CREDIT AGREEMENT among ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, INC., as Borrower, ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE, LLC, as Co-Borrower The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto, CITIBANK, N.A., as Syndication Agent, KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUNTRUST BANK DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD., as Co-Documentation Agents, and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent Dated as of June 28, 2013 J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC. andCITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC., as Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners TABLE OF CONTENTS
Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION VERSION
CREDIT AGREEMENT
among
ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, INC.,
as Borrower,
ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE, LLC,
as Co-Borrower
The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
CITIBANK, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent,
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
SUNTRUST BANK
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC. and
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.,
as Co-Documentation Agents,
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
Dated as of June 28, 2013
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC. and CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.,
as Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 1. | Definitions | 1 | ||||
1.1 | Defined Terms | 1 | ||||
1.2 | Other Definitional Provisions | 27 | ||||
1.3 | Financial Calculations | 28 | ||||
Section 2. | Amount and Terms of Commitments | 28 | ||||
2.1 | Term Commitments | 28 | ||||
2.2 | Procedure for Term Loan Borrowing | 28 | ||||
2.3 | Repayment of Term Loans | 28 | ||||
2.4 | Revolving Commitments | 28 | ||||
2.5 | Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing | 29 | ||||
2.6 | Swingline Commitment | 30 | ||||
2.7 | Procedure for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans | 30 | ||||
2.8 | Commitment Fees, Fees with respect to Foreign Currency Loans, etc. | 32 | ||||
2.9 | Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments | 32 | ||||
2.10 | Foreign Currency Participations; Conversion of Foreign Currency Loans | 32 | ||||
2.11 | Prepayments and Commitment Reductions | 34 | ||||
2.12 | Conversion and Continuation Options | 36 | ||||
2.13 | Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches | 36 | ||||
2.14 | Interest Rates and Payment Dates | 36 | ||||
2.15 | Computation of Interest and Fees | 37 | ||||
2.16 | Inability to Determine Interest Rate | 37 | ||||
2.17 | Pro Rata Treatment and Payments | 38 | ||||
2.18 | Requirements of Law | 40 | ||||
2.19 | Taxes | 42 | ||||
2.20 | Indemnity | 44 | ||||
2.21 | Change of Lending Office | 45 | ||||
2.22 | Replacement of Lenders | 45 | ||||
2.23 | Defaulting Lenders | 46 | ||||
2.24 | Incremental Facility | 48 | ||||
2.25 | Foreign Exchange Rate | 50 | ||||
Section 3. | Letters of Credit | 51 | ||||
3.1 | L/C Commitment | 51 | ||||
3.2 | Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit | 51 | ||||
3.3 | Fees and Other Charges | 52 | ||||
3.4 | L/C Participations | 52 | ||||
3.5 | Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower | 53 | ||||
3.6 | Obligations Absolute | 53 | ||||
3.7 | Letter of Credit Payments | 54 | ||||
3.8 | Applications | 54 | ||||
3.9 | Cash Collateralization | 54 | ||||
3.10 | Currency Adjustments | 54 | ||||
3.11 | Replacement of an Issuing Lender | 54 |
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Section 4. | Representations and Warranties | 55 | ||||
4.1 | Organization; Powers | 55 | ||||
4.2 | Authorization; Enforceability | 55 | ||||
4.3 | Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts | 55 | ||||
4.4 | Financial Condition | 55 | ||||
4.5 | Properties | 56 | ||||
4.6 | Litigation and Environmental Matters | 56 | ||||
4.7 | Compliance with Laws | 56 | ||||
4.8 | Investment Company Status | 56 | ||||
4.9 | Taxes | 56 | ||||
4.10 | ERISA | 57 | ||||
4.11 | Disclosure | 57 | ||||
4.12 | Subsidiaries | 57 | ||||
4.13 | Insurance | 57 | ||||
4.14 | Labor Matters | 57 | ||||
4.15 | Solvency | 57 | ||||
4.16 | Federal Regulations | 58 | ||||
4.17 | Use of Proceeds | 58 | ||||
4.18 | Security Documents | 58 | ||||
4.19 | Regulation H | 59 | ||||
4.20 | Anti-Terrorism Laws | 59 | ||||
Section 5. | Conditions Precedent | 59 | ||||
5.1 | Conditions to Initial Extension of Credit | 59 | ||||
5.2 | Conditions to Each Extension of Credit | 61 | ||||
Section 6. | Affirmative Covenants | 62 | ||||
6.1 | Financial Statements | 62 | ||||
6.2 | Certificates; Other Information | 62 | ||||
6.3 | Payment of Taxes | 63 | ||||
6.4 | Maintenance of Existence; Compliance | 63 | ||||
6.5 | Maintenance of Property; Insurance | 64 | ||||
6.6 | Compliance with Laws | 64 | ||||
6.7 | Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions | 64 | ||||
6.8 | Notices | 64 | ||||
6.9 | Environmental Laws | 65 | ||||
6.10 | Additional Collateral, etc. | 65 | ||||
6.11 | Post-Closing Matters | 66 | ||||
Section 7. | Negative Covenants | 67 | ||||
7.1 | Financial Condition Covenants | 67 | ||||
7.2 | Indebtedness | 67 | ||||
7.3 | Liens | 68 | ||||
7.4 | Fundamental Changes | 70 | ||||
7.5 | Disposition of Property | 70 | ||||
7.6 | Restricted Payments | 71 | ||||
7.7 | Reserved | 72 |
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7.8 | Investments | 72 | ||||
7.9 | Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Debt Instruments | 74 | ||||
7.10 | Transactions with Affiliates | 74 | ||||
7.11 | Sales and Leasebacks | 74 | ||||
7.12 | Swap Agreements | 74 | ||||
7.13 | Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions | 75 | ||||
7.14 | Lines of Business | 75 | ||||
7.15 | [Reserved] | 75 | ||||
7.16 | Business; Liabilities; Assets of Certain Subsidiaries | 75 | ||||
Section 8. | Events of Default | 76 | ||||
Section 9. | The Agents | 79 | ||||
9.1 | Appointment | 79 | ||||
9.2 | Delegation of Duties | 79 | ||||
9.3 | Exculpatory Provisions | 79 | ||||
9.4 | Reliance by Administrative Agent | 79 | ||||
9.5 | Notice of Default | 80 | ||||
9.6 | Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders | 80 | ||||
9.7 | Indemnification | 80 | ||||
9.8 | Agent in Its Individual Capacity | 81 | ||||
9.9 | Successor Administrative Agent | 81 | ||||
9.10 | Lead Arrangers, Documentation Agents and Syndication Agent | 81 | ||||
Section 10. | Miscellaneous | 81 | ||||
10.1 | Amendments and Waivers | 81 | ||||
10.2 | Notices | 83 | ||||
10.3 | No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | 84 | ||||
10.4 | Survival of Representations and Warranties | 84 | ||||
10.5 | Payment of Expenses | 84 | ||||
10.6 | Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments | 85 | ||||
10.7 | Adjustments; Set-off | 88 | ||||
10.8 | Counterparts | 89 | ||||
10.9 | Severability | 89 | ||||
10.10 | Integration | 89 | ||||
10.11 | GOVERNING LAW | 89 | ||||
10.12 | Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers | 89 | ||||
10.13 | Acknowledgements | 90 | ||||
10.14 | No Fiduciary Duty | 90 | ||||
10.15 | Additional Borrowers | 90 | ||||
10.16 | Releases of Guarantees and Liens | 91 | ||||
10.17 | Judgment Currency | 92 | ||||
10.18 | WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL | 92 | ||||
10.19 | USA Patriot Act | 92 |
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EXHIBITS:
A | Form of Guarantee and Collateral Agreement | |
B | Form of Compliance Certificate | |
C | Form of Closing Certificate | |
D | [Reserved] | |
E | Form of Assignment and Assumption | |
G | [Reserved] | |
H | Form of Exemption Certificate | |
I | Form of Incremental Facility Activation Notice | |
SCHEDULE: | ||
1.1(A) | Commitments | |
1.1(B) | Foreign Currency Lenders | |
1.1(C) | Administrative Schedule | |
1.1(D) | Specified Add-Backs | |
1.1(E) | Mandatory Costs | |
2 | Existing Letters of Credit | |
4.6 | Litigation | |
4.12 | Subsidiaries | |
7.2(d) | Existing Indebtedness | |
7.3(l) | Existing Liens | |
7.8(g) | Existing Investments | |
7.10 | Transactions with Affiliates |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT (this Agreement), dated as of June 28, 2013, among Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the Borrower), Allscripts Healthcare, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company (the Co-Borrower), the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the Lenders), KeyBank National Association, SunTrust Bank, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., as co-documentation agents (in such capacity, each a Co-Documentation Agent and together the Documentation Agents), Citibank, N.A., as syndication agent (in such capacity, the Syndication Agent), and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.
R E C I T A L S
WHEREAS the Borrower, the Lenders, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the other agents named therein are parties to that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of August 20, 2010, as amended and restated as of March 31, 2011 (the Existing Credit Agreement) pursuant to which certain loans and other extensions of credit were made to the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested, and the Lenders and the Administrative Agent have agreed to enter into this Agreement in order to refinance the Indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement; and
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and undertakings herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms listed in this Section 1.1 shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section 1.1.
ABR: for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1% and (c) the Eurodollar Rate that would be calculated as of such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, as of the next preceding Business Day) in respect of a proposed Eurodollar Loan with a one-month Interest Period plus 1.0%. Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or such Eurodollar Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or such Eurodollar Rate, respectively.
ABR Loans: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the ABR.
Acceptable Currency: the currencies of Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, the State of Qatar, Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Canada, China and any additional currencies determined after the Closing Date by mutual agreement of the Borrower, Issuing Lender and Administrative Agent; provided that each such currency is a lawful currency that is readily available, freely transferable and not restricted, able to be converted into Dollars and available in the London interbank deposit market.
ACS Agreement: the Agreement entered into between Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. and Allscripts Healthcare, LLC on March 31, 2011 to provide services to support the Borrowers remote hosting services for Sunrise acute care clients along with the related sale of a portion of its hosting equipment and infrastructure for approximately $20,000,000.
Additional Borrower: as defined in Section 10.15.
Adjustment Date: a date that is three Business Days after the date on which financial statements are delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.1, commencing with the date that is three Business Days after the date the financial statements are delivered to the Administrative Agent with respect to the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2013 (the First Adjustment Date).
Administrative Agent: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., together with its affiliates, as the arranger of the Commitments and as the administrative agent for the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with any of its successors.
Administrative Schedule: Schedule 1.1(C) to this Agreement, which contains administrative information in respect of each Foreign Currency and each Foreign Currency Loan.
Affiliate: as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, either to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.
Agents: the collective reference to the Lead Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents, the Administrative Agent and the Foreign Currency Agent.
Aggregate Exposure: with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to (a) until the Closing Date, the aggregate amount of such Lenders Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the sum of (i) the aggregate then unpaid principal amount of such Lenders Term Loans and (ii) the amount of such Lenders Revolving Commitment then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the amount of such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
Aggregate Exposure Percentage: with respect to any Lender at any time, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lenders Aggregate Exposure at such time to the Aggregate Exposure of all Lenders at such time; provided that in the case of Section 2.23 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, Aggregate Exposure Percentage shall mean the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lenders Aggregate Exposure at such time to the Aggregate Exposure of all Lenders at such time disregarding any Defaulting Lenders Aggregate Exposure. If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Aggregate Exposure Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments and to any Lenders status as a Defaulting Lender at the time of determination.
Agreement: as defined in the preamble hereto.
Applicable Margin: for each Type of Loan, the rate per annum set forth under the relevant column heading below:
ABR Loans | Eurodollar Loans | |||||||
Revolving Loans and | 1.25 | % | 2.25 | % | ||||
Term Loans | 1.25 | % | 2.25 | % |
; provided, that on and after the First Adjustment Date, the Applicable Margin with respect to Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans and Term Loans will be determined pursuant to the Applicable Pricing Grid.
Applicable Pricing Grid: the table set forth below:
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Total Leverage Ratio | Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Loans | Applicable Margin for ABR Loans | Commitment Fee Rate | |||||||||||
Level I | Greater than 3.50 to 1.00 | 2.75 | % | 1.75 | % | 0.45 | % | |||||||
Level II | Greater than 3.00 to 1.00 but equal to or less than 3.50 to 1.00 | 2.50 | % | 1.50 | % | 0.40 | % | |||||||
Level III | Greater than 2.50 to 1.00 but equal to or less than 3.00 to 1.00 | 2.25 | % | 1.25 | % | 0.35 | % | |||||||
Level IV | Greater than 2.00 to 1.00 but equal to or less than 2.50 to 1.00 | 2.00 | % | 1.00 | % | 0.30 | % | |||||||
Level V | Greater than 1.50 to 1.00 but equal to or less than 2.00 to 1.00 | 1.75 | % | 0.75 | % | 0.25 | % | |||||||
Level VI | Equal to or less than 1.50 to 1.00 | 1.50 | % | 0.50 | % | 0.20 | % |
For the purposes of the Applicable Pricing Grid, changes in the Applicable Margin resulting from changes in the Total Leverage Ratio shall become effective on each Adjustment Date and shall remain in effect until the next change to be effected pursuant to this paragraph; provided that (a) no adjustment to a level providing a lower pricing shall be effected while an Event of Default is in existence and (b) the highest rate set forth in each column of the Applicable Pricing Grid shall apply at all times while an Event of Default under clause (a) or (f) of Section 8 shall have occurred and be continuing. If any financial statements referred to above are not delivered within the time periods specified in Section 6.1, then, until the date that is three Business Days after the date on which such financial statements are delivered, the highest rate set forth in each column of the Applicable Pricing Grid shall apply. Each determination of the Total Leverage Ratio pursuant to the Applicable Pricing Grid shall be made in a manner consistent with the determination thereof pursuant to Section 7.1.
Application: an application, in such form as the Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting the Issuing Lender to open a Letter of Credit.
Approved Fund: as defined in Section 10.6(b).
Asset Sale: any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property (excluding any such Disposition permitted by Section 7.5 (other than clause (l) thereof)) that yields gross proceeds to any Group Member (valued at the initial principal amount thereof in the case of non-cash proceeds consisting of notes or other debt securities and valued at fair market value in the case of other non-cash proceeds) in excess of $1,000,000.
Assignee: as defined in Section 10.6(b).
Assignment and Assumption: an Assignment and Assumption, substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
AUD: the lawful currency of Australia.
Available Revolving Commitment: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) such Lenders Revolving Commitment then in effect over (b) such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding; provided, that in calculating any Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit for the purpose of determining such Lenders Available Revolving Commitment pursuant to Section 2.8(a), the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding shall be deemed to be zero.
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Bankruptcy Event: with respect to any Person, such Person becomes the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment, provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof, provided, further, that such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.
Benefitted Lender: as defined in Section 10.7(a).
Board: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (or any successor).
Borrower: as defined in the preamble hereto.
Borrower Representative: as defined in Section 2.27.
Borrowers: the Borrower and the Co-Borrower, collectively.
Borrowing: with respect to any Foreign Currency Loans, Loans made on the same date, in the same Foreign Currency and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
Borrowing Date: any Business Day specified by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower as a date on which the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, requests the relevant Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
Business Day: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to close, provided, that (i) with respect to notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, Eurodollar Loans, such day is also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the interbank eurodollar market and (ii) with respect to notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, Foreign Currency Loans (x) such day is also a day for trading by and between banks in deposits for the applicable Foreign Currency in the interbank eurocurrency market, (y) with respect to Foreign Currency Loan denominated in Euros, such day is also a TARGET Day (as determined by the Administrative Agent) and (z) with respect to Foreign Currency Loans denominated in a Foreign Currency other than Euros, such day is also a day on which banks are open for dealings in such Foreign Currency in the city which is the principal financial center of the country of issuance of the applicable Foreign Currency.
CAD: the lawful currency of Canada.
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Calculation Date: the last Business Day of each calendar month (or any other day selected by the Administrative Agent); provided that (a) the second Business Day preceding (or such other Business Day as the Administrative Agent shall deem applicable with respect to any Foreign Currency in accordance with rate-setting convention for such Foreign Currency) (i) each Borrowing Date with respect to any Foreign Currency Loan or (ii) any date on which a Foreign Currency Loan is continued shall also be a Calculation Date, (b) each Borrowing Date with respect to any other Loan made hereunder shall also be a Calculation Date and (c) the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall also be a Calculation Date.
Capital Expenditures: for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including in all events all amounts expended or capitalized under Capital Lease Obligations) by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as capital expenditures on a consolidated statement of cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
Capital Lease Obligations: of any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
Capital Stock: any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the foregoing and any and all securities convertible into or exchangeable into any of the foregoing (but excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness convertible into or exchangeable for any of the foregoing).
Cash Equivalents: (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition; (b) certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits or overnight bank deposits having maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition issued by any Lender or by any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof having combined capital and surplus of not less than $500,000,000; (c) commercial paper of an issuer rated at least A-1 by Standard & Poors Ratings Services (S&P) or P-1 by Moodys Investors Service, Inc. (Moodys), or carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized rating agency, if both of the two named rating agencies cease publishing ratings of commercial paper issuers generally, and maturing within six months from the date of acquisition; (d) repurchase obligations of any Lender or of any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition, having a term of not more than 30 days, with respect to securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government; (e) securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory or by any foreign government, the securities of which state, commonwealth, territory, political subdivision, taxing authority or foreign government (as the case may be) are rated at least A by S&P or A by Moodys; (f) securities with maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any Lender or any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition; (g) bonds or notes issued by or guaranteed by any Person incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof at the time of acquisition rated at least A (or the equivalent thereof) or better by S&P or at least A2 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by Moodys and maturing within one year of the date of acquisition; (h) money market mutual or similar funds that invest exclusively in assets satisfying the requirements of clauses (a) through (g) of this definition; or (i) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moodys and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000.
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CFC Domestic Subsidiary: any Domestic Subsidiary that is owned by a Foreign Subsidiary that is a Controlled Foreign Corporation.
Change in Control: (a) any person or group as such terms are used for purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act), whether or not applicable, is or becomes the beneficial owner (as that term is used in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, whether or not applicable), directly or indirectly, of more than 35% of the total voting power in the aggregate of all classes of Capital Stock then outstanding of the Borrower normally entitled to vote in elections of directors, (b) occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who were neither (1) nominated by the board of directors of the Borrower nor (2) appointed or approved by directors so nominated or (c) a Specified Change in Control if the holders of the related Convertible Securities holding more than $25,000,000 thereof elect to put such Convertible Securities to the Borrower.
Closing Date: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1 shall have been satisfied, which date is June 28, 2013.
Co-Borrower: as defined in the preamble hereto.
Code: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
Collateral: all property of the Loan Parties (other than Excluded Property), now owned or hereafter acquired, upon which a Lien is purported to be created by any Security Document.
Commitment: as to any Lender, the sum of the Term Commitment and the Revolving Commitment of such Lender.
Commitment Fee Rate: 0.35% per annum; provided, that on and after the First Adjustment Date, the Commitment Fee Rate will be determined pursuant to the Applicable Pricing Grid.
Compliance Certificate: a certificate duly executed by a Responsible Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
Conduit Lender: any special purpose corporation organized and administered by any Lender for the purpose of making Loans otherwise required to be made by such Lender and designated by such Lender in a written instrument; provided, that the designation by any Lender of a Conduit Lender shall not relieve the designating Lender of any of its obligations to fund a Loan under this Agreement if, for any reason, its Conduit Lender fails to fund any such Loan, and the designating Lender (and not the Conduit Lender) shall have the sole right and responsibility to deliver all consents and waivers required or requested under this Agreement with respect to its Conduit Lender, and provided, further, that no Conduit Lender shall (a) be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.18, 2.19, 2.20 or 10.5 than the designating Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the extensions of credit made by such Conduit Lender or (b) be deemed to have any Commitment.
