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EXECUTION VERSION
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(1)
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DHT JAGUAR LIMITED, incorporated under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands as borrower (the "Borrower");
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DHT HOLDINGS, INC., The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, Marshall Islands as guarantor (the "Guarantor");
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(3)
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THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 of the Facility Agreement as lenders (the "Original Lenders"); and
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DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S, registration no. (CVR-nr) 27 49 26 49 of Sankt Annæ Plads 3, 1250 København K, Denmark as agent (the "Agent").
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| (A) |
Pursuant to the up to USD 49,400,000 original facility agreement dated 26 November 2014 (the "Original Facility Agreement") made between the Parties, the Original Lenders made available to the
Borrower the loan on the terms set out therein.
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| (B) |
The Parties have agreed to amend and restate the Original Facility Agreement in particular for the purpose of changing the floating interest rate element from LIBOR to Term SOFR (or compounded SOFR if switched) + CAS, subject to the
terms and conditions of this Amendment No. 4.
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INTERPRETATION AND DESIGNATION
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| (a) |
In this Amendment No. 4:
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| (b) |
Capitalised words and expressions used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used as defined in the New Facility Agreement.
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| (c) |
References herein to the "Facility Agreement" shall be construed as references to the Original Facility Agreement up until the Effective Date and as references to the New Facility Agreement upon and any time after the Effective Date or
as the context otherwise may require.
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| (d) |
The principles of construction set out in Clause 1.2 (Construction) of the Facility Agreement shall have effect as if set out in this Amendment No. 4.
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| (e) |
This Amendment No. 4 and the New Facility Agreement shall be deemed to be Finance Documents.
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AMENDMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL FACILITY AGREEMENT
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AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT OF FACILITY AGREEMENT AS OF EFFECTIVE DATE
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As of the Effective Date the Original Facility Agreement shall automatically be amended and restated in the form of the New Facility Agreement, including for the avoidance of doubt so that the Guarantor shall automatically provide the
Guarantee on the terms as set out in Clause 19 (Guarantee and Indemnity) of the New Facility Agreement.
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| (b) |
This Amendment No. 4 shall, except for clause 2 (Amendments to the Original Facility Agreement) and clause 6 (Miscellaneous), each of which is effective
from the date hereof, be effective from and including the first new Interest Period commencing after 30 June 2023 (the "Effective Date").
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| (c) |
The Borrower undertakes to provide the Agent (in a form and substance acceptable to it) with all the documents and evidence listed in schedule 1 (Conditions precedent documents) hereto prior to
the Effective Date.
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REPETITION
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CONFIRMATIONS
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MISCELLANEOUS
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The Borrower shall pay to the Agent upon demand, all legal and other expenses incurred by the Agent in connection with this Amendment No. 4 and any other documents incidental hereto.
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This Amendment No. 4 shall be governed by and interpreted under Norwegian law with venue as set out in the Facility Agreement.
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Corporate documents relating to the Borrower and the Guarantor
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| (a) |
Certified copies of the constitutional documents, certificate of incorporation, extract from the relevant company registry and/or updated certificate of good standing of the relevant company;
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A certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors of the relevant company (i) approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Amendment No. 4 and other relevant Finance Documents to which it is a party and
resolving that it execute such documents to which it is a party, (ii) authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Amendment No. 4 and other relevant Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf and (iii) authorising
a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or dispatch all documents and notices to be signed and/or dispatched by it under or in connection with the Amendment No. 4 and other relevant Finance Documents to which it is a
party.
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Certified copies of the resolutions of the Borrower's shareholder(s) approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Amendment No. 4 and other relevant Finance Documents to which it is a party, if applicable.
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| (d) |
If relevant, an original Power of Attorney (notarised if requested by the Agent); and
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A certificate of an authorised signatory (including any authorised director, secretary, treasurer or chief financial officer) of the relevant company setting out the name of the Directors of the relevant Obligor certifying that each
copy document relating to it specified in this Schedule 1 is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of the Amendment No. 4.
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Finance Documents
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All and any new documentation or amendments to for the Existing Security (including but not limited to any amendment agreements, letters, notices, acknowledgements, registrations, filings etc.) deemed relevant by the Agent in order to
ensure and verify that the Existing Security become or remain, as the case might be, in full force and effect according to the terms of the Amendment No. 4.
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Miscellaneous
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A legal opinion from the legal advisers to the Agent in the relevant jurisdiction, substantially in the form distributed to and approved by all Lenders.
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| (b) |
Any other documents as reasonably requested by the Agent.
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SIGNATORIES
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Borrower:
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DHT JAGUAR LIMITED
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By:
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/s/ Laila C. Halvorsen | |
| Name: Laila C. Halvorsen | ||
| Title: Attorney-in-Fact | ||
| Guarantor: | ||
| DHT HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Laila C. Halvorsen | |
| Name: Laila C. Halvorsen | ||
| Title: Attorney-in-Fact | ||
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Original Lender and Agent:
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DANMARKS SKIBSKREDIT A/S
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/s/ Eline Hammerlund Fangel | |
| Name: Eline Hammerlund Fangel |
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| Title: Attorney-in-Fact |
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The process agent
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DHT MANAGEMENT AS
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| By: | /s/ Laila C. Halvorsen | |
| Name: Laila C. Halvorsen | ||
| Title: CEO | ||

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CONTENTS
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Clause
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Page
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1.
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Definitions and Interpretation
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4 |
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2.
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The Facility
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24 |
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3.
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Purpose
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24 |
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4.
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Conditions of Utilisation
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24 |
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5.
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Utilisation
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26 |
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6.
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Repayment
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27 |
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7.
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Prepayment and cancellation
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27 |
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8.
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Optional Rate Switch
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30 |
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9.
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Interest
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31 |
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10.
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Interest Periods
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32 |
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11.
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Changes to the calculation of interest
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32 |
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12.
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Fees and costs
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34 |
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13.
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Tax gross up and indemnities
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35 |
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14.
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Increased costs
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39 |
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15.
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Other indemnities
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41 |
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16.
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Mitigation by the Lenders
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42 |
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17.
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Costs and expenses
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42 |
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18.
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Security
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44 |
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19.
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Guarantee and indemnity
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45 |
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20.
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Representations
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48 |
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21.
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Information undertakings
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53 |
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22.
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Financial covenants
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57 |
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23.
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General undertakings
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57 |
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24.
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Vessel undertakings
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62 |
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25.
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Events of Default
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68 |
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26.
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Changes to the Lenders
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72 |
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27.
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Changes to the Obligors
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75 |
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28.
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Role of the Agent
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77 |
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29.
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Conduct of business by the Finance Parties
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82 |
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30.
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Sharing among the Finance Parties
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83 |
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31.
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Payment mechanics
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85 |
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32.
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Set-off
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87 |
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33.
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Bail-in
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87 |
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34.
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Notices
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87 |
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35.
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Calculations and certificates
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90 |
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36.
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Partial invalidity
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90 |
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37.
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Remedies and waivers
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90 |
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38.
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Amendments and waivers
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90 |
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39.
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Guarantor's liability
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94 |
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40.
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Counterparts
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94 |
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41.
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Conflict
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42.
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Governing law
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43.
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Enforcement
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SCHEDULE 1 THE ORIGINAL LENDERS
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96
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SCHEDULE 2 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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97
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SCHEDULE 3 UTILISATION REQUEST
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102
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SCHEDULE 4 OPTIONAL RATE SWITCH NOTICE
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103
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SCHEDULE 5 FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
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104
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SCHEDULE 6 FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
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106
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SCHEDULE 7 FORM OF ACCESSION LETTER
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108
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SCHEDULE 8 REPAYMENT SCHEDULE
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110
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SCHEDULE 9 FA ACT SECTION 3-12
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111
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SCHEDULE 10 DAILY NON-CUMULATIVE COMPOUNDED RFR RATE
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112
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| (1) |
DHT JAGUAR LIMITED, incorporated under the laws of the Republic of the Marshall Islands as borrower (the "Borrower");
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| (2) |
DHT HOLDINGS, INC., The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960, Marshall Islands as guarantor (the "Guarantor");
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THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 of the Original Facility Agreement as lenders (the "Original Lenders"); and
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DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S, registration no. (CVR-nr) 27 49 26 49 of Sankt Annæ Plads 3, 1250 København K, Denmark as agent (the "Agent").
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DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
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| 1.1 |
Definitions
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| (a) |
the interest which a Lender should have received for the period from the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in the Loan or Unpaid Sum to the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of the Loan or Unpaid
Sum, had the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day of that Interest Period;
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| (b) |
the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the relevant market for the applicable Reference Rate for a period
starting on the Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of the current Interest Period.
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Interest Periods of 1 month: 0.11448%;
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Interest Periods between 1 month plus 1 day and 2 months: 0.18456%;
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Interest Periods between 2 months plus 1 day and 3 months: 0.26161%.
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Interest Periods between 3 months plus 1 day and 6 months: 0.42826%;
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if relevant, Interest Periods shorter than 1 month or longer than 6 months, as determined in the reasonable opinion of the Agent (however in no event lower than zero).
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that cash is repayable on demand or within 1 day after the relevant date of calculation;
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repayment of that cash is not contingent on the prior discharge of any other indebtedness of the Guarantor or of any other person whatsoever or on the satisfaction of any other condition;
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| (c) |
there is no Security over that cash except for the Security Documents; and
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is freely and (except as mentioned in paragraph (a) above) immediately available to be applied in repayment or prepayment of the Facility.
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The short-term interest rate target set by the US Federal Open Market Committee as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from time to time; or
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if that target is not a single figure, the arithmetic mean of:
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the upper bound of the short-term interest rate target range set by the US Federal Open Market Committee and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and
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the lower bound of that target range.
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the Reference Rate (Term SOFR or SOFR as relevant) for that day; and
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the Central Bank Rate prevailing at close of business on that day. "Change of Control" means
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any person or group of persons acting in concert, other than BW Group, gains direct or indirect control of the Guarantor; and/or
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where the Guarantor ceases directly or indirectly to cast, or control the casting of, at least 100% of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of the Borrower and/or to hold beneficially 100% or more of the
issued share capital of the Borrower.
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the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:
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cast, or control the casting of, more than 33 1/3% of the maximum number of votes that might be cast at a general meeting of the Guarantor;
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appoint or remove all, or a majority, of the directors or other equivalent officers of the Guarantor; or
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give directions and prevent any other person from giving directions with respect to the operating and financial policies of the Guarantor with which the directors or other equivalent officers of the Guarantor are obliged to comply;
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the holding beneficially of more than 33 1/3 % of the issued share capital of the Guarantor (excluding any part of that issued share capital that carries no right to participate beyond a specified amount in a distribution of either
profits or capital).
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in relation to an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name under the heading "Commitment" in Schedule 1 (The Lenders) and the amount of any other Commitment transferred to it
under this Agreement; and
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in relation to any other Lender, the amount of any Commitment transferred to it under this Agreement,
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is agreed in writing by the Borrower, the Agent (acting in such capacity) and the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders);
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specifies a calculation methodology for SOFR; and
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has been made available to the Borrower and each Finance Party.
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a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in connection with the Facility (or otherwise in order for the
transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the Parties; or
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the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party preventing that, or any other Party:
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from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or
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from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the terms of the Finance Documents,
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all freight, hire and passage moneys payable to the Borrower, including (without limitation) payments of any nature under any contract or any other agreement for the employment, use, possession, management and/or operation of the
Vessel;
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any claim under any guarantees related to hire payable to the Vessel as a consequence of the operation of the Vessel;
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| (c) |
any compensation payable to the Borrower in the event of any requisition of the Vessel or for the use of the Vessel by any government authority or other competent authority;
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remuneration for salvage, towage and other services performed by the Vessel payable to the Borrower;
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demurrage and retention money receivable by the Borrower in relation to the Vessel;
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all moneys which are at any time payable under the Insurances in respect of loss of earnings from the Vessel;
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if and whenever the Vessel is employed on terms whereby any moneys falling within paragraph a) to f) above are pooled or shared with any other person, that proportion of the net receipts of the relevant pooling or sharing arrangement
which is attributable to such Vessel; and
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any other money which arise out of the use of or operation of the Vessel and moneys whatsoever due or to become due to the Borrower from third parties in relation to the Vessel.
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the pollution or protection of the environment or to the carriage of material which is capable of polluting the environment;
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harm to or the protection of human health;
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| (c) |
the conditions of the workplace; or
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any emission or substance capable of causing harm to any living organism or the environment.
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sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance;
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any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of
paragraph (a) above; or
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any agreement pursuant to the implementation of paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.
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in relation to a "withholdable payment" described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 July 2014;
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in relation to a "pass thru payment" described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraphs (a) above, the first date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA.
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the increase in a payment made by an Obligor to a Finance Party under Clause 13.7 (FATCA Deduction and gross-up by Obligor) or paragraph (b) of Clause 13.8 (FATCA Deduction by Finance Party); or
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a payment under paragraph (d) of Clause 13.8 (FATCA Deduction by Finance Party).
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moneys borrowed;
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any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility or dematerialised equivalent;
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| (c) |
any amount raised pursuant to any note purchase facility or the issue of bonds, notes, debentures, loan stock or any similar instrument;
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| (d) |
the amount of any liability in respect of any lease or hire purchase contract which would, in accordance with GAAP, be treated as a finance or capital lease;
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| (e) |
receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold on a non-recourse basis);
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any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement) having the commercial effect of a borrowing;
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any derivative transaction entered into in connection with protection against or benefit from fluctuation in any rate or price (and, when calculating the value of any derivative transaction, only the marked to market value shall be
taken into account);
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any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, indemnity, bond, standby or documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution; and
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the amount of any liability in respect of any guarantee or indemnity for any of the items referred to in paragraphs (a) to (h) above.
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either:
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the applicable Term SOFR (as of the Quotation Day) for the longest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is less than the Interest Period of the Loan or that Unpaid Sum; or
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if no such Term SOFR is available for a period which is less than the Interest Period of the Loan, SOFR for the day which is two US Government Securities Business Days before the Quotation Day for Term SOFR,
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the applicable Term SOFR (as of the Quotation Day) for the shortest period (for which Term SOFR is applicable) which exceeds the Interest Period of the Loan.
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any Original Lender; and
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any bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party in accordance with Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders),
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if there is no Loan then outstanding, a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than 51% of the Total Commitments (or, if the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, aggregated more than 51% of the Total Commitments
immediately prior to the reduction); or
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at any other time, a Lender or Lenders whose participations in the Loan then outstanding aggregate more than 51% of all the Loan then outstanding.
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the business, condition (financial or otherwise) or operations of an Obligor; or
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| (b) |
the ability of an Obligor to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents; or
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the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any Security granted or purporting to be granted pursuant to, any Finance Document; or
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if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business
Day;
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if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month.
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| (a) |
the Vessel;
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| (b) |
the Earnings;
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the Insurances;
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the Shares; and
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the Earnings Accounts.
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| (i) |
the Original Lender's cost of funding the Facility as of the date of the signed facility offer, being 21 April 2020 in dollars in the form of a spread above LIBOR calculated for the remaining Interest Periods taking into account the
amount, tenor and repayment profile of the prepaid part of the Loan and/or cancelled part of the Facility; and
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the Original Lender's cost of funding such prepaid part of the Loan and/or cancelled part of the Facility as of the date of the prepayment or cancellation on the basis of an identical tenor and repayment profile as that of the prepaid
part of the Loan and/or cancelled part of the Facility (as determined by the Original Lender in its sole discretion) in USD in the form of a spread above the aggregate of the relevant Reference Rate and the relevant CAS calculated for the
remaining Interest Periods taking into account the amount and the repayment profile of the prepaid part of the Loan and/or cancelled part of the Facility.
