or Event of Default, mandatory prepayment or
mandatory reduction of the Commitments shall not constitute an extension or increase of any Commitment of any Lender);
(b)
postpone any date scheduled for, or reduce the amount of, any payment of principal of, or interest on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing or any fees or other amounts payable hereunder,
without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (and subject to such further requirements as may be applicable thereto under
Section 2.19), it being understood that the waiver of any obligation to pay
interest at the Default Rate, or the amendment or waiver of any mandatory prepayment of Loans under the any Term Facilities shall not constitute a postponement of any date scheduled for the payment of principal, interest or fees;
(c)
reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, or change the currency of, any Loan or L/C Borrowing (it being understood that a waiver of any Default or
Event of Default or mandatory prepayment shall not constitute a reduction or forgiveness of principal), or (subject to
clause (iv) of the second proviso to
clause (h) below) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any
other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;
provided,
however, that only the consent of the
(x) Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate”
or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate
and (y) Required Initial Tranche B Term Lenders shall be necessary to waive or amend the MFN Provision;
(d)
amend or modify any term or provision of any Loan Document to permit the issuance or incurrence of any Indebtedness for borrowed money (including any exchange of existing
Indebtedness that results in another class of Indebtedness for borrowed money) with respect to which either (i) the Liens on all or substantially all of the Collateral securing the Obligations of any Tranche would be contractually subordinated or
(ii) any Obligations hereunder would be contractually subordinated in right of payment to such Indebtedness for borrowed money, except (A) Indebtedness that is expressly permitted by this Agreement as in effect as of the Closing Date to be secured
by a Lien that is senior (including by way of subordination) to the Lien securing the Obligations, (B) any “debtor-in-possession” facility (or similar financing under applicable Law) or (C) any other Indebtedness so long as the opportunity to
participate in such Indebtedness is offered ratably and on the same terms to all adversely affected Lenders, in each case, without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;
(e)
change (i) any provision of this
Section 10.01, or the definition of Required Lenders, or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders or
portion of the Loans or Commitments required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder (other than the definition specified in
clauses
(ii) and
(iii) of this
Section 10.01(e) or modifications in connection with repurchases of Term Loans, amendments with respect to the New Term Facilities or New Revolving Facility and
amendments with respect to extensions of maturity, which shall only require the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby), without the written consent of each Lender; (ii) the definition of “Required Revolving
Lenders,” without the written consent of each Revolving Credit Lender
, (iii
) the definition of “Required Pro Rata Lenders,” without the written consent of each Pro Rata Lender, (iv) the
definition of “Required Initial Tranche B Term Lenders,” without the written consent of each Initial Tranche B Term Lender or (v) the provisions of
Section 2.13 or
Section 8.04, in each case, in a manner that would alter the pro
rata sharing of payments or setoffs required thereby without the written consent of each Lender;
(f)
other than in a transaction permitted under
Section 7.03 or
Section 7.04, release all or substantially all of the Liens on the Collateral in any transaction or
series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender;
(g)
other than in a transaction permitted under
Section 7.03 or
Section 7.04 or as provided pursuant to
Section 9.11, release all or substantially all of the
aggregate value of the Guaranty, or all or substantially all of the Guarantors, without the written consent of each Lender;
(h)
(i) amend, waive or otherwise modify
Section 7.08 (or for the purposes of determining compliance with the
Financial Covenants, any defined terms used therein), without the written consent of the Required Pro Rata Lenders, (ii) waive or consent to any Default or Event of Default resulting from a breach of the Financial Covenants, without the written
consent of the Required Pro Rata Lenders, (iii) alter the rights or remedies of the Required Pro Rata Lenders arising pursuant to
Article VIII as a result of a breach of
Section 7.08, without the written consent of the Required Pro
Rata Lenders, or (iv) waive any condition precedent set forth in
Section 4.02 with respect to Credit Extensions involving the Revolving Credit Facility, without the written consent of the Required Revolving Lenders (
in each case, other than any Defaulting Lender);
provided,
however, that the amendments, modifications, waivers and consents described
in this
clause (h) shall not require the consent of any Lenders other than the Required
Pro Rata Lenders
or, in the case of
clause (iv),
the Required Revolving Lenders;
(i)
amend, waive or grant any consent that would affect the rights or duties of an L/C Issuer, in its capacity as such, under this Agreement or any Letter of Credit Application or
other Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it without the written consent of such L/C Issuer in addition to the Borrower and the Lenders required above;
(j)
amend, waive or grant any consent that would affect the rights or duties of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as
applicable, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document without the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent in their respective capacities as such, in addition to the Borrower and the Lenders required above; or
(k)
amend, waive or otherwise modify
Section 10.07(g) without the consent of each Granting Lender all or any part of whose Loans are being
funded by an SPC at the time of such amendment, waiver or other modification.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any amendment, modification, waiver or other action which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of
the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders, except that (x) no amendment, waiver or consent relating to Sections 10.01(a), (b) or (c) may be effected, in each case without the consent of such Defaulting Lender and
(y) any amendment, modification, waiver or other action that by its terms adversely affects any Defaulting Lender in its capacity as a Lender in a manner that differs in any material respect from, and is more adverse to such Defaulting Lender than
it is to, other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (1) any waiver, amendment, modification or consent in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document that by its terms affects the rights or duties under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document of Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of a particular Tranche (but not the Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of any other Tranche) may be effected by an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by
the Borrower and the requisite percentage in interest of the Lenders with respect to such Tranche that would be required to consent thereto under this
Section 10.01 if such Lenders were the only Lenders hereunder at the time
, (2)
to the extent any Lenders under any New Revolving Facility or New Term Loans under a Customary Term A Facility have elected not to receive the benefit of the Financial Covenants,
such New Revolving Commitments, New Revolving Loans and New Term Loans, as applicable, of such Lenders shall be excluded in calculating the votes of any “Required Revolving Lenders” and “Required Pro Rata Lenders”, as applicable, for purposes of
Section
10.01(h),
Section 8.01(b) or
Section 8.02 and (3) any fee letter (including the Fee Letters) may be amended, or the rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto.
This
Section 10.01 shall be subject to any contrary provision of
Section 2.14,
Section 2.15,
Section 2.17,
Section 2.18 or
Section 2.19.