Confidential Information Memorandum: the Confidential Information Memorandum dated May 30, 2013 and furnished to certain Lenders.
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Consolidated Current Assets: at any date, all amounts (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption total current assets (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date.
Consolidated Current Liabilities: at any date, all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption total current liabilities (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such date, but excluding (a) the current portion of any Funded Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and (b) without duplication of clause (a) above, all Indebtedness consisting of Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans to the extent otherwise included therein.
Consolidated Working Capital: at any date, the excess of Consolidated Current Assets on such date over Consolidated Current Liabilities on such date; provided that, if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries acquires Capital Stock or assets of any Person in a transaction constituting a Permitted Acquisition during the period for which the change in Consolidated Working Capital is being measured, Consolidated Working Capital shall be adjusted to give pro forma effect to such acquisition assuming that such transaction had occurred on the first day of such period.
Contractual Obligation: as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
Controlled Foreign Corporation: as defined in Section 957(a) of the Code.
Convertible Securities: any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or preferred stock of the Borrower that is or will become, upon the occurrence of certain specified events or after the passage of a specified amount of time, convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, cash or any combination thereof.
Credit Party: the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swingline Lender, any Fronting Lender or any other Lender.
Default: any of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
Defaulting Lender: any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Loans, (ii) fund any portion of its participations in Letters of Credit, Swingline Loans or Foreign Currency Loans or (iii) pay over to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lenders good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Borrower or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lenders good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by a Credit Party, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Loans and participations in then outstanding Letters of Credit, Swingline Loans and Foreign Currency Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon such Credit Partys receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to it and the Administrative Agent, or (d) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event.
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Disposition: with respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof. The terms Dispose and Disposed of shall have correlative meanings.
Disregarded Entity: a Person that is disregarded as separate from its owner for federal income tax purposes within the meaning of Code Section 7701 and the related Treasury regulations.
Documentation Agents: as defined in the preamble hereto.
Dollar Equivalent: with respect to an amount denominated in any currency other than Dollars, the equivalent in Dollars of such amount determined at the Exchange Rate on the most recent Calculation Date.
Dollar Interpolated Rate: as defined in the definition of Eurodollar Base Rate.
Dollars and $: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
Domestic Subsidiary: any Subsidiary of the Borrower organized under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States.
EBITDA: without duplication, for any period, consolidated net income from continuing operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, plus (to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of consolidated net income for such period) depreciation, amortization, non-cash stock-based compensation expenses, interest expense, income taxes, and minus in the case of income (to the extent included in the statement of consolidated net income for such period) or plus in the case of losses (to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of consolidated net income for such period), non-cash non-operating items and one-time charges and non-cash extraordinary gains or losses and other non-cash non-recurring items of income or expense plus (to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of consolidated net income for such period) (a) transaction fees and expenses associated with or incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement or any transactions contemplated herein (provided, that the aggregate amount of cash transaction fees and cash expenses permitted to be added back during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $10,000,000); (b) transaction fees and expenses associated with or incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any Permitted Acquisition in an amount acceptable to Administrative Agent; (c) deferred revenue adjustments made in accordance with GAAP; (d) for the Borrowers fiscal quarters ending during the fiscal years ending December 31, 2013, December 31, 2014 or December 31, 2015, cash charges recorded during such quarters by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any facility closures, work force reductions, relocations and product consolidation (provided, that the amount of cash charges permitted to be added back pursuant to this clause (d) shall not exceed (i) for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2013, $19,200,000 and (ii) for the remainder of such fiscal quarters, $41,800,000 in the aggregate); (e) charges up to the amounts set forth on Schedule 1.1(D) recorded during the fiscal periods specified therein and relating to the items specified therein; (f) any transaction fees and expenses incurred by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any Convertible Securities and/or any Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments which have been paid in cash during such period (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount permitted to be added back pursuant to this clause (f) shall not include any cash consideration paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in respect of any Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments); (g) any write-off of capitalized debt issuance costs associated with
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Indebtedness (including the Loans) during such period; and (h) any deferred compensation related to the employee holdback obligation incurred in connection with the acquisition of dbMotion, Ltd. to the extent such obligation is refinanced with the proceeds of Loans or Convertible Securities (provided, that the aggregate amount permitted to be added back during the term of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (h) shall not exceed $8,000,000); provided that, if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries acquires Capital Stock or assets of any Person in a transaction constituting a Permitted Acquisition during such period, EBITDA shall be adjusted to give pro forma effect to such acquisition assuming that such transaction had occurred on the first day of such period (provided that (i) if such Permitted Acquisition is consummated by a Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, EBITDA shall only be adjusted in proportion to the percentage ownership of the Borrower or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries in such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary (e.g., if a Borrower owns 70% of a Subsidiary and such Subsidiary consummates a Permitted Acquisition of a Person, a pro forma adjustment to EBITDA shall be made with respect to no more than 70% of the EBITDA of such Person and (ii) if such Permitted Acquisition is of less than 100% of the Capital Stock of any Person, EBITDA shall only be adjusted in proportion to the percentage ownership of the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary in such Person (e.g., if the Borrower acquires 70% of the Capital Stock of a Person, a pro forma adjustment to EBITDA shall be made with respect to no more than 70% of the EBITDA of the acquired Person)).
Environmental Laws: all laws (including common law), rules, regulations, statutes, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.
Environmental Liability: any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any other Loan Party directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
ERISA: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
ERISA Affiliate: means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with any Loan Party, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA and Sections 412 and 4971 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
ERISA Event: (a) any reportable event, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived, whether or not such automatic waiver is hereafter eliminated); (b) any failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) applicable to such Plan, whether or not waived; (c) the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Plan or the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Loan Party or any of their ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) a determination that any Plan is, or is expected to be, in at risk status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (f) the receipt by
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the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Loan Party or any of their ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (g) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Loan Party or any of their ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (h) the receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Loan Party or any of their ERISA Affiliates of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other Loan Party or any of their ERISA Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA, in reorganization (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA), or in endangered or critical status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA).
Euro: the single currency of participating member states of the European Union.
Eurocurrency Base Rate: with respect to (a) any Foreign Currency Loan (other than any Foreign Currency Loan denominated in AUD, CAD or SGD) for any Interest Period, the London interbank offered rate as administered by the British Bankers Association (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for the applicable Foreign Currency for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters Screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; in each case, the LIBOR Screen Rate) 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Quotation Day for such Interest Period, (b) any Foreign Currency Loan denominated in AUD for any Interest Period, the average bank bill reference rate as administered by the Australian Financial Markets Association (or any other Person that takes over the administration of that rate) for bills of exchange with a tenor equal to the relevant period displayed on page BBSY of the Reuters screen (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) (the AUD Screen Rate) at or about 10:30 a.m. (Melbourne, Australia time) on the Quotation Day for such Interest Period, (c) any Foreign Currency Loan denominated in CAD, the average rate for bankers acceptances as administered by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (or any other Person that takes over the administration of that rate) with a tenor equal to the relevant period displayed on CDOR01 page of the Reuters Monitor Service (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen or service that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion) (the CAD Screen Rate) at or about 10:15 a.m. (Toronto, Ontario time) on the Quotation Day for such Interest Period and (d) any Foreign Currency Loan denominated in SGD for any Interest Period, the rate per annum equal to the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate or a successor thereto approved by the Administrative Agent (SIBOR) as published by Reuters (or such other page or commercially available source providing SIBOR quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) (the SIBOR Screen Rate) at or about 11:00 a.m. (Singapore time) on the Quotation Day for such Interest Period; provided, that, if the Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such Interest Period (an Impacted Interest Period) with respect to the applicable Foreign Currency, then the Eurocurrency Base Rate shall be the Interpolated Rate at such time.
Eurocurrency Loans: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Eurocurrency Rate.
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Eurocurrency Rate: with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Foreign Currency Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day in accordance with the following formula:
Eurocurrency Base Rate | ||||
1.00 Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements |
; provided that if applicable, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Schedule 1.1(E), the Eurocurrency Rate with respect to any Foreign Currency Loan shall be a rate per annum determined for such day in accordance with the preceding formulation plus the Mandatory Costs.
Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements: for any day as applied to a Eurodollar Loan or a Foreign Currency Loan, the aggregate (without duplication) of the maximum rates (expressed as a decimal fraction) of reserve requirements in effect on such day (including basic, supplemental, marginal and emergency reserves) under any regulations of the Board or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto dealing with reserve requirements prescribed for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as Eurocurrency Liabilities in Regulation D of the Board) maintained by a member bank of the Federal Reserve System.
Eurodollar Base Rate: with respect to any Eurodollar Loan for any Interest Period, the London interbank offered rate as administered by the British Bankers Association (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for Dollars for a period equal in length to such Interest Period as displayed on pages LIBOR01 or LIBOR02 of the Reuters Screen that displays such rate (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a Reuters page or screen, on any successor or substitute page on such screen that displays such rate, or on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion; in each case, the Applicable Screen Rate) at approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period; provided, that, if the Applicable Screen Rate shall not be available at such time for such Interest Period (a Dollar Impacted Interest Period) with respect to Dollars, then the Eurodollar Base Rate shall be the Dollar Interpolated Rate at such time. Dollar Interpolated Rate means, at any time, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the Applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Applicable Screen Rate is available in Dollars) that is shorter than the Dollar Impacted Interest Period and (b) the Applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Applicable Screen Rate is available for Dollars) that exceeds the Dollar Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.
Eurodollar Loans: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Eurodollar Rate.
Eurodollar Rate: with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day in accordance with the following formula:
Eurodollar Base Rate | ||||
1.00 Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements |
Eurodollar Tranche: the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans under a particular Facility the then current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same day).
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Event of Default: any of the events specified in Section 8, provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
Excess Cash Flow: for any fiscal year of the Borrower, the excess, if any, of (a) the sum, without duplication, of (i) consolidated net income for such fiscal year, (ii) the amount of all non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization) deducted in arriving at such consolidated net income, (iii) decreases in Consolidated Working Capital for such fiscal year, and (iv) the aggregate net amount of non-cash loss on the Disposition of property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business), to the extent deducted in arriving at such consolidated net income over (b) the sum, without duplication, of (i) the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such consolidated net income, (ii) the aggregate amount actually paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in cash during such fiscal year on account of Capital Expenditures (excluding the principal amount of Indebtedness incurred in connection with such expenditures and any such expenditures financed with the proceeds of any Reinvestment Deferred Amount), (iii) the aggregate amount of all prepayments of Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans during such fiscal year to the extent accompanying permanent optional reductions of the Revolving Commitments, (iv) the aggregate amount of all regularly scheduled principal payments of Funded Debt (including the Term Loans) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries made during such fiscal year (other than in respect of any revolving credit facility to the extent there is not an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder), (v) increases in Consolidated Working Capital for such fiscal year, (vi) the aggregate net amount of non-cash gain on the Disposition of property by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (other than sales of inventory in the ordinary course of business) to the extent included in arriving at such consolidated net income, (vii) the aggregate amount actually paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in cash during such fiscal year on account of capitalized software development costs, (viii) the aggregate amount of any Restricted Payments paid in cash by the Borrower during such fiscal year pursuant to Sections 7.6(c) (except to the extent financed by incurring Indebtedness or with the proceeds of substantially concurrent sales or issuance of Capital Stock of the Borrower) and (ix) the aggregate amount of cash purchase price paid during such fiscal year pursuant to any Permitted Acquisition (except to the extent financed by incurring Indebtedness or with the proceeds of substantially concurrent sales or issuance of Capital Stock of the Borrower).
Excess Cash Flow Application Date: as defined in Section 2.11(d).
Exchange Rate: with respect to any non-Dollar currency on any date, the rate at which such currency may be exchanged into Dollars, as set forth on such date on the relevant Reuters currency page at or about 11:00 A.M., London time, on such date. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Reuters currency page, the Exchange Rate with respect to such non-Dollar currency shall be determined by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower or, in the absence of such agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the Administrative Agents spot rate of exchange in the interbank market where its foreign currency exchange operations in respect of such non-Dollar currency are then being conducted, at or about 10:00 A.M., local time, on such date for the purchase of Dollars with such non-Dollar currency, for delivery two Business Days later; provided, that if at the time of any such determination, no such spot rate can reasonably be quoted, the Administrative Agent may use any reasonable method as it deems applicable to determine such rate, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Excluded Domestic Subsidiary: (a) Allscripts Healthcare Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and (b) any Domestic Subsidiary (i) that is a Disregarded Entity, (ii) that owns (directly or through a Disregarded Entity) 65% or more of the Capital Stock of a Foreign Subsidiary that is a Controlled Foreign Corporation, and (iii) that holds no material assets other than (x) Capital Stock of
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one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are Controlled Foreign Corporations, (y) Capital Stock of one or more Disregarded Entities that hold no material assets other than Capital Stock of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries that are Controlled Foreign Corporations and (z) the assets permitted by Section 7.16.
Excluded Domestic Subsidiary Interests: 35% of the Capital Stock of any Excluded Domestic Subsidiary.
Excluded Foreign Subsidiary Interests: 35% of the voting Capital Stock of any Foreign Subsidiary that is a Material Subsidiary directly owned by a Loan Party and 100% of the Capital Stock of any other Foreign Subsidiary.
Excluded Property: (i) assets (including vehicles) that are subject to certificated title statues, (ii) Excluded Real Property, (iii) assets as to which the Administrative Agent shall determine in its sole reasonable discretion that the cost of obtaining a security interest therein or perfection thereof are excessive in relation to the value of the security to be afforded thereby, (iv) assets as to which granting or perfecting such security interests would violate (a) applicable law or (b) contracts evidencing or giving rise to such assets (but only to the extent such contractual provisions are not rendered ineffective by applicable law or otherwise unenforceable), (v) any contract in which the grant of a security interest therein is prohibited thereby (but only to the extent such contractual provisions are not rendered ineffective by applicable law or otherwise unenforceable), (vi) the Capital Stock of Newco and all shares of Capital Stock of the Borrower owned by Newco, (vii) all Excluded Foreign Subsidiary Interests, (viii) all assets of any Foreign Subsidiary (including for this purpose, any Capital Stock of a Domestic Subsidiary owned by such Foreign Subsidiary) and all assets of any CFC Domestic Subsidiary and (ix) all Excluded Domestic Subsidiary Interests.
Excluded Real Property: (i) ownership interests in real property having a fair market value (together with improvements thereof) of less than $5,000,000, and (ii) leasehold interests in real property.
Excluded Taxes: as defined in Section 2.19(a).
Existing Credit Agreement: as defined in the recitals hereto.
Existing Letters of Credit: those letters of credit described on Schedule 2 issued under the Existing Credit Agreement that are outstanding thereunder on the Closing Date.
Facility: each of (a) the Term Commitments and the Term Loans made thereunder (the Term Facility) and (b) the Revolving Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder (the Revolving Facility).
FATCA: Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code or any amendment or successor to any such Section so long as such amendment or successor is substantially similar to the reporting and withholding obligations of Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code as of the Closing Date.
Federal Funds Effective Rate: for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such transactions received by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
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Fee Payment Date: (a) the third Business Day following the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) the last day of the Revolving Commitment Period.
First Adjustment Date: see the definition of Adjustment Date.
Flood Hazard Property: any property located in an area designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as having special flood or mud slide hazards.
Foreign Currency: the currencies of Singapore, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, the Euro and any additional currencies determined after the Closing Date by mutual agreement of the Borrower, the applicable Foreign Currency Lenders and the Administrative Agent; provided that each such currency is a lawful currency that is readily available, freely transferable and not restricted, able to be converted into Dollars and available in the London interbank deposit market.
Foreign Currency Agent: J.P. Morgan Europe Limited, as foreign currency agent with respect to the Foreign Currency Loans, together with any of its successors.
Foreign Currency Lenders means the Fronting Lender and, with respect to any Foreign Currency, each other Lender as may be designated in writing by the Borrower as a Foreign Currency Lender with respect to such Foreign Currency which agrees in writing to act as such in accordance with the terms hereof and are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (which Foreign Currency Lenders, as of the Closing Date, are listed on Schedule 1.1(B)), or any of their respective affiliates, in each case in their capacities as the lenders of Foreign Currency Loans pursuant to Section 2.4(b).
Foreign Currency Loan Participants: with respect to each Foreign Currency Loan, the collective reference to all Revolving Lenders other than the Foreign Currency Lenders with respect to such Foreign Currency Loan.
Foreign Currency Loans: Revolving Loans denominated in any Foreign Currency.
Foreign Currency Participating Interest: as defined in Section 2.10(a).
Foreign Currency Sublimit: $100,000,000.
Foreign Currency Tranche: the collective reference to Foreign Currency Loans which (a) are denominated in the same Foreign Currency and (b) have current Interest Periods which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same day).
Foreign Subsidiary: any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
Fronted Foreign Currency Loans: the Foreign Currency Loans made by the Fronting Lender (other than Foreign Currency Loans made by it in an amount equal to the Fronting Lenders Revolving Percentage of outstanding Foreign Currency Loans).
Fronting Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Funded Debt: as to any Person, all Indebtedness of such Person that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date but is renewable or extendible, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period
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of more than one year from such date, including all current maturities and current sinking fund payments in respect of such Indebtedness whether or not required to be paid within one year from the date of its creation and, in the case of the Borrower, Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.
Funding Office: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section 10.2 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower and the Lenders.
GAAP: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time, except that for purposes of Section 7.1, GAAP shall be determined on the basis of such principles in effect on the Closing Date and consistent with those used in the preparation of the most recent audited financial statements referred to in Section 4.4. In the event that any Accounting Change (as defined below) shall occur and such change results in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or terms in this Agreement, then the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to reflect equitably such Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating the Borrowers financial condition shall be the same after such Accounting Changes as if such Accounting Changes had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment shall have been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Accounting Changes had not occurred. Accounting Changes refers to changes in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or, if applicable, the SEC.
Governmental Authority: any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national body exercising such powers or functions, such as the European Union or the European Central Bank), any securities exchange and any self-regulatory organization (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners).
Group Members: the collective reference to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement: the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement to be executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
Guarantee Obligation: as to any Person (the guaranteeing person), any obligation, including a reimbursement or similar obligation, of the guaranteeing Person that guarantees or in effect guarantees, or which is given to induce the creation of a separate obligation by another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit) that guarantees or in effect guarantees, any Indebtedness (the primary obligations) of any other third Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business.
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The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing persons maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
Hazardous Materials: means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
Increased Amount Date: as defined in Section 2.24(a).
Incremental Amount: at any time, the excess, if any, of (a) $250,000,000 over (b) the aggregate amount of all Incremental Term Loans made plus all Incremental Revolving Commitments established prior to such time pursuant to
Section 2.24(a).
Incremental Assumption Agreement: an Incremental Assumption Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, among the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, the Administrative Agent and one or more Incremental Term Lenders and/or Incremental Revolving Lenders.
Incremental Facility: any facility established by the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.24.
Incremental Facility Activation Notice: a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit I.
Incremental Revolving Commitment: the Revolving Commitment of any Lender, established pursuant to Section 2.24, to make Incremental Revolving Loans to the Borrower and the Co-Borrower.
Incremental Revolving Lender: each Lender which holds an Incremental Revolving Commitment or an outstanding Incremental Revolving Loan.
Incremental Revolving Loans: the Revolving Loans made by one or more Lenders to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower pursuant to Section 2.24 and/or any Incremental Assumption Agreement.
Incremental Term Lender: each Lender which holds an Incremental Term Loan.
Incremental Term Loans: the Term Loans made by one or more Lenders to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower pursuant to Section 2.24 and/or any Incremental Assumption Agreement.