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in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined on basis of Term SOFR or Interpolated Term SOFR, two (2) US Government Securities Business Days before the first day of that period (unless market practice
differs in the relevant syndicated loan market, in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the Agent in accordance with that market practice (and if quotations would normally be given on more than one day, the Quotation Day
will be the last of those days)); and
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in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined on basis of SOFR or Central Bank Rate, the Business Day which follows the day which is five (5) US Government Securities Business Days prior to the last day of
that period.
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before any Optional Rate Switch has occurred, the applicable Term SOFR as of the Quotation Day and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan;
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| (b) |
after any Optional Rate Switch has occurred, SOFR in relation to any day during the Interest Period of the Loan; or
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as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 11 (Changes to the calculation of interest),
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that is listed on any Sanctions List (whether designated by name or by reason of being included in a class of person);
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| (b) |
that is domiciled, registered as located or having its main place of business in, or is incorporated under the laws of, a country which is subject to Sanctions Laws (including, without limitation, at the Signing Date Cuba, Iran,
Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Syria and Sudan);
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| (c) |
that is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a person referred to in (i) and/or
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with which any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in a transaction with by any Sanctions Laws; or
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is otherwise a target of Sanctions Laws.
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the "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons" list maintained by OFAC;
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the "Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets" maintained by HMT;
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the Consolidated List of persons, groups and entities subject to the European Union financial sanctions; or
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any similar list maintained by, or public announcement of Sanctions Laws designation made by, any other Sanctions Authority.
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all amounts which have become due for payment by the Borrower under the Finance Documents have been paid;
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| (b) |
no amount is owing or has accrued (without yet having become due for payment) under any of the Finance Documents;
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| (c) |
none of the Obligors have any future or contingent liability under any provision of this Agreement, the other Finance Documents; and
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the Agent or the other Finance Parties do not consider that there is a significant risk that any payment or transaction under a Finance Document would be set aside, or would have to be reversed or adjusted, in any present or possible
future proceeding relating to a Finance Document or any asset covered (or previously covered) by a Security created by a Finance Document.
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| (a) |
the actual, constructive, compromised, agreed, arranged or other total loss of that Vessel; and;
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| (b) |
any expropriation, abandonment, confiscation, condemnation, requisition or acquisition of the Vessel, whether for full consideration, a consideration less than its proper value, a nominal consideration or without any consideration,
which is effected by any government or official authority or by any person or persons claiming to be or to represent a governmental or official authority, excluding a requisition for hire for a fixed period not exceeding one (1) year
without any right to extension) unless it is within one (1) month from the Total Loss Date redelivered to the full control of the Borrower; and
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any theft, capture, seizure, piracy or hijacking of the Vessel unless it is within one (1) month from the Total Loss Date redelivered to the full control of the Borrower.
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in the case of an actual total loss of the Vessel, the date on which it occurred or, if that is unknown, the date when that Vessel was last heard of;
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| (b) |
in the case of a constructive, compromised, agreed or arranged total loss of the Vessel, the earlier of: (i) the date on which a notice of abandonment is given to the insurers (provided a claim for total loss is admitted by such
insurers) or, if such insurers do not forthwith admit such a claim, at the date at which either a total loss is subsequently admitted by the insurers or a total loss is subsequently adjudged by a competent court of law or arbitration
panel to have occurred or, if earlier, the date falling three (3) months after notice of abandonment of that Vessel was given to the insurers; and (ii) the date of compromise, arrangement or agreement made by or on behalf of the
Borrower with the Vessel's insurers in which the insurers agree to treat that Vessel as a total loss; or
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| (c) |
in the case of any other type of total loss, on the date (or the most likely date) on which it appears to the Agent that the event constituting the total loss occurred.
|
| (a) |
the proposed Transfer Date specified in the Transfer Certificate; and
|
| (b) |
the date on which the Agent executes the Transfer Certificate.
|
| (a) |
a Saturday or a Sunday; and
|
| (b) |
a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government
securities.
|
| (a) |
the Borrower which is resident for tax purposes in the US; or
|
| (b) |
an Obligor some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the US for US federal income tax purposes.
|
| 1.2 |
Construction
|
| (a) |
Unless a contrary indication appears, any reference in this Agreement to:
|
| (i) |
the "Agent", any "Obligor" any "Finance Party", any "Lender", or any "Party" shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees;
|
| (ii) |
a Lender's "cost of funds" in relation to its participation in the Loan is a reference to the average cost (determined either on an actual or a notional basis) which that Lender would incur if it
were to fund, from whatever source(s) it may reasonably select, an amount equal to the amount of that participation in that Loan for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan;
|
| (iii) |
"assets" includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description;
|
| (iv) |
a "Finance Document" or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other agreement or instrument as amended, novated, supplemented, extended or restated;
|
| (v) |
"indebtedness" includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;
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| (vi) |
a "person" includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium or partnership (whether or not having
separate legal personality);
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| (vii) |
a "regulation" includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body,
agency, department or of any regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
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| (viii) |
a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted;
|
| (ix) |
words importing the singular shall include the plural and vice versa; and
|
| (x) |
a time of day is a reference to Copenhagen time unless specified otherwise.
|
| (b) |
Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only.
|
| (c) |
Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement.
|
| (d) |
A Default (other than an Event of Default) is "continuing" if it has not been remedied or waived and an Event of Default is "continuing" if it has not been waived.
|
| (e) |
In case of conflict between this Agreement and any of the Security Documents, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail.
|
| (f) |
A Compounding Methodology Supplement relating to SOFR overrides anything relating to that rate in:
|
| (i) |
Schedule 10 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate); or
|
| (ii) |
any earlier Compounding Methodology Supplement.
|
| 2. |
THE FACILITY
|
| 2.1 |
The Facility
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| 2.2 |
Finance Parties' rights and obligations
|
| (a) |
The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance
Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents.
|
| (b) |
The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from an Obligor shall be a separate and
independent debt.
|
| (c) |
A Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents, separately enforce its rights under the Finance Documents.
|
| 2.3 |
FA Act
|
| 3. |
PURPOSE
|
| 3.1 |
Purpose
|
| 3.2 |
Monitoring
|
| 4. |
CONDITIONS OF UTILISATION
|
| 4.1 |
Initial conditions precedent
|
| (a) |
The Finance Parties' obligations hereunder are subject to the Agent's receipt of all of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions precedent) Part I no later than
30 November 2014. The Agent shall notify the Obligors and the Lender promptly upon being so satisfied.
|
| (b) |
The Borrower may not deliver an Utilisation Request unless the Agent has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 2 (Conditions precedent) Part II at least two
(2) Banking Days prior to the delivery of the Utilisation Request (except those documents which are expressly stated to be deliverable on the Utilisation Date). The Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders promptly upon being so
satisfied.
|
| 4.2 |
Further conditions precedent
|
| (a) |
no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan;
|
| (b) |
the Repeating Representations to be made by each of the Obligors are true in all material respects;
|
| (c) |
there has been no Material Adverse Effect since the Original Financial Statements;
|
| (d) |
there has been no Disruption Event or Market Disruption Event; and
|
| (e) |
there has been no unforeseen occurrences or changes in legislation or events outside the control of the Lenders preventing the Lenders from either advancing or funding the Utilisation.
|
| 4.3 |
Maximum number of drawings
|
| 4.4 |
Form and content
|
| (a) |
be in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent;
|
| (b) |
if required by the Agent, be in original; and
|
| (c) |
if required by the Agent, be certified, notarized, legalized or attested in a manner acceptable to the Agent.
|
| 4.5 |
Waiver of conditions precedent
|
| 5. |
UTILISATION
|
| 5.1 |
Delivery of a Utilisation Request
|
| 5.2 |
Completion of a Utilisation Request
|
| (a) |
the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period;
|
| (b) |
the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with Clause 5.3 (Currency and amount); and
|
| (c) |
the proposed Interest Period complies with Clause 10 (Interest Periods).
|
| 5.3 |
Currency and amount
|
| (a) |
The currency specified in the Utilisation Request must be USD.
|
| (b) |
The amount of the proposed Loan must be an amount which is not more than the Total Commitments.
|
| 5.4 |
Lender' participation
|
| (a) |
If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender shall make its participation in the Loan available by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office.
|
| (b) |
The amount of each Lender's participation in the Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Commitment to the Available Facility immediately prior to making the Loan.
|
| (c) |
The Agent shall notify each Lender of the amount of the and the amount of its participation in the Loan upon receipt of the Utilisation Notice from the Borrower.
|
| 5.5 |
Cancellation of Commitment
|
| 6. |
REPAYMENT
|
| 6.1 |
Repayment of the Loan
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall repay the Loan on each Payment Date by consecutive semi- annual instalments, each in an amount as set out in Schedule 8 (Repayment schedule) hereto, plus a balloon payment
of the remaining amount payable concurrently with the last instalment.
|
| (b) |
Any Outstanding Indebtedness is due and payable on the Maturity Date.
|
| 6.2 |
Re-borrowing
|
| 7. |
PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION
|
| 7.1 |
Voluntary cancellation
|
| 7.2 |
Voluntary prepayment of the Loan
|
| 7.3 |
Illegality
|
| (a) |
that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;
|
| (b) |
upon the Agent notifying the Borrower, or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled; and
|
| (c) |
the Borrower shall repay that Lender's participation in the Loan made to the Borrower on the Payment Date for the Loan occurring after the Agent has notified the Borrower or, if earlier, the date specified by the relevant Lender in
the notice delivered to the Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law).
|
| 7.4 |
Total Loss or sale of the Vessel
|
| (a) |
in case of a sale, on or before the date on which the sale is completed by delivery of the Vessel to the buyer; or
|
| (b) |
in the case of a Total Loss, on the earlier of the date falling hundred and twenty (120) days after the Total Loss Date and the receipt by the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Parties) of the proceeds of Insurance or requisition
compensation relating to such Total Loss;
|
| 7.5 |
Market Value
|
| (a) |
If the Market Value of the Vessel is less than 135% of the Outstanding Indebtedness at any time, the Borrower shall, upon written demand from the Agent (on behalf of the Lenders), either
|
| (i) |
prepay the Loan or a part of the Loan (as the case may be); or
|
| (ii) |
provide the Lenders with such additional security, which in the opinion of the Agent has a net realisable value at least equal to the shortfall and is documented in such terms as the Agent may approve or require,
|
| (b) |
Any prepayment under this Clause 7.5 (Market Value) shall be applied pro-rata against the Loan, first against the balloon payment and then against the instalments in inverse order of maturity.
|
| 7.6 |
Change of Control
|
| (a) |
the Borrower shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;
|
| (b) |
a Lender shall not be obliged to fund the Utilisation;
|
| (c) |
the Agent shall cancel the Total Commitments; and
|
| (d) |
the Borrower shall within ten (10) Business Days prepay the Outstanding Indebtedness in full.
|
| 7.7 |
Right of replacement or repayment and cancellation in relation to a single Lender
|
| (a) |
If:
|
| (i) |
any sum payable to any Lender by an Obligor is required to be increased under paragraph (c) of Clause 13.2 (Tax gross-up);
|
| (ii) |
any Lender claims indemnification from the Borrower under Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) or Clause 14.1 (Increased costs); or
|
| (iii) |
at any time on or after the date which is six (6) months before the earliest FATCA Application Date for any payment by a Party to a Lender (or to the Agent for the account of that Lender), that Lender is not, or has ceased to be, a
FATCA Exempt Party and, as a consequence, a Party will be required to make a FATCA Deduction from a payment to that Lender (or to the Agent for the account of that Lender) on or after that FATCA Application Date,
|
| (b) |
On receipt of a notice of cancellation referred to in paragraph (a) above, the Total Commitment of that Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.
|
| (c) |
On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Borrower have given notice of cancellation under paragraph (a) above (or, if earlier, the date specified by the Borrower in that notice), the Borrower shall repay that
Lender's participation in the Loan.
|
| (d) |
The replacement of a Lender pursuant to paragraph (a) above shall be subject to the following conditions:
|
| (i) |
the Borrower shall have no right to replace the Agent;
|
| (ii) |
neither the Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to find a replacement Lender; and
|
| (iii) |
in no event shall the Lender replaced under paragraph (d) above be required to pay or surrender any of the fees received by such Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents.
|
| 7.8 |
Restrictions
|
| (a) |
Any notice of cancellation or prepayment given by any Party under this Clause 7 (Prepayment and cancellation) shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement,
shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or prepayment.
|
| (b) |
Any partial prepayment under this Agreement (except voluntary prepayments) shall be applied in inverse order of maturity firstly against the balloon and then the remaining repayments instalments.
|
| (c) |
Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, subject to any Break Costs and Prepayment Cost.
|
| (d) |
Any cancellation under this Agreement shall be made together with any Prepayment Cost.
|
| (e) |
The Borrower may not re-borrow any part of the Facility which is prepaid.
|
| (f) |
The Borrower shall not repay or prepay all or any part of the Loan or cancel all or any part of the Commitments except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement.
|
| (g) |
No amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated.
|
| (h) |
If the Agent receives a notice under this Clause 7 (Prepayment and cancellation) it shall promptly forward a copy of that notice to either the Borrower or the affected Lender, as appropriate.
|
| (i) |
If all or part of the Loan is repaid or prepaid and is not available for redrawing, an amount of the Commitments (equal to the amount of the Loan which is repaid or prepaid) will be deemed to be cancelled on the date of repayment or
prepayment. Any cancellation under this paragraph (h) shall reduce the Commitments of the Lenders proportionately.
|
| 8. |
OPTIONAL RATE SWITCH
|
| 8.1 |
Optional Rate Switch
|
| (a) |
The Borrower may in its sole discretion one (1) time during the lifetime of the Facility freely chose to switch the Reference Rate from Term SOFR to SOFR by delivering a duly executed Optional Rate Switch Notice at latest five (5)
Business Days before the end of the nearest ending current Interest Period for the Loan (an "Optional Rate Switch").
|
| (b) |
Provided that the Optional Rate Switch Notice complies with the requirements of this Agreement and accrued interest is paid according to Clause 9.2 (Payment of interest), the Optional Rate
Switch shall take effect from the first day in the next Interest Period for the Loan meaning that the use of Term SOFR will be replaced by SOFR as Reference Rate from that date (the "Optional Rate Switch
Date").
|
| (c) |
Any Optional Rate Switch shall be binding and applicable for the Loan.
|
| 8.2 |
Notification by Agent
|
| 9. |
INTEREST
|
| 9.1 |
Calculation of interest
|
| (a) |
The rate of interest on the Loan for any day during an Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:
|
| (i) |
Margin;
|
| (ii) |
CAS; and
|
| (iii) |
Reference Rate.
|
| (b) |
If any day during an Interest Period for the Loan for which SOFR is the applicable Reference Rate is not US Government Securities Business Day, the rate of interest on the Loan for that day will be the rate applicable to the
immediately preceding US Government Securities Business Day.