In addition, notwithstanding anything else to the contrary contained in this
Section 10.01 or otherwise herein,
(i) amendments and modifications to this Agreement and to any other Loan Document in connection with the transactions provided for by
Section 2.14,
Section 2.15,
Section
2.17,
Section 2.18 or
Section 2.19 that benefit existing Lenders may be effected without such Lenders’ consent,
(ii) if the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall have jointly identified an obvious error or any error, ambiguity or omission, defect or inconsistency of a technical nature, in
each case, in any provision of the Loan Documents, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend or modify such provision,
(iii) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend or modify any provision of any Collateral Document, the Guaranty or any other Loan Document, or enter into any
new agreement or instrument, to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or as required by local law to give effect to any guaranty, or to give effect to or to protect any security interest for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, in any property so that the security interests comply with applicable Law,
(iv) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend or modify any Loan Document to effect the provisions of Article XI and
(v) the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend or modify any Loan Document to comply with local law or advice or local counsel.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in connection with any determination as to whether the Required Lenders have (A) consented (or not consented) to any amendment or waiver
of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any departure by any Loan Party therefrom, (B) otherwise acted on any matter related to any Loan Document, or (C) directed or required the Administrative Agent or any Lender to
undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) with respect to or under any Loan Document, any Lender (other than (x) any Lender that is a Regulated Bank and (y) any Revolving Credit Lender as of the Closing Date or its Affiliates or any
Tranche A Term Lender as of the Closing Date or its Affiliates) that, as a result of its interest in any total return swap, total rate of return swap, credit default swap or other derivative contract (other than any such total return swap, total
rate of return swap, credit default swap or other derivative contract entered into pursuant to bona fide market making activities), has a net short position with respect to the Loans and/or Commitments (each, a “
Net
Short Lender”) shall not, without the consent of the Borrower (in its sole discretion), have any right to vote any of its Loans and Commitments and shall be deemed to have voted its interest as a Lender without discretion in the same
proportion as the allocation of voting with respect to such matter by Lenders who are not Net Short Lenders.
For purposes of determining whether a Lender has a “net short position” on any date of determination:
(i)
derivative contracts with respect to the Loans and Commitments and such contracts that are the functional equivalent thereof shall be counted at the
notional amount thereof in Dollars,
(ii)
the notional amounts in other currencies shall be converted to the Dollar equivalent thereof by such Lender in a commercially reasonable manner
consistent with generally accepted financial practices and based on the prevailing conversion rate (determined on a mid-market basis) on the date of determination,
(iii)
derivative contracts in respect of an index that includes any of the Borrower or other Loan Parties or any instrument issued or guaranteed by any of
the Borrower or other Loan Parties shall not be deemed to create a short position with respect to the Loans and/or Commitments, so long as (x) such index is not created, designed, administered or requested by such Lender or its Affiliates and
(y) the Borrower and the other Loan Parties and any instrument issued or guaranteed by any of the Borrower or other Loan Parties, collectively, shall represent less than five percent (5%) of the components of such index,
(iv)
derivative transactions that are documented using either the 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions or the 2003 ISDA Credit Derivative Definitions
(collectively, the “
ISDA CDS Definitions”) shall be deemed to create a short position with respect to the Loans and/or Commitments if such Lender is a protection buyer or the equivalent thereof for such
derivative transaction and (x) the Loans or the Commitments are a “Reference Obligation” under the terms of such derivative transaction (whether specified by name in the related documentation, included as a “Standard Reference Obligation” on
the most recent list published by Markit, if “Standard Reference Obligation” is specified as applicable in the relevant documentation or in any other manner), (y) the Loans or the Commitments would be a “Deliverable Obligation” under the terms
of such derivative transaction or (z) any of the Borrower or other Loan Parties (or its successor) is designated as a “Reference Entity” under the terms of such derivative transaction, and
(v)
credit derivative transactions or other derivatives transactions not documented using the ISDA CDS Definitions shall be deemed to create a short
position with respect to the Loans and/or Commitments if such transactions are functionally equivalent to a transaction that offers the Lender protection in respect of the Loans or the Commitments, or as to the credit quality of any of the
Borrower or other Loan Parties other than, in each case, as part of an index so long as (x) such index is not created, designed, administered or requested by such Lender or its Affiliates and (y) the Borrower and other Loan Parties and any
instrument issued or guaranteed by any of the Borrower or other Loan Parties, collectively, shall represent less than five percent (5%) of the components of such index.
In connection with any such determination, each Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent in writing that it is a Net Short Lender, or shall otherwise be deemed to have
represented and warranted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it is not a Net Short Lender (it being understood and agreed that the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely on such representation and deemed
representation without independent verification thereof).
Section 10.02
Notices; Electronic Communications.
(a)
General. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or
overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as
follows:
(i)
if to the Borrower, any other Loan Party, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or an L/C Issuer, to the address, telecopier number, electronic
mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on
Schedule 10.02 or to such other address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties
hereto, as provided in
Section 10.02(d);
(ii)
if to any other Lender, to the address, telecopier number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire;
and
(iii) if to any Hedge Bank or Cash Management Bank, at its address specified in the applicable Secured Hedge Agreement or Secured Cash Management Agreement to which it is a party, or as
otherwise agreed between the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and such Hedge Bank or Cash Management Bank.
Notices and other communications sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices and other communications sent by
telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient). Notices
and other communications delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in clause (b) below shall be effective as provided in such clause (b).
(b)
Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication
(including e‑mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent;
provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or any L/C Issuer
pursuant to
Article II if such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving, or is unwilling to receive, notices under
Article II by electronic communication. The
Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it;
provided
that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes (with the Borrower’s consent), (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgment
from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement); provided that if such notice or other communication is not
sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet
or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the
website address therefor.
(c)
The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”. THE AGENT-RELATED PERSONS DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR
THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT-RELATED PERSON IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall any Agent-Related Person have any
liability to any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of the
Borrower’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of the Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and
non‑appealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of, or material breach of the Loan Documents by, such Agent-Related Person;
provided,
however, that in no event shall any Agent-Related Person have any liability to any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special,
incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).
(d)
Change of Address, Etc. Each of the Borrower, the Guarantors, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each L/C Issuer may change its address, telecopier,
telephone number or electronic mail address for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, telecopier, telephone number or electronic mail address for notices and
other communications hereunder by notice to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each L/C Issuer. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i)
an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees
to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “
Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of
the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law, including United States federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to the Borrower
Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States federal or state
securities laws.
(e)
Reliance by Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, L/C Issuer and Lenders. The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders shall be
entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of the Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or
followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof except to the extent such reliance is deemed to be gross negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct of, or material breach of the Loan Documents by, the Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, L/C Issuer or Lender in a final non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent, each L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of the
Borrower to the extent required by
Section 10.05. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to
such recording.
Section 10.03
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement.
(a)
No failure by any Lender, any L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power
or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of
any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided hereunder and under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by Law.