Indebtedness: of any Person, without duplication, (a) all payment obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all payment obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all payment obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (d) all payment obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding accounts payable
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not overdue more than 90 days and accounts payable overdue by more than 90 days that are being disputed in good faith and for which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been established on the books of such Person, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business), (e) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including accounts and contract rights) owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed; provided, that if such Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable in respect of such Indebtedness, such obligations shall be deemed to be in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) fair market value of such property at the time of determination (in the Borrowers good faith estimate), (f) all Guarantee Obligations by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (h) all payment obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party or an applicant under or in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty, (i) all payment obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, as an account party or applicant under or in respect of bankers acceptances and (j) for the purposes of Section 8(e) only, all obligations of such Person in respect of Swap Agreements. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Persons ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, (a) in no event shall payment or any other debt obligations as classified under GAAP of the Borrower pursuant to the ACS Agreement, as in effect on February 19, 2013, constitute Indebtedness of the Borrower under this Agreement and (b) in no event shall any Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments or obligations thereunder constitute Indebtedness under this Agreement.
Insolvency: with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
Insolvent: pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.
Intellectual Property: the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including copyrights, copyright licenses, inventions, designs, patents, patent licenses, trademarks, tradenames, domain names and other source indicators, trademark licenses, technology, trade secrets, know-how and processes, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.
Interest Coverage Ratio: as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower, the ratio of (a) EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters ending on such date to (b) Interest Expense paid in cash for such four fiscal quarter period, determined in each case on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
Interest Expense: for any period, interest expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, during such period, determined in accordance with GAAP, provided that, if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries acquires Capital Stock or assets of any Person in a transaction constituting a Permitted Acquisition during such period, Interest Expense shall be adjusted to give pro forma effect to such acquisition assuming that such transaction had occurred on the first day of such period; provided, further, that Interest Expense shall be calculated after giving effect to Swap Agreements (including associated costs), but excluding unrealized gains and losses with respect to Swap Agreements.
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Interest Payment Date: (a) as to any ABR Loan (other than any Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December to occur while such Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Eurodollar Loan or Foreign Currency Loan having an Interest Period of three months or less, the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Eurodollar Loan or Foreign Currency Loan having an Interest Period longer than three months, each day that is three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period, (d) as to any Loan (other than any Revolving Loan that is an ABR Loan and any Swingline Loan), the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect thereof and (e) as to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.
Interest Period: as to any Eurodollar Loan or Foreign Currency Loan, (a) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing date (or, with respect to Eurodollar Loans, the conversion date, as the case may be) with respect to such Eurodollar Loan or Foreign Currency Loan and ending one, two, three or six months (or, with respect to Revolving Loans denominated in Dollars, if available to or otherwise agreed by all Lenders under the Revolving Facility, seven or fourteen days) thereafter, as selected by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, in its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan or Foreign Currency Loan and ending one, two, three or six months (or, with respect to Revolving Loans denominated in Dollars, if agreed to by all Lenders under the Revolving Facility, seven or fourteen days) thereafter, as selected by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M., Local Time, on the date that is three Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that, all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
(i) if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii) the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, may not select an Interest Period under a particular Facility that would extend beyond the Revolving Termination Date or beyond the date final payment is due on the Term Loans; and
(iii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month.
Interpolated Rate: at any time, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent (which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) to be equal to the rate that results from interpolating on a linear basis between: (a) the Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available in the applicable Foreign Currency) that is shorter than the Impacted Interest Period and (b) the Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available for the applicable Foreign Currency) that exceeds the Impacted Interest Period, in each case, at such time.
Investments: as defined in Section 7.8.
Issuing Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. or any affiliate thereof and each successor thereto in accordance with Section 3.11, in each case in its capacity as issuer of any Letter of Credit. Each reference herein to the Issuing Lender shall be deemed to be a reference to the relevant Issuing Lender.
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Judgment Currency: as defined in Section 10.17(a).
Judgment Currency Conversion Date: as defined in Section 10.17(a).
L/C Commitment: $50,000,000.
L/C Obligations: at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters of Credit (including the aggregate Dollar Equivalent of the undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters of Credit denominated in Acceptable Currencies) and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings under Letters of Credit (including the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate amount of drawings under Letters of Credit denominated in Acceptable Currencies) that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.5.
L/C Participants: the collective reference to all the Revolving Lenders other than the Issuing Lender.
Lead Arrangers: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as the arrangers of the Commitments under this Agreement.
Lenders: as defined in the preamble hereto; provided, that unless the context otherwise requires, each reference herein to the Lenders shall be deemed to include any Conduit Lender.
Letters of Credit: as defined in Section 3.1(a).
Lien: any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any capital lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
Loan: any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
Loan Documents: this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Notes, any Incremental Assumption Agreement, and any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification to any of the foregoing.
Loan Parties: the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
Local Time: (a) with respect to Foreign Currency Loans, local time in London and (b) with respect to Eurodollar Loans, local time in New York City.
Majority Facility Lenders: with respect to any Facility, the holders of more than 50% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans or the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit, as the case may be, outstanding under such Facility (or, in the case of the Revolving Facility, prior to any termination of the Revolving Commitments, the holders of more than 50% of the Total Revolving Commitments).
Mandatory Costs: the percentage rate per annum calculated by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Schedule 1.1(E).
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Material Adverse Effect: a material adverse effect on (a) the business, financial condition or results of operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (b) a material impairment in the ability of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or thereunder.
Material Subsidiary: at any time of determination, any Subsidiary of the Borrower that has total annual revenues of more than $10,000,000 or total assets of more than $15,000,000 for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended (it being understood that the determination of total annual revenues and total assets shall exclude intercompany payables and receivables).
Mortgages: each of the mortgages and deeds of trust made by any Loan Party in favor of, or for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Multiemployer Plan: a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
Net Cash Proceeds: (a) in connection with any Asset Sale or any Recovery Event, the proceeds thereof in the form of cash and Cash Equivalents (including any such proceeds received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received), net of attorneys fees, accountants fees, investment banking fees, amounts required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Lien expressly permitted hereunder on any asset that is the subject of such Asset Sale or Recovery Event (other than any Lien pursuant to a Security Document), other customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith and net of any transfer or similar taxes and other Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, in each case, to the extent the credit or deduction or payment under such an arrangement, as applicable, is reasonably expected to reduce such tax amounts as determined by treating the income from such Asset Sale or Recovery Event as if it were the last item of income available to offset such credit or deduction or payment) and amounts provided as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities under any indemnification obligations and any purchase price adjustments associated with any Asset Sale and (b) in connection with any incurrence of Indebtedness, the cash proceeds received from such incurrence, net of attorneys fees, investment banking fees, accountants fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith.
Newco: Coniston Exchange LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
Non-Excluded Taxes: as defined in Section 2.19(a).
Non-U.S. Lender: as defined in Section 2.19(e).
Notes: the collective reference to any promissory note evidencing Loans.
Obligations: the unpaid principal of and interest on (including interest accruing after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) the Loans and all other obligations and liabilities of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender (or, in the case of Specified Swap
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Agreements and Specified Cash Management Agreements, any affiliate of any Lender), whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Letters of Credit, any Specified Swap Agreement, any Specified Cash Management Agreement or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses (including all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
Other Taxes: any and all present or future stamp or documentary Taxes, recording and filing fees or any other excise or property Taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Overnight Eurocurrency Rate: with respect to any Loans or overdue amount in respect thereof, (a) the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in the applicable currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank market plus (b) Mandatory Costs.
Parent: with respect to any Lender, any Person as to which such Lender is, directly or indirectly, a subsidiary.
Participant: as defined in Section 10.6(c).
Participant Register: as defined in Section 10.6(c).
Patriot Act: as defined in Section 10.19.
PBGC: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).
Permitted Acquisition: any acquisition by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower of all or a majority of the Capital Stock in, all or substantially all of the assets of, or all or substantially all of the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of a Person if (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or result from such acquisition, (b) such acquisition is of a Person in a business reasonably related to the Borrowers existing business (or of assets used in a reasonably-related business), (c) such acquisition is not a tender offer or similar solicitation which has not been approved (prior to such acquisition) by the board of directors (or any other applicable governing body) of such Person, (d) such acquisition is completed in accordance with applicable laws, (e) the terms of Section 6.10 are satisfied promptly following the closing of such acquisition or within such time period thereafter as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require, (e) the Borrower is in compliance on a pro forma basis with Section 7.1, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available as if such acquisition has occurred on the first day of such period for purposes of calculating EBITDA and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such acquisition, (f) the aggregate purchase price (which shall be deemed to include the principal amount of Indebtedness that is assumed in connection with the acquisition and the Borrowers good faith estimate (as of the date of consummation of such acquisition) of the aggregate amount that will be payable by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to any post-closing payment adjustments or earn-outs with respect to such acquisition) in respect of all Permitted Acquisitions made after the Closing Date does not exceed $100,000,000; provided that the
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limitation under this clause (f) shall cease to apply if after giving effect to such acquisition, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available as if such acquisition has occurred on the first day of such period for purposes of calculating EBITDA and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such acquisition, is less than 2.75 to 1.0 and (g) the Borrower has delivered to the Administrative Agent a certificate of a Responsible Officer to the effect set forth in clauses (a) through (f) above, together with all relevant financial information for the Person or assets to be acquired.
Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments: any call options or forward purchase contracts (or similar instruments) relating to the Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (or the cash value thereof), any share loan agreements or similar arrangements (for the lending of Capital Stock by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower to any underwriter or third party) and any warrants to purchase or otherwise acquire any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (or the cash value thereof), in each case purchased, entered into or issued contemporaneously or otherwise in connection with the issuance of Convertible Securities and any instrument entered into in connection with any unwind of any of the foregoing; provided that, with respect to any such issuance of Convertible Securities, the aggregate cash consideration paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments acquired, entered into or issued in connection therewith (net of any proceeds received by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the sale or issuance of any Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments entered into or issued in connection therewith) shall not exceed $40,000,000.
Person: an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
Plan: any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which any Group Member or any of their ERISA Affiliates, is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an employer as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Prepayment: as defined in Section 7.9. Prepay has a meaning correlative thereto.
Prime Rate: the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City (the Prime Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in connection with extensions of credit to debtors).
Projections: as defined in Section 6.2(c).
Properties: the facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by any Group Member.
Quotation Day: with respect to any Foreign Currency Loan and any Interest Period, (i) if the currency is AUD, CAD or the lawful currency of the United Kingdom, the first day of such Interest Period, (ii) if the currency is Euro, two TARGET Days before the first day of such Interest Period and (iii) for any other Foreign Currency, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period (unless the rate fixing day in accordance with market practice in the applicable interbank market is otherwise, as determined by the Administrative Agent).
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Recovery Event: any settlement of or payment in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any asset of any Group Member.
Refunded Swingline Loans: as defined in Section 2.7.
Register: as defined in Section 10.6(b).
Regulation U: Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time.
Reimbursement Obligation: the obligation of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, to reimburse the Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.5 for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.
Reinvestment Deferred Amount: with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by any Group Member in connection therewith that are not applied to prepay the Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.11(c) as a result of the delivery of a Reinvestment Notice.
Reinvestment Event: any Asset Sale or Recovery Event in respect of which the Borrower has delivered a Reinvestment Notice.
Reinvestment Notice: a written notice executed by a Responsible Officer stating that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and that the Borrower (directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary) intends and expects to use all or a specified portion of the Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale or Recovery Event to acquire or repair productive assets of the kind then used or usable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
Reinvestment Prepayment Amount: with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the Reinvestment Deferred Amount relating thereto less any amount expended prior to the relevant Reinvestment Prepayment Date to acquire or repair productive assets of the kind then used or usable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
Reinvestment Prepayment Date: with respect to any Reinvestment Event, the earlier of (a) the date occurring twelve months after such Reinvestment Event (or, if a binding contract to use the Net Cash Proceeds has been entered into within 12 months after such Reinvestment Event, the date occurring 18 months after such Reinvestment Event) and (b) the date on which the Borrower shall have determined not to, or shall have otherwise ceased to, acquire or repair productive assets of the kind then used or usable by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with all or any portion of the relevant Reinvestment Deferred Amount.
Required Lenders: at any time, the holders of more than 50% of (a) until the Closing Date, the Commitments then in effect and (b) thereafter, the sum of (i) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding and (ii) the Total Revolving Commitments then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitments have been terminated, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
Requirement of Law: as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
Reset Date: as defined in Section 2.25(a).
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Responsible Officer: the chairman, chief executive officer, president or chief financial officer of the Borrower.
Restricted Payments: as defined in Section 7.6.
Revolving Commitment: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make Revolving Loans and participate in Foreign Currency Loans, Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading Revolving Commitment opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 1.1(A) or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The original amount of the Total Revolving Commitments is $425,000,000.
Revolving Commitment Period: the period from and including the Closing Date to the Revolving Termination Date.
Revolving Extensions of Credit: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans (other than Foreign Currency Loans) held by such Lender then outstanding, (b) such Lenders Revolving Percentage of the L/C Obligations then outstanding, (c) such Lenders Revolving Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding and (d) such Lenders Revolving Percentage of the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of Foreign Currency Loans then outstanding.
Revolving Lender: each Lender that has a Revolving Commitment or that holds Revolving Loans.
Revolving Loans: as defined in Section 2.4(a).
Revolving Percentage: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lenders Revolving Commitment then constitutes of the Total Revolving Commitments or, at any time after the Revolving Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lenders Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans then outstanding, provided, that, in the event that the Revolving Loans are paid in full prior to the reduction to zero of the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit, the Revolving Percentages shall be determined in a manner designed to ensure that the other outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit shall be held by the Revolving Lenders on a comparable basis.
Revolving Termination Date: June 28, 2018.
Screen Rate: the LIBOR Screen Rate, AUD Screen Rate, CAD Screen Rate or SIBOR Screen Rate (each as defined in the definition of Eurocurrency Base Rate), as applicable.
SEC: the Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any analogous Governmental Authority.
Secured Parties: as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
Security Documents: the collective reference to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, the Mortgages (if any) and all other security documents hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent granting a Lien on any property of any Person to secure the obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party under any Loan Document.
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Senior Secured Indebtedness: Indebtedness (other than any Subordinated Indebtedness) that is secured by a Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
Senior Secured Leverage Ratio: as of any day, the ratio of (a) Senior Secured Indebtedness as of such date to (b) EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended, determined in each case on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
SGD: the lawful currency of Singapore.
Specified Cash Management Agreement: any agreement providing for treasury, depositary, purchasing card, credit card or cash management services, including in connection with any automated clearing house transfers of funds or any similar transactions between the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor and any Lender or affiliate thereof.
Specified Change in Control: a change in control or fundamental change (or any other defined term having a similar purpose), as defined in any indenture or other instrument governing any Convertible Securities.
Specified Swap Agreement: any Swap Agreement in respect of interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices entered into by the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor and any Person that is a Lender or an affiliate of a Lender at the time such Swap Agreement is entered into.
Subordinated Indebtedness: any Indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations.
Subsidiary: as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
Subsidiary Guarantor: each Material Subsidiary of the Borrower other than (a) any Foreign Subsidiary or CFC Domestic Subsidiary, (b) Newco and (c) the Co-Borrower.
Swap Agreement: any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.
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Swingline Commitment: the obligation of the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans pursuant to Section 2.6 in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $10,000,000.
Swingline Lender: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as the lender of Swingline Loans.
Swingline Loans: as defined in Section 2.6.
Swingline Participation Amount: as defined in Section 2.7.
Syndication Agents: as defined in the preamble hereto.
TARGET Day: any day on which (i) TARGET2 is open for settlement of payments in Euro and (ii) banks are open for dealings in deposits in Euro in the London interbank market.
TARGET2: the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November 19, 2007.
Taxes: any and all income, stamp or other taxes, duties, levies, imposts, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, and all interest, penalties or similar liabilities with respect thereto.
Term Commitment: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make a Term Loan to the Borrower in a principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading Term Commitment opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 1.1(A). The original aggregate amount of the Term Commitments is $225,000,000.
Term Lender: each Lender that has a Term Commitment or that holds a Term Loan.
Term Loan: as defined in Section 2.1.
Term Loan Maturity Date: June 28, 2018.
Term Percentage: as to any Term Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lenders Term Commitment then constitutes of the aggregate Term Commitments (or, at any time after the Closing Date, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lenders Term Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding).
Total Leverage Ratio: as of any day, the ratio of (a) Indebtedness as of such date to (b) EBITDA for the four fiscal quarters most recently ended, determined in each case on a consolidated basis for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
Total Revolving Commitments: at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments then in effect.
Total Revolving Extensions of Credit: at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Revolving Lenders outstanding at such time.
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Transactions: (a) the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of the Loan Documents to which it is to be a party, the borrowing of Loans, the joinder of any party to the provisions hereof, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder and (b) the execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each other document and instrument required to satisfy the conditions precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement under Section 5.1.
Transferee: any Assignee or Participant.
Type: as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.
United States: the United States of America.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary: as to any Person, any other Person all of the Capital Stock of which (other than directors qualifying shares required by law) is owned by such Person directly and/or through other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor: any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.
Withdrawal Liability: any liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Title IV of ERISA.
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions. (a) Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b) As used herein and in the other Loan Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms relating to any Group Member not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP (provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to (i) any election under Accounting Standards Codification 825-10-25 (previously referred to as Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159) (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of any Group Member at fair value, as defined therein and (ii) any treatment of Indebtedness in respect of convertible debt instruments under Accounting Standards Codification 470-20 (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any such Indebtedness in a reduced or bifurcated manner as described therein, and such Indebtedness shall at all times be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof), (ii) the words include, includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation, (iii) the word incur shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words incurred and incurrence shall have correlative meanings), (iv) the words asset and property shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Capital Stock, securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, and (v) references to agreements or other Contractual Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
(c) The words hereof, herein and hereunder and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
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(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.
1.3 Financial Calculations. Whenever the calculation of the financial covenants or other financial calculations required herein shall include a period during which any Group Member had different fiscal reporting periods than those of the Borrower, the Borrower shall use in such calculations the fiscal periods of such Group Member most closely related in time to the fiscal periods of the Borrower.
SECTION 2. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
2.1 Term Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Term Lender severally agrees to make a term loan (a Term Loan) to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower, as the case may be, on the Closing Date in an amount not to exceed the amount of the Term Commitment of such Lender. The Term Loans may from time to time be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.12.
2.2 Procedure for Term Loan Borrowing. The Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, one Business Day prior to the anticipated Closing Date) requesting that the Term Lenders make the Term Loans on the Closing Date and specifying the amount to be borrowed. The Term Loans made on the Closing Date shall initially be ABR Loans. Upon receipt of such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Term Lender thereof. Not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the Closing Date each Term Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the Term Loan or Term Loans to be made by such Lender. The Administrative Agent shall credit the account of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, on the books of such office of the Administrative Agent with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Term Lenders in immediately available funds.
2.3 Repayment of Term Loans. The Term Loans of each Term Lender shall mature in quarterly installments commencing on September 30, 2013, such that the amount of each installment equals such Lenders Term Percentage multiplied by the amount set forth in the table below, provided that, notwithstanding the above, the remaining principal balance as of the Term Loan Maturity Date shall be due and payable on the Term Loan Maturity Date:
Installment | Principal Amount | |
1-4 | $2,812,500 | |
5-8 | $5,625,000 | |
9-12 | $8,437,500 | |
13-16 | $11,250,000 | |
17-19 | $14,062,500 | |
Term Loan Maturity Date | Remaining balance |
2.4 Revolving Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Revolving Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit loans (Revolving Loans) in Dollars to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower, as the case may be, from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding which, when added to such Lenders Revolving Percentage of the sum of (i) the L/C Obligations then outstanding, (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans then outstanding and (iii) the Dollar Equivalent of the
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aggregate principal amount of the Foreign Currency Loans then outstanding, does not exceed the amount of such Lenders Revolving Commitment. During the Revolving Commitment Period the Borrower and the Co-Borrower may use the Revolving Commitments by borrowing, prepaying the Revolving Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The Revolving Loans may from time to time be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.5 and 2.12.
