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Interpretation
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guarantee
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Liability as Principal and Independent Debtor
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Expenses
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Adjustment of Transactions
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Payments
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Interest
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Subordination
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enforcement
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Representations and Warranties
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Undertakings
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Judgements and Currency Indemnity
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Set-Off
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Supplemental
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assignment
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Bail-in
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Notices
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Invalidity of Loan Agreement
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Governing Law and Jurisdiction
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Execution
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| (1) |
EURODRY LTD., a company incorporated and existing under the laws of the Marshall Islands whose registered address is at Trust Company Complex, Ajeltake
Road, Ajeltake Island, Majuro, Marshall Islands MH96960 as Guarantor (the “Guarantor”)
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| (2) |
NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A., acting through its branch at 2 Bouboulinas Street and Akti Miaouli, Piraeus 185 35, Greece (the “Lender”, which expression includes its successors and assigns)
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| (A) |
By a term loan agreement dated 27 November 2018 (the “Loan Agreement”) and made between (i) Pantelis Shipping Corp., Areti Shipping Ltd and Light Shipping
Ltd as joint and several borrowers (the “Borrowers”) and (ii) the Lender, it was agreed that the Lender would make available to the Borrowers a loan facility
of (originally) up to US$15,000,000.
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| (B) |
The execution and delivery to the Lender of this Guarantee (which is the Guarantee referred to in the Loan Agreement) is one of the conditions precedent to the availability of the facility under the Loan Agreement.
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INTERPRETATION
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| 1.1 |
Defined expressions
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| 1.2 |
Construction of certain terms
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| (a) |
in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms, the
relevant implementing law or regulation as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time; and
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| (b) |
in relation to any other state, any analogous law or regulation from time to time which requires contractual recognition of any Write-down and Conversion Powers contained in that law or regulation;
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| (a) |
the Total Liabilities; to
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| (b) |
the Market Value Adjusted Total Assets;
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| 1.3 |
Application of construction and interpretation provisions of Loan Agreement
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| 1.4 |
Inconsistency between Loan Agreement provisions and this Guarantee
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GUARANTEE
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| 2.1 |
Guarantee and indemnity
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| (a) |
guarantees the due payment of all amounts payable by the Borrowers under or in connection with the Loan Agreement and every other Finance Document;
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| (b) |
undertakes to pay to the Lender, on the Lender's demand, any such amount which is not paid by the Borrowers when due and payable under or in connection with any Finance Document;
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fully indemnifies the Lender on its demand in respect of all claims, expenses, liabilities and losses which are made or brought against or incurred by the Lender as a result of or in connection with any obligation or liability
guaranteed by the Guarantor being or becoming unenforceable, invalid, void or illegal; and the amount recoverable under this indemnity shall be equal to the amount which the Lender would otherwise have been entitled to recover.
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| 2.2 |
No limit on number of demands
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| 2.3 |
Release of this Guarantee
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LIABILITY AS PRINCIPAL AND INDEPENDENT DEBTOR
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| 3.1 | Principal and independent debtor |
| 3.2 |
Waiver of rights and defences
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| (a) |
any amendment or supplement being made to the Finance Documents;
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| (b) |
any arrangement or concession (including a rescheduling or acceptance of partial payments) relating to, or affecting, the Finance Documents;
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| (c) |
any release or loss (even though negligent) of any right or Security Interest created by the Finance Documents;
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| (d) |
any failure (even though negligent) promptly or properly to exercise or enforce any such right or Security Interest, including a failure to realise for its full market value an asset covered by such a Security Interest; or
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| (e) |
any other Finance Document or any Security Interest now being or later becoming void, unenforceable, illegal or invalid or otherwise defective for any reason, including a neglect to register it.
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EXPENSES
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| 4.1 |
Costs of preservation of rights, enforcement etc.
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| 4.2 |
Fees and expenses payable under Loan Agreement
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ADJUSTMENT OF TRANSACTIONS
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| 5.1 |
Reinstatement of obligation to pay
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PAYMENTS
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| 6.1 |
Method of payments
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| (a) |
in immediately available funds;
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| (b) |
to such account as the Lender may from time to time notify to the Guarantor;
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| (c) |
without any form of set-off, cross-claim or condition; and
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| (d) |
free and clear of any tax deduction except a tax deduction which the Guarantor is required by law to make.