(b)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them, and the right to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce any Guarantee of the Obligations shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such
enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent in accordance with
Section 8.02 for the benefit of all the Lenders and the L/C Issuers;
provided,
however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit (i) the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity
as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (ii) each L/C Issuer from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as an L/C Issuer) hereunder and under
the other Loan Documents or (iii) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with
Section 10.09 (subject to the terms of
Section 2.13); and
provided,
further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (x) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent
pursuant to
Section 8.02 and (y) in addition to the matters set forth in
clauses (ii) and
(iii) of the preceding proviso and subject to
Section 2.13, any Lender may, with the consent of
the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders. In the event of a foreclosure by the Collateral Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale, the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender (or any person nominated by them) may be the purchaser of any or all of such Collateral at any such sale and the Administrative Agent, as agent for and representative of the Lenders (but not
any Lender or Lenders in its or their respective individual capacities unless the Required Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing), shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or
any portion of the Collateral sold in any such public sale, to use and apply any of the Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any Collateral payable by the Administrative Agent at such sale.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, each Lender agrees that it shall not, and hereby expressly and irrevocably waives any right to, take or institute any actions or proceedings, judicial or otherwise, for
any right or remedy or assert any other
Cause of Action against any Loan Party (including the exercise of any right of setoff, rights on account of any banker’s
lien or similar claim or other rights of self-help), or institute any actions or proceedings or any other
Cause of Action, or otherwise commence any remedial
procedures, against the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries or parent companies with respect to any Collateral or any other property of any such Person, without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders.
Section 10.04
Expenses.
The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and the other Agents for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation, syndication and execution of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with due diligence and travel, courier, reproduction, printing and delivery expenses), and any amendment, waiver, consent or
other modification of the provisions hereof and thereof, and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, disbursements and other charges of
counsel (limited to the reasonable, documented out-of-pocket fees, disbursements and other charges of one primary counsel to the Agents taken as a whole and, if reasonably necessary, one local counsel to the Agents taken as a whole in each relevant
material jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions, in each case, in relevant jurisdictions material to the interests of the Lenders)), and (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent, the other
Agents and each Lender (including, for the avoidance of doubt, each L/C Issuer) for all reasonable documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents (including all such reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred during any legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or in connection with any workout or restructuring), including
the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel (limited to the reasonable fees, documented out-of-pocket disbursements and other charges of one counsel to the Administrative Agent, the other Agents and
the Lenders taken as a whole, and, if reasonably necessary, of one local counsel to such Persons take as a whole in each relevant jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions, in each case, in relevant
jurisdictions material to the interests of the Lenders) and, in the event of any actual or reasonably perceived conflict of interest, one additional counsel in each relevant jurisdiction for each Lender or group of similarly affected Lenders or
Agents taken as a whole subject to such conflict with the consent of the Borrower). The foregoing costs and expenses shall include all reasonable search, filing, recording, title insurance and appraisal charges and fees, and other out-of-pocket
expenses incurred by any Agent. All amounts due under this
Section 10.04 shall be paid within 30 days (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree to in its reasonable discretion) after invoiced or demand therefor (with a
reasonably detailed invoice with respect thereto) (except for any such costs and expenses incurred prior to the Closing Date, which shall be paid on the Closing Date to the extent invoiced at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing
Date). The agreements in this
Section 10.04 shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations. If the Borrower fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it
hereunder or under any Loan Document, such amount may be paid on behalf of the Borrower by the Administrative Agent after any applicable grace periods have expired, in its sole discretion and the Borrower shall immediately reimburse the
Administrative Agent, as applicable. This
Section 10.04 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes arising from any
non-Tax cost or expense.
Section 10.05
Indemnification by the Borrower; Damage Waiver. The Borrower shall indemnify and hold harmless each Arranger, each Agent-Related Person, each Lender, each L/C Issuer, each of their respective Affiliates and each
partner, director, officer, employee, counsel, agent and representative of the foregoing and, in the case of any funds, trustees and advisors and attorneys-in-fact (collectively, the “
Indemnitees”) from and
against (and will reimburse each Indemnitee, as and when incurred, for) any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs (including settlement costs), disbursements, and reasonable
and documented or invoiced out-of-pocket fees and expenses (but (x) limited, in the case of legal fees and expenses, to the reasonable and documented out‑of‑pocket fees, disbursements and other charges of (i) one counsel to the Indemnitees taken as
a whole, (ii) in the case of an actual or reasonably perceived conflict of interest, where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, of another firm of counsel for each
such affected Indemnitee in each relevant jurisdiction material to the interests of the Lenders, and (iii) if reasonably necessary, one local counsel in each jurisdiction material to the interests of the Indemnitees (which may include a single
special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions) and (y) excluding the fees and expenses of any other third-party advisors retained without the Borrower’s prior written consent) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on,
incurred by or asserted or awarded against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of or in connection with or by reason of (x) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding in any way relating to,
arising out of, in connection with or by reason of any of the following, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending or threatened claim, investigation, litigation
or proceeding): (a) the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of any Loan Document or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated thereby or (b) any Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by any L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents
presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit);
provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, disbursements, fees or related expenses resulted from (A) the bad faith, gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any of
its Affiliates or controlling persons or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, or members of any of the foregoing, as applicable, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision, (B)
a material breach of the Loan Documents by such Arranger, Agent- Related Person, Lender, L/C Issuer (or any of their respective Affiliates, partners, directors, officers, employees, counsel, agents and representatives), as applicable, as determined
by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision or (C) any dispute that is among Indemnitees (other than any dispute involving claims against the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any other Agent or any L/C Issuer,
in each case in their respective capacities as such) that did not involve actions or omissions of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any of their respective Affiliates; or (y) to the extent related to the foregoing in
clauses (a) and
(b)
above, any actual or alleged presence or Release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and any other Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries (
clauses (x) and
(y), collectively, the “
Indemnified Liabilities”), in all cases;
provided that such indemnity shall not, as
to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. No Arranger, Agent-Related Person, Lender, L/C Issuer, or any of their respective Related Parties shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of any information or other materials
obtained through the Platform or other information transmission systems (including electronic telecommunications) in connection with this Agreement unless determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment to
have resulted from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Arranger, Agent-Related Person, Lender, L/C Issuer or Related Party, nor shall any such Person or any Loan Party have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect
or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date);
provided that
such waiver of special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages shall not limit the indemnification obligations of the Loan Parties under this
Section 10.05. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the
indemnity in this
Section 10.05 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by or against any Loan Party, its directors, shareholders or creditors, an Indemnitee or any
other Person, and whether or not any Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto. Should any investigation, litigation or proceeding be settled, or if there is a judgment in any such investigation, litigation or proceeding, the Borrower shall
indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee in the manner set forth above; provided that the Borrower shall not be liable for any settlement effected without the Borrower’s prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld,
delayed or conditioned), but if settled with the Borrower’s consent, or if there is a final judgment against an Indemnitee, the Borrower shall indemnify and hold harmless such Indemnitee in the manner set forth above. All amounts due under this
Section 10.05 shall be payable
within 30 days (or such longer period as any Agent may agree to in its reasonable discretion) after demand therefor (and after receipt by the Borrower of a reasonably detailed invoice with respect thereto). The agreements in this
Section 10.05
shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations. This
Section 10.05 shall not
apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent Indemnified Liabilities arising from any
non-Tax claim. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Indemnitee shall be obligated to refund or return
any and all amounts paid by any Loan Party under this paragraph to such Indemnitee for any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses to the extent such Indemnitee is not entitled to payment of such amounts in accordance with the terms
hereof as determined in a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
Section 10.06
Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to any Agent, to any L/C Issuer or
any Lender, in each case in their capacities as such, or any Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Agent, such L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been
made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and each L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any Agent,
plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the NYFRB Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers
under
clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
Section 10.07
Successors
and Assigns.