(b) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Foreign Currency Lender agrees, with respect to any Foreign Currency Loan in a Foreign Currency for which it is designated a Foreign Currency Lender, to make Foreign Currency Loans to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower, as the case may be, from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period; provided that after giving effect to the requested Foreign Currency Loan (i) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate principal amount of Foreign Currency Loans outstanding at such time shall not exceed the Foreign Currency Sublimit, (ii) such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit do not exceed the amount of such Lenders Revolving Commitment and (iii) the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit outstanding at such time shall not exceed the Total Revolving Commitments. The Foreign Currency Loans shall be Eurocurrency Loans.
(c) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall repay all outstanding Revolving Loans on the Revolving Termination Date.
2.5 Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing. (a) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower may borrow under the Revolving Commitments in Dollars during the Revolving Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time, (a) three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, or (b) one Business Day prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans) (provided that any such notice of a borrowing of ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility to finance payments required by Section 3.5 may be given not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the date of the proposed borrowing), specifying (i) the amount and Type of Revolving Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the requested Borrowing Date and (iii) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the respective amounts of each such Type of Loan and the respective lengths of the initial Interest Period therefor. Any Revolving Loans made on the Closing Date shall initially be ABR Loans. Each borrowing under the Revolving Commitments shall be in an amount equal to (x) in the case of ABR Loans, $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof (or, if the then aggregate Available Revolving Commitments are less than $1,000,000, such lesser amount) and (y) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, $2,500,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided, that the Swingline Lender may request, on behalf of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, borrowings under the Revolving Commitments that are ABR Loans in other amounts pursuant to Section 2.7. Upon receipt of any such notice from the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Lender thereof. Each Revolving Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, at the Funding Office prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, by the Administrative Agent crediting the account of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, on the books of such office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Revolving Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.
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(b) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower may borrow under the Revolving Commitments in any Foreign Currency during the Revolving Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall give the Foreign Currency Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Foreign Currency Agent prior to 3:00 P.M., London time, four Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the amount of Foreign Currency Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the Foreign Currency in which such Foreign Currency Loans will be denominated, (iii) the requested Borrowing Date, (iv) the length of the initial Interest Period therefor and (v) the applicable account of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, to which such funds will be credited or disbursed. Upon receipt of any such notice from the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, the Foreign Currency Agent shall promptly notify each Foreign Currency Lender thereof. Each Borrowing of Foreign Currency Loans in a particular Foreign Currency shall be in a minimum amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of $2,500,000. On the Borrowing Date, each Foreign Currency Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share (as determined in accordance with Section 2.17(d)) of each borrowing available to the Foreign Currency Agent at the applicable office specified on the Administrative Schedule, prior to the time specified on the Administrative Schedule for the relevant Foreign Currency, in the relevant Foreign Currency in funds immediately available. Such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, in like funds as received by the Foreign Currency Agent, by the Foreign Currency Agent crediting or disbursing the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Foreign Currency Agent by the Foreign Currency Lenders to the account set forth by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, in the applicable borrowing notice.
2.6 Swingline Commitment. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swingline Lender agrees to make a portion of the credit otherwise available to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower under the Revolving Commitments from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period by making swing line loans in Dollars (Swingline Loans) to the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower, as the case may be; provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans outstanding at any time shall not exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect (notwithstanding that the Swingline Loans outstanding at any time, when aggregated with the Swingline Lenders other outstanding Revolving Loans, may exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect) and (ii) the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall not request, and the Swingline Lender shall not make, any Swingline Loan if, after giving effect to the making of such Swingline Loan, the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Commitments would be less than zero. During the Revolving Commitment Period, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower may use the Swingline Commitment by borrowing, repaying and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. Swingline Loans shall be ABR Loans only.
(b) The Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall repay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Termination Date and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar month and is at least two Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date that a Revolving Loan is borrowed, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding.
2.7 Procedure for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans. (a) Whenever the Borrower or the Co-Borrower desires that the Swingline Lender make Swingline Loans it shall give the Swingline Lender irrevocable telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing (which telephonic notice must be received by the Swingline Lender not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the proposed Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed and (ii) the requested Borrowing Date (which shall be a Business Day during the Revolving Commitment Period). Each borrowing under the Swingline Commitment shall be in an amount equal to $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Not later than 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Borrowing Date specified in a notice in respect of Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the
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amount of the Swingline Loan to be made by the Swingline Lender. The Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swingline Loan available to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, on such Borrowing Date by depositing such proceeds in the account of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, with the Administrative Agent on such Borrowing Date in immediately available funds.
(b) The Swingline Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion may, on behalf of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower (each of which hereby irrevocably directs the Swingline Lender to act on its behalf), on one Business Days notice given by the Swingline Lender no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, request each Revolving Lender to make, and each Revolving Lender hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Loan, in an amount equal to such Revolving Lenders Revolving Percentage of the aggregate amount of the Swingline Loans (the Refunded Swingline Loans) outstanding on the date of such notice, to repay the Swingline Lender. Each Revolving Lender shall make the amount of such Revolving Loan available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time, one Business Day after the date of such notice. The proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be immediately made available by the Administrative Agent to the Swingline Lender for application by the Swingline Lender to the repayment of the Refunded Swingline Loans. Upon notification by the Administrative Agent, each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees to authorize the Swingline Lender to charge the accounts of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, with the Administrative Agent indicated by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, up to the amount available in each such account, in order to immediately pay the amount of such Refunded Swingline Loans to the extent amounts received from the Revolving Lenders are not sufficient to repay in full such Refunded Swingline Loans.
(c) If prior to the time a Revolving Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant to Section 2.7(b), one of the events described in Section 8(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower or if for any other reason, as determined by the Swingline Lender in its sole discretion, Revolving Loans may not be made as contemplated by Section 2.7(b), each Revolving Lender shall, on the date such Revolving Loan was to have been made pursuant to the notice referred to in Section 2.7(b), purchase for cash an undivided participating interest in the then outstanding Swingline Loans by paying to the Swingline Lender an amount (the Swingline Participation Amount) equal to (i) such Revolving Lenders Revolving Percentage times (ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding that were to have been repaid with such Revolving Loans.
(d) Whenever, at any time after the Swingline Lender has received from any Revolving Lender such Lenders Swingline Participation Amount, the Swingline Lender receives any payment on account of the Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender will distribute to such Lender its Swingline Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lenders participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in the case of principal and interest payments, to reflect such Lenders pro rata portion of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on all Swingline Loans then due); provided, however, that in the event that such payment received by the Swingline Lender is required to be returned, such Revolving Lender will return to the Swingline Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swingline Lender.
(e) Each Revolving Lenders obligation to make the Loans referred to in Section 2.7(b) and to purchase participating interests pursuant to Section 2.7(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such Revolving Lender, the Borrower or the Co-Borrower may have against the Swingline Lender, the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or
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otherwise) of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Revolving Lender or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
2.8 Commitment Fees, Fees with respect to Foreign Currency Loans, etc. (a) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower agree to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Revolving Lender, a commitment fee for the period from and including the Closing Date to the date the Revolving Commitments terminate, computed at the Commitment Fee Rate on the average daily amount of the Available Revolving Commitment of such Lender during the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date.
(b) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower agree to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts and on the dates as set forth in any fee agreements with the Administrative Agent and to perform any other obligations contained therein.
(c) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower agree to pay to the Foreign Currency Agent, for the account of the Fronting Lender, at the applicable office of the Foreign Currency Agent set forth on the Administrative Schedule, a fronting fee with respect to each Fronted Foreign Currency Loan for the period from and including the Borrowing Date of such Fronted Foreign Currency Loan to but excluding the date of repayment thereof computed at a rate of 0.125% per annum on the average daily principal amount of such Fronted Foreign Currency Loan outstanding during the period for which such fee is calculated. Such Fronting Fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date to occur after the making of such Foreign Currency Loan and on the Revolving Termination Date.
(d) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the applicable Foreign Currency Loan Participants, a participation fee with respect to each Fronted Foreign Currency Loan for the period from and including the borrowing date of such Fronted Foreign Currency Loan to but excluding the date of repayment thereof, computed at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin in respect of Eurodollar Loans that are Revolving Loans from time to time in effect on the average aggregate daily principal amount of such Fronted Foreign Currency Loans outstanding during the period for which such fee is calculated, which fee shall be paid in Dollars based on the Dollar Equivalent thereof. Such fee shall, with respect to each Fronted Foreign Currency Loan, be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date to occur after the making of such Fronted Foreign Currency Loan and on the Revolving Termination Date.
2.9 Termination or Reduction of Revolving Commitments. The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three Business Days notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Revolving Commitments or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Revolving Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction of Revolving Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any prepayments of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans made on the effective date thereof, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total Revolving Commitments. Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the Revolving Commitments then in effect.
2.10 Foreign Currency Participations; Conversion of Foreign Currency Loans. (a) The Fronting Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each Foreign Currency Loan Participant, and, to induce the Fronting Lender to make Fronted Foreign Currency Loans hereunder, each Foreign Currency Loan Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Fronting Lender, on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, for such Foreign Currency Loan Participants own account and risk, with respect to any Fronted Foreign Currency Loan in
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any Foreign Currency in which such Lender is a Foreign Currency Loan Participant, an undivided interest (a Foreign Currency Participating Interest), in an amount equal to such Foreign Currency Loan Participants Revolving Percentage of the outstanding principal amount of such Foreign Currency Loan (it being understood that such calculation shall be made in respect of the outstanding principal amount of such Foreign Currency Loan, and not the portion thereof constituting a Fronted Foreign Currency Loan), in the Fronting Lenders obligations and rights under such Fronted Foreign Currency Loan made hereunder. Each Revolving Lender that is a Foreign Currency Loan Participant with respect to any Foreign Currency unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with the Fronting Lender that, solely upon the occurrence of an event set forth in Section 2.10(d)(i) or (ii), such Revolving Lender shall pay to the Fronting Lender upon demand an amount equal to (i) in the case of an event set forth in Section 2.10(d)(i) with respect to a Foreign Currency Loan for which such Revolving Lender is a Foreign Currency Loan Participant, the Dollar Equivalent of such Foreign Currency Loan Participants Revolving Percentage of the amount of such payment which is not so paid as required under this Agreement and (ii) in the case of an event set forth in Section 2.10(d)(ii), the Dollar Equivalent of such Revolving Lenders Revolving Percentage of the Foreign Currency Loans then outstanding in any Foreign Currency in which such Revolving Lender is a Foreign Currency Loan Participant.
(b) If any amount required to be paid by any Foreign Currency Loan Participant to the Fronting Lender pursuant to Section 2.10(a) or Section 2.10(d) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by the Fronting Lender in respect of any Foreign Currency Loan is paid to the Fronting Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such Foreign Currency Loan Participant shall pay to the Fronting Lender on demand an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the Eurocurrency Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Fronting Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any such amount required to be paid by any Foreign Currency Loan Participant pursuant to Section 2.10(a) is not made available to the Fronting Lender by such Foreign Currency Loan Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Fronting Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Foreign Currency Loan Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon at a rate equal to the greater of the daily average Overnight Eurocurrency Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation for the period until such Foreign Currency Loan Participant makes such amount immediately available to the Fronting Lender. A certificate of the Fronting Lender submitted to any Foreign Currency Loan Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Whenever, at any time after the Fronting Lender has made a Fronted Foreign Currency Loan and has received from any Foreign Currency Loan Participant its pro rata share of such payment in accordance with subsection 2.10(a), the Fronting Lender receives any payment related to such Fronted Foreign Currency Loan (whether directly from the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto by the Fronting Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Fronting Lender will, within three Business Days after receipt thereof, distribute to such Foreign Currency Loan Participant its pro rata share thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such payment received by the Fronting Lender shall be required to be returned by the Fronting Lender, such Foreign Currency Loan Participant shall, within three Business Days, return to the Fronting Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by the Fronting Lender to it. If any amount payable under this paragraph is paid within three Business Days after such payment is due, the Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, which owes such amount shall pay to the Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, to which such amount is owed on demand an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the Eurocurrency Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on
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which such payment is made available to such Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any amount required to be paid under this paragraph is not in fact made available to the Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, to which such amount is owed within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, shall be entitled to recover from the Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, which owes such amount, on demand, such amount with interest thereon at a rate equal to the greater of the daily average Overnight Eurocurrency Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation for the period until such Foreign Currency Loan Participant or the Fronting Lender, as the case may be, makes such amount immediately available to the Foreign Currency Loan Participant or Fronting Lender, as the case may be.
(d) In the event that any Foreign Currency Loan shall be outstanding and (i) the principal of or interest on such Foreign Currency Loan shall not be paid (x) with respect to a payment due on a scheduled payment date, within three Business Days after such date and (y) with respect to a payment due on any other date, within three Business Days after the Borrower receives notice of such due date from the Administrative Agent or Required Lenders, and, in either case, the Fronting Lender shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower a request that the provisions of this Section 2.10(d) take effect with respect to such Foreign Currency Loan or (ii) the Commitments shall be terminated or the Loans accelerated pursuant to Section 8, then (unless such request is revoked by the Fronting Lender) (x) the obligations of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower in respect of the principal of and interest on such Foreign Currency Loan shall without further action be converted into obligations denominated in Dollars based upon the Exchange Rate in effect for the day on which such conversion occurs, as determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof, (y) such converted obligations will bear interest at the rate applicable to overdue ABR Loans and (z) each Revolving Lender shall pay the purchase price for its Foreign Currency Participating Interest in such Foreign Currency Loan by wire transfer of immediately available funds in Dollars to the Administrative Agent in the manner provided in Section 2.10(a) and (b) (and the Administrative Agent shall promptly wire the amounts so received to the Fronting Lender). Upon any event specified in clause (ii) above, the commitments of the Foreign Currency Lenders to make Foreign Currency Loans pursuant to Section 2.4(b) shall be permanently terminated. The obligations of the Revolving Lenders to acquire and pay for their Foreign Currency Participating Interests pursuant to this Section 2.10(d) shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.
2.11 Prepayments and Commitment Reductions. (a) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower may at any time and from time to time prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, upon irrevocable notice delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, three Business Days prior thereto, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, no later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, one Business Day prior thereto, in the case of ABR Loans and no later than the time set forth thereof for the relevant Foreign Currency on the Administrative Schedule, in the case of Foreign Currency Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment, the Loans to be prepaid and whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar Loans, ABR Loans or Foreign Currency Loans (and, with respect to Foreign Currency Loans, the Foreign Currency in which such Loans are denominated); provided, that if a Eurodollar Loan or a Foreign Currency Loan is prepaid on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.20. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein, together with (except in the case of Revolving Loans that are ABR Loans and Swingline Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount prepaid. Partial prepayments of Term Loans and Revolving Loans (other than Foreign Currency
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Loans) shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof. Partial prepayments of Swingline Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple thereof. Partial prepayments of Foreign Currency Loans shall be in a minimum amount as set forth for the relevant Foreign Currency on the Administrative Schedule.
(b) If any Indebtedness shall be incurred by any Group Member (excluding any Indebtedness incurred in accordance with Section 7.2), an amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied within ten (10) Business Days after the date of such issuance or incurrence toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(e).
(c) If on any date any Group Member shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset Sale or Recovery Event in excess of $5,000,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year then, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall be delivered in respect thereof, such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied within ten (10) Business Days after such date toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(e); provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no prepayment under this Section 2.11(c) shall be required to the extent that, prior to or after giving effect to the prepayment, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such prepayment, is less than 2.5 to 1.0; (ii) within ten (10) Business Days after Reinvestment Prepayment Date, an amount equal to the Reinvestment Prepayment Amount with respect to the relevant Reinvestment Event shall be applied toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(e); and (iii) in the event Borrower changes its fiscal year, the measurement period for the $5,000,000 threshold shall be the trailing twelve month period ending immediately prior to the commencement of the new fiscal year, and thereafter such new fiscal year, but in no event will Net Cash Proceeds received prior to the Closing Date be counted against the $5,000,000 threshold.
(d) If, for any fiscal year of the Borrower commencing with the 2013 fiscal year, there shall be Excess Cash Flow, the Borrower shall, on the relevant Excess Cash Flow Application Date, apply the excess of (x) 50% of such Excess Cash Flow over (y) any optional prepayments of the Term Loans during such fiscal year toward the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in Section 2.11(e); provided that no prepayment under this Section 2.11(d) shall be required to the extent that, prior to or after giving effect to the prepayment, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such prepayment, is less than 2.5 to 1.0. Each such prepayment and commitment reduction shall be made on a date (an Excess Cash Flow Application Date) no later than ten (10) Business Days after the earlier of (i) the date on which the financial statements of the Borrower referred to in Section 6.1(a), for the fiscal year with respect to which such prepayment is made, are required to be delivered to the Lenders and (ii) the date such financial statements are actually delivered.
(e) Amounts to be applied in connection with prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.11(b), (c) or (d) shall be applied to the prepayment of the Term Loans in accordance with Section 2.17(b). The application of any prepayment pursuant to Section 2.11(b), (c) or (d) shall be made, first, to ABR Loans and, second, to Eurodollar Loans. Each prepayment of the Loans under Section 2.11(b), (c) or (d) shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the amount prepaid.
(f) If, on any Calculation Date, (i) the aggregate Dollar Equivalents of the outstanding principal amounts of Foreign Currency Loans exceeds an amount equal to 105% of the Foreign Currency Sublimit, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall, without notice or demand, immediately repay such of the outstanding Foreign Currency Loans in an aggregate principal amount such that, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate Dollar Equivalents of the outstanding principal amounts of
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Foreign Currency Loans does not exceed the Foreign Currency Sublimit or (ii) the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit exceed the Total Revolving Commitments, and the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit exceed the Total Revolving Commitments for four consecutive Business Days thereafter, then on such fourth Business Day thereafter, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall, without notice or demand, immediately repay such of the outstanding Revolving Extensions of Credit in an aggregate principal amount such that, after giving effect thereto, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit do not exceed the Total Revolving Commitments.
2.12 Conversion and Continuation Options. (a) The Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, may elect from time to time to convert Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date, provided that any such conversion of Eurodollar Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. The Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, may elect from time to time to convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date (which notice shall specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor), provided that no ABR Loan under a particular Facility may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent or the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of such Facility have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such conversions. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
(b) Any Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, giving irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term Interest Period set forth in Section 1.1, of the length of the next Interest Period to be applicable to such Loans, provided that no Eurodollar Loan under a particular Facility may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of such Facility have determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such continuations, and provided, further, that if the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall fail to give any required notice as described above in this paragraph or if such continuation is not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso such Loans shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
2.13 Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Eurodollar Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each Eurodollar Tranche shall be equal to $2,500,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (b) no more than ten Eurodollar Tranches shall be outstanding at any one time. There shall be no more than three Foreign Currency Tranches outstanding in any single Foreign Currency at any time.
2.14 Interest Rates and Payment Dates. (a) Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin.
(b) Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR plus the Applicable Margin.
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(c) Each Foreign Currency Loan (other than Fronted Foreign Currency Loans) shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin applicable to Eurodollar Loans under the Revolving Facility. Each Fronted Foreign Currency Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate.
(d) (i) If all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to (x) in the case of the Loans, the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section plus 2% or (y) in the case of Reimbursement Obligations, the rate applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility plus 2%, and (ii) if all or a portion of any interest payable on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation or any commitment fee or other amount payable hereunder shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate then applicable to ABR Loans under the relevant Facility plus 2% (or (x) in the case of Foreign Currency Loans, the rate then applicable to such Loans plus 2% and (y) in the case of any such other amounts that do not relate to a particular Facility, the rate then applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility plus 2%), in each case, with respect to clauses (i) and (ii) above, from the date of such non-payment until such amount is paid in full (as well after as before judgment).
(e) Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section shall be payable from time to time on demand.