|
| 9.2 |
Payment of interest
|
| 9.3 |
Default interest
|
| (a) |
If an Obligor fails to pay the amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the Unpaid Sum from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a rate which,
subject to paragraph
|
|
(b)
|
below, is two (2) per cent higher than the rate which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of non-payment, constituted the Loan in the currency of the overdue amount for
successive Interest Periods, each of a duration selected by the Agent (acting reasonably). Any interest accruing under this Clause 9.3 (Default interest) shall be immediately payable by the
Obligors on demand by the Agent.
|
| (b) |
If any Unpaid Sum consists of all or part of the Loan for which Term SOFR is the applicable Reference Rate which became due on a day which was not the last day of an Interest Period relating to the Loan:
|
| (i) |
the first Interest Period for that overdue amount shall have a duration equal to the unexpired portion of the current Interest Period relating to the Loan; and
|
| (ii) |
the rate of interest applying to the overdue amount during that first Interest Period shall be two (2) per cent higher than the rate which would have applied if the overdue amount had not become due.
|
| (c) |
Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an overdue amount will be compounded with the Unpaid Sum at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that overdue amount but will remain immediately due and payable.
|
| 9.4 |
Notification of rates of interest
|
| (a) |
The Agent shall promptly notify the relevant Lenders and the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest under this Agreement.
|
| (b) |
The Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower of each Funding Rate relating to the Loan.
|
| (c) |
This Clause 9.4 shall not require the Agent to make any notification to any Party on a day which is not a Business Day.
|
| 10. |
INTEREST PERIODS
|
| 10.1 |
Duration
|
| (a) |
Each Interest Period shall be for a period of six (6) months.
|
| (b) |
An Interest Period shall not extend beyond the Maturity Date.
|
| (c) |
The first Interest Period shall start on the Utilisation Date and each subsequent Interest Period shall start on the first day in the Month falling sixth months after the Utilisation Date and in six monthly intervals thereafter.
|
| 10.2 |
Non-Business Days
|
| 11. |
CHANGES TO THE CALCULATION OF INTEREST
|
| 11.1 |
Absence of quotations
|
| (a) |
Interpolated Term SOFR: If Term SOFR is the applicable Reference Rate and no Term SOFR is available for the Interest Period of the Loan, the applicable Reference Rate shall be the Interpolated
Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of the Loan.
|
| (b) |
Central Bank Rate: If the applicable Reference Rate (Term SOFR or SOFR) is not available, as relevant on any day during the Interest Period of a Loan and in case of Term SOFR it is not possible
to calculate the Interpolated Term SOFR, the applicable Reference Rate shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of (i) the arithmetic mean of the Central Bank Rate for the relevant days in the Interest Period of the
Loan, provided that the Central Bank Rate applicable to the day falling five (5) days prior to the last day of the relevant Interest Period shall be deemed to be the Central Bank Rate for the final five (5) days of that Interest Period
and (ii) the applicable Central Bank Rate Adjustment.
|
| 11.2 |
Interest calculation if no Term SOFR, SOFR or Central Bank Rate
|
| 11.3 |
Market disruption
|
| 11.4 |
Cost of funds
|
| (a) |
If this Clause 11.4 applies, the rate of interest on each Lender's share of the Loan for the relevant Interest Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of:
|
| (i) |
the Margin; and
|
| (ii) |
in respect of each relevant Lender, the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable and in any event within 2 Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of that Interest Period, to
be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum its cost of funds relating to its participation in the Loan.
|
| (b) |
If this Clause 11.4 applies and the Agent or the Borrower so require, the Agent and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than thirty (30) days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining
the rate of interest.
|
| (c) |
Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Borrower, be binding on all Parties.
|
| (d) |
If an alternative basis is not agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above, the Borrower shall have the option to (i) cancel and prepay the Loan according to Clause 7.1 (Voluntary cancellation) and
7.2 (Voluntary prepayment of the Loan) or (ii) continue to pay interest calculated under Clause 11.4 (Cost of funds). For the avoidance of doubt, Clause
38.3 (Changes to Reference Rates) shall in any event apply if and when relevant according to its terms.
|
| (e) |
The Borrower shall continue to pay interest calculated under Clause 11.4 (Cost of funds) as long as no agreed substitute basis for determining the rate of interest has been implemented.
|
| (f) |
If this Clause 11.4 applies and:
|
| (i) |
a Lender's Funding Rate is less than the Market Disruption Rate; or
|
| (ii) |
a Lender does not supply a quotation by the time specified in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) above,
|
| 11.5 |
Notification of market disruption
|
| 11.6 |
Break Costs
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall, within three (3) Business Days of demand by a Finance Party, pay to that Finance Party its Break Costs attributable to all or any part of the Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by that Borrower on a day other than the
last day of the Interest Period for the Loan or Unpaid Sum.
|
| (b) |
Each relevant Finance Party shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand by the Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Break Costs for any Interest Period in which they become, or may become, payable.
|
| 12. |
FEES AND COSTS
|
| 12.1 |
Commitment fee
|
| (a) |
The Borrower, or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement, shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) a fee computed at the rate of forty per cent (40%) of the Margin per annum and calculated on the
undrawn portion of the Facility from 1 July 2014.
|
| (b) |
The accrued commitment fee is payable quarterly in arrears first time on 30 September 2014 and in addition on the Utilisation Date, on the last day of the Availability Period and if cancelled, on the cancelled amount of the Commitment
at the time the cancellation is effective.
|
| 12.2 |
Up-front fee
|
| 12.3 |
Agency fee
|
| 12.4 |
Payment of fees and costs - general
|
| 13. |
TAX GROSS UP AND INDEMNITIES
|
| 13.1 |
Definitions
|
| 13.2 |
Tax gross-up
|
| (a) |
All payments under the Facility shall be made free and clear of all present and future taxes, levies or duties of any nature whatsoever, levied either now or at any future time.
|
| (b) |
Each Obligor shall make all payments to be made by it without any Tax Deduction whatsoever, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.
|
| (c) |
The Borrower shall promptly upon becoming aware that an Obligor must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Lender shall notify the
Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender. If the Agent receives such notification from a Lender it shall notify the Obligors.
|
| (d) |
If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by an Obligor, the amount of the payment due from that Obligor shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would
have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.
|
| (e) |
If an Obligor is required to make a Tax Deduction, that Obligor shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law.
|
| (f) |
Within thirty (30) days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Obligor making that Tax Deduction shall deliver to the Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment
evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant taxing authority.
|
| 13.3 |
Tax indemnity
|
| (a) |
The Obligors shall (within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Agent) pay to a Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Protected Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly)
suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a Finance Document.
|
| (b) |
Paragraph (a) above shall not apply:
|
| (i) |
with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party:
|
| (A) |
under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party is treated as resident for tax purposes; or
|
| (B) |
under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party's Facility Office is located in respect of amounts received or receivable in that jurisdiction,
|
| (ii) |
to the extent a loss, liability or cost:
|
| (A) |
is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 13.2 (Tax gross- up), Clause 13.7 (FATCA Deduction and gross-up by Obligor) or paragraph
|
| (B) |
is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 13.2 (Tax gross- up); or
|
| (C) |
is compensated for by a payment under paragraph (d) of Clause 13.8 (FATCA Deduction by a Finance Party).
|
| (c) |
A Protected Party making, or intending to make a claim under paragraph (a) above shall promptly notify the Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the Borrower.
|
| (d) |
A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from an Obligor under this Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity), notify the Agent.
|
| 13.4 |
Stamp taxes
|
| 13.5 |
VAT
|
| (a) |
All amounts set out or expressed in a Finance Document to be payable by any Party to a Finance Party which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for a supply or supplies for VAT purposes shall be deemed to be exclusive of
any VAT which is chargeable on such supply or supplies, that Party shall pay to the Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying any other consideration for such supply) an amount equal to the amount of such VAT (and such
Finance Party shall promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to such Party).
|
| (b) |
Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse or indemnify a Finance Party for any cost or expense, that Party shall reimburse or indemnify (as the case may be) such Finance Party for the full amount of such cost or expense,
including such part thereof as represents VAT, save to the extent that such Finance Party reasonably determines that it is entitled to credit or repayment in respect of such VAT from the relevant tax authority.
|
| 13.6 |
FATCA Information
|
| (a) |
Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten (10) Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party:
|
| (i) |
confirm to that other Party whether it is:
|
| (A) |
a FATCA Exempt Party; or
|
| (B) |
not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
|
| (ii) |
supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA (including its applicable "passthru payment percentage" or other information required under the US Treasury Regulations or
other official guidance including intergovernmental agreements) as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party's compliance with FATCA.
|
| (b) |
If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to 13.6 (a) (i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party
reasonably promptly.
|
| (c) |
Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of:
|
| (i) |
any law or regulation;
|
| (ii) |
any fiduciary duty; or
|
| (iii) |
any duty of confidentiality.
|
| (d) |
If a Party fails to confirm its status or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with paragraph (a) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then:
|
| (i) |
if that Party failed to confirm whether it is (and/or remains) a FATCA Exempt Party then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party; and
|
| (ii) |
if that Party failed to confirm its applicable "passthru payment percentage" then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments made thereunder) as if its applicable "passthru payment percentage"
is 100%, until (in each case) such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.
|
| 13.7 |
FATCA Deduction and gross-up by Obligor
|
| (a) |
If an Obligor is required to make a FATCA Deduction, that Obligor shall make that FATCA Deduction and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by FATCA.
|
| (b) |
If a FATCA Deduction is required to be made by an Obligor, the amount of the payment due from that Obligor shall be increased to an amount which (after making any FATCA Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have
been due if no FATCA Deduction had been required.
|
| (c) |
An Obligor shall promptly upon becoming aware that an Obligor must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a FATCA Deduction) notify the Agent accordingly. Similarly, a Finance Party shall notify
the Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Finance Party. If the Agent receives such notification from a Finance Party it shall notify the Obligors.
|
| (d) |
Within thirty (30) days of making either a FATCA Deduction or any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, the Obligor making that FATCA Deduction or payment shall deliver to the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Party
entitled to the payment) evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party that the FATCA Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant governmental or taxation authority.
|
| 13.8 |
FATCA Deduction by a Finance Party
|
| (a) |
Each Finance Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required by FATCA to make, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Finance Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it
makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction. A Finance Party which becomes aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment to another Party (or that there is
any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction) shall notify that Party and the Agent.
|
| (b) |
If the Agent is required to make a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment to a Finance Party under Clause 31.2 (Distributions by the Agent) which relates to a payment by an Obligor, the amount
of the payment due from that Obligor shall be increased to an amount which (after the Agent has made such FATCA Deduction), leaves the Agent with an amount equal to the payment which would have been made by the Agent if no FATCA Deduction
had been required.
|
| (c) |
The Agent shall promptly upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment to a Finance Party under Clause 31.2 (Distributions by the Agent) which relates to a
payment by an Obligor (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such a FATCA Deduction) notify the relevant Obligor and the relevant Finance Party.
|
| (d) |
The relevant Obligor shall (within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Agent) pay to a Finance Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Finance Party determines will be or has been (directly or indirectly)
suffered by that Finance Party as a result of another Finance Party making a FATCA Deduction in respect of a payment due to it under a Finance Document. This paragraph shall not apply to the extent a loss, liability or cost is compensated
for by an increased payment under paragraph (b) above.
|
| (e) |
A Finance Party making, or intending to make, a claim under paragraph (d) above shall promptly notify the Agent of the FATCA Deduction which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the
Obligors.
|
| 13.9 |
Tax Credit and FATCA
|
| (a) |
a Tax Credit is attributable to an increased payment of which that FATCA Payment forms part, to that FATCA Payment or to a FATCA Deduction in consequence of which that FATCA Payment was required; and
|
| (b) |
that Finance Party has obtained, utilised and retained that Tax Credit,
|
| 14. |
INCREASED COSTS
|
| 14.1 |
Increased costs
|
| (a) |
Subject to Clause 14.3 (Exceptions) the Borrower shall and the Guarantor shall (until the Borrower has acceded to the Agreement), within three (3) Business Days of a demand by the Agent, pay for
the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of (i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of)
any law or regulation, (ii) compliance with any law or regulation made after the Signing Date or (iii) compliance with the implementation by the applicable authorities of the matters set out in the statement of the Basel Committee on
Banking Regulations and Supervisory Practices labelled "Basel III" and the continuing application of the same
|
| (b) |
In this Agreement "Increased Costs" means:
|
| (i) |
a reduction in the rate of return from the Facility or on a Finance Party's (or its Affiliate's) overall capital;
|
| (ii) |
an additional or increased cost; or
|
| (iii) |
a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document,
|
| 14.2 |
Increased cost claims
|
| (a) |
A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 14.1 (Increased costs) shall notify the Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall promptly notify
the Borrower.
|
| (b) |
Each Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased Costs.
|
| 14.3 |
Exceptions
|
| (a) |
Clause 14.1 (Increased costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is:
|
| (i) |
attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by an Obligor
|
| (ii) |
attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by an Obligor or a Finance Party;
|
| (iii) |
compensated for by paragraph (d) of Clause 13.8 (FATCA Deduction by a Finance Party);
|
| (iv) |
compensated for by Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) (or would have been compensated for under Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) but was not so compensated solely
because any of the exclusions in paragraph (b) of Clause 13.3 (Tax indemnity) applied);
|
| (v) |
attributable to the wilful breach by the relevant Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or regulation; or
|
| (vi) |
attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with the "International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework" published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June
2004 in the form existing on the Signing Date (but excluding any amendment arising out of Basel III) ("Basel II") or any other law or regulation which implements Basel II (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a
government, regulator, Lender or any of its Affiliates)
|
| (b) |
In this Clause 14.3 (Exceptions),
|
| (i) |
a reference to a "Tax Deduction" has the same meaning given to the term in Clause 13.1 (Definitions); and
|
| (ii) |
“Basel III" means the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in "Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking
systems", "Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring" and "Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer" published by the Basel Committee on Banking
Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated, and any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to "Basel III”.
|
| 15. |
OTHER INDEMNITIES
|
| 15.1 |
Currency indemnity
|
| (a) |
If any sum due from the Obligors under the Finance Documents (a "Sum"), or any order, judgment or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be converted from the currency (the "First Currency") in which that Sum is payable into another currency (the "Second Currency") for the purpose of:
|
| (i) |
making or filing a claim or proof against that Obligor;
|
| (ii) |
obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings,
|
| (b) |
Each Obligor waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency or currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.
|
| 15.2 |
Other indemnities
|
| (a) |
the occurrence of any Event of Default;
|
| (b) |
a failure by an Obligor to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including without limitation, any cost, loss or liability arising as a result of Clause 30 (Sharing among the
Finance Parties);
|
| (c) |
funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in the Loan requested by the Borrower in the Utilisation Request but not made by reason of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement;
|
| (d) |
a third party claim related to the Finance Documents, the Obligors or the Vessel, hereunder any Environmental Claims or any non-compliance by any Obligor, the Technical Manager, the Commercial Manager and/or any Charterer with
applicable laws including Sanctions Laws;
|
| (e) |
any claim, action, civil penalty or fine against, any settlement, and any other kind of loss or liability, and all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements) incurred by the Agent or any other
Finance Party as a result of conduct of any Obligor or any of their partners, directors, officers, employees, agents or advisors, that violates any Sanctions Laws; or
|
| (f) |
the Loan (or part of the Loan) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower.,
|
| 15.3 |
Indemnity to the Agent
|
| (a) |
investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default; or
|
| (b) |
acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction which it reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised.