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| 6.2 |
Grossing-up for taxes
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| 6.3 |
Indemnity and evidence of payment of taxes
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| 6.4 |
Tax Credit
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| (a) |
a Tax Credit is attributable to an increased payment of which that Tax Payment forms part, to that Tax Payment or to a Tax Deduction in consequence of which that Tax Payment was received; and
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| (b) |
the Lender has obtained, utilised and retained that Tax Credit,
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INTEREST
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| 7.1 |
Accrual of interest
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| 7.2 |
Calculation of interest
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| 7.3 |
Guarantee extends to interest payable under Loan Agreement
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SUBORDINATION
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| 8.1 |
Subordination of rights of Guarantor
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| (a) |
demand or accept repayment of any amounts due to the Guarantor by the Borrowers under any existing or future loans to the Borrowers or any guarantee granted or to be granted in respect of the Borrowers' obligations;
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| (b) |
claim, or in a bankruptcy of a Borrower or any other Security Party prove for, any amount payable to the Guarantor by that Borrower or any other Security Party, whether in respect of this Guarantee or any other transaction;
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| (c) |
take or enforce any Security Interest for any such amount;
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| (d) |
claim to set-off any such amount against any amount payable by the Guarantor to the Borrowers or any other Security Party; or
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claim any subrogation or other right in respect of any Finance Document or any sum received or recovered by the Lender under a Finance Document,
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ENFORCEMENT
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| 9.1 |
No requirement to commence proceedings against the Borrowers
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| 9.2 |
Conclusive evidence of certain matters
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| (a) |
any judgment or order of a court in England, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Liberia, and Cyprus or any other Pertinent Jurisdiction in connection with the Loan Agreement or any other Finance Document; and
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| (b) |
any written statement or admission of the Borrowers (absent manifest error) in connection with the Loan Agreement or any other Finance Document,
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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| 10.1 |
General
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| 10.2 |
Status
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| 10.3 |
Share capital and ownership
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| 10.4 |
Corporate power
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| (a) |
to execute this Guarantee; and
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| (b) |
to make all the payments contemplated by, and to comply with, this Guarantee.
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| 10.5 |
Consents in force
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| 10.6 |
Legal validity
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| 10.7 |
No conflicts
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any law or regulation in any Pertinent Jurisdiction; or
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the constitutional documents of the Guarantor; or
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| (c) |
any contractual or other obligation or restriction which is binding on the Guarantor or any of its assets.
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| 10.8 |
No withholding taxes
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| 10.9 |
No default
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| 10.10 |
Information
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| 10.11 |
No litigation
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| 10.12 |
Taxes paid
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| 10.13 |
Provisions of Loan Agreement and other Finance Documents
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| 10.14 |
No waiver
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| 10.15 |
Sanctions
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| (a) |
The Guarantor:
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is not a Prohibited Party;
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is not owned or controlled by or acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or for the benefit of, a Prohibited Party;
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does not own or control a Prohibited Party;
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| (iv) |
does not have a Prohibited Party serving as a director, officer or, to the best of its knowledge, employee; or
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is not domiciled or incorporated in any of the restricted countries.
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| (b) |
The Guarantor is in compliance with all Sanctions.
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UNDERTAKINGS
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| 11.1 |
General
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| 11.2 |
Information provided to be accurate
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| 11.3 |
Provision of financial information
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| (a) |
as soon as possible, but in no event later than 120 days after the end of its Financial Year, the consolidated audited annual financial statements of the Group for that Financial Year (commencing with the audited financial statements
for the Financial Year which ended on 31 December 2018);
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as soon as possible, but in no event later than 90 days after the end of each 6-month period ending on 30 June and 31 December in its Financial Year the semi-annual consolidated unaudited financial statements of the Group, for that
6-month period (commencing with the financial statements for the period ending on 30 June 2018), duly certified as to their correctness by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor; and
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from time to time, and on demand such financial or other information relating to the Borrowers, the Guarantor, the Group and/or a Ship as may be requested by the Lender.
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| 11.4 |
Form of Financial Statements
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be prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied;
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give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Guarantor at the date of those accounts and of its profit for the period to which those accounts relate; and
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fully disclose or provide for all significant liabilities of the Guarantor.
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| 11.5 |
Shareholder notices
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| 11.6 |
Consents
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| (a) |
for the Guarantor to perform its obligations under this Guarantee; and
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for the validity or enforceability of this Guarantee,
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| 11.7 |
Notification of litigation
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| 11.8 |
Notification of default
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| (a) |
the occurrence of an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default; or
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any matter which indicates that an Event of Default or a Potential Event of Default may have occurred,
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| 11.9 |
Maintenance of status
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| 11.10 |
Negative pledge
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| 11.11 |
Negative undertaking
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change the nature of its business; or
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enter into any form of amalgamation, merger or de-merger (other than with its affiliates) or any form of reconstruction or reorganisation; and
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cause its shares (or any part thereof) to cease to be quoted on NASDAQ in New York or any other internationally recognised stock exchange acceptable to the Lender.
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| 11.12 |
Pari passu
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| 11.13 |
Financial Covenants
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the aggregate of all Cash for the Group on a consolidated basis shall be equal to no less than $300,000 in respect of each Fleet Vessel;
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maintain a Market Value Adjusted Net Worth of not less than $15,000,000; and
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the Leverage Ratio shall not exceed 75 per cent.
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| 11.14 |
Principal place of business
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| 11.15 |
Ownership
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| 11.16 |
Compliance Check
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The Guarantor shall supply to the Lender, together with each set of financial statements delivered pursuant to (a) and (b) of Clause 11.3 of this Guarantee, a Compliance Certificate.