2.15 Computation of Interest and Fees. (a) Interest and fees payable pursuant hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed, except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate of interest on which is calculated on the basis of the Prime Rate and interest computed on Foreign Currency Loans made in the currency of the United Kingdom, the interest thereon shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination of a Eurodollar Rate or a Eurocurrency Rate. Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR or the Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change becomes effective. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of the effective date and the amount of each such change in interest rate.
(b) Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower, deliver to the Borrower a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate pursuant to Section 2.14(a) or Section 2.14(c).
2.16 Inability to Determine Interest Rate. If prior to the first day of any Interest Period:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower and the Co-Borrower in the absence of manifest error) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means (including by means of an Interpolated Rate or Dollar Interpolated Rate) do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate or Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period, or
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(b) the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Majority Facility Lenders in respect of the relevant Facility that the Eurodollar Rate or Eurocurrency Rate determined or to be determined for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their affected Loans during such Interest Period,
the Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter. If such notice is given (i) in respect of Eurodollar Loans, (x) any Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made as ABR Loans, (y) any Loans under the relevant Facility that were to have been converted on the first day of such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall be continued as ABR Loans and (z) any outstanding Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility shall be converted, on the last day of the then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans and (ii) in respect of Foreign Currency Loans, (x) any Foreign Currency Loans requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall not be made and (y) any outstanding Foreign Currency Loans shall be due and payable on the last day of the then-current Interest Period. Until such notice has been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility or Foreign Currency Loans, as the case may be, shall be made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower or the Co-Borrower have the right to convert Loans under the relevant Facility to Eurodollar Loans.
2.17 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments. (a) Each borrowing by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower from the Lenders hereunder (other than with respect to any Foreign Currency Loan), each payment by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower on account of any commitment fee, any participation fee and any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders shall be made pro rata according to the respective Term Percentages or Revolving Percentages, as the case may be, of the relevant Lenders.
(b) Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Term Loans shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Term Loans then held by the Term Lenders. The amount of each principal prepayment of the Term Loans shall be applied to reduce the then remaining installments of the Term Loans, pro rata based upon the then remaining principal amounts thereof. Amounts prepaid on account of the Term Loans may not be reborrowed.
(c) Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Revolving Loans (other than the Foreign Currency Loans) shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Revolving Loans then held by the Revolving Lenders.
(d) With respect to any Borrowing of Foreign Currency Loans, the Foreign Currency Loans of each applicable Foreign Currency Lender (other than the Fronting Lender) shall be in an amount equal to its Revolving Percentage of such Borrowing, and the Foreign Currency Loan of the Fronting Lender shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate amount of such Borrowing less the amount of the Foreign Currency Loans being made by other applicable Foreign Currency Lenders and comprising part of such Borrowing. Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Foreign Currency Loans shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Foreign Currency Loans then held by the Foreign Currency Lenders.
(e) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise (other than in respect of the principal or interest on, or the fronting fee with respect to, the Foreign Currency Loans), shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and shall be made prior to 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, at the Funding Office, in Dollars
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and in immediately available funds. All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower hereunder on account of principal or interest on, or the fronting fee with respect to, the Foreign Currency Loans shall be made in the relevant Foreign Currency, without setoff and counterclaim and shall be made on the due date thereof to the Foreign Currency Agent, for the account of the Foreign Currency Lenders, at the office, and prior to the time for payment for the relevant Foreign Currency, set forth on the Administrative Schedule. The Administrative Agent or Foreign Currency Agent, as applicable, shall distribute such payments to each relevant Lender or Fronting Lender, as the case may be, promptly upon receipt in like funds as received, net of any amounts owing by such Lender pursuant to Section 9.7. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day. If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan or a Foreign Currency Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day. In the case of any extension of any payment of principal pursuant to the preceding two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.
(f) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior to a borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its share of such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender is making such amount available to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, a corresponding amount. If such amount is not made available to the Administrative Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon, at a rate equal to the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, for the period until such Lender makes such amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this paragraph shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. If such Lenders share of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender within three Business Days after such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans under the relevant Facility, on demand, from the Borrower.
(g) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, prior to the date of any payment due to be made by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower hereunder that the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, will not make such payment to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, is making such payment, and the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Lenders their respective pro rata shares of a corresponding amount. If such payment is not made to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, within three Business Days after such due date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover, on demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant to the preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower or the Co-Borrower.
(h) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.7(b), 2.7(c), 2.10, 2.17(e), 2.17(f), 3.4(a) or 9.7, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Agreement), (i) apply any amounts thereafter
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received by the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender, the Fronting Lender or the Issuing Lender for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lenders obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid and/or (ii) hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and application to, any future funding obligations of such Lender under any such Section, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion.
2.18 Requirements of Law. (a) If the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the Closing Date:
(i) shall subject any Lender to any Taxes (other than (A) Non-Excluded Taxes, (B) Other Taxes and (C) Excluded Taxes on gross or net income, profits or receipts (including value-added or similar Taxes)) on its loans, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto;
(ii) shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender that is not otherwise included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate or the Eurocurrency Rate; or
(iii) shall impose on such Lender any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, by an amount that such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit (or, in the case of (i) above, of making any Loan), or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender, upon its demand, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount receivable; provided, however, that any such additional amounts payable under this Section 2.18 shall be without duplication of amounts to which such Lender may be entitled under Section 2.19. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled.
(b) If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or liquidity requirements or in the interpretation or application of the foregoing or compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy or liquidity (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent to the Closing Date shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lenders or such corporations capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lenders or such corporations policies with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then from time to time, after submission by such Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such corporation for such reduction.
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(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall, in each case, be deemed to be a change in a Requirement of Law, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
(d) If by reason of any change in a Requirement of Law subsequent to the Closing Date, disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or similar event, the funding of any Foreign Currency Loans in any relevant Foreign Currency or the funding of any Foreign Currency Loan in any relevant Foreign Currency to an office located other than in New York shall be impossible or, in the reasonable judgment of the Fronting Lender, such Foreign Currency is no longer available or readily convertible to Dollars, or the Dollar Equivalent of such Foreign Currency is no longer readily calculable, then, at the election of the Fronting Lender, no Foreign Currency Loans in the relevant Foreign Currency shall be made or any Foreign Currency Loan in the relevant Foreign Currency shall be made to an office of the Administrative Agent located in New York, as the case may be.
(e) If payment in respect of any Foreign Currency Loan shall be due in a currency other than Dollars and/or at a place of payment other than New York and if, by reason of any change in a Requirement of Law subsequent to the Closing Date, disruption of currency or foreign exchange markets, war or civil disturbance or similar event, payment of such Obligations in such currency or such place of payment shall be impossible or, in the reasonable judgment of the Fronting Lender, such Foreign Currency is no longer available or readily convertible to Dollars, or the Dollar Equivalent of such Foreign Currency is no longer readily calculable, then, at the election of any affected Lender, the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall make payment of such Foreign Currency Loan in Dollars (based upon the Exchange Rate in effect for the day on which such payment occurs, as determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof) and/or in New York, and shall indemnify such Lender against any currency exchange losses or reasonable out-of-pocket expenses that it shall sustain as a result of such alternative payment or (ii) if any Foreign Currency in which Loans are outstanding is redenominated then, at the election of any affected Lender, such affected Loans and all obligations of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower in respect thereof shall be converted into obligations in Dollars (based upon the Exchange Rate in effect on such date, as determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof), and, in each case, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall jointly and severally indemnify the Lenders against any currency exchange losses or reasonable out-of-pocket expenses that it shall sustain as a result of such alternative payment.
(f) Each Lender and the Administrative Agent agrees that (i) any claim made by a Lender for amounts payable under Section 2.18 (a) or (b) (including in connection with Section 2.18(c)) or Section 2.18(e) shall be made in good faith in a manner generally consistent with such Lenders standard practice and (ii) in the event any of the circumstances of the type described in this Section 2.18(c), it shall allocate such additional amounts among its customers in good faith and on a non-discriminatory basis. Each Lender further agrees to give prompt notice to the Borrower of its intention to assert a claim against the Borrower under this Section 2.18 after any adoption or change in any Requirement of Law or other event of which Lender becomes aware. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.18(a) or (b) setting forth the basis and manner of calculation for requesting such additional amounts to the extent reasonably practicable, submitted by the affected Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any amounts incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lenders intention to claim compensation therefor;
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provided that, if the circumstances giving rise to such claim have a retroactive effect, and if such Lender notifies the Borrower of such circumstances within 180 days after such circumstances arise, then such 180-day period shall be extended to include the period of such retroactive effect. The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.19 Taxes. (a) All payments made by any Loan Party under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future Taxes, unless required by applicable law. If any Taxes that are not (i) net income Taxes, franchise Taxes (imposed in lieu of net income Taxes) or branch profits Taxes imposed on the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of such Administrative Agent or Lender being organized or formed under the laws of, or maintaining a present or former connection between the Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (other than any such connection arising solely from the Administrative Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or any other Loan Document) or (ii) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender (other than an Assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.22(b)), any United States federal withholding Taxes resulting from FATCA (including any regulations or official interpretations thereof issued with respect thereto) (the items of clauses (i) and (ii) are referred to herein individually and collectively as Excluded Taxes, and any other Taxes imposed with respect to amounts payable hereunder Non-Excluded Taxes) or Other Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased by the applicable Loan Party to the extent necessary to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement, provided, however, that the applicable Loan Party shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes (i) that are attributable to such Lenders failure to comply with the requirements of paragraphs (e) or (h) of this Section or (ii) that are United States withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, at or upon the closing of this Agreement), except to the extent that such Lenders assignor was entitled, at the time of assignment, to receive additional amounts (taking into account the portion of the Loan so assigned) from the applicable Loan Party with respect to such Non-Excluded Taxes pursuant to this Section.
(b) In addition, the applicable Loan Party shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by an applicable Loan Party, as promptly as possible thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may be, a copy of an official receipt (or certified copy thereof) received by the applicable Loan Party showing payment thereof. If (i) the applicable Loan Party fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes for which it is obligated to pay pursuant to this Section 2.19 when due to the appropriate taxing authority, (ii) the applicable Loan Party fails to remit to the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, or (iii) any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes on any payments under this Agreement are imposed directly upon the Administrative Agent or any Lender, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any incremental Taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a direct result of the applicable Loan Partys failure, in the case of (i) and (ii), or any such direct imposition, in the case of (iii).
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(d) Each Lender shall indemnify the Administrative Agent for the full amount of any taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions, withholdings or similar charges imposed by any Governmental Authority that are attributable to such Lender and that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent, together with all interest, penalties, reasonable costs and expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, as determined by the Administrative Agent in good faith; provided, however, that a Lender shall not be required to indemnify the Administrative Agent to the extent the Administrative Agent has been reimbursed by a Loan Party for such amounts. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e) Except as otherwise provided below, any Lender (or Transferee) that is not a U.S. Person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code (a Non-U.S. Lender) that is entitled to an exemption from, or reduction of, any applicable U.S. federal withholding Tax with respect to any payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without, or at a reduced rate of, withholding. The completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth below in this Section 2.19(e)) shall not be required if in the Non-U.S. Lenders reasonable and good faith judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Non-U.S. Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. Notwithstanding the previous two sentences, each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased) two copies of either U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form W-8BEN, Form W-8ECI or Form W-8IMY (together with any applicable underlying IRS forms), or, in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments of portfolio interest, a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit H and the applicable IRS Form W-8, or any subsequent versions thereof or successors thereto, properly completed and duly executed by such Non-U.S. Lender claiming complete exemption from, or a reduced rate of, U.S. federal withholding tax on all payments under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Such forms or other items described in the preceding sentences shall be delivered by each Non-U.S. Lender on or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchases the related participation) and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent. In addition, each Non-U.S. Lender shall deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously delivered by such Non-U.S. Lender. If a payment made to a Lender under this Agreement would not be subject (in whole or in part) to U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to comply with the applicable reporting or disclosure requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or Administrative Agent, such documentation or certifications prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation or certifications reasonably requested by the Borrower or Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower or Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations to withhold or report under FATCA, to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lenders obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount (if any) to deduct and withhold from such payment. Each Non-U.S. Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously delivered form, certificate or other item to the Borrower (or any other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose). A Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of non-U.S. withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower or the Co-Borrower makes a payment under this Agreement, or any treaty applicable to such
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jurisdiction, shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate; provided that such Lender is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such documentation and in such Lenders judgment such completion, execution or submission would not materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, a Lender shall not be required to deliver any form or other item pursuant to this paragraph that such Lender is not legally able to deliver.
(f) If the Administrative Agent or any Lender determines in its sole discretion, exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes for which it has been indemnified by a Loan Party or with respect to any other amounts paid by a Loan Party as additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.19, it shall pay over to the applicable Loan Party an amount equal to such refund or credit (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the applicable Loan Party under this Section 2.19 with respect to the Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the applicable Loan Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required by applicable law to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.
(g) The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder; provided, however, with respect to any indemnification or additional payment obligations required of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower as set forth under this Section 2.19, such obligations shall survive the termination of this Agreement only for so long as the relevant statute of limitations period relating to the Taxes to which such obligations relate remains open after such termination.
(h) To the extent reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, each Lender (or Participant) that is not a Non-U.S. Lender shall upon or prior to becoming a Lender (or a Participant) pursuant to this Agreement provide the Borrower and Administrative Agent with two duly completed originals of IRS Form W-9 or any successor form thereto. In addition, each such Lender (or Participant) shall deliver such forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously delivered pursuant to this Section 2.19(h).
2.20 Indemnity. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees, jointly and severally, to indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless from, any loss or expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower in making a borrowing of, conversion into, conversion from or continuation of Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency Loans after the Borrower or the Co-Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower in making any prepayment of Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency Loans after the Borrower or the Co-Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or (c) the making of a prepayment of Eurodollar Loans or Foreign Currency Loans or replacement of a Lender in accordance with Section 2.22(b), in each case on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. Such indemnification may include an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the amount so prepaid, or not so borrowed, converted or
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continued, for the period from the date of such prepayment or of such failure to borrow, convert or continue to the last day of such Interest Period (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, the Interest Period that would have commenced on the date of such failure) in each case at the applicable rate of interest for such Loans provided for herein (excluding, however, the Applicable Margin included therein, if any) over (ii) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined by such Lender) that would have accrued to such Lender on such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a comparable period with leading banks in the interbank eurocurrency market. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any amounts incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lenders intention to claim compensation therefor. A certificate as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by any Lender shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.21 Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.18 or 2.19(a) with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans affected by such event with the object of avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such designation is made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, that nothing in this Section shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19(a).
2.22 Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.18, or if the Borrower or the Co-Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.19(a), then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19(a), as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereby agree, jointly and severally, to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.18, or if the Borrower or the Co-Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.19(a), or if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or if any Lender shall not consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, consent or release with respect to any Loan Document that requires the consent of each Lender and that has been consented to by the Required Lenders, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 10.6), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and if a Revolving Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in L/C Obligations and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the
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Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.18 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.19(a), such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
2.23 Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Revolving Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Revolving Lender is a Defaulting Lender:
(a) fees shall cease to accrue pursuant to Section 2.8 with respect to the Commitment of such Defaulting Lender;
(b) the Revolving Commitment and Revolving Extensions of Credit of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 10.1); provided, that this clause (b) shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of such Lender or each Lender affected thereby;
(c) if any Foreign Currency Loans, Swingline Loans or L/C Obligations are outstanding at the time such Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender then:
(i) all or any part of the Swingline Loans, L/C Obligations and Foreign Currency Participating Interest of such Defaulting Lender shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Revolving Percentages but only to the extent (x) the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit plus such Defaulting Lenders Swingline Loans, L/C Obligations and Foreign Currency Participating Interest does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting Lenders Revolving Commitments and (y) no Default or Event of Default exists at such time;
(ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Borrower shall within one Business Day following notice by the Administrative Agent (x) first, prepay such Swingline Loans, (y) second, cash collateralize for the benefit of the Issuing Lender only the Borrowers and the Co-Borrowers obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lenders L/C Obligations (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth in the last paragraph of Section 8 for so long as the circumstances giving rise to such obligation to provide such cash collateral remain relevant and (z) third, cash collateralize for the benefit of the Fronting Lender, only the Borrowers and the Co-Borrowers obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) for so long as the circumstances giving rise to such obligation to provide such cash collateral remain relevant (which cash collateralization requirement shall be satisfied by the Borrower depositing such cash collateral into an account opened by the Administrative Agent);
(iii) if the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting Lenders L/C Obligations pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 3.3 with respect to such Defaulting Lenders L/C Obligations during the period such Defaulting Lenders L/C Obligations are cash collateralized;
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(iv) if the L/C Obligations of the non-Defaulting Lenders are reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.8 and Section 3.3 shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders Revolving Percentages;
(v) if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lenders L/C Obligations are neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Issuing Lender or any other Lender hereunder, all letter of credit fees payable under Section 3.3 with respect to such Defaulting Lenders L/C Obligations that have not been reallocated or cash collateralized shall be payable to the Issuing Lender until and to the extent that such L/C Obligations are reallocated and/or cash collateralized;
(vi) if the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.8(d) with respect to such Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest during the period such Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest is cash collateralized;
(vii) if the Foreign Currency Participating Interests of the non-Defaulting Lenders are reallocated pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.8(d) shall be readjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders Revolving Percentages; and
(viii) if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest is neither reallocated nor cash collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the Fronting Lender or any other Lender hereunder, the fee payable under Section 2.8(d) with respect to such Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest that has not been reallocated or cash collateralized shall be payable to the Fronting Lender until and to the extent that such Foreign Currency Participating Interest is reallocated and/or cash collateralized;
(d) so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan and the Issuing Lender shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is satisfied that the related exposure and the Defaulting Lenders then outstanding L/C Obligations will be 100% covered by the Revolving Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.23(c), and participating interests in any newly made Swingline Loan or any newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.23(c)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein); and
(e) so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Fronting Lender shall not be required to fund any Fronted Foreign Currency Loan unless it is satisfied that the related exposure and the Defaulting Lenders Foreign Currency Participating Interest will be 100% covered by the Revolving Commitments of the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.23(c).
If a Bankruptcy Event with respect to a Parent of any Revolving Lender shall occur following the Closing Date and for so long as such event shall continue, the Swingline Lender shall not be required to fund any Swingline Loan, no Fronting Lender shall be required to fund any Fronted Foreign Currency Loans and the Issuing Lender shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless the Swingline Lender, the Fronting Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, shall have entered into arrangements with the Borrower or such Lender, reasonably satisfactory to the Swingline Lender, the Fronting Lender or the Issuing Lender, as the case may be, to defease any risk to it in respect of such Lender hereunder
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In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Swingline Lender, the Fronting Lender and the Issuing Lender each agrees that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the Swingline Loans, Foreign Currency Participating Interests and L/C Obligations of the Revolving Lenders shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lenders Revolving Commitment and on such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Revolving Loans (other than Swingline Loans and Foreign Currency Loans) and the Foreign Currency Participating Interests of other Revolving Lenders as the Administrative Agent shall determine may be necessary in order for such Lender to hold such Loans or Foreign Currency Participating Interests, as the case may be, in accordance with its Revolving Percentage.