(a)
The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that
the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender (other than in connection with a transaction permitted by
Section 7.03),
and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except
(i) to an Eligible Assignee (other than to any Disqualified Institution or Natural Person) in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(b),
(ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of
Section 10.07(d),
(iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of
Section 10.07(f) or
(iv) to an SPC in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(g).
Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 10.07(d)
and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b)
Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its
Commitment(s) and the Loans (including for purposes of this
Section 10.07(b), participations in L/C Obligations) at the time owing to it);
provided that:
(i)
(A) in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s
Commitment under any Facility and the Loans at the time owing to it under such Facility, no minimum amount shall need be assigned, and (B) in any case not described in
clause (b)(i)(A) of this
Section 10.07, the aggregate amount
of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable Commitment is not then in effect, the outstanding principal balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment,
determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the
Trade Date, shall not be less than
,
in the case of any
assignment in respect of
(i) the Revolving Credit Facility or Tranche A Term Loans, $5,000,000 (or equivalent) (or such lesser amount as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower),
or (ii) Tranche B Term Loans, $
1,000,000 (or equivalent) (or such lesser amount as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), in each case unless each of the
Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default under
Sections 8.01(a),
(f) or
(g) has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower otherwise consents (in each case, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld,
conditioned or delayed);
provided,
however, that concurrent assignments to members of an Assignee Group and concurrent assignments from members of an Assignee
Group to a single Eligible Assignee (or to an Eligible Assignee and members of its Assignee Group) will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of determining whether such minimum amount has been met;
(ii)
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
with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned, except that this
clause (ii) shall not prohibit any Lender from assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities (or tranche of any Facilities) on a
non-pro rata basis;
(A) the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed; provided that Borrower shall have absolute
consent rights with regards to any proposed assignment to a Disqualified Institution) shall be required for any assignment, unless (1) an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing
at the time of such assignment (in each case, other than in the case of a proposed assignment to any Disqualified Institution); (2) such assignment is in respect of a Term Facility and is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved
Fund (other than any Disqualified Institution) (except that Borrower consent shall be required pursuant to this clause (2) with respect to any assignment of any interest in a Term Facility pursuant to which the Lenders thereunder have
rights in respect of the Financial Covenants to a Lender that does not (nor does an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such Lender) hold Loans in a Facility that has any rights in respect of the Financial Covenants); or (3) such assignment is in
respect of the Revolving Credit Facility and made from a Revolving Credit Lender to an Affiliate of such Revolving Credit Lender or another Revolving Credit Lender that was a Revolving Credit Lender as of the Closing Date (other than any
Disqualified Institution); provided that (1) other than with respect to assignments of the Revolving Credit Facility, the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any assignment unless the Borrower
objects thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received notice thereof and (2) during the 90 day period following the Closing Date, the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to an
assignment to any Lender (other than any Disqualified Institution) if such Lender was previously identified in writing and approved in writing in the initial allocations of the Loans and Commitments provided by the Arrangers to the Borrower,
(B) the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) shall be required for any assignment unless (1) such assignment is in respect of a Term Facility and is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or (2) such assignment is in respect of the Revolving
Credit Facility and is to a Revolving Credit Lender, an Affiliate of a Revolving Credit Lender or an Approved Fund related thereto (provided that in each case the Administrative Agent shall acknowledge
any such assignment), and
(C) the consent of each L/C Issuer of the applicable Revolving Tranche (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) shall be required for any assignment in
respect of the Revolving Credit Facility of such Revolving Tranche; provided, however, that the consent of each L/C Issuer shall not be required for any
assignment in respect of a Term Loan;
(iv)
the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption via an electronic settlement system
acceptable to the Administrative Agent (or, if previously agreed with the Administrative Agent, manually), together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 for each assignment. Each Eligible Assignee that is not an existing Lender
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire;
(v)
no such assignment shall be made (A) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would
constitute a Defaulting Lender or a Subsidiary of a Defaulting Lender, (B) to any Natural Person, (C) to any Disqualified Institution or (D) to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries except as permitted under
clause (j) below;
provided that each Lender shall make an inquiry to the Administrative Agent as to whether a specific potential assignee or prospective participant is a Disqualified Institution and upon such inquiry by any
Lender to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall be permitted to disclose to such inquiring Lender whether such specific potential assignee or prospective participant is on the list of Disqualified Institutions;
provided,
further, that such Lender agrees to keep such identity confidential;
provided,
further,
that the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Institutions and shall not (x) be
obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Institution or
Net Short Lender or (y) have any liability with respect to
or arising out of any assignment or participation to or disclosure of confidential information to, a Disqualified Institution;
provided,
further, that the
Administrative Agent shall not disclose (verbally or in writing) the list of entities that are Disqualified Institutions to any person, but may, upon the written request or inquiry by any Lender, disclose whether a particular potential assignee
or participant is a Disqualified Institution (
provided that such Lender agrees to keep such information confidential and each Lender party to this Agreement (on or after the Closing Date) expressly
acknowledges that the Disqualified Institutions list shall be treated as “Information” subject to the restrictions of
Section 10.08 except to the extent disclosure of a particular Disqualified Institution’s status is required in
connection with a potential assignment or participation to such particular Disqualified Institution);
(vii)
the assigning Lender shall deliver any Notes or, in lieu thereof, a lost note affidavit and indemnity reasonably acceptable to the Borrower evidencing
such Loans to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent; and
(viii)
in connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be
effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof
as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the applicable Pro
Rata Share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such
Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer or Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon) and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full Pro Rata Share of all Loans and participations in Letters of Credit in
accordance with its Pro Rata Share;
provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective
under applicable Law without compliance with the provisions of this clause, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.07(c), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the Eligible Assignee
thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent
of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement,
such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, 10.04 and 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the
effective date of such assignment, and subject to the obligations set forth in Section 10.08). Upon request, and the surrender by the assigning Lender of its Note (or, in lieu thereof, a lost note affidavit and indemnity reasonably
acceptable to the Borrower), the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement (other than any purported assignment or
transfer to a Disqualified Institution) that does not comply with this clause (b) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section
10.07(d).