|
| 16. |
MITIGATION BY THE LENDERS
|
| 16.1 |
Mitigation
|
| (a) |
Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Borrower or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which would result in any amount becoming
payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of Clause 7.3 (Illegality), Clause 13 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or Clause 14 (Increased costs) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office.
|
| (b) |
Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of any Obligor under the Finance Documents.
|
| 16.2 |
Limitation of liability
|
| (a) |
The Borrower or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement shall promptly indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under Clause
16.1 (Mitigation).
|
| (b) |
A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 16.1 (Mitigation) if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it.
|
| 17. |
COSTS AND EXPENSES
|
| 17.1 |
Transaction expenses
|
| (a) |
this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement; and
|
| (b) |
any other Finance Documents executed after the Signing Date.
|
| 17.2 |
Amendment and enforcement costs
|
| (a) |
responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with a request or requirement for any amendment, waiver or consent;
|
| (b) |
the granting of any release, waiver or consent under the Finance Documents;
|
| (c) |
any amendment or variation of a Finance Document; and
|
| (d) |
the enforcement of, or the preservation, protection or maintenance of, or attempt to preserve or enforce, any of the rights of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents.
|
| 18. |
SECURITY
|
| 18.1 |
Security
|
| (a) |
the Mortgage;
|
| (b) |
the Deed of Covenants;
|
| (c) |
the Guarantee;
|
| (d) |
the Assignment Agreement; and
|
| (e) |
the Deed of Charge, including customary power of attorney for sale of the Shares and signed but undated letters of resignation from each director.
|
| 18.2 |
Perfection etc.
|
| 18.3 |
Further assignment of Earnings
|
| (a) |
In the event that the Borrower enters into any Charterparty, the Borrower shall prior to the commencement date do its best endeavours to assign any Earnings accruing thereunder in favour of the Agent (on behalf of the Finance
Parties).
|
| (b) |
Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, upon on the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall do its best endeavours to assign any Earnings accruing under any contract of employment for the Vessel.
|
| 19. |
GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY
|
| 19.1 |
Guarantee and indemnity
|
| (a) |
guarantees to each Finance Party the punctual performance by the Borrower of all the Borrower’s obligations under the Finance Documents.
|
| (b) |
undertakes with each Finance Party that whenever the Borrower does not pay any amount when due under or in connection with any Finance Document, it shall immediately on demand pay that amount as if it was the principal obligor; and
|
| (c) |
agrees with each Finance Party that if any obligation guaranteed by it is or becomes unenforceable, invalid or illegal, it will, as an independent and primary obligation, indemnify that Finance Party immediately on demand against any
cost, loss or liability it incurs as a result of the Borrower not paying any amount which would, but for such unenforceability, invalidity or illegality, have been payable by it under any Finance Document on the date when it would have
been due. The amount payable by the Guarantor under this indemnity will not exceed the amount it would have had to pay under this Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity) if the amount claimed had been
recoverable on the basis of a guarantee;
|
| 19.2 |
Continuing guarantee
|
| 19.3 |
Reinstatement
|
| 19.4 |
Waiver of defences
|
| (a) |
any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, the Borrower or other person;
|
| (b) |
the release of the Borrower or any other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor of the Borrower;
|
| (c) |
the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, the Borrower or other person or any non-presentation or
non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security;
|
| (d) |
any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of the Borrower or any other person;
|
| (e) |
any amendment, novation, supplement, extension, restatement (however fundamental and whether or not more onerous) or replacement of any Finance Document or any other document or security including without limitation any change in the
purpose of, any extension of or any increase in any facility or the addition of any new facility under any Finance Document or other document or security;
|
| (f) |
any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any Finance Document or any other document or security; or
|
| (g) |
any insolvency or similar proceedings.
|
| 19.5 |
Immediate recourse
|
| 19.6 |
Appropriations
|
| (a) |
refrain from applying or enforcing any other moneys, security or rights held or received by that Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) in respect of those amounts, or apply and enforce the same in such manner and order
as it sees fit (whether against those amounts or otherwise) and the Guarantor shall not be entitled to the benefit of the same; and
|
| (b) |
hold in an interest-bearing suspense account any moneys received from the Guarantor or on account of the Guarantor's liability under this Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity).
|
| 19.7 |
Deferral of the Guarantor's rights
|
| (a) |
to be indemnified by the Borrower;
|
| (b) |
to claim any contribution from any other guarantor of the Borrower’s obligations under the Finance Documents;
|
| (c) |
to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any rights of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents or of any other guarantee or security taken pursuant to, or in connection with,
the Finance Documents by any Finance Party;
|
| (d) |
to bring legal or other proceedings for an order requiring the Borrower to make any payment, or perform any obligation, in respect of which the Guarantor has given a guarantee, undertaking or indemnity under Clause 19.1 (Guarantee and indemnity);
|
| (e) |
to exercise any right of set-off against the Borrower; and/or
|
| (f) |
to claim or prove as a creditor of the Borrower in competition with any Finance Party.
|
| 19.8 |
Additional security
|
| 19.9 |
Guarantee Limitations
|
| 20. |
REPRESENTATIONS
|
| 20.1 |
Status
|
| (a) |
Each Obligor is a corporation, duly incorporated and validly existing under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation.
|
| (b) |
Each Obligor and each of its Subsidiaries have the power to own its assets and carry on its business as it is being conducted.
|
| (c) |
No Obligor is a FATCA FFI or a US Tax Obligor.
|
| (d) |
In accordance with the FA Act section 3-12 (2) and the Norwegian Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018/23 (in No: hvitvaskingsloven) section 13 (1) the Obligors confirm that the information set out in
Schedule 9 (FA Act section 3-12) is true and accurate as of the date of the Amendment No. 4.
|
| 20.2 |
Binding obligations
|
| (a) |
The obligations expressed to be assumed by the relevant Obligor in each Finance Document are, subject to any general principles of law limiting its obligations which are specifically referred to in any legal opinion delivered pursuant
to Clause 4 (Conditions of Utilisation), legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations.
|
| (b) |
Save as provided herein or therein and/or as have been or shall be completed prior to the Utilisation Date, no registration, filing, payment of tax or fees or other formalities are necessary or desired to render the Finance Documents
enforceable against the Obligors, and in respect of the Vessel, for the Mortgage to constitute valid and enforceable first priority mortgage over the Vessel.
|
| 20.3 |
No conflict with other obligations
|
| (a) |
any law, statute, rule or regulation applicable to it, or any order, judgment, decree or permit to which it is subject, including any law, statute, rule or regulation implemented to combat money laundering and bribery;
|
| (b) |
its or any of its Subsidiaries' constitutional documents; or
|
| (c) |
any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of its or any of its Subsidiaries' assets.
|
| 20.4 |
Power and authority
|
| (a) |
Each Obligor has the power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary action to authorise its entry into, performance and delivery of, the Finance Documents and the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and
the transactions contemplated by those Finance Documents and Transaction Documents.
|
| (b) |
All necessary corporate, shareholder and other action have been taken by each Obligor to approve and authorize the execution of the Finance Documents and the Transaction Documents, the compliance with the provisions thereof and the
performance of its obligations thereunder.
|
| (c) |
The Borrower acts for its own account by entering into the Finance Documents and obtaining the Facility.
|
| 20.5 |
Validity and admissibility in evidence
|
| (a) |
to enable each Obligor lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations in the Finance Documents and the Transaction Documents to which it is a party;
|
| (b) |
to make the Finance Documents and the Transaction Documents admissible in evidence in its jurisdiction of incorporation; and
|
| (c) |
in connection with each Obligor’s business and ownership of assets,
|
| 20.6 |
Governing law and enforcement
|
| (a) |
The choice of Norwegian law and any other applicable law respectively as the governing law of the Finance Documents will be recognised and enforced in the relevant Obligor's jurisdiction of incorporation.
|
| (b) |
Any judgment obtained in Norway and/or any other applicable jurisdiction in relation to a Finance Document will be recognised and enforced in the relevant Obligor’s jurisdiction of incorporation.
|
| 20.7 |
Insolvency
|
| 20.8 |
Deduction of Tax
|
| 20.9 |
No filing or stamp taxes
|
| 20.10 |
No default
|
| (a) |
No Default has occurred or might reasonably be expected to result from the making of the Utilisation.
|
| (b) |
No other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default under any other agreement or instrument which is binding on any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries or to which its (or any of its Subsidiaries') assets are
subject which might have a Material Adverse Effect.
|
| 20.11 |
No misleading information
|
| (a) |
Any factual information provided by any Obligor was true and accurate in all material respects as at the date it was provided or as at the date (if any) at which it is stated.
|
| (b) |
The financial information provided by any Obligor has been prepared on the basis of recent historical information and on the basis of reasonable assumptions.
|
| (c) |
Nothing has occurred or been omitted and no information has been given or withheld that results in the information provided by any Obligor being untrue or misleading in any material respect.
|
| 20.12 |
Financial statements
|
| (a) |
Its Original Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
|
| (b) |
Its Original Financial Statements fairly represent its financial condition and operations (consolidated in the case of the Guarantor) during the relevant financial year.
|
| (c) |
There has been no material adverse change in its business or financial condition (or the business or consolidated financial condition of any Obligor) since the date of delivery of its latest financial statements.
|
| 20.13 |
Pari passu ranking
|
| 20.14 |
No proceedings pending or threatened
|
| 20.15 |
Title
|
| 20.16 |
No security
|
| 20.17 |
No immunity
|
| 20.18 |
Ranking of Security Documents
|
| 20.19 |
Taxation
|
| (a) |
No Obligor is overdue in the filing of any Tax returns.
|
| (b) |
To the best of its knowledge and belief, no claims or investigations are being, or are reasonably likely to be, made or conducted against any Obligor with respect to Taxes which is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on
its ability to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents.
|
| (c) |
The relevant Obligor is resident for Tax purposes only in the jurisdiction of its incorporation, unless the Agent shall have been otherwise informed in writing.
|
| 20.20 |
Environmental compliance
|
| 20.21 |
Environmental Claims
|
| 20.22 |
Laws and regulations
|
| 20.23 |
ISM Code, ISPS Code and MLC compliance
|
| 20.24 |
The Vessel
|
| (a) |
in the absolute ownership of the Borrower free and clear of all encumbrances (other than current crew wages, the Mortgage and the Deed of Covenants) and the Borrower will be the sole, legal and beneficial owner of the Vessel;
|
| (b) |
registered in the name of the Borrower with the relevant Approved Ship Registry under the laws and flag applicable for the relevant Approved Ship Registry;
|
| (c) |
operationally seaworthy in every way and fit for service; and
|
| (d) |
classed with American Bureau of Shipping (with notation +A1, Oil Carrier, +AMS,
|
| 20.25 |
Financial Indebtedness
|
| (a) |
No Obligor is in breach of or in default under any agreement or other instrument relating to Financial Indebtedness to which it is a party or by which it is bound (nor would it be with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both).
|
| (b) |
The Borrower has not incurred any Financial Indebtedness other than as permitted pursuant to letter (e) of Clause 22.4 (Disposals and acquisitions) of this Agreement.
|
| 20.26 |
Sanctions
|
| (a) |
Each Obligor, each of their Affiliates (and, to the extent not included, any other Affiliate of the DHT Group), their joint ventures, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives has been and is in
compliance with Sanctions Laws;
|
| (b) |
No Obligor, nor any of their Affiliates (or, to the extent not included, any other Affiliate of the DHT Group), their joint ventures, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives:
|
| (i) |
is a Restricted Party, or is involved in any transaction through which it is likely to become a Restricted Party;
|
| (ii) |
owns or controls a Restricted Party; or
|
| (iii) |
is subject to or involved in or has received notice of or is otherwise aware of any inquiry, claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation against it with respect to Sanctions Laws by any Sanctions Authority.
|
| (c) |
The Vessel is not a vessel with which any person is prohibited or restricted from dealing with under any Sanctions Laws.
|
| (d) |
Each Obligor has instituted and maintains policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance by the Obligors and the DHT Group with Sanctions Laws.
|
| (e) |
No proceeds of any part of the Loan shall be made available directory or indirectly, to or for the benefit of a Restricted Party contrary to Sanctions Laws in a manner that could result in any Finance Party being in violation of
Sanctions Laws or in a manner that would be contrary to Sanctions Laws nor shall they be otherwise directly or indirectly applied in a manner or for a purpose prohibited by Sanctions Laws.
|
| 20.27 |
Ownership
|
| 20.28 |
No other business
|
| 20.29 |
Repetition
|
| 21. |
INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS
|
| 21.1 |
Financial statements
|
| (i) |
as soon as the same become available, but in any event within 60 days after the end of each quarter the unaudited consolidated financial statements, balance sheets and cash- flow projections of the Guarantor for such quarter;
|
| (ii) |
as soon as the same become available, but in any event within one hundred and eighty
|
| (iii) |
as soon as the same become available, but in any event within the end of each financial year, the consolidated financial forecasts including profit and loss statements and cash flow projections, for the next year, specifying major
assumptions.
|
| 21.2 |
Compliance Certificate
|
| 21.3 |
Requirements as to financial statements
|
| (a) |
Each set of financial statements delivered by the Borrower or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement pursuant to Clause 21.1 (Financial statements) shall be certified by an
authorised officer of the Borrower (if delivered by the Borrower) and the chief financial officer of the Guarantor (if delivered by the Guarantor) as fairly representing its financial condition as at the date as at which those financial
statements were drawn up.
|
| (b) |
The Borrower or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement shall procure that each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to Clause 21.1 (Financial statements) is prepared
using GAAP, accounting practices and financial reference periods consistent with those applied in the preparation of the Original Financial Statements for that Obligor unless, in relation to any set of financial statements, it notifies
the Agent that there has been a change in GAAP, the accounting practices or reference periods and its auditors (or, if appropriate, the auditors of the relevant Obligor) deliver to the Agent:
|
| (i) |
a description of any change necessary for those financial statements to reflect the GAAP, accounting practices and reference periods upon which that Obligor's Original Financial Statements were prepared; and
|
| (ii) |
sufficient information, in form and substance as may be reasonably required by the Agent, to enable the Lender to determine whether Clause 22 (Financial covenants) has been complied with and
make an accurate comparison between the financial position indicated in those financial statements and that Obligor's Original Financial Statements.
|
| 21.4 |
Information: miscellaneous
|
| (a) |
all documents dispatched by the Obligors to their shareholders generally (or any class of them) or their creditors generally at the same time as they are dispatched;
|
| (b) |
promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or pending against any Obligor, and which might, if adversely determined, have a Material
Adverse Effect;
|
| (c) |
promptly, such further information regarding the financial condition, business and operations of any Obligor as any Finance Party (through the Agent) may reasonably request, promptly, such information about the Vessel’ classification
records and status as the Agent may reasonably request;
|
| (d) |
promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any inquiry, claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation pursuant to Sanctions Laws by any Sanctions Authority against it, any of its direct or indirect owners, Affiliates, any
of their joint ventures or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives, as well as information on what steps are being taken with regards to answer or oppose such; and
|
| (e) |
promptly upon becoming aware that it, any of its direct or indirect owners, Affiliates, any of their joint ventures or any of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents or representatives has become or is likely to become
a Restricted Party.
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| 21.5 |
Notification of default
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| (a) |
Each Obligor shall notify the Agent of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence.
|
| (b) |
Promptly upon a request by the Agent, the Borrower shall supply to the Agent a certificate signed by two of its directors or senior officers on its behalf certifying that no Default is continuing (or if a Default is continuing,
specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it).