2.24 Incremental Facility. (a) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time request Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Commitments in an aggregate amount not to exceed the Incremental Amount at such time from one or more Incremental Term Lenders and/or Incremental Revolving Lenders (which may include any existing Lender) willing to provide such Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, in their own discretion; provided, that no Lender will be required to participate in any Incremental Facility without its consent and each Incremental Term Lender and/or Incremental Revolving Lender, if not already a Lender hereunder, shall be subject to the approval (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of the Administrative Agent (solely to the extent the Administrative Agents consent would otherwise be required for an assignment to such Incremental Term Lender or Incremental Revolving Lender, as applicable, in accordance with Section 10.6 hereof) and, in the case of Incremental Revolving Lenders only, the Issuing Lender. Such notice shall set forth (i) the amount of the Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Commitments being requested (which shall be (1) with respect to Incremental Term Loans, in minimum increments of $10,000,000, (2) with respect to Incremental Revolving Commitments, in minimum increments of $5,000,000 or (3) equal to the remaining Incremental Amount at such time), (ii) the date, which shall be a Business Day, on which such Incremental Term Loans are requested to be made and/or Incremental Revolving Commitments are requested to become effective (the Increased Amount Date) pursuant to an Incremental Facility Activation Notice, (iii) in the case of Incremental Term Loans, whether such Incremental Term Loans are to be on the same terms as the outstanding Term Loans or with terms different from the outstanding Term Loans, (iv) the use of proceeds for such Incremental Term Loan and/or Incremental Revolving Commitment and (v) pro forma financial calculations demonstrating compliance with the requirements under clause (iii) of Section 2.24(c).
(b) The Borrower, the Co-Borrower and each Incremental Term Lender and/or Incremental Revolving Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Incremental Assumption Agreement and such other documentation as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably specify to evidence the Incremental Term Loans of such Incremental Term Lender and/or Incremental Revolving Commitment of such Incremental Revolving Lender. If at the time of any Incremental Revolving Commitments the Revolving Commitments are still in effect, the Incremental Revolving Commitment shall be on terms and pursuant to documentation applicable to the Revolving Commitments. Each Incremental Assumption Agreement relating to Incremental Term Loans shall specify the terms of the Incremental Term Loans to be made thereunder; provided that (i) the maturity date of any Incremental Term Loan shall be no earlier than the maturity date for the existing Term Loans, (ii) the weighted average life to maturity of any Incremental Term Loan shall be no shorter than the remaining weighted average life to maturity of the existing Term Loans, (iii) if the total yield in respect of any Incremental Term Loans that would be considered tranche A term loans under then-existing customary market convention exceeds the total yield for the existing Term Loans by more than 1/2 of 1% (it being understood
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that any such excess may take the form of original issue discount (OID), with OID being equated to the interest rates in a manner reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent based on an assumed four-year life to maturity), the Applicable Margin for the existing Term Loans shall be increased so that the total yield in respect of such Incremental Term Loans is no more than 1/2 of 1% higher than the total yield for the existing Term Loans; provided that, in determining the interest rate margins applicable to any Incremental Term Loans and the existing Term Loans (x) any OID and upfront fees (which shall be deemed to constitute like amounts of OID) but excluding any arrangement, underwriting or similar fee paid to the Administrative Agent or the arrangers under any Incremental Term Loans and the existing Term Loans in the initial primary syndication thereof shall be included and equated to interest rate and (y) the excess of any Eurodollar Rate floor over three-month Eurodollar Rate and the excess of any ABR floor over the ABR, in each case without duplication as of the date of drawing of such Incremental Term Loans (disregarding such floors in determining the three-month Eurodollar Rate and ABR on such date), shall be equated to interest margin on the Incremental Term Loans, (iv) the Incremental Term Loans will rank pari passu in right of payment and security with the existing Term Loans, (v) the Incremental Term Loans shall share ratably in any optional or mandatory prepayments of the Term Facility unless the lenders with respect to the applicable Incremental Term Loans and the Borrower agree to a less than ratable share of such prepayments and (vi) to the extent the terms or documentation for Incremental Term Loans are not consistent with the terms of the existing Term Loans (except to the extent permitted by the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) and clause (v)) they shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Incremental Assumption Agreement. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that, upon the effectiveness of any Incremental Assumption Agreement, this Agreement shall be amended to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to reflect the existence and terms of the Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Commitments evidenced thereby. Any such deemed amendment may be memorialized in writing by the Administrative Agent with the Borrowers consent (not to be unreasonably withheld) and furnished to the other parties hereto without their consent.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Incremental Term Loan may be made and no Incremental Revolving Commitment shall become effective under this Section 2.24 unless (i) on the date on which such Loan is made or the date of such effectiveness and after giving effect to the Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Loans requested to be made on such date, the conditions set forth in Section 5.2 shall be satisfied and the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate to that effect dated such date and executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received board resolutions and other closing certificates and documentation as may be required by the relevant Incremental Assumption Agreement which, to the extent required, shall be consistent with the related documentation delivered on the Closing Date under Section 5.1 and such additional documents and filings (including amendments to the Mortgages and other Security Documents and title endorsement bring downs) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to assure that the Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Loans are secured by the Collateral ratably with the existing Term Loans and Revolving Loans, and (iii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries would be in compliance on a pro forma basis with the financial covenants set forth in Section 7.1 recomputed as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available, after giving effect to such Incremental Term Loans and/or Loans to be made as of such date under the Incremental Revolving Commitment and the application of the proceeds therefrom as if made and applied on such date.
(d) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that the Administrative Agent may take any and all action as may be reasonably necessary to ensure that all Incremental Term Loans and/or Incremental Revolving Loans, when originally made, are included in each borrowing of outstanding Term Loans or Revolving Loans on a pro rata basis, that each Incremental Term Lender and each Incremental Revolving Lender shall be included in the definitions of Required Lenders and Majority Facility Lenders,
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and the Borrower agrees that Section 2.12 shall apply to any conversion of Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans reasonably required by the Administrative Agent to effect the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that the Revolving Facility shall be increased in an amount equal to the aggregate Incremental Revolving Commitments.
2.25 Foreign Exchange Rate. (a) No later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on each Calculation Date, the Administrative Agent shall determine the Exchange Rate as of such Calculation Date with respect to each applicable non-Dollar currency, provided that, upon receipt of a borrowing notice pursuant to Section 2.5(b), the Administrative Agent shall determine the Exchange Rate with respect to the relevant Foreign Currency on the related Calculation Date (it being acknowledged and agreed that the Administrative Agent shall use such Exchange Rate for the purposes of determining compliance with Section 2.4(b) with respect to such borrowing notice). The Exchange Rates so determined shall become effective on the relevant Calculation Date (a Reset Date), shall remain effective until the next succeeding Reset Date and shall for all purposes of this Agreement (other than Section 10.17 and any other provision expressly requiring the use of a current Exchange Rate) be the Exchange Rates employed in converting any amounts between Dollars and any non-Dollar currency.
(b) No later than 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on each Reset Date, the Administrative Agent shall determine the aggregate amount of the Dollar Equivalents of (i) the principal amounts of the Foreign Currency Loans then outstanding (after giving effect to any Foreign Currency Loans to be made or repaid on such date) and (ii) the L/C Obligations denominated in any Acceptable Currency then outstanding.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Fronting Lender of each determination of an Exchange Rate hereunder.
2.26 Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that they are co-borrowers with respect to, and have joint and several liability on, the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and other Obligations, subject only to the limitations of Section 2.1 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. Each of the Borrowers and the Co-Borrowers joint and several liability as co-borrowers hereunder shall not in any manner be impaired or affected by who receives or uses the proceeds of the Loans, or the Letters of Credit, or for what purposes such proceeds are used, and each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower waives notice of requests for extensions of credit issued by, and the Loans and Letters of Credit made to or for the account of, any other borrower. In furtherance thereof, each of the Borrowers agrees that wherever in this Agreement it is provided that the Borrower or the Co-Borrower is liable for a payment such obligation is the joint and several obligation of each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower. Each of the Borrowers, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, hereby expressly waives and surrenders any defense to its joint and several liability on the Loans, Reimbursement Obligations or other Obligations.
2.27 Borrower Representative. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints and designates the Borrower (the Borrower Representative) as its representative and agent for all purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including requests for Loans and Letters of Credit, designation of interest rates, delivery or receipt of communications, preparation and delivery of financial reports, receipt and payment of Obligations, requests for waivers, amendments or other accommodations, actions under the Loan Documents (including in respect of compliance with covenants), and all other dealings with the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and/or the Agents. The Borrower Representative hereby irrevocably accepts such appointment. Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Agents shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, any notice or communication (including any notice of borrowing) delivered by the Borrower Representative on behalf of the Borrower and/or the Co-Borrower. Each of the Lenders, the
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Issuing Lender and/or the Agents may give any notice or communication to the Borrowers (or any one or more of them) hereunder to the Borrower Representative on behalf of the Borrowers (or any one of them). Each of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and/or the Agents shall have the right, in its discretion, to deal exclusively with the Borrower Representative for any or all purposes under the Loan Documents. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees that any notice, election, communication, representation, agreement or undertaking made on its behalf by the Borrower Representative shall be binding upon and enforceable against it.
SECTION 3. LETTERS OF CREDIT
3.1 L/C Commitment. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Issuing Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the other Revolving Lenders set forth in Section 3.4(a), agrees to issue letters of credit (Letters of Credit) for the account of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower, as the case may be, on any Business Day during the Revolving Commitment Period in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Issuing Lender; provided that the Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (i) the L/C Obligations would exceed the L/C Commitment or (ii) the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Commitments would be less than zero. Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars or another Acceptable Currency and (ii) expire no later than the earlier of (x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Termination Date; provided that (1) any Letter of Credit may have an expiry date later than the date referred to in clause (y) above if no later than the 30th day prior to the Revolving Termination Date (or for any Letters of Credit issued after such date, the date of issuance), the Borrower shall deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount equal to 105% of the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of such Letters of Credit and (2) any Letter of Credit with a one-year term may provide for the renewal thereof for additional one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause (y) above (or, as long as the requirements under clause (1) are satisfied, the first anniversary of the Revolving Termination Date)).
(b) The Issuing Lender shall not at any time be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit if such issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.
(c) The parties hereto agree that the Existing Letters of Credit will automatically, without any further action on the part of any Person, be deemed to be Letters of Credit hereunder issued hereunder on the Closing Date for the account of the Borrower. Without limiting the foregoing (i) each such Existing Letter of Credit shall be included in the calculation of the L/C Obligations, (ii) all liabilities of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties with respect to such Existing Letters of Credit shall constitute Obligations and (iii) each Lender shall have reimbursement obligations with respect to such Existing Letters of Credit as provided in Section 3.4.
3.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit. The Borrower and the Co-Borrower, as the case may be, may from time to time request that the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing Lender may reasonably request. Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall the Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information
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reasonably relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by the Issuing Lender and the Borrower. The Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof. The Issuing Lender shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit (including the amount thereof).
3.3 Fees and Other Charges. (a) The Borrower and the Co-Borrower will pay a fee on all outstanding Letters of Credit at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin then in effect with respect to Eurodollar Loans under the Revolving Facility, shared ratably among the Revolving Lenders and payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date. In addition, the Borrower shall pay to the Issuing Lender for its own account a fronting fee of 0.125% per annum on the face amount of each Letter of Credit, payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date.
(b) In addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrower and the Co-Borrower shall pay or reimburse the Issuing Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by the Issuing Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit.
3.4 L/C Participations. (a) The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions set forth below, for such L/C Participants own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participants Revolving Percentage in the Issuing Lenders obligations and rights under and in respect of each Letter of Credit and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant agrees with the Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (or in the event that any reimbursement received by the Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by it at any time), such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lenders address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participants Revolving Percentage of the amount that is not so reimbursed (or is so returned). Each L/C Participants obligation to pay such amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Lender, the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other L/C Participant or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
(b) If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to the Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by the Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit is paid to the Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section 3.4(a) is not made available to the Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Issuing Lender shall be
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entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility. A certificate of the Issuing Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Whenever, at any time after the Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any L/C Participant its pro rata share of such payment in accordance with Section 3.4(a), the Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto by the Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Issuing Lender will distribute to such L/C Participant its pro rata share thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such payment received by the Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by the Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by the Issuing Lender to it.
3.5 Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower. If any draft is paid under any Letter of Credit, the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, shall reimburse the Issuing Lender for the amount of the draft so paid not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower, receives notice of such draft, if such notice is received on such day prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, or (ii) if clause (i) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice. Each such payment shall be made to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices referred to herein in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with this Agreement that such payment be financed with an ABR Loan Revolving Loan or a Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the obligation of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting Revolving Loan or Swingline Loan, as applicable. Interest shall be payable on any such amounts from the date on which the relevant draft is paid until payment in full at the rate set forth in (x) until the Business Day next succeeding the date of the relevant notice, Section 2.14(b) and (y) thereafter, Section 2.14(d). The Borrower shall promptly reimburse Issuing Lender for any taxes, fees, charges or other reasonable out-of-pocket costs or expenses incurred by the Issuing Lender in connection with the payment of a draft under a Letter of Credit which are then invoiced and supported in reasonable detail.
3.6 Obligations Absolute. The obligations of each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower under this Section 3 shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that the Borrower or the Co-Borrower may have or have had against the Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other Person. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower also agrees with the Issuing Lender that the Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for, and the Reimbursement Obligations of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower under Section 3.5 shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among the Borrower or the Co-Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Lender from liability to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower and the Co-Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Lenders failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly
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agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Issuing Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. The Issuing Lender shall not be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall be binding on the Borrower and the Co-Borrower and shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower.
3.7 Letter of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of the date and amount thereof. The responsibility of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower and the Co-Borrower in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are substantially in conformity with such Letter of Credit.
3.8 Applications. To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply.
3.9 Cash Collateralization. If on any date the L/C Obligations exceeds the L/C Commitment, then the Borrower shall within three Business Days after notice thereof from the Administrative Agent deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such excess plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon.
3.10 Currency Adjustments. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, for purposes of calculating any fee in respect of any Letter of Credit in respect of any Business Day, the Administrative Agent shall convert the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit denominated in a currency other than Dollars into an amount of Dollars based upon the Exchange Rate.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 3, prior to demanding any reimbursement from the L/C Participants pursuant to subsection 3.4 in respect of any Letter of Credit denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the Issuing Lender shall convert the obligation of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, as applicable, under subsection 3.4 to reimburse the Issuing Lender in such currency into an obligation to reimburse the Issuing Lender in Dollars. The Dollar amount of the reimbursement obligation of the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and the L/C Participants shall be computed by the Issuing Lender based upon the Exchange Rate in effect for the day on which such conversion occurs, as determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof.
3.11 Replacement of an Issuing Lender. An Issuing Lender may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Lender and the successor Issuing Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Lenders of any such replacement of such Issuing Lender. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.3. From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters
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of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term Issuing Lender shall be deemed to include such successor or any previous Issuing Lender, or such successor and all previous Issuing Lenders, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Lender hereunder, the replaced Issuing Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans and issue or participate in the Letters of Credit, the Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:
4.1 Organization; Powers. The Borrower and each of the Loan Parties is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required.
4.2 Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions to be entered into by each Loan Party are within such Loan Partys powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which any Loan Party is to be a party, when executed and delivered by such Loan Party, will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower or such Loan Party (as the case may be), enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
4.3 Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not require any material consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect or the failure to obtain would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) will not violate any applicable law or regulation, the violation of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any other applicable Loan Party or any order of any Governmental Authority, the violation of which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any material indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any other Loan Party or their assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any other Loan Party, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, except Liens created under the Loan Documents and Liens permitted under Section 7.3.
4.4 Financial Condition. The Borrower has heretofore furnished or made available to the Lenders (1) the audited consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows of the Borrower as of and for the fiscal years ended May 31, 2010, December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2012 (and for the seven-month period ended December 31, 2010), certified by its chief financial officer and (2) the consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows of the Borrower as of and for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2013. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, in each case, as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments. Since December 31, 2012,
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there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as disclosed in the financial statements referred to above or the notes thereto and except as set forth in any periodic filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Borrower, after giving effect to the Transactions, none of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries has, as of the Closing Date, any material contingent liabilities or material unrealized losses except as evidenced by the Loan Documents.
4.5 Properties. (a) The Borrower and each other Loan Party has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its business, except for minor defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes and except for exceptions to coverage described in a mortgage policy, title insurance or survey accepted by the Administrative Agent, and none of such property is subject to any Lien except as permitted by Section 7.3.
(b) The Borrower and each other Loan Party owns, is licensed to use, or possesses the right to use all Intellectual Property reasonably necessary to the conduct of its business, and the use thereof by the Borrower and each other Loan Party does not infringe upon the rights of any other Person, except for any such infringements that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
4.6 Litigation and Environmental Matters. (a) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.6, there are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting any Borrower or any other Loan Party (i) which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) that involve any of the Loan Documents or the Transactions.
(b) Except with respect to any other matters that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability, (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability or (v) has failed to properly dispose of all Hazardous Materials. No Hazardous Materials have been released at any site or facility owned, controlled or operated by any Borrower or any other Loan Party, or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party at any other location, which would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
4.7 Compliance with Laws. The Borrower and each other Loan Party is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
4.8 Investment Company Status. Neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party is an investment company as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
4.9 Taxes. The Borrower and each other Loan Party have timely filed or caused to be filed all material Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and have paid or caused to be paid all material Taxes required to have been paid by it pursuant to such tax returns and reports, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or such other Loan Party, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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4.10 ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of ASC Topic 715-30) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair market value of the assets of such Plan, and the present value of all accumulated benefit obligations of all underfunded Plans (based on the assumptions used for purposes of ASC Topic 715-30) did not, as of the date of the most recent financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed the fair market value of the assets of all such underfunded Plans, in each of such cases so as to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
4.11 Disclosure. No statement or information contained in this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Confidential Information Memorandum or any other document, certificate or statement (in each case, other than projections and pro form financial information and information of a general economic or industry specific nature), furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or any of them, for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, contained as of the date such statement, information, document or certificate was so furnished (or, in the case of the Confidential Information Memorandum, as of the Closing Date), any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein, taken as a whole, in the light of the circumstances under with they were made not materially misleading. The projections and pro forma financial information contained in the materials referenced above are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of the Borrower to be reasonable at the time such projections and pro forma financial information are furnished, it being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered by such financial information may differ from the projected results set forth therein by a material amount.
4.12 Subsidiaries. As of the Closing Date, the Borrower has no Subsidiaries other than as set forth on Schedule 4.12. As of the Closing Date, the Borrower owns, directly or indirectly, the stated percentage of the issued and outstanding Capital Stock in and to each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 4.12.
4.13 Insurance. As of the Closing Date, all premiums due in respect of all material insurance policies maintained by the Borrower have been paid.
4.14 Labor Matters. As of the Closing Date, there are no strikes, lockouts or slowdowns against the Borrower pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened. The hours worked by and payments made to employees of each Borrower have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Federal, state, local or foreign law dealing with such matters, except where any such violation could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All material payments due from the Borrower, or for which any claim may be made against the Borrower, on account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits, have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Borrower except where such non-payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The consummation of the Transactions will not give rise to any right of termination or right of renegotiation on the part of any union under any collective bargaining agreement to which the Borrower is bound.
4.15 Solvency. Immediately after the consummation of the Transactions to occur on the Closing Date and immediately following the making of each Loan made on the Closing Date and after giving effect to the application of the proceeds of such Loans, (a) the assets of the Loan Parties on a consolidated basis, at a fair valuation, will exceed the amount of their aggregate liabilities
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contingent or otherwise, as such quoted terms are generally determined in accordance with applicable federal laws governing determinations of insolvency of debtors; (b) the present fair saleable value of the aggregate assets of the Loan Parties on a consolidated basis will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of the Loan Parties on their aggregate existing debts as such debts become absolute and matured, as such quoted terms are generally determined in accordance with the applicable federal laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors; (c) the Loan Parties on a consolidated basis will be able to pay their aggregate debts as they become due; and (d) the remaining assets of the Loan Parties on a consolidated basis will not be unreasonably small nor constitute unreasonably small capital in relation to the business or transactions in which they are engaged or are about to engage as of the Closing Date, as such quoted terms are generally determined in accordance with applicable federal laws governing determinations of insolvency of debtors. For purposes of this Section 4.15, (a) debt means liability on a claim and (b) claim means any (1) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured or (2) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured or unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.