(c)
The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment
and Assumption delivered to it and a register in which it shall record the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of the Loans, L/C Obligations (specifying the Unreimbursed
Amounts), L/C Borrowings and amounts due under
Section 2.03, owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “
Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive,
absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the
contrary. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall maintain on the Register information regarding the designation, and revocation of designation, of any Lender as Defaulting Lender. The Register shall be available for inspection by the
Borrower, any Agent and any Lender (but only to entries with respect to itself), at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. This
Section 10.07(c),
Section 10.07(m) and
Section 2.11 shall be
construed so that all Loans are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2), and 881(c)(2) of the Code, and United States Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c), and proposed United States
Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(b) (or any other relevant or successor provisions of the Code or of such Treasury Regulations).
(d)
Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuers, sell participations to any Person (other than a
Natural Person, a Person that the Administrative Agent has identified in a notice to the Lenders as a Defaulting Lender or a Disqualified Institution) (each, a “
Participant”) in all or a portion of such
Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations) owing to it);
provided that
(i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Agents and the other Lenders
shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such
Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless otherwise agreed by the Borrower;
provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to
Section
10.01 (in the case of any amendment, waiver or other modification described in
clause (a),
(b) or
(c) of such proviso, that directly and adversely affects such Participant). Subject to
Section 10.07(e), the
Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 3.01,
3.04 and
3.05 (subject to the requirements and the limitations of such Sections (it being understood that the documentation required
under
Section 3.01(h) shall be delivered solely to the participating Lender) and
Section 3.08) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to
Section 10.07(b). To the
extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of
Section 10.09 as though it were a Lender;
provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to
Section 2.13
as though it were a Lender.
(e)
A Participant (i) shall be subject to the provisions of
Section 3.08 as if it were an assignee pursuant to
Section 10.07(b) and (ii) shall not be entitled to
receive any greater payment under
Sections 3.01,
3.04 or
3.05 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, except to the extent such greater
entitlement results from a change in Law after the Participant acquires such participation.
(f)
Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) (other than to a
Disqualified Institution or a Natural Person) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a FRB or any central bank having jurisdiction over such Lender;
provided
that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(g)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any Lender (a “
Granting Lender”) may grant to a special purpose funding vehicle (an “
SPC”) identified as such in writing from time to time by the Granting Lender to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower the option to provide all or any part of any Loan that such Granting Lender would
otherwise be obligated to make pursuant to this Agreement;
provided that (i) nothing herein shall constitute a commitment by any SPC to fund any Loan, and (ii) if an SPC elects not to exercise such option
or otherwise fails to make all or any part of such Loan, the Granting Lender shall be obligated to make such Loan pursuant to the terms hereof or, if it fails to do so, to make such payment to the Administrative Agent as is required under
Section
2.12(b). Each party hereto hereby agrees that an SPC shall be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 3.01,
3.04 and
3.05 (subject to the requirements and the limitations of such Sections (it being understood that the
documentation required under
Section 3.01(h) shall be delivered solely to the Granting Lender) and
Section 3.08);
provided that neither the grant to any SPC nor the exercise by any SPC of
such option shall increase the costs or expenses or otherwise increase or change the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement (including under
Sections 3.01,
3.04 or
3.05), except to the extent such greater
entitlement results from a change in Law after the applicable grant. Each party hereto further agrees that (i) no SPC shall be liable for any indemnity or similar payment obligation under this Agreement for which a Lender would be liable, and (ii)
the Granting Lender shall for all purposes, including the approval of any amendment, waiver or other modification of any provision of any Loan Document, remain the Lender of record hereunder. Other than as expressly provided in this
Section
10.07(g), (A) such Granting Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Granting Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower,
the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Granting Lender in connection with such Granting Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. The making of a Loan by an SPC hereunder shall utilize the
Commitment of the Granting Lender to the same extent, and as if, such Loan were made by such Granting Lender. In furtherance of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby agrees (which agreement shall survive the termination of this Agreement) that,
prior to the date that is one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial paper or other senior debt of any SPC, it will not, other than in respect of matters unrelated to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated
hereby, institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, such SPC any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, or liquidation proceeding under the laws of the United States or any State thereof. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, any SPC may (i) with notice to, but without prior consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and with the payment of a processing fee of $3,500, assign all or any portion of its rights hereunder
with respect to any Loan to the Granting Lender and (ii) subject to
Section 10.08, disclose on a confidential basis any non-public information relating to its funding of Loans to any rating agency, commercial paper dealer or provider of any
surety or Guarantee or credit or liquidity enhancement to such SPC.
(h)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any Lender that is a Fund may create a security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any,
held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such obligations or securities;
provided that unless and until such trustee actually becomes a
Lender in compliance with the other provisions of this
Section 10.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents, and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of
the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.
(j)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, including
Sections 2.13 and
8.04, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, any Lender may assign all or
any portion of its Term Loans, Specified Refinancing Term Loans and New Term Loans hereunder to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, whether pursuant to open market purchase (or other privately negotiated transaction), dutch auction, exchange,
or otherwise, and, for the avoidance of doubt any such assignment may be made on a non-pro rata basis, and
provided that:
(i)
any such Term Loans shall be automatically and permanently cancelled immediately upon acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; and
(ii)
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries do not use the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Facility (whether or not the Revolving Credit Facility has been
increased pursuant to
Section 2.14 or refinanced pursuant to
Section 2.18) to acquire such Term Loan.
In connection with any assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(j), each Lender acknowledges and agrees that, in connection therewith:
(1) the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries may have, and later may come into possession of, information regarding either the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and/or any of their
respective Affiliates not known to such Lender and that may be material to a decision by such Lender to participate in such assignment (including material non-public information) (“Excluded Information”),
(2) such Lender, independently and, without reliance on the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, any Agent or any of their respective Affiliates, has made its own analysis and determination
to participate in such assignment notwithstanding such Lender’s lack of knowledge of the Excluded Information, and
(3) none of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, any Agent or any of their respective Affiliates shall have any liability to such Lender, and such Lender hereby waives and releases, to
the extent permitted by law, any claims such Lender may have against the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, any Agent or any of their respective Affiliates, under applicable laws or otherwise, with respect to the nondisclosure of the Excluded
Information.