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| 21.6 |
Notification of Environmental Claims
|
| (a) |
if any Environmental Claim has been commenced or (to the best of its knowledge and belief) is threatened against the Borrower (or any of its Affiliates), any Charterers, the Technical Manager or the Vessel; and
|
| (b) |
of any fact and circumstances which will or are reasonably likely to result in any Environmental Claim being commenced or threatened against the Borrower (or any of their Affiliates), any Charterers, the Technical Manager or the
Vessel,
|
| 21.7 |
Market Value
|
| (a) |
Arrange for, at their own expense, the Market Value of the Vessel to be determined immediately prior to Utilisation and semi-annually thereafter on 30 June and 31 December, and deliver such market valuations to the Agent (on behalf of
the Finance Parties) immediately thereafter; and
|
| (b) |
Should the Agent reasonably assume that a Default has occurred or may occur, or should the Vessel be sold or suffer a Total Loss, the Agent may arrange, or require the Borrower to arrange, additional determinations of the Market Value
of the Vessel at such frequency as the Agent (on behalf of Finance Parties) may request and at the Borrower's expense.
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| 21.8 |
"Know your customer" checks
|
| (a) |
The Obligors shall at the request of the Agent at any time supply to the Agent any documentation or other evidence which is requested by the Agent to enable the Agent, any Lender or prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied
with the results of all know your customer requirements applicable to it at any time.
|
| (b) |
Each Lender shall at the request of the Agent at any time supply to the Agent any documentation and other evidence which is requested by the Agent to enable the Agent to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all know your
customer requirements applicable to it at any time.
|
| 21.9 |
Poseidon Principles
|
| 21.10 |
Disclosure of information
|
| 22. |
FINANCIAL COVENANTS – THE GUARANTOR
|
| (a) |
unencumbered consolidated Cash of minimum the higher of (i) USD 30,000,000 and
|
| (b) |
a Value Adjusted Tangible Net Worth of at least USD 300,000,000, but in any event the Value Adjusted Tangible Net Worth shall at all times be no less than twenty five per cent (25 %) of the Value Adjusted Total Assets; and
|
| (c) |
a positive Working Capital.
|
| 23. |
GENERAL UNDERTAKINGS
|
| 23.1 |
Authorisations
|
| 23.2 |
Compliance with laws
|
| (a) |
Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that their Affiliates, the Technical Manager, the Commercial Manager and any Charterer, shall comply in all respects with all laws, directives, regulations, decrees, rulings and such analogous
rules to which it or its business may be subject.
|
| (b) |
Each Obligor shall, and shall procure that any Affiliate, the Technical Manager, the Commercial Manager and any Charterer comply in all respect with all Sanctions Laws and the laws of the Approved Ship Registry.
|
| (c) |
Each Obligor and parties acting on its behalf shall observe and abide with any law, official requirement or other regulatory measure or procedure implemented to combat (a) money laundering (as defined in Article 1 of the Directive
(2005/60/EC) of the council of the European Communities (as amended, supplemented and/or replaced from time to time)) and (b) bribery and corrupt practices.
|
| 23.3 |
Negative pledge
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall (i) not create or permit to subsist any Security over the Vessel, any of their assets or (ii) grant any floating charges or issue any factoring agreement in respect of its Earnings.
|
| (b) |
The Guarantor shall not create or permit to subsist any Security over the Shares.
|
| (c) |
The Borrower shall not:
|
| (i) |
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms whereby they are or may be leased to or re-acquired by any Obligor;
|
| (ii) |
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms;
|
| (iii) |
enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts; or
|
| (iv) |
enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect,
|
| (d) |
Paragraphs (a) and (b) above do not apply to any Security listed below:
|
| (i) |
any netting or set-off arrangement entered into by the Borrower in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances, hereunder any rights of pledge and set-off in relation to a cash
pool arrangement approved by the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Parties);
|
| (ii) |
any lien arising by operation of law and in the ordinary course of trading and securing obligations not more than thirty (30) days overdue;
|
| (iii) |
any Security entered into pursuant to any Finance Document;
|
| (iv) |
arising under any retention of title, hire purchase or conditional sale arrangement or arrangements having similar effect in respect of goods supplied to the Borrower in the ordinary course of trading on arm's length terms and on the
supplier's standard and usual terms; or
|
| (v) |
Security consented to in writing by the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Parties).
|
| 23.4 |
Disposals and acquisitions
|
| (a) |
decrease its capital;
|
| (b) |
whether by a single transaction or a series of related or unrelated transactions and whether at the same time or over a period of time, sell, transfer, lease out, grant options, grant rights of first refusal or otherwise dispose of the
whole or any part of its undertakings, assets, including but not limited to the Vessel, or revenues (present or future) or agree to do so; or
|
| (c) |
acquire or replace an asset or acquire any shares; or
|
| (d) |
charter in any vessel; or
|
| (e) |
make any investment other than in the normal course of business related to the operation of the Vessel or incur any Financial Indebtedness other than in the normal course of business related to the operation of the Vessel, provided,
however, that the Borrower shall be entitled to obtain non-amortizing, interest free Intra Group Loans from the Guarantor as long as such loans are fully subordinated to the Borrower’s obligations under the Finance Documents.
|
| 23.5 |
Merger
|
| 23.6 |
Shareholding
|
| 23.7 |
Business and Change of business
|
| (a) |
No substantial change shall be made to the general nature of the business of Obligors from that carried on at the Signing Date, and the Borrower shall not engage in any other business other than ownership and operation of the Vessel.
The Guarantor shall always remain listed at the New York Stock Exchange.
|
| (b) |
Any business undertaken by the Borrower with the Guarantor or companies associated with the Borrower or Guarantor shall be made on arm’s length basis and in accordance with accepted transfer pricing principles and any inter-company or
shareholder loans shall be on a fully subordinated basis.
|
| 23.8 |
Title
|
| 23.9 |
Insurances – general
|
| 23.10 |
Earnings Accounts
|
| 23.11 |
Distribution restrictions and subordination of inter-company debt
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall be entitled to make or pay an annual dividend to its shareholders of up to 50% of the previous year's net result excluding unrealised agio/disagio from currency.
|
| (b) |
No Obligor shall distribute any dividends if a Default has occurred and is continuing.
|
| (c) |
All (i) Intra Group Loans to the Borrower, (ii) claims of the Guarantor against the Borrower and (iii) amounts owed to the Technical Managers and/or Commercial Managers (provided the Technical Managers and/or Commercial Managers are
Affiliates of the Borrower or the Guarantor) shall always be fully subordinated to the obligations of the Borrower under the Finance Documents.
|
| 23.12 |
Transaction Documents
|
| 23.13 |
Taxation
|
| 23.14 |
No change of name etc.
|
| (a) |
its fiscal year;
|
| (b) |
its nature of business;
|
| (c) |
its constitutional documents (applicable to the Borrower only);
|
| (d) |
its legal name;
|
| (e) |
its type of organization; or
|
| (f) |
its jurisdiction;
|
| 23.15 |
Guarantor's management
|
| 23.16 |
Sanctions
|
| (a) |
Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement, each of the Obligors undertakes to the Finance Parties from the Signing Date that it (and that it shall ensure that any Affiliate of any of them):
|
| (i) |
shall comply in all respects with Sanctions Laws;
|
| (ii) |
is not and shall not be, and that no director, officer, agent, employee, representative or person acting on behalf of any of them is not and shall not be, a Restricted Party and does not act directly or indirectly on behalf of a
Restricted Party;
|
| (iii) |
shall not use any revenue or benefit derived from any activity or dealing with a Restricted Party in discharging any obligation due or owing to the Finance Parties;
|
| (iv) |
shall not receive payments from any Restricted Party and shall procure that no proceeds from any activity or dealing with a Restricted Party are credited to any bank account held with any Finance Party in its name or in the name of any
Affiliate of any of them;
|
| (v) |
shall institute and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance by each of them with Sanctions Laws;
|
| (vi) |
shall, to the extent permitted by law promptly upon becoming aware of them supply to the Agent details of any claim, action, suit, proceedings or investigation against it with respect to Sanctions Laws by any Sanctions Authority;
|
| (vii) |
shall not accept, obtain or receive any goods or services from any Restricted Party, except (without limiting Clause 22.2 (Compliance with laws)), to the extent relating to any warranties and/or guarantees given and/or liabilities
incurred in respect of an activity or dealing with a Restricted Party by an Obligor in accordance with this Agreement; and
|
| (viii) |
will not engage in any activities, business or transactions that could result in it or any other member of the DHT Group or Finance Party being designated as a Restricted Party.
|
| (b) |
The Obligors shall not, and shall procure that any Affiliate of any of them shall not, permit or authorise any other person to, directly or indirectly, use, lend, make payments of, contribute or otherwise make available, all or any
part of the proceeds of the Facility or other transactions contemplated by this Agreement to fund or facilitate trade, business or other activities: (i) involving or for the benefit of any Restricted Party; or (ii) in any other manner
that could result in any Obligor or a Finance Party being in breach of any Sanctions Laws or becoming a Restricted Party.
|
| 23.17 |
Application of FATCA
|
| 23.18 |
Most favoured Lender
|
| (a) |
notify the Agent immediately if the Borrower or any other member of the DHT Group has granted or intends to grant to any other lender or creditor under any loan agreement, financing agreement of a similar nature or guarantee any
guarantee, preference, financial reporting requirement, representation, warranty, covenant, undertaking and/or event of default (howsoever described) not being included in the Finance Documents or that is more beneficial or favourable to
the lender or creditor than those set out in the Finance Documents; and
|
| (b) |
if required by any Lender, agree to amend the Finance Documents to include any such provision, whereunder it shall apply for as long as it applies under such other loan agreement, financing agreement or guarantee to which the relevant
member of the DHT Group is party.
|
| 24. |
VESSEL UNDERTAKINGS
|
| 24.1 |
General
|
| 24.2 |
Insurance – Vessel
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall maintain or ensure that the Vessel is insured against such risks, including but not limited to, hull and machinery, protection & indemnity (including cover for pollution liability as normally adopted by the
industry for similar units, however always in the minimum amount of USD 1,000,000,000 or such highest level of cover from time to time available under basic protection and indemnity club entry), hull interest, freight interest and war
risk insurances, including blocking and trapping, confiscation, terrorism and piracy, in such amounts, on such terms and placed through first class insurance brokers with such first class insurers as the Agent shall approve (such approval
not to be unreasonably withheld of delayed), and always subject to the Nordic Marine Insurance Plan of 2013 or later version (if relevant).
|
| (b) |
The aggregate insurance value, except for protection & indemnity and loss of hire, shall be at least equal to the higher of (i) the aggregate Market Value of the Vessel and (ii) one hundred and twenty per cent (120%) of the Loan,
whereof the hull and machinery insurance (less hull interest and freight interest) shall at all times cover at least eighty per cent (80%) of Market Value of the Vessel. The loss payable clause in the hull and machinery insurance shall be
not higher than USD 3,000,000. The deductible of the hull and machinery insurance shall always be in such amount as the Agent may from time to time approve (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld of delayed).
|
| (c) |
The Borrower shall procure that the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Parties) is (i) noted as first priority mortgagee in the insurance contracts, together with the confirmation from the underwriters to the Agent thereof that the notice
of assignment with regards to the Insurances and the loss payable clauses are noted in the insurance contracts and that standard letters of undertaking/cover notes/policies/certificates of entry are executed by the insurers and/or the
insurance broker(s) and (ii) copied in on all insurance documentation.
|
| (d) |
The Borrower shall no later than 15 days prior to the Utilisation Date inform the Agent of with whom the Insurances will be placed and on what main terms they will be effected, and within reasonable time prior to the expiry date of the
relevant Insurances, the Borrower shall procure the delivery to the Agent of a certificate from the insurance broker(s) through whom the Insurances referred to in paragraph (a) above have been renewed and taken out in respect of the
Vessel with insurance values as required by paragraph (b) above, that such Insurances are in full force and effect and that the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Parties) have been noted as first priority mortgagee by the relevant insurers.
|
| (e) |
The Borrower shall allow for the Agent and/or any other Finance Party to take out for the Borrower's account a Mortgagee’s Interest Insurance and a Mortgagee’s Interest - Additional Perils Pollution Insurance (covering one hundred and
twenty per cent (120%) of the Loan).
|
| (f) |
The Agent may also for the account of the Borrower take out such other Insurances as the Finance Parties may reasonably require considering the trading and flag of the Vessel and taking into consideration any requirements by any public
body, classification society or similar entity having authority over the Borrower, the Vessel or any manager relating thereto.
|
| (g) |
If any of the Insurances referred to in paragraph (a) above form part of a fleet cover, the Borrower shall procure, except for protection & indemnity (where the Borrower shall procure to obtain standard market undertakings in
favour of the Agent with respect to protection & indemnity from the insurers or the insurance broker), that the insurers or the insurance broker shall undertake to the Agent that they shall neither set-off against any claims in
respect of the Vessel any premiums due in respect of other units under such fleet cover or any premiums due for other insurances, nor cancel this Insurance for reason of non-payment of premiums for other units under such fleet cover or of
premiums for such other insurances, and shall undertake to issue a separate policy in respect of the Vessel if and when so requested by the Agent.
|
| (h) |
The Borrower shall procure that the Vessel always are employed in conformity with the terms of the instruments of Insurances (including any warranties expressed or implied therein) and comply with such requirements as to extra premium
or otherwise as the insurers may prescribe.
|
| (i) |
The Borrower will not make any material change, compromises, settlements or claims adjustments to the insurances described under (a) above without the prior written consent of the Agent.
|
| (j) |
The Borrower shall pay for an insurance opinion commissioned by the Agent to be prepared by an independent insurance consultant, in form and contents acceptable to the
|
| 24.3 |
Flag, name and registry
|
| 24.4 |
Classification and repairs
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that any Charterer or Technical Manager shall, keep or shall procure that the Vessel is kept in a good, safe and efficient condition consistent with first class ownership and management practice
and in particular: so as to maintain its class at the highest level with American Bureau of Shipping (with notation +A1, Oil Carrier, +AMS, +ACCU, ESP, CSR, AB-CM, UWILD, TCM, SPMA, CPS,
|
| (b) |
so as to comply with the laws and regulations (statutory or otherwise) applicable to units registered under the flag state of the Vessel or to vessels trading to any jurisdiction to which the Vessel may trade from time to time;
|
| (c) |
not, without the prior written consent of the Agent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld), change the classification society of the Vessel;
|
| (d) |
not, without the prior written consent of the Agent, bring the Vessel or allow the Vessel to be brought to any yard for repairs or for the purpose of work being done upon her where the costs of such repairs or work is likely to exceed
USD 5,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof in any other currency), unless such person shall first have given to the Agent and in terms reasonably satisfactory to it, a written undertaking not to exercise any lien on the Vessel or her
Insurances or Earnings for the cost of such repairs or work or otherwise; and
|
| (e) |
not, without the prior written consent of the Agent, permit any major change or structural alteration to the Vessel.
|
| 24.5 |
Inspections and class records
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Technical Manager shall, procure that the Agent's surveyor at the Borrower’s cost, is permitted to inspect the condition of the Vessel once a year, if so requested by the Agent, provided
always that such arrangement shall not interfere with the operation of the Vessel and subject to satisfactory indemnities approved by the P&I insurers.