4.16 Federal Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loans, and no other extensions of credit hereunder, will be used (a) for buying or carrying any margin stock within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U as now and from time to time hereafter in effect for any purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board or (b) for any purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board. No more than 25% of the assets of the Group Members consist of margin stock as so defined. If requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a statement to the foregoing effect in conformity with the requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR Form U-1, as applicable, referred to in Regulation U.
4.17 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Term Loans shall be used to finance a portion of the repayment of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement and the payment of fees and expenses in connection therewith and in connection with the entry into the Loan Documents. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans and the Swingline Loans, and the Letters of Credit, shall be used to finance a portion of the repayment of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement and the payment of fees and expenses in connection therewith and in connection with the entry into the Loan Documents and for working capital needs and general corporate purposes (including the financing of Permitted Acquisitions, the refinancing of Indebtedness (including the seller notes and deferred purchase price obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of dbMotion, Ltd.) to the extent not prohibited by Section 7.9, to make permitted Restricted Payments to the extent permitted by Section 7.6 and to make Prepayments of Convertible Securities permitted by Section 7.9).
4.18 Security Documents. (a) The Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral described therein and proceeds thereof. In the case of the Pledged Stock described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when stock certificates representing such Pledged Stock are delivered to the Administrative Agent (together with a properly completed and signed stock power or endorsement), and in the case of the other Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement a security interest in which may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement, when financing statements and filings of short form agreements in respect of registered and applied for intellectual property owned by each Loan Party in appropriate form are filed in the appropriate offices with the requisite fee, the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in such Collateral and the proceeds
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thereof, as security for the Obligations (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement), prior and superior in right to any other Person except (i) with respect to Pledged Stock, nonconsensual Liens arising as a matter of law and (ii) in each other case Liens permitted by Section 7.3.
(b) Each of the Mortgages is effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on the Mortgaged Properties described therein and proceeds thereof, and when the Mortgages are filed, each such Mortgage shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Secured Parties in the Mortgaged Properties and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations (as defined in the relevant Mortgage), in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (except Liens permitted by Section 7.3).
4.19 Regulation H. No Mortgage encumbers improved real property that is located in an area that has been identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as an area having special flood hazards and in which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.
4.20 Anti-Terrorism Laws. (a) Neither the advance of the Loans nor the use of the proceeds of any thereof will violate the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. Section 1 et seq., as amended) (the Trading With the Enemy Act) or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) (the Foreign Assets Control Regulations) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto (which for the avoidance of doubt shall include, but shall not be limited to (a) Executive Order 13224 of September 21, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)) (the Executive Order) and (b) the Patriot Act. Furthermore, neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (x) is a blocked person as described in the Executive Order, the Trading With the Enemy Act or the Foreign Assets Control Regulations or (y) knowingly engages in any dealings or transactions, or be otherwise associated, with any such blocked person or in any manner violative of any such order.
(b) Each Loan Party is in compliance, in all material respects, with the Patriot Act. No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be knowingly used by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.
SECTION 5. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
5.1 Conditions to Initial Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to make the initial extension of credit requested to be made by it is subject to the satisfaction, prior to or concurrently with the making of such extension of credit on the Closing Date, of the following conditions precedent:
(a) Credit Agreement; Guarantee and Collateral Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) this Agreement, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and each Person listed on Schedule 1.1(A) and (ii) the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.
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(b) Existing Indebtedness. All of the existing indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been repaid in full (or, in the case of letters of credit issued thereunder, deemed to be issued pursuant to this Agreement, terminated, cash collateralized or otherwise supported with Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Credit Agreement).
(c) Fees. The Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arrangers shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses required to be paid for which invoices have been presented not less than one business day prior to the Closing Date.
(d) Approvals. All governmental and third party approvals necessary to consummate the Transactions shall have been obtained and shall be in full force and effect, and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any competent authority that would restrain, prevent or otherwise impose materially adverse conditions on the Transactions or the financing thereof.
(e) Projections. The Administrative Agent shall have received projected consolidated statements of income, balance sheets and statements of cash flow for the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries, prepared on a quarterly basis through the end of the 2013 fiscal year and on an annual basis for each fiscal year through the end of the 2017 fiscal year.
(f) Notes Offering. The Borrower shall have received at least $250,000,000 in gross cash proceeds from the incurrence of senior unsecured notes, which notes shall be on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Arrangers.
(g) [Reserved].
(h) Lien Searches. The Administrative Agent shall have received the results of a recent bring down lien search in each relevant jurisdiction with respect to the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors, and such search shall reveal no Liens on any of the Collateral except for Liens permitted by Section 7.3 and Liens to be discharged on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(i) [Reserved].
(j) Closing Certificate; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good Standing Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, with appropriate insertions and attachments, including the certificate of incorporation of each Loan Party that is a corporation certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of such Loan Party, and (ii) a long form good standing certificate for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization.
(k) Legal Opinions. (i) The Administrative Agent shall have received the following legal opinions:
i. | the legal opinion of Vedder Price P.C., counsel to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; |
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ii. | the legal opinion of general counsel of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent; and |
iii. | the legal opinion such other special and local counsel as may be reasonably required by the Administrative Agent. |
(l) Pledged Stock; Stock Powers; Pledged Notes. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) the certificates representing the shares of Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof and (ii) each promissory note (if any) pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.
(m) Filings, Registrations and Recordings. Each document (including any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement) required by the Security Documents or under law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded in order to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected Lien on the Collateral described therein, prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than with respect to Liens expressly permitted by Section 7.3), shall be in proper form for filing, registration or recordation; provided that, such documents do not include and there shall be no requirement to provide as of the Closing Date (i) lockbox arrangements or control agreements relating bank or security accounts or (ii) mortgages or other means of perfection or control other than through means of the filing of an initial financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or as described in Section 5.1(m).
(n) Other Information. The Administrative Agent shall have received all documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the PATRIOT Act.
For the purpose of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 5.1, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have accepted, and to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required under this Section 5.1 unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.
5.2 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to make any extension of credit requested to be made by it on any date (including its initial extension of credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date.
(b) No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date or after giving effect to the extensions of credit requested to be made on such date.
Each borrowing by and issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower hereunder shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as of the date of such extension of credit that the conditions contained in this Section 5.2 have been satisfied.
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SECTION 6. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Borrower shall and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
6.1 Financial Statements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to each Lender):
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of income and of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, reported on without a going concern or like qualification or exception, or qualification arising out of the scope of the audit, by Ernst & Young or other independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing; and
(b) as soon as available, but in any event not later than 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Borrower, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited consolidated statements of income and of cash flows for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified by a Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and absence of footnotes).
All such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material respects and shall be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP applied (except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and disclosed in reasonable detail therein) consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any prior period reporting and reporting required in connection with a change of fiscal year, such reporting shall be prepared in accordance with the applicable SEC reporting requirements.
6.2 Certificates; Other Information. Furnish to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to each Lender) (or, in the case of clause (g), to the relevant Lender):
(a) [Reserved];
(b) concurrently with the delivery of any financial statements pursuant to Section 6.1, (i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that, to the best of each such Responsible Officers knowledge, each Loan Party during such period has observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party to be observed, performed or satisfied by it, and that such Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as specified in such certificate and (ii) in the case of quarterly or annual financial statements, (x) a Compliance Certificate containing all information and calculations necessary for determining compliance by each Group Member with the provisions of this Agreement referred to therein as of the last day of the fiscal quarter or fiscal year of the Borrower, as the case may be, and (y) to the extent not previously disclosed to the Administrative Agent, (1) a description of any change in the jurisdiction of organization of any Loan Party, (2) a list of any Intellectual Property acquired by any Loan Party and which is applied for or registered with the U.S. Patent
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and Trademark Office, U.S. Copyright Office or analogous office of a foreign jurisdiction and (3) a description of any Person that has become a Group Member, in each case since the date of the most recent report delivered pursuant to this clause (y) (or, in the case of the first such report so delivered, since the Closing Date);
(c) as soon as available, and in any event no later than 45 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a detailed consolidated budget for the following fiscal year (including a projected consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such following fiscal year, the related consolidated statements of projected cash flow and projected income and a description of the underlying assumptions applicable thereto), and, as soon as available, significant revisions, if any, of such budget and projections with respect to such fiscal year (collectively, the Projections);
(d) [reserved];
(e) except to the extent made publicly available, within 5 Business Days after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and reports that the Borrower sends to the holders of any class of its debt securities or public equity securities and, within 5 Business Days after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and reports that the Borrower may make to, or file with, the SEC;
(f) promptly following receipt thereof, copies of (i) any documents described in Section 101(f) of ERISA that any Group Member or any ERISA Affiliate may request with respect to any Plan and (ii) any documents described in Section 101 (k) of ERISA that any Group Member or any ERISA Affiliate may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan and (iii) any notices described in Section 101(l) of ERISA that any Group Member or any ERISA Affiliate may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan; provided, that if the relevant Group Member or ERISA Affiliate has not requested such documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable Multiemployer Plan, then, upon reasonable request of the Administrative Agent, such Group Member or the ERISA Affiliate shall promptly make a request for such documents or notices from such administrator or sponsor and the Borrower shall provide copies of such documents and notices promptly after receipt thereof; and
(g) promptly, such additional financial and other information as any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
6.3 Payment of Taxes. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its material Tax obligations, except where the amount or validity thereof is being or will be timely contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the relevant Group Member.
6.4 Maintenance of Existence; Compliance. Do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges, franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade names, in each case material to the conduct of its business; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution permitted under Section 7.4 or any sale, transfer or disposition permitted under Section 7.5; provided, further, that neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to preserve any right or franchise if the Borrower or such Subsidiary shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Borrower, such Subsidiary or the Lenders.
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6.5 Maintenance of Property; Insurance. (a) Keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, casualty and ordinary wear and tear excepted, except to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (b) maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations; provided, however, that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may self-insure to the extent it determines in its good faith reasonable business judgment that such insurance is consistent with prudent business practices. Unless required by applicable laws, neither the Borrower nor any Loan Party shall be required to maintain workers compensation insurance so long as the Borrower or such Loan Party maintains non-subscriber employers liability insurance in such amounts (with no greater risk retention) as are customarily maintained by companies of established repute engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. The Borrower will furnish to the Lenders, upon request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, information in reasonable detail as to the insurance so maintained.
6.6 Compliance with Laws. Comply, and cause each other Loan Party to comply, with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
6.7 Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. Keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made of all material dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower will, and will cause each other Loan Party to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or by any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants; provided, that representatives of the Borrower shall have the opportunity to be present at any meeting with its independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested; provided, further, that unless (x) a Default has occurred and is continuing or (y) the Administrative Agent reasonably believes an event has occurred that has a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Lenders shall coordinate the timing of their inspections with the Administrative Agent and provide reasonable notice thereof, (ii) such inspections shall be limited to once during any calendar year for the Administrative Agent and each other Lender and (iii) neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to pay or reimburse any costs and expenses incurred by any Lender (other than the Administrative Agent) in connection with the exercise of such rights.
6.8 Notices. Promptly after obtaining knowledge thereof give notice to the Administrative Agent of:
(a) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(b) the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting any Borrower or any other Group Member that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) an ERISA Event, as soon as possible and in any event within 10 days after the Borrower knows or has reason to know thereof; and
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(d) any development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.8 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the relevant Group Member proposes to take with respect thereto.
6.9 Environmental Laws. (a) Comply in all respects with, and ensure compliance in all respects by all tenants and subtenants, if any, with, all applicable Environmental Laws, and obtain and comply in all respects with and maintain, and ensure that all tenants and subtenants obtain and comply in all respects with and maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, notifications, registrations or permits required by applicable Environmental Laws, except in each case where such failure to comply or maintain would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Conduct and complete all investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial, removal and other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply in all respects with all lawful orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities regarding Environmental Laws, except where the failure to so conduct, complete or comply would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.10 Additional Collateral, etc. (a) With respect to any property having a value of at least $5,000,000 acquired after the Closing Date by any Group Member (other than (1) Excluded Property, (2) any property described in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) below, (3) any property subject to a Lien expressly permitted by Section 7.3(m) and (4) property acquired by any Foreign Subsidiary) as to which the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, does not have a perfected Lien (except to the extent such property is not required to be subject to a perfected Lien under the terms of the Security Documents due to an explicit exception or applicable threshold amount thereunder), the Borrower shall notify Administrative Agent within the time period specified by the Security Documents or, if no such time period is specified, the Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders thereof and, if requested by the Administrative Agent (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or such other documents as the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a security interest in such property and (ii) take all actions reasonably necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest in such property (subject to any Lien permitted pursuant to Section 7.3), including the filing of appropriate Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent.
(b) With respect to any fee interest in any real property having a value (together with improvements thereof) of at least $5,000,000 acquired after the Closing Date by any Group Member (other than (x) any such real property subject to a Lien expressly permitted by Section 7.3(m) or (p) and (y) Excluded Property), promptly (i) execute and deliver a first priority Mortgage (subject to any Lien permitted pursuant to Section 7.3), in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, covering such real property, (ii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, provide the Secured Parties with (x) title and extended coverage insurance covering such real property in an amount at least equal to the purchase price of such real property (or such other amount as shall be reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent) as well as a current ALTA survey thereof, together with a surveyors certificate and (y) any consents or estoppels reasonably deemed necessary or advisable by the Administrative Agent in connection with such Mortgage, each of the foregoing in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (iii) deliver notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster
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assistance duly executed by the Borrower and each Group Member relating thereto, together with evidence of flood insurance with respect to each Flood Hazard Property that is located in a community that participates in the National Flood Insurance Program, in each case in compliance with any applicable regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (iv) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) With respect to any new Material Subsidiary (other than a Foreign Subsidiary or CFC Domestic Subsidiary) created or acquired after the Closing Date by any Group Member, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest in the Capital Stock of such new Material Subsidiary that is owned by any Group Member (subject only to non-consensual Liens arising by operation of law), (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the relevant Group Member, (iii) cause such new Material Subsidiary (A) to become a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, (B) to take such actions reasonably necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders a perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement with respect to such new Material Subsidiary (subject only to Liens permitted under Section 7.3), including the filing of appropriate Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and (C) to deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of such Material Subsidiary, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, with appropriate insertions and attachments, (iv) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (v) if such Material Subsidiary owns any fee interest in any real property having a value (together with improvements thereof) of at least $5,000,000 and which is not Excluded Property, then Borrower shall comply with Section 6.10(b).
(d) With respect to any new Foreign Subsidiary that is a Material Subsidiary created or acquired after the Closing Date by any Group Member (other than by any Group Member that is a Foreign Subsidiary), and to the extent relevant and legally permissible to do so, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a perfected first priority security interest (subject only to non-consensual Liens arising by operation of law) in the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary that is owned by any such Group Member (provided that in no event shall more than 65% of the total outstanding voting Capital Stock of any such new Subsidiary be required to be so pledged), (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the relevant Group Member, and take such other action as may be reasonably necessary or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the Administrative Agents security interest therein, and (iii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
6.11 Post-Closing Matters. Within 30 days of the Closing Date, deliver an Acknowledgement and Consent in the form attached to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, executed by each Issuer (as defined therein) that is not a Loan Party.
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SECTION 7. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any Letter of Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
7.1 Financial Condition Covenants. (a) Total Leverage Ratio. Permit the Total Leverage Ratio as at the last day of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending during the term of this Agreement to exceed 4.00 to 1.0.
(b) Senior Secured Leverage Ratio. Permit the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio as at the last day of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending during the term of this Agreement to exceed 3.00 to 1.0.
(c) Interest Coverage Ratio. Permit the Interest Coverage Ratio for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower ending during the term of this Agreement to be less than 4.00 to 1.00.
7.2 Indebtedness. Create, issue, incur, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b) Indebtedness of (i) any Loan Party to any Subsidiary, (ii) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and (iii) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any Loan Party provided that the loan or advance is permitted by Section 7.8;
(c) Guarantee Obligations by (i) any Group Member of the obligations of any Loan Party, (ii) any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party of the obligations of any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, and (iii) any Loan Party of obligations of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party provided that such Guarantee Obligations are permitted by Section 7.8;
(d) Indebtedness outstanding on the Closing Date and listed on Schedule 7.2(d) and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof (without increasing, or shortening the maturity of, the principal amount thereof);
(e) Indebtedness (including Capital Lease Obligations) secured by Liens permitted by Section 7.3(m) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $30,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
(f) unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that (i) at the time such Indebtedness is incurred, (x) the Borrower is in compliance with Section 7.1, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such Indebtedness, (y) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the incurrence of such Indebtedness and (z) such Indebtedness has negative covenants and events of default that are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than the negative covenants and events of default set forth in the Loan Documents as of the date of incurrence of such
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unsecured Indebtedness and (ii) such Indebtedness has a final maturity date that is at least 91 days after the later of the Revolving Termination Date and the final maturity date of the Term Loans in effect at the time such Indebtedness is incurred;
(g) Indebtedness of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or otherwise which exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or is refinanced in contemplation of or in connection with such Person becoming a Subsidiary, and Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the form of any deferred purchase price or post closing obligation in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; provided that, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this clause (g) shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(h) Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower or any other Loan Party in connection with customer financing programs, provided that (i) the Guarantee Obligation shall not exceed the amount received by the Loan Party under the financing program or owed to the Loan Party by the customer and (ii) the aggregate amount of all obligations guaranteed at any point in time shall not exceed $5,000,000;
(i) additional Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount (for the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) not to exceed $100,000,000 at any one time outstanding; and
(j) additional Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of Convertible Securities in an aggregate principal amount (for the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) not to exceed $350,000,000.
7.3 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:
(a) Liens for Taxes, fees, assessments or governmental charges not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in conformity with GAAP;
(b) carriers, warehousemens, mechanics, materialmens, repairmens, suppliers or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(c) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions or other social security or retirement benefits, or similar legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any such obligation imposed pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or 303(k) of ERISA);
(d) pledges or deposits to secure the performance of tenders, government contracts, bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money), licenses, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) judgment liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under clause (h) of Section 8;
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(f) rights of set-off of banks or lenders in the ordinary course of banking arrangements;
(g) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business that, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and that do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and Liens or exceptions to coverage described in a mortgage policy, title insurance or survey accepted by Administrative Agent;
(h) any interest or title of a lessor, sublessor, licensee or licensor under any operating lease or license agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business and not interfering in any material respect with the rights, benefits or privileges of such lease or licensing agreement, as the case may be;
(i) Liens in favor of payor financial institutions having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or chargeback with respect to money or instruments of the Borrower or any Subsidiary on deposit with or in possession of such financial institution;
(j) leases or licenses of intellectual property or other assets granted by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and not interfering in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(k) the filing of UCC financing statements solely as a precautionary measure in connection with any transaction not prohibited hereunder;
(l) Liens in existence on the Closing Date listed on Schedule 7.3(l), securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.2(d), provided that no such Lien is spread to cover any additional property after the Closing Date and that the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
(m) Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(e) to finance the acquisition of fixed or capital assets, provided that (i) such Liens shall be created substantially simultaneously with the acquisition of such fixed or capital assets, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and (iii) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
(n) Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;
(o) any interest or title of a lessor under any lease entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business and covering only the assets so leased;
(p) any Lien (i) existing on any property or asset prior to the acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on any property or asset of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date prior to the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary and (ii) on cash collateral securing letter of credit obligations, swap agreement obligations, or other banking product obligations of a Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date, provided that (A) such Lien described in clause (i) is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition or such Person becoming a Subsidiary, as applicable, (B) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (C) such Lien shall secure only those obligations that it secures on the date of such acquisition or the date such Person becomes a Subsidiary, as applicable, and any refinancing, refunding, renewals, or extensions thereof (without increasing, or shorting the maturing of, the principal amount thereof);
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(q) Liens securing (i) obligations under performance bonds, surety bonds and letter of credit obligations to provide security for workers compensation claims and (ii) obligations in respect of bank overdrafts not more than five Business Days overdue, in each case, incurred in the ordinary course of business; and
(r) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section so long as neither (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the aggregate fair market value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto exceeds (as to the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) $20,000,000 at any one time.