(l)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, any L/C Issuer may, upon 30 days’ notice to the Borrower and the Lenders, resign as L/C Issuer;
provided that on or prior to the expiration of such 30-day period with respect to such resignation, the relevant L/C Issuer shall have identified a successor L/C Issuer willing to accept its appointment as successor L/C Issuer,
and the effectiveness of such resignation shall be conditioned upon such successor assuming the rights and duties of the L/C Issuer. In the event of any such resignation as L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall be entitled to appoint from among the
Lenders agreeing to accept such appointment a successor L/C Issuer hereunder;
provided,
however, that no failure by the Borrower to appoint any such successor shall
affect the resignation of the L/C Issuer. If an L/C Issuer resigns as L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights and obligations of an L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding, as of the effective date of such
resignation and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require the Lenders to make ABR Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to
Section 2.03(d)). Upon the appointment of a successor
L/C Issuer, (A) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer and (B) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of
Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.
(m)
The applicable Lender, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of (i) each SPC
(other than any SPC that is treated as a disregarded entity of the Granting Lender for U.S. federal income tax purposes) that has exercised its option pursuant to
Section 10.07(g) and (ii) each Participant, and the amount of each such SPC’s
and Participant’s interest in such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement or any Loan Document (the “
Participant Register”);
provided that no Lender
shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other
obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary in connection with a Tax audit or other proceeding or requirement to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other
obligation is in “registered form” under Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2), and 881(c)(2) of the Code, United States Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103‑1(c), and proposed United States Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(b) (or any other relevant or
successor provisions of the Code or of such Treasury Regulations). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the
Participant Register as the owner of the applicable rights and/or obligations of such Lender under this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative
Agent) shall have no obligation to maintain the Participant Register.
(n)
In the event that a transfer by any of the Secured Parties of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (and/or any relevant Loan Document) occurred or was deemed to
occur by way of novation, the Borrower and any other Loan Parties explicitly agree that all securities and guarantees created under any Loan Documents shall be preserved for the benefit of the new Lender and the other Secured Parties.
(o)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein and without limiting the rights or remedies of the Borrower as a result thereof or arising therefrom, if any Loans are assigned
or any participations are purchased or otherwise acquired, without the Borrower’s consent (including, without limitation, in violation of
Sections 10.07(b) or
(d)), to any Disqualified Institution or otherwise when the Borrower’s
consent is otherwise required hereunder, then: (i) Borrower may, at its sole option, expense and effort, upon notice to the applicable Disqualified Institution or the applicable assignee and the Administrative Agent (
provided that the Administrative Agent shall provide appropriate cooperation to effect this
Section 10.07(o)), (I) (x) terminate any commitment of such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee and repay any
applicable outstanding Loans (in the case of Loans, at a price equal to the least of (A) par and (B) the amount that the applicable Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee paid to acquire such Loans or participation), without premium,
penalty, prepayment fee, breakage or accrued interest, and/or (y) require such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee to assign its rights and obligations to one or more Eligible Assignees at the price indicated in the immediately
preceding
clause (x), without premium, penalty, prepayment fee, accrued interest or breakage (which assignment shall not be subject to the processing and recordation fee described in
Section 10.07(b)(iv)) or (II) (x) force the
termination of any participation with respect to any Participant which is a Disqualified Institution or terminate any commitment of a Lender which has sold a participation to a Participant which is a Disqualified Institution and repay any
applicable outstanding Loans of such Lender (in the case of Loans, at a price equal to the least of (A) par, (B) the amount that the applicable Disqualified Institution paid to acquire such participation in such Loans and (C) the average trading
price for such Loans over the immediately prior five trading days), without premium, penalty, prepayment fee, breakage or accrued interest, and/or (y) require such Participant which is a Disqualified Institution to assign its rights and obligations
to one or more Eligible Assignees at the price indicated in the immediately preceding
clause (x), without premium, penalty, prepayment fee, accrued interest or breakage (which assignment shall not be subject to the processing and
recordation fee described in
Section 10.07(b)(iv)), (ii) no such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee shall (x) receive any information or reporting provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, (y)
attend or participate in meetings attended by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent or (z) access any electronic site established for the Lenders or confidential communications from counsel to or financial advisors of the Administrative Agent or
the Lenders, (iii) for purposes of voting, any Loans, Commitments or participations held by such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee shall be deemed not to be outstanding and such Disqualified Institution or such applicable
assignee shall have no voting or consent rights with respect to “Required Lender” or
class votes or consents, in each case notwithstanding
Section 10.01, (iv) for purposes of any matter requiring the vote
or consent of each Lender affected by any amendment or waiver, such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee shall be deemed to have voted or consented to approve such amendment or waiver if a majority of the affected
class so approves and (v) such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee shall not be entitled to any expense reimbursement or indemnification rights ordinarily afforded to Lenders or Participants
hereunder or in any Loan Document and such Disqualified Institution or such applicable assignee shall be treated in all other respects as a Defaulting Lender.
Section 10.08
Confidentiality.
Each of the Agents and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, limited partners, managed accounts,
investors, lenders, directors, officers, employees, trustees, representatives and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors and service providers on a need-to-know basis (it being understood that the Persons to whom such
disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential in accordance with customary practices); (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority having
jurisdiction over such Agent, Lender or its respective Affiliates or in connection with any pledge or assignment permitted under
Section 10.07(f); (c) in any legal, judicial, administrative proceeding or other compulsory process or
otherwise as required by applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, in each case based upon the reasonable advice of the disclosing Agent’s or Lender’s legal counsel (in which case the disclosing Agent or Lender, as
applicable, agrees (except with respect to any audit or examination conducted by bank accountants or any governmental bank regulatory authority or self-regulatory authorities exercising examination or regulatory authority), to the extent not
prohibited by applicable Law, to (i) promptly notify the Borrower in writing prior to such disclosure, (ii) cooperate with the Borrower to obtain a protective order or similar confidential treatment, and (iii) only disclose that portion of the
Information as counsel for the Agent or the applicable Lender advises the Agent or the applicable Lender it must disclose pursuant to such requirement); (d) to any other party to this Agreement; (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies
hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder; (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the
same (or at least as restrictive) as those of this
Section 10.08 (or as may otherwise be reasonably acceptable to the Borrower), to any Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, any
of its rights or obligations under this Agreement;
provided that no such disclosure shall be made by such Lender or such Agent or any of their respective Affiliates to any such Person that is a Disqualified
Institution; (g) with the written consent of the Borrower; (h) to the extent such Information becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this
Section 10.08; (i) to any state, federal or foreign authority or examiner
(including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any other similar organization) regulating any Agent or Lender or any Affiliate of any Agent or Lender; (j) to any rating agency when required by it (it being understood that, prior
to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Agent or Lender); (k) to any contractual counterparty (or prospective contractual
counterparty) in any swap, hedge, or similar agreement or to any such contractual counterparty’s (or prospective contractual counterparty’s) professional advisor (other than a Disqualified Institution); (l) in connection with establishing a “due
diligence” defense in connection with any legal, judicial, administrative proceeding or other process; or (m) to the extent such Information becomes available to such Person on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Borrower or on
the Borrower’s behalf and not in violation of any confidentiality agreement or obligation owed to the Borrower.