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Each Compliance Certificate shall be duly signed by the chief financial officer of the Guarantor evidencing (inter alia) the Guarantor's compliance with the provisions of Clause 11.13 and providing confirmation that no Event of Default
has occurred.
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| 11.17 |
Compliance with laws
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| 11.18 |
“Know your customer” checks
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the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Guarantee;
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| (b) |
any change in the status of the Guarantor after the date of this Agreement; or
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| (c) |
a proposed assignment or transfer by the Lender of any of its rights and obligations under this Guarantee to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer,
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JUDGEMENTS AND CURRENCY INDEMNITY
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| 12.1 |
Judgments relating to Loan Agreement and Finance Documents
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| 12.2 |
Currency indemnity
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SET-OFF
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| 13.1 |
Application of credit balances
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| (a) |
apply any balance (whether or not then due) which at any time stands to the credit of any account in the name of the Guarantor at any office in any country of the Lender in or towards satisfaction of any sum then due from the Guarantor
to the Lender under this Guarantee or any other Finance Document; and
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for that purpose:
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break, or alter the maturity of, all or any part of a deposit of the Guarantor;
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| (ii) |
convert or translate all or any part of a deposit or other credit balance into Dollars; and
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enter into any other transaction or make any entry with regard to the credit balance which the Lender concerned considers appropriate.
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| 13.2 |
Existing rights unaffected
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SUPPLEMENTAL
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| 14.1 |
Continuing guarantee
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| 14.2 |
Rights cumulative, non-exclusive
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| 14.3 |
No impairment of rights under Guarantee
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| 14.4 |
Severability of provisions
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| 14.5 |
Guarantee not affected by other security
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| 14.6 |
Guarantor bound by Loan Agreement
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| 14.7 |
Applicability of provisions of Guarantee to other Security Interests
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| 14.8 |
Applicability of provisions of Guarantee to other rights
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| 14.9 |
Third party rights
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ASSIGNMENT
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| 15.1 |
Assignment by Lender
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BAIL-IN
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| 16.1 |
Contractual recognition of bail-in
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| (a) |
any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):
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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;
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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
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a cancellation of any such liability; and
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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; and
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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.
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NOTICES
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| 17.1 |
Notices to Guarantor
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| 17.2 |
Application of certain provisions of Loan Agreement
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| 17.3 |
Validity of demands
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on the date on which the amount to which it relates is payable by the Borrowers under the Loan Agreement;
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| (b) |
at the same time as the service of a notice under clause 18.2 (events of default) of the Loan Agreement
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| 17.4 |
Notices to Lender
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INVALIDITY OF LOAN AGREEMENT
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| 18.1 |
Invalidity of Loan Agreement
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the Loan Agreement now being or later becoming, with immediate or retrospective effect, void, illegal, unenforceable or otherwise invalid for any other reason whatsoever, whether of a similar kind or not; or
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without limiting the scope of paragraph (a), a bankruptcy of any Borrowers, the introduction of any law or any other matter resulting in the Borrowers being discharged from liability under the Loan Agreement, or the Loan Agreement
ceasing to operate (for example, by interest ceasing to accrue),
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| 18.2 |
Invalidity of Finance Documents
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GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
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| 19.1 |
English law
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| 19.2 |
Exclusive English jurisdiction
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| 19.3 |
Choice of forum for the exclusive benefit of the Lender
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to commence proceedings in relation to any Dispute in the courts of any country other than England and which have or claim jurisdiction to that Dispute; and
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to commence such proceedings in the courts of any such country or countries concurrently with or in addition to proceedings in England or without commencing proceedings in England.
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| 19.4 |
Process agent
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| 19.5 |
Lender's rights unaffected
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| 19.6 |
Meaning of “proceedings” and “Dispute”
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the ratio set out in Clause 11.13 is at [●] per cent.;
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the aggregate of all Cash is [●]. Such amount [does][not] equal less than $300,000 in respect of each Fleet Vessel;
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the Market Value Adjusted Net Worth is $[●]; and
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the Leverage Ratio is [●] per cent.
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Chief Financial Officer
for and on behalf of Eurodry Ltd. |
Director
for and on behalf of Pantelis Shipping Corp. |
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Director
for and on behalf of [●] |
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GUARANTOR
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SIGNED and DELIVERED
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as a Deed by
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Stephania Karmiri
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/s/ Stephania Karmiri
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being an attorney-in-fact
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for and on behalf of
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EURODRY LTD.
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in the presence of:
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/s/ Emmanouil Pontikis
EMMANOUIL PONTIKIS Attorney-At-Law Watson Farley & Williams 348 Syngrou Avenue 176 74 Kallithea Athens - Greece |
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LENDER
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SIGNED and DELIVERED
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as a Deed by
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being an attorney-in-fact
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for and on behalf of
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/s/ M. Maniatakou /s/ Amalia Kafka
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NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A.
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M. Maniatakou Amalia Kafka
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in the presence of:
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/s/ Emmanouil Pontikis
EMMANOUIL PONTIKIS
Attorney-At-Law
Watson Farley & Williams
348 Syngrou Avenue
176 74 Kallithea
Athens - Greece
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