|
| (b) |
The Borrower shall, and shall ensure that any charterers shall, instruct the classification society, to give the Agent access to class records and other information from the classification society in respect of the Vessel, by sending a
written instruction in such form and substance as the Agent may require. The Agent shall also be granted electronic access to class records.
|
| 24.6 |
Surveys
|
| 24.7 |
Notification of certain events
|
| (a) |
any accident to the Vessel involving repairs where the costs will or is likely to exceed five per cent (5 %) of the insurance value of the Vessel;
|
| (b) |
any requirement or recommendation made by any insurer or classification society or by any competent authority which is not, or cannot be, complied with immediately;
|
| (c) |
any exercise or purported exercise of any arrest or lien on the Vessel, their Earnings or the Insurances;
|
| (d) |
any occurrence as a result of which the Vessel has become or is, by the passing of time or otherwise, likely to become a Total Loss; and
|
| (e) |
any claim for a material breach of the ISM Code, the ISPS Code or the MLC being made against the Borrower or the Technical Manager or otherwise in connection with the Vessel.
|
| 24.8 |
Operation of the Vessel
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall procure that the Vessel is managed by the Technical Manager pursuant to the Technical Management Agreement and the Commercial Manager pursuant to the Commercial Management Agreement and shall not, without the prior
written consent of the Agent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld), change or allow the change of the technical or commercial management of the Vessel, such consent always being subject to the execution by the relevant manager of a
letter of undertaking in respect of its duties under the relevant management agreement and the subordination of claims for payment thereunder, in terms and form acceptable to the Agent.
|
| (b) |
The Borrower shall procure that each of the Technical Manager and the Commercial Manager signs, executes and deliver a manager’s undertaking in such form as the Agent (on behalf of the Finance Parties) may require.
|
| (c) |
The Borrower shall, and shall procure that the Technical Manager shall, comply, or procure the compliance in all material respects with the ISM Code and the ISPS Code, all Environmental Laws, all Sanction Laws, the laws of the Approved
Ship Registry, the United States Oil Pollution Act 1990 and all other laws or regulations relating to the Vessel, their ownership, operation and management or to the business of the Borrower and the Technical Manager and shall not employ
the Vessel nor allow their employment:
|
| (i) |
in any manner contrary to law or regulation in any relevant jurisdiction including but not limited to the ISM Code; and
|
| (ii) |
in the event of hostilities in any part of the world (whether war is declared or not), in any zone which is declared a war zone by any government or by the war risk insurers of the Vessel unless the Borrower have (at their own expense)
effected any special, additional or modified insurance cover which shall be necessary or customary for first class unit owners within the territorial waters of such country at such time and has provided evidence of such cover to the
Agent.
|
| 24.9 |
ISM Code compliance
|
| (a) |
procure that the Vessel remains subject to a SMS;
|
| (b) |
procure that a valid and current SMC is maintained for the Vessel;
|
| (c) |
procure that the Technical Manager maintains a valid and current DOC;
|
| (d) |
immediately notify the Agent in writing of any actual or threatened withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or modification of the SMC of the Vessel or of the DOC of the Technical Manager; and
|
| (e) |
immediately notify the Agent in writing of any "accident" or "major nonconformity", each as those terms is defined in the Guidelines in the application of the IMO International Safety Management Code issued by the International Chamber
of Shipping and International Shipping Federation.
|
| 24.10 |
Environmental compliance
|
| 24.11 |
Arrest
|
| (a) |
all liabilities which give or may give rise to maritime or possessory liens on or claims enforceable against the Vessel, the Earnings or the Insurances;
|
| (b) |
all tolls, taxes, dues, fines, penalties and other amounts charged in respect of the Vessel, the Earnings or the Insurances; and
|
| (c) |
all other outgoings whatsoever in respect of the Vessel, the Earnings and the Insurances,
|
| 24.12 |
Chartering
|
| (a) |
let the Vessel on bareboat charter for any period;
|
| (b) |
enter into any other agreement related to the chartering and operation of the Vessel exceeding twelve (12) Months or any pooling arrangements related to the Earnings of the Vessel; and
|
| (c) |
terminate, cancel, amend or supplement any Charterparty nor assign such Charterparty or other contract of employment to any other person.
|
| 24.13 |
Sanctions
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall prevent the Vessel from being used, directly or indirectly
|
| (i) |
by, or for the benefit of, any Restricted Party in breach of Sanctions Laws; and/or
|
| (ii) |
in any trade which could expose the Vessel, any Finance Party, any manager of the Vessel, the ship's crew or the Vessel's insurers to enforcement proceedings or any other consequences whatsoever arising from Sanctions Laws.
|
| (b) |
Any charter party in respect of the Vessel entered into after the Signing Date shall include standard clauses on "Sanctions and Designated Entities" included in BIMCO's standard documentation.
|
| 24.14 |
Inventory of Hazardous Materials
|
| 24.15 |
Sustainable vessel recycling
|
| (a) |
The Borrower shall ensure that if the Vessel is taken out of service for dismantling while in its ownership or sold to an intermediary with the intention of being dismantled, it is recycled at a recycling facility which conducts its
recycling business in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, in accordance with the provisions of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships.
|
| (b) |
The Borrower shall ensure that the Vessel is not scrapped or dismantled by the Borrower unless it has been established an Inventory of Hazardous Materials or equivalent documentation for hazardous materials.
|
| 25. |
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
|
| 25.1 |
Non-payment
|
| (a) |
its failure to pay is caused by:
|
| (i) |
administrative or technical error; or
|
| (ii) |
a Disruption Event; and
|
| (b) |
payment is made within three (3) Business Days of its due date.
|
| 25.2 |
Financial covenants
|
| 25.3 |
Other obligations
|
| 25.4 |
Misrepresentation
|
| 25.5 |
Cross default
|
| (a) |
Any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is not paid when due nor within any originally applicable grace period.
|
| (b) |
Any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).
|
| (c) |
Any commitment for any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is cancelled or suspended by a creditor of any Obligor as a result of an event of default (however described).
|
| (d) |
Any creditor of any Obligor becomes entitled to declare any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).
|
| (e) |
No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 25.5 (Cross default) if the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness or commitment for Financial Indebtedness falling within paragraphs (a) to
(d) above is less than USD 100,000 in respect of the Borrower and USD 5,000,000 of the Guarantor.
|
| 25.6 |
Insolvency
|
| (a) |
Any Obligor is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due, suspends making payments on any of its debts or, by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, commences negotiations with one or more of its
creditors with a view to rescheduling any of its indebtedness.
|
| (b) |
The value of the assets of any Obligor is less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities) or if the equity of any Obligor is negative.
|
| (c) |
A moratorium is declared in respect of any indebtedness of any Obligor.
|
| 25.7 |
Insolvency proceedings
|
| (a) |
the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administration or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of any Obligor;
|
| (b) |
a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any Obligor;
|
| (c) |
the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager or other similar officer in respect of any Obligor or any of their assets; or
|
| (d) |
enforcement of any Security over any assets of any Obligor,
|
| 25.8 |
Creditors' process
|
| 25.9 |
Change of Control
|
| 25.10 |
Unlawfulness
|
| 25.11 |
Repudiation
|
| (a) |
An Obligor repudiates a Transaction Document or evidences an intention to repudiate a Transaction Document.
|
| (b) |
Any Transaction Document ceases to be legal, valid, binding, enforceable or effective or fails to become effective for any reason whatsoever.
|
| 25.12 |
Permits
|
| 25.13 |
Material adverse change
|
| 25.14 |
Arrest or seizure of the Vessel
|
| 25.15 |
Cessation of business
|
| 25.16 |
Insurances
|
| 25.17 |
Acceleration
|
| (a) |
cancel the Total Commitments whereupon they shall immediately be cancelled;
|
| (b) |
declare that all or part of the Loan, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable, whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable;
and/or
|
| (c) |
declare that all or part of the Loan be payable on demand, whereupon they shall immediately become payable on demand by the Agent on the instructions of the Majority Lenders; and/or
|
| (d) |
exercise any or all of its rights, remedies, powers or discretions under the Finance Documents.
|
| 26. |
CHANGES TO THE LENDERS
|
| 26.1 |
Assignments and transfers by the Lenders
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| (a) |
to another Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender;
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| (b) |
to a reputable shipping bank which has a minimum rating of "BBB" at S&P or "Baa" at Moody's; or
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| (c) |
made at a time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
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| 26.2 |
Conditions of assignment or transfer
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| (a) |
A transfer will only be effective if the procedure set out in Clause 26.4 (Procedure for transfer) is complied with.
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| (b) |
If:
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| (i) |
a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and
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| (ii) |
as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer or change occurs, an Obligor would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office under Clause 13 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or Clause 14 (Increased Costs),
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| (c) |
Each New Lender, by executing the relevant Transfer Certificate, confirms, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been approved by or on behalf of the
requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the date on which the transfer or assignment becomes effective in accordance with this Agreement and that it is bound by that decision to the same extent as the
Existing Lender would have been had it remained a Lender.
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| 26.3 |
Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders
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| (a) |
Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:
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| (i) |
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents or any other documents;
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| (ii) |
the financial condition of any Obligor;
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| (iii) |
the performance and observance by any Obligor of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; or
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| (iv) |
the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Finance Document or any other document,
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| (b) |
Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender and the other Finance Parties that it:
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| (i) |
has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has not
relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document; and
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| (ii) |
will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of each Obligor and its related entities whilst any amount is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.
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| (c) |
Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender to:
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| (i) |
accept a re-transfer or re-assignment from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause 26 (Changes to the Lenders); or
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| (ii) |
support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by any Obligor of its obligations under the Finance Documents or otherwise.
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| 26.4 |
Procedure for transfer
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| (a) |
Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 26.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) a transfer is effected in accordance with paragraph (c) below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly
completed Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender. The Agent shall, subject to paragraph (b) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Transfer Certificate
appearing on its face to comply with the terms of this Agreement and delivered in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, execute that Transfer Certificate.
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| (b) |
The Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all
applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer to such New Lender.
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| (c) |
Subject to Clause 26.6 (Pro rata interest settlement), on the Transfer Date:
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| (i) |
to the extent that in the Transfer Certificate the Existing Lender seeks to transfer by novation its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents each of the Obligors and the Existing Lender shall be released from further
obligations towards one another under the Finance Documents and their respective rights against one another under the Finance Documents shall be cancelled (being the "Discharged Rights and Obligations");
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| (ii) |
each of the Obligors and the New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations only insofar as that Obligor and the New Lender have
assumed and/or acquired the same in place of that Obligor and the Existing Lender;
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| (iii) |
the Agent, the New Lender and other Lenders shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights and/or
obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Agent and the Existing Lender shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance Documents; and
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| (iv) |
the New Lender shall become a Party as a "Lender".
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| 26.5 |
Copy of Transfer Certificate to the Borrower
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| 26.6 |
Pro rata interest settlement
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| (a) |
any interest or fees in respect of the relevant participation which are expressed to accrue by reference to the lapse of time shall continue to accrue in favour of the Existing Lender up to but excluding the Transfer Date ("Accrued Amounts") and shall become due and payable to the Existing Lender (without further interest accruing on them) on the last day of the current Interest Period (or, if the Interest Period is longer
than six (6) Months, on the next of the dates which falls at six (6) Monthly intervals after the first day of that Interest Period); and
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| (b) |
the rights assigned or transferred by the Existing Lender will not include the right to the Accrued Amounts, so that, for the avoidance of doubt:
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| (i) |
when the Accrued Amounts become payable, those Accrued Amounts will be payable to the Existing Lender; and
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| (ii) |
the amount payable to the New Lender on that date will be the amount which would, but for the application of this Clause 26.6 (Pro rata interest settlement), have been payable to it on that
date, but after deduction of the Accrued Amounts.
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| 26.7 |
Security over Lenders' rights
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| (a) |
any charge, assignment or other Security to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and
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| (b) |
in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as Security for those
obligations or securities,
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| (c) |
release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or Security for the Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or
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| (d) |
require any payments to be made by an Obligor or grant to any person any more extensive rights than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents.
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| 27. |
CHANGES TO THE OBLIGORS
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| 27.1 |
Assignments and transfer by Obligors
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| 27.2 |
Accession as Borrower
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| 27.3 |
Compulsory resignation of FATCA FFIs and US Tax Obligors
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| 28. |
ROLE OF THE AGENT
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| 28.1 |
Appointment of the Agent
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| (a) |
Each other Finance Party appoints the Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance Documents and to act as its security agent for the purpose of the Security Documents.
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| (b) |
Each other Finance Party authorises the Agent, to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights,
powers, authorities and discretions
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| 28.2 |
Duties of the Agent
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| (a) |
Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Agent for that Party by any other Party.
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| (b) |
Without prejudice to Clause 26.5 (Copy of Transfer Certificate to the Borrower), paragraph (a) above shall not apply to any Transfer Certificate.
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| (c) |
Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.
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| (d) |
If the Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the Finance Parties.
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| (e) |
If the Agent is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable to a Finance Party (other than the Agent) under this Agreement it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.
|
| (f) |
The Agent's duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.
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| 28.3 |
No fiduciary duties
|
| (a) |
Nothing in this Agreement constitutes the Agent as a trustee or fiduciary of any other Party.
|
| (b) |
The Agent shall not be bound to account to any Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.
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| 28.4 |
Business with any Obligor
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| 28.5 |
Rights and discretions of the Agent
|
| (a) |
The Agent may rely on:
|
| (i) |
any representation, notice or document believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised; and
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| (ii) |
any statement made by a director, authorised signatory or employee of any person regarding any matters which may reasonably be assumed to be within his knowledge or within his power to verify.
|
| (b) |
The Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the Lenders) that:
|
| (i) |
no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under Clause 25.1 (Non-payment));
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| (ii) |
any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party has not been exercised; and
|
| (iii) |
any notice or request made by the Borrower is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of the Obligors.
|
| (c) |
The Agent may engage, pay for and rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, surveyors or other experts.
|
| (d) |
The Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents through its personnel and agents.
|
| (e) |
The Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as agent under this Agreement.
|
| (f) |
Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Agent is not obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach
of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality.
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| 28.6 |
Majority Lenders' instructions
|
| (a) |
Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, the Agent shall (i) exercise any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by the Majority Lenders (or, if so
instructed by the Majority Lenders, refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent) and (ii) not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from taking any action) in accordance
with an instruction of the Majority Lenders.
|
| (b) |
Unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given by the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Finance Parties.
|
| (c) |
The Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received such security as it may require for any cost, loss or liability (together with any
associated VAT) which it may incur in complying with the instructions.
|
| (d) |
In the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders, (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) the Agent may act (or refrain from taking action) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Lenders.
|
| (e) |
The Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Party’s consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document.
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| 28.7 |
Responsibility for documentation
|
| (a) |
responsible for the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Agent, an Obligor or any other person given in or in connection with any Finance Document; or
|
| (b) |
responsible for the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of or in connection with any
Finance Document.
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| 28.8 |
Exclusion of liability
|
| (a) |
Without limiting paragraph (b) below, the Agent will not be liable (including, without limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) for any action taken by it under or in connection with any Finance
Document, unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.
|
| (b) |
No Party (other than the Agent) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Agent in respect of any claim it might have against the Agent or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer,
employee or agent in relation to any Finance Document and any officer, employee or agent of the Agent may rely on this Clause.
|
| (c) |
The Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Agent if the Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as
reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Agent for that purpose.
|
| (d) |
Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Agent to carry out any "know your customer" or other checks in relation to any person on behalf of any Lender and each Lender confirms to the Agent that it is solely responsible for any such
checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Agent.