In addition, the Agents and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to (x) market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry, and (y)
service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration and management of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Commitments, and the Credit Extensions; provided that in
the case of clause (y), such Person is advised and agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section 10.08.
For the purposes of this Section 10.08, “Information” means all information received from any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof relating to any Loan Party or any
Subsidiary thereof or their respective businesses, other than any such information that is publicly available to any Agent or any Lender prior to disclosure by any Loan Party other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08 by such
Lender or Agent. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section 10.08 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to
maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
Each Agent, each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that (i) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) it has developed compliance
procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (iii) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including United States federal and state securities Laws.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this
Section 10.08 shall prohibit any Person from voluntarily disclosing or providing any Information within the scope of this
confidentiality provision to any governmental, regulatory or self-regulatory organization (any such entity, a “
Regulatory Authority”) without any notification to any Person to the extent that any such
prohibition on disclosure set forth in this
Section 10.08 shall be prohibited by the laws or regulations applicable to such Regulatory Authority.
Section 10.09
Setoff. In
addition to any rights and remedies of the Secured Parties provided by Law, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Secured Party is authorized at any time and from time to time, after obtaining the prior
written consent of the Administrative Agent, without prior notice to the Borrower or any other Loan Party, any such notice being waived by the Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each Loan Party) to the fullest extent permitted by Law, to
set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in any currency), other than deposits in fiduciary accounts as to which a Loan Party is acting as fiduciary for another Person who is not a Loan Party
and other than payroll or trust fund accounts, at any time held by, and other Indebtedness (in any currency) at any time owing by, such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the respective Loan Parties against any and all Obligations owing
to such Secured Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document (or Security Agreement), now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not such Agent or such Lender shall have made demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (or
other Security Agreement) and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable deposit or Indebtedness or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender different from the
branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such Indebtedness;
provided that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be
paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.17 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in
trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to
which it exercised such right of setoff. Each Secured Party agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such set-off and application made by such Secured Party;
provided,
however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights of the Administrative Agent and each Secured Party under this
Section 10.09 are
in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that the Administrative Agent and such Secured Party may have.
Section 10.10
Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents
shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “
Maximum Rate”). If any Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the
excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrower. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by an Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum
Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof and (c) amortize,
prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.
Section 10.11
Counterparts. This Agreement and each other Loan Document may be executed in one or more counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall
be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement, any Loan Document and any other document, any amendment, approval, consent, information, notice, certificate, request, statement,
disclosure or authorization related to any Loan Document (a “
Communication”), including Communications required to be in writing, may be in the form of an Electronic Record and may be executed using
Electronic Signatures. Each of the Loan Parties and each of the Administrative Agent, Lenders and the LC Issuers agree that any Electronic Signature on or associated with any Communication shall be valid and binding on such Person to the same
extent as a manual, original signature, and that any Communication entered into by Electronic Signature, will constitute the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Person enforceable against such Person in accordance with the terms thereof to
the same extent as if a manually executed original signature was delivered. Any Communication may be executed in as many counterparts as necessary or convenient, including both paper and electronic counterparts, but all such counterparts are one
and the same Communication. For the avoidance of doubt, the authorization under this paragraph may include, without limitation, use or acceptance of a manually signed paper Communication which has been converted into electronic form (such as
scanned into PDF format), or an electronically signed Communication converted into another format, for transmission, delivery and/or retention. The Administrative Agent, each of the Lenders and L/C Issuers may, at its option, create one or more
copies of any Communication in the form of an imaged Electronic Record (“
Electronic Copy”), which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person’s business, and destroy the original paper
document. All Communications in the form of an Electronic Record, including an Electronic Copy, shall be considered an original for all purposes, and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Administrative Agent nor L/C Issuer is under any obligation to accept an Electronic Signature in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by such Person pursuant to procedures
approved by it;
provided,
further, without limiting the foregoing, (a) to the extent the Administrative Agent and/or L/C Issuer has agreed to accept such Electronic Signature, the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders and L/C
Issuers shall be entitled to rely on any such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of any Loan Party and/or any Lender Party without further verification and (b) upon the request of the Administrative Agent, any Lenders or L/C
Issuers, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly followed by such manually executed counterpart. For purposes hereof, “
Electronic Record” and “
Electronic Signature”
shall have the meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time.
Section 10.12
Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Fee Letters, constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to
the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and those of any other Loan
Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall control;
provided that the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Agents or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed
a conflict with this Agreement. Each Loan Document was drafted with the joint participation of the respective parties thereto and shall be construed neither against nor in favor of any party, but rather in accordance with the fair meaning
thereof. Except as provided in
Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken
together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto as of the date hereof.
Section 10.13
Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and
warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and warranties
have been or will be relied upon by each Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by any Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at
the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation (other than any Remaining Obligations) hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain
outstanding (other than any Remaining Obligations).
Section 10.14
Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity
and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable
provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this
Section 10.14, if and to the extent that the enforceability of any provisions in this Agreement relating to Defaulting Lenders shall
be limited by Debtor Relief Laws then such provisions shall be deemed to be in effect only to the extent not so limited.
Section 10.15
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.
(a)
Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT (OTHER THAN WITH RESPECT TO ANY COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS TO THE EXTENT EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE THEREIN) SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO THE CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF, BUT INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW.
(b)
Submission to Jurisdiction. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT (OTHER THAN WITH RESPECT TO ANY COLLATERAL DOCUMENT TO THE EXTENT EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE THEREIN), OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH
OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL
COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS
AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE COLLATERAL AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENT OR THE RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(c)
Waiver of Venue. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER
HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN
SECTION 10.15(b). EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
Section 10.16
Service of Process. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN
SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT
THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Section 10.17
Waiver of Right to Trial by Jury. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF
ACTION ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW
EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE; AND EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY
TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS
SECTION 10.17 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE SIGNATORIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.
Section 10.18
Binding Effect. When this Agreement shall have become effective in accordance with
Section 10.12, it shall thereafter be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower,
each Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and permitted assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders, except as
permitted by
Section 7.03.
Section 10.19
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other
modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges and agrees that it has informed its Affiliates, that: (i) (A) no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between any of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries and any Agent or any Arranger or Lender (or their respective Affiliates) is intended to be or has been created in respect of any of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents, irrespective of whether any
Agent or any Arranger or any Lender (or their respective Affiliates) has advised or is advising the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on other matters, (B) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Agents and the
Arrangers are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the Agents and the Arrangers on the other hand, (C) the Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors
to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (D) the Borrower is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) each Agent,
Arranger and Lender is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as may otherwise be expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrower or
any of their respective Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) none of the Agents or Arrangers or Lenders has any obligation to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations
expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Agents, the Arrangers and Lenders and/or their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the
Borrower and its Affiliates, and none of the Agents, the Arrangers or the Lenders has any obligation to disclose any of such interests and transactions to the Borrower or its Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Borrower hereby
waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Agents, the Arrangers and the Lenders with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.
Section 10.20
Affiliate Activities. The Borrower acknowledges that each Agent and each Arranger (and their respective Affiliates) are full service securities firms engaged, either directly or
through affiliates, in various activities, including securities trading, investment banking and financial advisory, investment management, principal investment, hedging, financing and brokerage activities and financial planning and benefits
counseling for both companies and individuals. In the ordinary course of these activities, any of them may make or hold a broad array of investments and actively trade debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities) and/or financial
instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of customers and may at any time hold long and short positions in such securities and/or instruments. Such investment and other activities may involve securities and
instruments of the Borrower and its Affiliates, as well as of other entities and persons and their Affiliates which may (i) be involved in transactions arising from or relating to the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan
Documents, (ii) be customers or competitors of the Borrower and its Affiliates or (iii) have other relationships with the Borrower and its Affiliates. In addition, it may provide investment banking, underwriting and financial advisory services to
such other entities and persons. It may also co-invest with, make direct investments in, and invest or co-invest client monies in or with funds or other investment vehicles managed by other parties, and such funds or other investment vehicles may
trade or make investments in securities of the Borrower and its Affiliates or such other entities. The transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents may have a direct or indirect impact on the investments, securities or
instruments referred to in this
Section 10.20.
Section 10.21
Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents. The words “execution,” “execute,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in any Loan Document, any Assignment
and Assumption, any Committed Loan Notice or any amendment or other modification hereof or thereof (including waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall
be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as applicable, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable Law, including the Federal Electronic
Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the
New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state
laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
Section 10.22
USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender that is subject to the PATRIOT Act and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies
the Loan Parties that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001, as amended from time to time)) (the “
PATRIOT Act”), it is required to
obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of each Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify each
Loan Party in accordance with the PATRIOT Act. Each Loan Party shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or
such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act and Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
Section 10.23
Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to
convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency
with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of the Borrower in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the other Loan
Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “
Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “
Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent
may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent from the Borrower in
the Agreement Currency, the Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement
Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent in such currency, the Administrative Agent agrees to return the amount of any excess to the Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under
applicable Law).
Section 10.24
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or
understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and
Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a)
the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any Lender
that is an Affected Financial Institution; and
(b)
the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
(i)
a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii)
a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent
undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii)
the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution
Authority.
Section 10.25
Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Swap Contracts or any other agreement or
instrument that is a QFC (such support, “
QFC Credit Support” and each such QFC a “
Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the
resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “
U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated
to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):
(a)
In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “
Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a
U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and
obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be
effective under the
U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation
and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a
U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC
Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the
U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing,
it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.
(b)
As used in this
Section 10.25, the following terms have the following meanings:
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(i)
a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(ii)
a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(iii)
a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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GIBRALTAR INDUSTRIES, INC.,
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as the Borrower
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By:
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/s/ Joseph A. Lovechio
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Name:
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Joseph A. Lovechio
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Title:
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Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
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as the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent
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By:
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/s/ Jessica Hunnicutt
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Name:
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Jessica Hunnicutt
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Title:
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AVP
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Tranche B Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Matt Smith
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Name:
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Matt Smith
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Title:
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Senior Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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KeyBank National Association,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Brian Troszak
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Name:
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Brian Troszak
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Title:
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Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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Wells Fargo Bank, National
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Association,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Karla Kaplan
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Name:
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Karla Kaplan
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Title:
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Managing Director
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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The Huntington National Bank,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Andrew Naysmith
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Name:
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Andrew Naysmith
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Title:
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Senior Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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M&T Bank,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Edward Graber
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Name:
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Edward Graber
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Title:
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Senior Vice President
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If second signature is necessary:
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By:
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/s/ Mason Schiappa
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Name:
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Mason Schiappa
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Title:
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Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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PNC Bank, National Association
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Felicia E. Leksono
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Name:
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Felicia E. Leksono
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Title:
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Senior Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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TD Bank, N.A.,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Nicholas Rizzo
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Name:
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Nicholas Rizzo
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Title:
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Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Kelly Bournier
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Name:
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Kelly Bournier
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Title:
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Duly Authorized Signatory
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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Regions Bank as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Christopher J. Brearey
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Name:
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Christopher J. Brearey
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Title:
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Managing Director
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Diversified Credit Products
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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U.S. Bank National Association,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender, Revolving Credit Lender, and an L/C Issuer
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By:
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/s/ Andrew Keeney
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Name:
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Andrew Keeney
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Title:
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Senior Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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City National Bank,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender and a Revolving Credit Lender
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By:
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/s/ Louis Serio
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Name:
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Louis Serio
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Title:
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SVP
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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FIFTH THIRD BANK, N.A., successor by merger to COMERICA BANK,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender and a Revolving Credit Lender
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By:
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/s/ Robert Wilson
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Name:
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Robert Wilson
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Title:
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Senior Vice President
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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First National Bank of Pennsylvania,
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as a Tranche A Term Lender and a Revolving Credit Lender
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By:
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/s/ David M. Diez
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Name:
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David M. Diez
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Title:
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Managing Director
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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Old National Bank
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as a Tranche A Term Lender and a Revolving Credit Lender
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By:
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/s/ Elizabeth Vosnos
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Name:
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Elizabeth Vosnos
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Title:
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Managing Director
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[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
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SouthState Bank, N.A., as a Tranche A Term Lender and Revolving Credit
Lender
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By:
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/s/ Michel Odermatt
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Name:
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Michel Odermatt
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Title:
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SVP
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