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| 28.9 |
Lenders' indemnity to the Agent
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| 28.10 |
Resignation of the Agent
|
| (a) |
The Agent may resign as Agent and appoint one of its Affiliates as successor by giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower.
|
| (b) |
Alternatively the Agent may resign as Agent by giving thirty (30) days' notice to the other Finance Parties and the Borrower, in which case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor Agent.
|
| (c) |
If the Majority Lenders have not appointed a successor Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above within 20 days after notice of resignation was given, the retiring Agent (after consultation with the Borrower) may appoint a successor
Agent.
|
| (d) |
The retiring Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent
under the Finance Documents.
|
| (e) |
The Agent's resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor.
|
| (f) |
Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation as Agent) in respect of the Finance Documents but shall remain entitled to the benefit of this Clause 28 (Role of the Agent). Any successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.
|
| (g) |
After consultation with the Borrower, the Majority Lenders may, by notice to the Agent, require it to resign as Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above. In this event, the Agent shall resign as Agent and/or Security Agent in
accordance with paragraph (b) above.
|
| (h) |
The Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) above) if on or after the date which is three (3)
months before the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Agent under the Finance Documents, either:
|
| (i) |
the Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 13.6 (FATCA Information) and a
Lender reasonably believes that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;
|
| (ii) |
the information supplied by the Agent pursuant to Clause 13.6 (FATCA Information) indicates that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA
Application Date; or
|
| (iii) |
the Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;
|
| 28.11 |
Confidentiality
|
| (a) |
In acting as agent for the Finance Parties, the Agent shall be regarded as acting through its agency division which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions or departments.
|
| (b) |
If information is received by another division or department of the Agent, it may be treated as confidential to that division or department and the Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it.
|
| 28.12 |
Relationship with the Lenders
|
| (a) |
Subject to Clause 26.6 (Pro rata Interest Settlement), the Agent may treat the person shown in its records as Lender at the opening of business (in the place of the Agent's principal office as
notified to the Finance Parties from time to time) as the Lender acting through its Facility Office:
|
| (i) |
entitled to or liable for any payment due under any Finance Document on that day; and
|
| (ii) |
entitled to receive and act upon any notice, request, document or communication or make any decision or determination under any Finance Document made or delivered on that day,
|
| (b) |
Any Lender may by notice to the Agent appoint a person to receive on its behalf all notices, communications, information and documents to be made or despatched to that Lender under the Finance Documents. Such notice shall contain the
address, fax number and (where communication by electronic mail or other electronic means is permitted under Clause 34.5 (Electronic communication)) electronic mail address and/or any other
information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means (and, in each case, the department or officer, if any, for whose attention communication is to be made) and be treated as a notification of a substitute
address, fax number, electronic mail address, department and officer by that Lender for the purposes of Clause 34.2 (Addresses) and paragraph (a)(iii) of Clause 34.5 (Electronic communication) and the Agent shall be entitled to treat such person as the person entitled to receive all such notices, communications, information and documents as though that person were that Lender.
|
| 28.13 |
Credit appraisal by the Lenders
|
| (a) |
the financial condition, status and nature of each Obligor;
|
| (b) |
the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance
Document;
|
| (c) |
whether that Lender have recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under or in connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents
or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document; and
|
| (d) |
the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information provided by the Agent, any Party or by any other person under or in connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other
agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document.
|
| 28.14 |
Deduction from amounts payable by the Agent
|
| 29. |
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS BY THE FINANCE PARTIES
|
| (a) |
interfere with the right of any Finance Party or to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;
|
| (b) |
oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or
|
| (c) |
oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax.
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| 30. |
SHARING AMONG THE FINANCE PARTIES
|
| 30.1 |
Payments to Finance Parties
|
| (a) |
the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three (3) Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery to the Agent;
|
| (b) |
the Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or made by the Agent and distributed in accordance with
Clause 30 (Payment mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and
|
| (c) |
the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Agent, pay to the Agent an amount (the "Sharing Payment") equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount
which the Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 31.5 (Partial payments).
|
| 30.2 |
Redistribution of payments
|
| 30.3 |
Recovering Finance Party's rights
|
| 30.4 |
Reversal of redistribution
|
| (a) |
each Sharing Finance Party shall, upon request of the Agent, pay to the Agent for the account of that Recovering Finance Party an amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Sharing Payment (together with an amount as is
necessary to reimburse that Recovering Finance Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that Recovering Finance Party is required to pay) (the "Redistributed Amount");
and
|
| (b) |
as between the relevant Obligor and each relevant Sharing Finance Party, an amount equal to the relevant Redistributed Amount will be treated as not having been paid by that Obligor.
|
| 30.5 |
Exceptions
|
| (a) |
This Clause 30 (Sharing among the Finance Parties) shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this Clause, have a valid and
enforceable claim against the relevant Obligor.
|
| (b) |
A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if:
|
| (i) |
it notified that other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and
|
| (ii) |
that other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings.
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| 31. |
PAYMENT MECHANICS
|
| 31.1 |
Payments to the Agent
|
| (a) |
On each date on which an Obligor or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance Document, that Obligor or Lender shall make the same available to the Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document) for
value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment.
|
| (b) |
Payment shall be made to such account with such bank as the Agent specifies.
|
| 31.2 |
Distributions by the Agent
|
| 31.3 |
Distributions to an Obligor
|
| 31.4 |
Clawback
|
| (a) |
Where a sum is to be paid to the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party (or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been able to
establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum.
|
| (b) |
If the Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Agent had not actually received that amount, then the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) was paid by the
Agent shall on demand refund the same to the Agent together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Agent, calculated by the Agent to reflect its cost of funds.
|
| 31.5 |
Partial payments
|
| (a) |
If the Agent receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by an Obligor under the Finance Documents, the Agent shall apply that payment towards the obligations of that Obligor under the
Finance Documents in the following order:
|
| (i) |
firstly, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Agent under the Finance Documents;
|
| (ii) |
secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or costs due but unpaid under this Agreement;
|
| (iii) |
thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under this Agreement; and
|
| (iv) |
fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents.
|
| (b) |
The Agent shall, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the order set out in paragraphs (a) (ii) to (iv) above.
|
| (c) |
Paragraphs (a) and (b) above will override any appropriation made by an Obligor.
|
| 31.6 |
No set-off by Borrower and Guarantor
|
| 31.7 |
Business Days
|
| (a) |
Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).
|
| (b) |
During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this Agreement interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable on the original due date.
|
| 31.8 |
Currency of account
|
| (a) |
Subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) below, USD is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from an Obligor under any Finance Document.
|
| (b) |
Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.
|
| (c) |
Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than USD shall be paid in that other currency.
|
| 31.9 |
Change of currency
|
| (a) |
Unless otherwise prohibited by law, if more than one currency or currency unit are at the same time recognised by the central bank of any country as the lawful currency of that country, then:
|
| (i) |
any reference in the Finance Documents to, and any obligations arising under the Finance Documents in, the currency of that country shall be translated into, or paid in, the currency or currency unit of that country designated by the
Agent (after consultation with the Borrower); and
|
| (ii) |
any translation from one currency or currency unit to another shall be at the official rate of exchange recognised by the central bank for the conversion of that currency or currency unit into the other, rounded up or down by the Agent
(acting reasonably).
|
| (b) |
If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will, to the extent the Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the Borrower) specifies to be necessary, be amended to comply with any generally accepted
conventions and market practice in the Relevant Interbank Market and otherwise to reflect the change in currency.
|
| 32. |
SET-OFF
|
| 33. |
BAIL-IN
|
| (a) |
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):
|
| (i) |
a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability;
|
| (ii) |
a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and
|
| (iii) |
a cancellation of any such liability; and
|
| (b) |
a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.
|
| 34. |
NOTICES
|
| 34.1 |
Communications in writing
|
| 34.2 |
Addresses
|
| (a) |
in the case of the Borrower and the Guarantor, that identified with its name below;
|
| (b) |
in the case of the Agent, that identified with its name below;
|
| 34.3 |
Delivery
|
| (a) |
Any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with the Finance Documents will only be effective:
|
| (i) |
if by way of fax, when received in legible form; or
|
| (ii) |
if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five (5) Business Days after being couriered in an envelope addressed to it at that address; and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its
address details provided under Clause 34.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer.
|
| (b) |
Any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Agent will be effective only when actually received by the Agent and then only if it is expressly marked for the attention of the department or officer identified with the
Agent's signature below (or any substitute department or officer as the Agent shall specify for this purpose).
|
| (c) |
All notices from or to an Obligor shall be sent through the Agent.
|
| (d) |
Any communication or document made or delivered to the Borrower in accordance with this Clause will be deemed to have been made or delivered to each of the Obligors.
|
| 34.4 |
Notification of address, e-mail and fax number
|
| 34.5 |
Electronic communication
|
| (a) |
Any communication to be made between the Agent and a Lender under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means, if the Agent and the relevant Lender:
|
| (i) |
agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication;
|
| (ii) |
notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and
|
| (iii) |
notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them.
|
| (b) |
Any electronic communication made between the Agent and a Lender will be effective only when actually received in readable form and in the case of any electronic communication made by a Lender to the Agent only if it is addressed in
such a manner as the Agent shall specify for this purpose.
|
| 34.6 |
English language
|
| (a) |
Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document must be in English.
|
| (b) |
All other documents provided under or in connection with any Finance Document must be:
|
| (i) |
in English; or
|
| (ii) |
if not in English, and if so required by the Agent, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document.
|
| 35. |
CALCULATIONS AND CERTIFICATES
|
| 35.1 |
Accounts
|
| 35.2 |
Certificates and Determinations
|
| 35.3 |
Day count convention
|
| 36. |
PARTIAL INVALIDITY
|
| 37. |
REMEDIES AND WAIVERS
|
| 38. |
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
|
| 38.1 |
Required consents
|
| (a) |
Subject to Clause 38.2 (Exceptions) any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the relevant Obligors and any such amendment or
waiver will be binding on all Parties.
|
| (b) |
The consent of the Borrower is not required for any matters between the Lenders only, unless such amendment or waiver would be onerous to the Borrower.
|
| (c) |
The Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause.
|
| 38.2 |
Exceptions
|
| (a) |
An amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing or which relates to:
|
| (i) |
the definition of "Majority Lenders" in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);
|
| (ii) |
an extension to the date of payment of any amount under the Finance Documents;
|
| (iii) |
a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment of principal, interest, fees or costs payable (including the avoidance of doubt any commitment fees as referred to in Clause 12 (Fees
and costs));
|
| (iv) |
an increase in or an extension of any Commitment;
|
| (v) |
any change of currency;
|
| (vi) |
any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders;
|
| (vii) |
Clause 2.2 (Finance Parties' rights and obligations), Clause 7 (Prepayment and Cancellation), Clause 26 (Changes to the
Lenders), Clause 31.5 (Partial Payments) or this Clause 38 (Amendments and waivers);
|
| (viii) |
the nature or scope of the guarantee and indemnity granted under Clause 19 (Guarantee and indemnity);
|
| (ix) |
release of any Security created by the Security Documents unless permitted under the Finance Documents or undertaken by the Agent acting on instruction of the Majority Lenders following an Event of Default which is continuing;
|
| (x) |
change to any Obligor;
|
| (xi) |
governing law and jurisdiction;
|
| (xii) |
the manner in which the proceeds after enforcement are being applied; or
|
| (xiii) |
any change to the Security Documents
|
| (b) |
An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent (each in their capacity as such) may not be effected without the consent of the Agent.
|
| 38.3 |
Changes to reference rates
|
| (a) |
Subject to Clause 38.2 (Exceptions) paragraph (b), if a Published Rate Replacement Event has occurred in relation to any Published Rate, any amendment or waiver which relates to:
|
| (i) |
providing for the use of a Replacement Reference Rate in place of that Published Rate; and
|
| (ii) |
|
| (A) |
aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement Reference Rate;
|
| (B) |
enabling that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the
purposes of this Agreement);
|
| (C) |
implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Reference Rate;
|
| (D) |
providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement Reference Rate; or
|
| (E) |
adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of that Replacement Reference Rate (and if any adjustment or
method for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation),
|
| (b) |
If any Lender fails to respond to a request for an amendment or waiver described in paragraph (a) above within ten (10) Business Days (or such longer time period in relation to any request which the Borrower and the Agent may agree) of
that request being made:
|
| (i) |
its Commitment(s) shall not be included for the purpose of calculating the Total Commitments under the Facility when ascertaining whether any relevant percentage of Total Commitments has been obtained to approve that request; and
|
| (ii) |
its status as a Lender shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining whether the agreement of any specified group of Lenders has been obtained to approve that request.
|
| (c) |
In this Clause 38.3:
|
| (a) |
Term SOFR for any Quoted Tenor;
|
| (b) |
SOFR;
|
| (c) |
Central Bank Rate; or
|
| (d) |
any replacement Reference Rate to the extent that it has previously replaced any Published Rate pursuant to this clause.
|
| (a) |
the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Published Rate has, in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower materially changed;
|
| (A) |
the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or
|
| (B) |
information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably
confirms that the administrator of that Published Rate is insolvent,
|
| (ii) |
the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease to provide that Published Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide
that Published Rate;
|
| (iii) |
the supervisor of the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that such Published Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or
|
| (iv) |
the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor announces that that Published Rate may no longer be used.
|
| (c) |
the administrator of that Published Rate (or the administrator of an interest rate which is a constituent element of that Published Rate) determines that that Published Rate should be calculated in accordance with its reduced
submissions or other contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and either:
|
| (i) |
the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors) temporary; or
|
| (ii) |
that Published Rate is calculated in accordance with any such policy or arrangement for a period no less than 20 days; or
|
| (d) |
in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, that Published Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement.
|
| (a) |
formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Published Rate by:
|
| (i) |
the administrator of that Published Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such reference rate measures is the same as that measured by that Published Rate); or
|
| (ii) |
any Relevant Nominating Body,
|
| (b) |
in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to a Published Rate; or
|
| (c) |
in the opinion of the Majority Lenders and the Borrower, an appropriate successor to a Published Rate.
|
| 39. |
GUARANTOR'S LIABILITY
|
| 40. |
COUNTERPARTS
|
| 41. |
CONFLICT
|
| 42. |
GOVERNING LAW
|
| 43. |
ENFORCEMENT
|
| 43.1 |
Jurisdiction
|
| (a) |
The courts of Norway, the venue to be Oslo city court (in Norwegian: Oslo tingrett) have jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a
dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement (a "Dispute").
|
| (b) |
The Parties agree that the courts of Norway are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and accordingly no Party will argue to the contrary.
|
| (c) |
This Clause 43.1 (Jurisdiction) is for the benefit of the Finance Parties only. As a result, no Finance Party shall be prevented from taking proceedings relating to a Dispute in any other
courts with jurisdiction. To the extent allowed by law, the Finance Parties may take concurrent proceedings in any number of jurisdictions.
|
| 43.2 |
Service of process
|
| (a) |
irrevocably appoints DHT Management AS, Haakon VII's gate 1, P.O. Box 2039 Vika, 0125 Oslo, Norway as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the Norwegian courts in connection with any Finance
Document; and
|
| (b) |
agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Borrower and/or Guarantor of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.
|
|
Name of Original Lenders:
|
Commitment:
|
||
|
Danish Ship Finance A/S
registration no. (CVR-nr) 27 49 26 49
Sankt Annæ Plads 3,
1250 København K
Denmark
|
The lower of (i) 65% of the Market Value of the Vessel upon Utilisation and (ii) USD 49,400,000
|
| 1. |
Borrower and Guarantor
|
| (a) |
Certified copies of the articles of association and bylaws of the relevant company.
|
| (b) |
Certificate of Incorporation, extract from the relevant Company Registry and/or updated Certificate of Good Standing;
|
| (c) |
A certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors of the relevant company, and if required by the Agent shareholders resolutions of the Guarantor:
|
| (i) |
approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party;
|
| (ii) |
authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and
|
| (iii) |
authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with the Finance Documents to which it is a party.
|
| (d) |
A copy of the passports of any Director of the relevant company and of each other person signing any Finance Documents, and specimen of the signature of such persons if not evidenced by the passport copy;
|
| (e) |
An original power of attorney (notarised and legalised if requested by the Agent);
|
| (f) |
Evidence of the shareholder structure of the Borrower and the 10 largest shareholders of the Guarantor based on latest publicly available filings; and
|
| (g) |
Any shareholders' agreements.
|
| 2. |
Authorisations
|
| 3. |
Finance Documents
|
| (a) |
The Agreement;
|
| 4. |
Vessel Documents
|
| (a) |
Copy of the Shipbuilding Contracts;
|
| 5. |
Legal opinions
|
| (a) |
A legal opinion from the legal advisers to the Agent in the relevant jurisdiction (including Norway, the Marshall Islands and Hong Kong (if the Borrower has acceded to the Agreement), substantially in the form distributed to the
Lenders prior to signing this Agreement; and
|
| (b) |
Any such other favourable legal opinions in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent from lawyers appointed by the Agent on matters concerning all relevant jurisdictions.
|
| 6. |
Other documents and evidence
|
| (a) |
Evidence that any process agent referred to in Clause 43.2 (Service of process), if not an Obligor, has accepted its appointment;
|
| (b) |
A copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Agent considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Guarantor accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of
the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document;
|
| (c) |
Evidence that all instalments due under the Shipbuilding Contract prior to signing of the Agreement have been paid;
|
| (d) |
Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower (or the Guarantor if no Borrower has acceded to the Agreement) pursuant to Clause 12 (Fees and costs) and Clause 17 (Costs and expenses) have been paid or will be paid by the Signing Date; and
|
| (e) |
Any other documents as reasonably requested by the Agent, hereunder any additional documentation required for any Finance Party to comply with their Know Your Customer requirements;
|
| 1. |
Borrower and Guarantor
|
| (a) |
Certified copies of the constitutional documents of the relevant company;
|
| (b) |
Certificate of Incorporation, extract from the relevant Company Registry and/or updated Certificate of Good Standing;
|
| (c) |
A certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors, and if required by the Agent shareholders resolutions, of the relevant company:
|
| (i) |
approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party;
|
| (ii) |
authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Finance Documents to which it is a party on its behalf; and
|
| (iii) |
authorising a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or despatch all documents and notices to be signed and/or despatched by it under or in connection with the Finance Documents to which it is a party.
|
| (d) |
A copy of the passports of any Director of the relevant company and of each other person signing any Finance Documents, and specimen of the signature of such persons if not evidenced by the passport copy;
|
| (e) |
An original Power of Attorney (notarised and legalised if requested by the Agent);
|
| (f) |
Evidence of the shareholder structure of the Borrower and the 10 largest shareholders of the Guarantor based on latest publicly available filings; and
|
| (g) |
A certificate of an authorised signatory of the relevant company setting out the name of the Directors of the relevant Obligor certifying that each copy document relating to it specified in this Schedule 2 is correct, complete and
in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the Signing Date.
|
| 2. |
Authorisations
|
| 3. |
Finance Documents
|
| (h) |
The Assignment Agreement;
|
| (i) |
A Notice of Assignment of Insurances and acknowledgement thereof or standard letters of undertaking;
|
| (j) |
A Notice of Assignment of Earnings and acknowledgement thereof;
|
| (k) |
The Deed of Charge with the notices, transcripts and evidence required thereunder;
|
| (l) |
The duly executed and effective Accession Letter.
|
| 4. |
Documents relating to the Vessel
|
| (a) |
Copies of insurance policies/cover notes documenting that insurance cover has been taken out in respect of the Vessel in accordance with Clause 24.2 (Insurances - Vessel), and evidencing
that the Agent's Security in the insurance policies have been noted in accordance with the relevant notices as required under the Assignment Agreement;
|
| (b) |
A copy of any Charterparty (if relevant);
|
| (c) |
A copy of the current DOC;
|
| (d) |
A copy of any Technical Management Agreement;
|
| (e) |
A copy of any Commercial Management Agreement (including an amendment evidencing that the Vessel is included under such agreement);
|
| (f) |
A survey report in respect of the Vessel;
|
| (g) |
A copy of updated confirmations of class (or equivalent) in respect of the Vessel from the relevant classification society, confirming that the Vessel is classed in accordance with Clause 24.4 (Classification
and repairs), free of extensions and overdue recommendations;
|
| (h) |
A copy of the Vessel’s current SMC;
|
| (i) |
A copy of the Vessel’s ISSC;
|
| (j) |
A copy of the maritime labour certificates (MLC) and the declarations of maritime labour compliance (DMLC) for the Vessel; and
|
| (k) |
Updated valuation certificate in respect of the Vessel issued no more than thirty (30) days prior to the Utilisation Date showing the Market Value.
|
| (l) |
The Mortgage;
|
| (m) |
The Deed of Covenants;
|
| (n) |
A copy of the Builder’s Certificate;
|
| (o) |
A copy of the Bill of Sale;
|
| (p) |
A copy of the Protocol of Delivery and Acceptance under the Shipbuilding Contract;
|
| (q) |
A copy of the international tonnage certificate;
|
| (r) |
Evidence (by way of transcript of registry) that the Vessel is registered in the name of the Borrower in an Approved Ship Registry acceptable to the Agent, that the Mortgage has been, or will in connection with Utilisation of the
Facility be, executed and recorded with their intended first priority against the Vessel and that no other encumbrances, maritime liens, Mortgage or debts whatsoever are registered against the Vessel.
|
| 5. |
Legal opinions
|
| (a) |
A legal opinion from the legal advisers to the Agent in the relevant jurisdiction (including Norway, the Marshall Islands and Hong Kong), substantially in the form distributed to the Original Lenders prior to signing this
Agreement;
|
| (b) |
Any such other favourable legal opinions in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent from lawyers appointed by the Agent on matters concerning all relevant jurisdictions.
|
| 6. |
Other documents and evidence
|
| (a) |
Evidence that any process agent referred to in the Security Documents, if not a Party to this Agreement, has accepted its appointment;
|
| (b) |
A copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Agent considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the
transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document;
|
| (c) |
The Utilisation Request at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Utilisation Date;
|
| (d) |
Evidence that all instalments under the Shipbuilding Contract prior to the Utilisation Date have been paid (including the invoices from the Yard);
|
| (e) |
A favourable opinion from the Agent's insurance consultants at the expense of the Borrower confirming that the required insurances have been placed and are acceptable to the Agent and that the underwriters are acceptable to the
Agent;
|
| (f) |
An original Compliance Certificate confirming that the Obligors are in compliance with the financial covenants as set out in Clause 22 (Financial covenants);
|
| (g) |
Evidence that the fees, costs and expenses then due from the Borrower pursuant to Clause 12 (Fees and costs) and Clause 17 (Costs and expenses) have
been paid or will be paid by the Utilisation Date;
|
| (h) |
Manager’s undertakings from the Technical Manager and the Commercial Manager in such form as the Agent may require;
|
| (i) |
The latest Financial Statements of each Obligor; and
|
| (j) |
Any other documents as reasonably requested by the Agent, hereunder any additional documentation required for any Finance Party to comply with their Know Your Customer requirements.
|
| 1. |
We refer to the Agreement. This is a Utilisation Request. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless given a different meaning in this Utilisation Request.
|
| 2. |
We wish to borrow the Loan on the following terms:
|
|
Proposed Utilisation Date:
|
[ ] (or, if that is not a Business Day, the next Business Day)
|
|
Amount:
|
49,400,000 or, if less, the Available Facility
|
|
Interest Period:
|
6 months Interest Periods shall apply. First Interest Period shall be [ ]
|
| 3. |
We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent) is satisfied on the date of this Utilisation Request.
|
|
4.
|
The proceeds of this Loan should be credited to [account].
|
| 5. |
This Utilisation Request is irrevocable.
|
| 1. |
We hereby request the Agent to switch the Reference Rate for the Loan from Term SOFR to SOFR starting as of [the first day in the next Interest Period for the Loan].
|
| 2. |
The Interest Period on the Loan shall be six (6) Months.
|
| 3. |
This Optional Rate Switch Notice is irrevocable.
|
| 1. |
We refer to the Agreement. This is a Transfer Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Transfer Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Transfer Certificate.
|
| 2. |
We refer to Clause 26.4 (Procedure for transfer):
|
| (a) |
The Existing Lender and the New Lender agree to the Existing Lender transferring to the New Lender by novation all or part of the Existing Lender's Commitment, rights and obligations referred to in the Schedule in accordance with
Clause 26.4 (Procedure for transfer).
|
| (b) |
The proposed Transfer Date is [ ].
|
| (c) |
The Facility Office and address, fax number and attention details for notices of the New Lender for the purposes of Clause 34.2 (Addresses) are set out in the Schedule.
|
| 3. |
The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing Lender's obligations set out in paragraph (c) of Clause 26.3 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders).
|
| 4. |
This Transfer Certificate may be executed in any number of counterparts and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Transfer Certificate.
|
| 5. |
This Transfer Certificate is governed by Norwegian law.
|
| 6. |
This Transfer Certificate has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Transfer Certificate.
|
|
[Existing Lender]
|
[New Lender]
|
|
By:
|
By:
|
| 1. |
We refer to the Agreement. This is a Compliance Certificate. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Compliance Certificate unless given a different meaning in this Compliance Certificate.
|
| 2. |
We confirm that as of [insert date] the Guarantor has on a consolidated basis:
|
| a) |
Minimum Value Adjusted Tangible Net Worth
|
| Requirement: |
Value Adjusted Tangible Net Worth of at least USD 300,000,000, but the Value Adjusted Tangible Net Worth shall in any event be minimum 25 % of the Value Adjusted Total Assets
|
| b) |
Minimum Cash
|
| Requirement: |
The higher of USD 30,000,000 and 6 % of the Total Interest Bearing Debt
|
| c) |
Working Capital
|
| 3. |
We confirm that no Default is continuing.
|
|
DHT Jaguar Limited
|
|
DHT Holdings, Inc.
|
||
|
[title]
|
|
CFO
|
| 1. |
We refer to the Agreement. This is an Accession Letter. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning when used in this Accession Letter.
|
| 2. | By its signature hereto, [ ], reg. no. [ ], incorporated under the laws of [ ] hereby accedes as Borrower under the Agreement and the Security Documents with effect from the date hereof, and to be bound by the terms of the Agreement and the Security Documents relating to the Borrower in its capacity as a borrower under the Agreement. The Borrower hereby undertakes and agrees to sign and execute such additional Security Documents as may be required under the Agreement. |
| 3. |
By their signatures hereto, each of the Borrower, the Guarantor, the Lender and the Agent accepts the accession of the Borrower to the Agreement.
|
| 4. |
The Borrower's address and fax number for the purpose of Clause 34.2 of the Agreement is [ ].
|
| 5. |
The Borrower hereby confirm that no Default is continuing or would occur as a result of it becoming the Borrower.
|
| 6. |
The Borrower confirms that all representations and warranties in Clause 20 (Representations) are correct as of the date hereof.
|
| 7. |
The following amendments shall be made to the Agreement with effect from the accession of the Borrower: [ ].
|
| 8. |
This Accession Letter is governed by Norwegian law. Clauses 42 and 43 of the Agreement apply to this Accession Letter, and the Borrower hereby appoints the process agent described in Clause 43.2 of the Agreement.
|
|
Borrower:
|
||
| [ ] | ||
| By: |
|
Name:
|
|
Guarantor:
|
||
|
DHT HOLDINGS, INC.
|
||
| By: |
| Name: | ||
| Agent: | ||
|
DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S
|
||
| By: |
| Name: |
|
Original Lender:
|
||
|
DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S
|
||
| By: |
| Name: |
|
Date
|
Instalment
(USD)
|
Outstanding
(USD)
|
|||
|
Utilisation date
|
17 November 2015
|
0
|
49,400,000
|
||
|
Instalment 1
|
2 May 2016
|
1,300,000
|
48,100,000
|
||
|
Instalment 2
|
2 November 2016
|
1,300,000
|
46,800,000
|
||
|
Instalment 3
|
2 May 2017
|
1,300,000
|
45,500,000
|
||
|
Instalment 4
|
2 November 2017
|
1,300,000
|
44,200,000
|
||
|
Instalment 5
|
2 May 2018
|
1,300,000
|
42,900,000
|
||
|
Instalment 6
|
2 November 2018
|
1,300,000
|
41,600,000
|
||
|
Instalment 7
|
2 May 2019
|
1,300,000
|
40,300,000
|
||
|
Instalment 8
|
2 November 2019
|
1,300,000
|
39,000,000
|
||
|
Instalment 9
|
2 May 2020
|
1,300,000
|
37,700,000
|
||
|
Instalment 10
|
2 November 2020
|
1,300,000
|
36,400,000
|
||
|
Instalment 11
|
2 May 2021
|
1,213,333
|
35,186,667
|
||
|
Instalment 12
|
2 November 2021
|
1,213,333
|
33,973,334
|
||
|
Instalment 13
|
2 May 2022
|
1,213,333
|
32,760,001
|
||
|
Instalment 14
|
2 November 2022
|
1,213,333
|
31,546,668
|
||
|
Instalment 15
|
2 May 2023
|
1,213,333
|
30,333,335
|
||
|
Instalment 16
|
2 November 2023
|
1,213,333
|
29,120,002
|
||
|
Instalment 17
|
2 May 2024
|
1,213,333
|
27,906,669
|
||
|
Instalment 18
|
2 November 2024
|
1,213,333
|
26,693,336
|
||
|
Instalment 19
|
2 May 2025
|
1,213,333
|
25,480,003
|
||
|
Instalment 20
|
2 November 2025
|
1,213,333
|
24,266,670
|
||
|
Balloon
|
2 November 2025
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Obligor
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Borrower
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DHT Jaguar Limited (no. 77008)
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Marshall Islands corporation
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Trust Company Compiex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH 96960,
Republic of the Marshall lslands
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Director: Svein Moxnes Harfjeld President: Svein Moxnes Harfjeld Treasurer: Laila Cecilie Halvorsen Secretary: Conyers Corporate Services (Bermuda) Limited.
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Guarantor
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DHT Holdings, Inc. (no.
39572)
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Marshall Islands corporation limited by shares
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The Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, MH96960,
Republic of the Marshall Islands
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Directors: Erik Andreas Lind (chairman), Joseph Howland Pyne, Einar Michael Steimler, Jeremy Rafael Kramer, and Sophie Rossini CEO/President:
Svein Moxnes Harfjeld
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Borrower:
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DHT JAGUAR LIMITED
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DHT HOLDINGS, INC.
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Agent:
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DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S
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DANISH SHIP FINANCE A/S
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