7.4 Fundamental Changes. Effect any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business, except that:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) may be merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower (provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation), the Co-Borrower (provided that the Co-Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation (it being understood that the Borrowers (other than the Borrower) may merge or consolidate with or into each other, so long as a Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation)) or (other than the Co-Borrower) with or into any Subsidiary Guarantor (provided that the Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving corporation) and (ii) that is not a Loan Party may be merged or consolidated with any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party;
(b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) may Dispose of any or all of its assets to any Loan Party (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) or (ii) that is not a Loan Party may Dispose of any or all of its assets to any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party;
(c) any Disposition permitted by Section 7.5;
(d) any Subsidiary may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders; and
(e) any Investment expressly permitted by Section 7.8 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation.
7.5 Disposition of Property. Dispose of any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell any shares of such Subsidiarys Capital Stock to any Person, except:
(a) sales of inventory, used or surplus equipment in the ordinary course of business;
(b) Dispositions of used, damaged, worn out, obsolete or surplus property by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business and the abandonment or other Disposition of intellectual property, in each case as determined by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in its reasonable judgment to be no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
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(c) sales, transfers, issuances and dispositions by (i) any Subsidiary to any Loan Party, and (ii) a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party;
(d) leases of real or personal property in the ordinary course of business;
(e) Investments and other transactions in compliance with Section 7.4 or Section 7.8;
(f) Dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents in transactions not prohibited hereby and inventory and goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business;
(g) Dispositions of accounts receivable in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;
(h) leases, subleases, assignments, licenses or sublicenses, in each case in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries;
(i) transfers of property subject to Recovery Events upon receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Recovery Event;
(j) Restricted Payments permitted by Section 7.6;
(k) [reserved]; and
(l) other Dispositions; provided that (i) the aggregate revenues in respect of any such Disposition, calculated in the aggregate with the aggregate revenues of all other Dispositions made in accordance with this clause (l) during the preceding four fiscal quarters of the Borrower, does not exceed 25% of total revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole for the four fiscal quarter period ending immediately prior to the consummation of such Disposition, (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall occur or shall reasonably be expected to occur with respect to any Disposition proposed to be consummated pursuant to this clause (l) by virtue of any reduction in the total revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (iii) the Disposition shall be made to unaffiliated third parties for fair value and for cash consideration of not less than 70% of the value of the asset disposed and (iv) the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition pursuant to this Section 7.5(l) shall be applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with, and to the extent required by, Section 2.11(c).
7.6 Restricted Payments. Declare or pay any dividend (other than dividends payable solely in common stock of the Person making such dividend) on, or make any payment on account of, or set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of, any Capital Stock of any Group Member, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property of any Group Member (collectively, Restricted Payments), except that:
(a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any Loan Party and any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may make Restricted Payments to the Group Member that is its parent company;
(b) [reserved];
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(c) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments pursuant to and in accordance with equity compensation plans, employee stock purchase plans or other benefit plans for management employees, members of the board of directors or consultants of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries provided that the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made in cash under this clause (c) shall not exceed $25,000,000 in any fiscal year of the Borrower;
(d) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments if (i) prior to and after giving effect to the Restricted Payment, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such Restricted Payment, is less than 2.75 to 1.0 and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such Restricted Payment;
(e) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount (together with the aggregate amount of Prepayments of Convertible Securities made pursuant to Section 7.9(b)) not in excess of $35,000,000; provided that (i) the Borrower is in compliance with Section 7.1, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such Restricted Payment and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such Restricted Payment; and
(f) the Borrower may purchase and settle, and acquire any Capital Stock (or the cash value thereof) pursuant to, and otherwise perform its obligations under, any Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments.
7.7 Reserved.
7.8 Investments. Make any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of guaranty or otherwise) or capital contribution to, or purchase any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities of, or any assets constituting a business unit of, or make any other similar investment in, any other Person (all of the foregoing, Investments), except:
(a) extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business;
(b) investments in cash or Cash Equivalents;
(c) Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 7.2;
(d) loans and advances to employees of any Group Member in the ordinary course of business (including for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses) in an aggregate amount for all Group Members not to exceed $5,000,000 at any one time outstanding;
(e) [reserved];
(f) Investments in assets useful in the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with the proceeds of any Reinvestment Deferred Amount;
(g) investments in existence on the Closing Date and described in Schedule 7.8(g);
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(h) capital contributions, contributions in exchange for Capital Stock or similar investments by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in Capital Stock in their respective Subsidiaries, provided that (i) the additional aggregate amount (valued at cost) of such investments by Loan Parties in Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with additional intercompany loans and advances permitted under the proviso to Section 7.8(i)) during any fiscal year shall not exceed $15,000,000 (excluding any such investments made prior to the Closing Date) and (ii) no Event of Default is then existing or would be caused by such investment;
(i) loans or advances of money by the Borrower to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) the additional aggregate amount of such loans and advances made by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with additional investments permitted under the proviso to Section 7.8(h)) during any fiscal year shall not exceed $15,000,000 (excluding any such investments made prior to the Closing Date) and (ii) no Event of Default is then existing or would be caused by such loan or advance;
(j) guarantee obligations incurred by the Borrower for the benefit of any Subsidiary or by any Subsidiary for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness or other obligations of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is guaranteed by any Loan Party shall not exceed $20,000,000 at any time outstanding and (ii) no Event of Default is then existing or would be caused by the incurrence of such guarantee obligation;
(k) Permitted Acquisitions;
(l) Investments consisting of stock, obligations, securities or other property received in settlement of accounts receivable (created in the ordinary course of business) from bankrupt obligors;
(m) to the extent deemed to be an Investment, Swap Agreements permitted by Section 7.12;
(n) Investments consisting of non-cash consideration received in connection with any Disposition permitted by Section 7.5;
(o) guarantee obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of leases (other than Capital Lease Obligations) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(p) investments of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary after the Closing Date in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or otherwise which exists at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary;
(q) additional Investments by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount (valued at cost) not to exceed during the term of this Agreement $75,000,000; provided that amounts repaid or returned to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, may be reinvested so long as the total aggregate amount (valued at cost) invested pursuant to this clause (q) at any time (net of any such repaid or returned amounts) does not exceed $75,000,000; and
(r) Investments consisting of Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments.
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7.9 Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Debt Instruments. Make or offer to make any optional or voluntary payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption of or otherwise optionally or voluntarily defease or segregate funds (all such actions, collectively, Prepayments) with respect to any Convertible Securities or Subordinated Indebtedness, except the Borrower or any Subsidiary may optionally or voluntarily Prepay any Convertible Securities if:
(a) (i) prior to and after giving effect to such Prepayment, the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such Prepayment, is less than 2.75 to 1.0 and (ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such Prepayment; or
(b) (i) the aggregate amount of Prepayments made pursuant to this Section 7.9(b) (together with the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made pursuant to Section 7.6(e)) does not exceed $35,000,000, (ii) the Borrower is in compliance with Section 7.1, recomputed as at the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements are available and using Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such Prepayment and (iii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from such Prepayment.
7.10 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction, including any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property, the rendering of any service or the payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any Affiliate except (a) transactions in the ordinary course of business that are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arms-length basis from unrelated third parties; provided that, transactions among the Group Members (and no other Affiliate) may be more favorable to a Loan Party, (b) transactions between or among the Loan Parties not involving any other Affiliate, (c) transactions described on Schedule 7.10, (d) any Affiliate who is an individual may serve as director, officer, employee or consultant of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and may receive reasonable compensation and indemnification and expense reimbursement (including pursuant to plans or policies approved by the board of directors of the Borrower) for his or her services in such capacity, (e) the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may enter into nonexclusive licenses of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (f) transactions permitted by Sections 7.2(b) or (c), Sections 7.4(a) or (b) or Section 7.5(c), Restricted Payments permitted by Section 7.6 and any Investment, Loan, advance or guarantee obligation permitted by clauses (d), (g), (h), (i), (j), (o) or (p) of Section 7.8, (g) [reserved]; (h) sales of common stock of the Borrower to Affiliates of the Borrower not otherwise prohibited by the Loan Documents and the granting of registration and other customary rights in connection therewith and (i) any transaction with an Affiliate where the only consideration paid by any Loan Party is common stock of the Borrower.
7.11 Sales and Leasebacks. Enter into any arrangement with any Person providing for the leasing by any Group Member of real or personal property that has been or is to be sold or transferred by such Group Member to such Person or to any other Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property or rental obligations of such Group Member.
7.12 Swap Agreements. Enter into any Swap Agreement, except (a) Swap Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual exposure (other than those in respect of Capital Stock), (b) Swap Agreements entered into in order to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (c) Permitted Equity Derivative Instruments.
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7.13 Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions. Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of (a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower to (A) make Restricted Payments in respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by, or pay any Indebtedness owed to, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, (B) make loans or advances to, or other Investments in, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower or (C) transfer any of its assets to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower, or (b) any Loan Party to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure its obligations under the Loan Documents, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any restrictions existing under the Loan Documents, (ii) any restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement that has been entered into in connection with the Disposition of all or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary, (iii) restrictions, limitations, conditions and prohibitions under or imposed by any indenture, agreement, instrument or other contractual arrangement in effect on the Closing Date (including this Agreement) and any similar indentures, agreements or instruments to the extent such restrictions, limitations, conditions and prohibitions are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those set forth in such existing indentures, agreements or instruments (including this Agreement), (iv) any restrictions consisting of customary provisions contained in leases, licenses and joint ventures and other agreements, (v) prohibitions or conditions under applicable law, rule or regulation, (vi) any agreement or instrument in effect at the time a Person first became a Subsidiary of the Borrower or the date such agreement or instrument is otherwise assumed by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as such agreement or instrument was not entered into in contemplation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Borrower or such assumption, (vii) customary provisions in organizational documents, asset sale and stock sale agreements and other similar agreements that restrict the transfer of, or Liens on, ownership interests in any partnership, limited liability company or similar Person, (viii) in the case of any joint venture which is not a Loan Party in respect of any matters referred to above, restrictions in such Persons organizational documents or pursuant to any joint venture agreement or stockholders agreements solely to the extent of the Capital Stock of or property held in the subject joint venture or other entity, (ix) any prohibition or limitation that restricted subletting or assignment of, or Lien on, leasehold interests contained in any lease or sublease governing a leasehold interest of the Borrower or a Subsidiary, (x) any agreements governing any purchase money Liens or Capital Lease Obligations otherwise permitted hereby to the extent any prohibition or limitation restricts Liens on the assets financed thereby, (xi) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by suppliers or landlords or customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xii) any instrument governing Indebtedness assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person or the properties or assets of the Person so acquired or (xiii) any encumbrances or restrictions imposed by any amendments or refinancings that are otherwise permitted by the Loan Documents or the contracts, instruments or obligations referred to in clauses (vi) or (xii) above, provided that the encumbrance or restriction under such amendment or refinancing is no less favorable to the Lenders than that which existed under the contract, investment or obligation that has been amended or refinanced and was permitted under clause (vi) above.
7.14 Lines of Business. Enter into any business, either directly or through any Subsidiary, except for those businesses in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the Closing Date or that are reasonably related thereto.
7.15 [Reserved].
7.16 Business; Liabilities; Assets of Certain Subsidiaries. (a) Permit Newco (i) to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, any business or operations other than (x) those incidental to its ownership of the Capital Stock of the Borrower, (y) the maintenance of its corporate existence and (z) legal, tax and accounting matters, (ii)
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incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness or other liabilities or financial obligations, except (x) nonconsensual obligations imposed by operation of law and (y) obligations with respect to its Capital Stock, or (iii) own, lease, manage or otherwise operate any properties or assets (including cash and cash equivalents) other than the ownership of shares of Capital Stock of the Borrower and any assets incidental thereto.
(b) Permit any Excluded Domestic Subsidiary (i) to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage in, any material business or operations other than (x) those incidental to its ownership of the Capital Stock of Foreign Subsidiaries, (y) the maintenance of its corporate existence and (z) legal, tax and accounting matters, (ii) incur, create, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness or other material liabilities or financial obligations, except (x) nonconsensual obligations imposed by operation of law and liabilities related to legal, tax and accounting matters and (y) obligations under the Loan Documents, Specified Swap Agreements and Specified Cash Management Agreements, or (iii) own, lease, manage or otherwise operate any material properties or assets (including cash and cash equivalents) other than the ownership of shares of Capital Stock of Foreign Subsidiaries and any assets incidental thereto; provided that, (1) the foregoing shall not prohibit any Excluded Domestic Subsidiary from engaging in the intercompany transactions referenced in Section 7.10(f) related to the provision of funds between or among the Group Members or indirectly holding an interest in a Subsidiary that is a CFC Domestic Subsidiary, and (2) Allscripts Healthcare International Holdings, LLC shall be permitted to maintain letters of credit payable in foreign currency issued for its benefit or the benefit of its Subsidiaries and cash in an amount sufficient to collateralize such letters of credit.
SECTION 8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
If any of the following events shall occur and be continuing:
(a) the Borrower or the Co-Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower or the Co-Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation, or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within five Business Days after any such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof; or
(b) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Loan Party herein or in any other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection with this Agreement or any such other Loan Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made; or
(c) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 6.4 (with respect to the existence of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower only), Section 6.8(a) or Section 7 of this Agreement or Section 5.5 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement; or
(d) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as provided in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this Section), and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice to the Borrower from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or
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(e) any Group Member shall (i) default in making any payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the scheduled or original due date with respect thereto; or (ii) default in making any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created; or (iii) default in the observance or performance of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in the case of any such Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to become payable; provided, that (A) a default, event or condition described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall not at any time constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of the type described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Indebtedness the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which is $25,000,000 or more and (B) neither (i) the Convertible Securities becoming convertible or exchangeable by their terms (other than as a result of a default under the terms of the Convertible Securities), (ii) the conversion or exchange thereof nor (iii) less than an aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000 of the Convertible Securities becoming due prior to their stated maturity in accordance with their terms as a result of a Specified Change in Control, in each case, whether for or into Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, cash or any combination thereof, shall constitute a Default or an Event of Default pursuant to this paragraph (e); or
(f) (i) the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall commence any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets; or (ii) there shall be commenced against the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Material Subsidiary any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i) above that (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed or undischarged for a period of 60 days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Material Subsidiary any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or (iv) the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) above; or (v) the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due; or (vi) the Borrower, the Co-Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
(g) (i) an ERISA Event shall have occurred, (ii) a trustee shall be appointed by a United States district court to administer any Plan, (iii) the PBGC shall institute proceedings to terminate any Plan(s), (iv) any Loan Party or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates shall have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred or will be assessed
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Withdrawal Liability to such Multiemployer Plan and such entity does not have reasonable grounds for contesting such Withdrawal Liability or is not contesting such Withdrawal Liability in a timely and appropriate manner; or (v) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to a Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through (v) above, such event or condition, together with all other such events or conditions, if any, could, in the sole judgment of the Required Lenders, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or
(h) one or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against any Group Member involving in the aggregate a liability of $25,000,000 or more (provided, that any such amount shall be calculated after deducting from the sum so payable any amount of such judgment or order that is covered by a valid and binding policy of insurance in favor of the Borrower or such Subsidiary), and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof; or
(i) any of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or the Mortgages (if any) shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect, or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert, or any Lien created by any of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or the Mortgages (if any) shall cease to be enforceable and of the same effect and priority (other than with respect to Liens permitted by Section 7.3) purported to be created thereby (other than due to a perfection defect arising solely from the failure of the Administrative Agent to maintain possessory Collateral or failure of the Administrative Agent to file or maintain a financing statement unless caused by the failure of any Group Member to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents); or
(j) the guarantee contained in Section 2 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert; or
(k) a Change in Control shall have occurred;
then, and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified in clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, automatically the Commitments shall immediately terminate and the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) shall immediately become due and payable, and (B) if such event is any other Event of Default, either or both of the following actions may be taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower declare the Revolving Commitments to be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Revolving Commitments shall immediately terminate; and (ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable. With respect to all Letters of Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time of an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall at such time deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of such Letters of Credit. Amounts held in such cash collateral account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment of drafts drawn under such Letters of Credit, and the unused portion thereof after all such Letters of
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Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, if any, shall be applied to repay other obligations of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. After all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, all Reimbursement Obligations shall have been satisfied and all other obligations of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, the balance, if any, in such cash collateral account shall be returned to the Borrower (or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled thereto). Except as expressly provided above in this Section, presentment, demand, protest and all other notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower and the Co-Borrower.
SECTION 9. THE AGENTS
9.1 Appointment. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent as the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.
9.2 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through agents or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with reasonable care.
9.3 Exculpatory Provisions. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates shall be (i) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its or such Persons own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or (ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Agents under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for any failure of any Loan Party a party thereto to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. The Agents shall not be under any obligation to any Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party.
9.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy or email message, statement, order or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative
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Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders and all future holders of the Loans.
9.5 Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a notice of default. In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
9.6 Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges that neither the Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates have made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of a Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent to any Lender. Each Lender represents to the Agents that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their affiliates and made its own decision to make its Loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of any Loan Party or any affiliate of a Loan Party that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, attorneys-in-fact or affiliates.
9.7 Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent, each Lead Arranger and their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, advisors and controlling persons (each, an Agent Indemnitee) (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), ratably according to their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages in effect on the date on which indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the
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Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such Aggregate Exposure Percentages immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent Indemnitee under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent Indemnitees gross negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
9.8 Agent in Its Individual Capacity. Each Agent and its affiliates may make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with any Loan Party as though such Agent were not an Agent. With respect to its Loans made or renewed by it and with respect to any Letter of Credit issued or participated in by it, each Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, and the terms Lender and Lenders shall include each Agent in its individual capacity.
9.9 Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent upon 10 days notice to the Lenders and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or Section 8(f) with respect to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower shall have occurred and be continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term Administrative Agent shall mean such successor agent effective upon such appointment and approval, and the former Administrative Agents rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any holders of the Loans. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the date that is 10 days following a retiring Administrative Agents notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agents resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above. After any retiring Administrative Agents resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Section 9 and of Section 10.5 shall continue to inure to its benefit.
9.10 Lead Arrangers, Documentation Agents and Syndication Agent. The Lead Arrangers, the Documentation Agents and the Syndication Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities hereunder or any other Loan Document in its capacity as such.
SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Amendments and Waivers. Neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.1. The Required Lenders and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, or, with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, from time to time, (a) enter into written
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amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Loan Parties hereunder or thereunder or (b) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided, however, that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall (i) forgive the principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any Loan, extend the scheduled date of any amortization payment in respect of any Term Loan, reduce the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except (x) in connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates (which waiver shall be effective with the consent of the Majority Facility Lenders of each adversely affected Facility) and (y) that any amendment or modification of defined terms used in the financial covenants in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (i)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any Lenders Revolving Commitment, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (ii) eliminate or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 10.1 without the written consent of such Lender; (iii) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or release all or substantially all of the Subsidiary Guarantors from their obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; (iv) amend, modify or waive any provision of Sections 2.17(a), (b) or (c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (v) reduce the amount of Net Cash Proceeds or Excess Cash Flow required to be applied to prepay Term Loans under this Agreement without the written consent of the Majority Facility Lenders with respect to the Term Facility; (vi) reduce the percentage specified in the definition of Majority Facility Lenders with respect to any Facility without the written consent of all Lenders under such Facility; (vii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 9 or any other provision of any Loan Document that affects the Administrative Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent; (viii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.6 or 2.7 without the written consent of the Swingline Lender; (ix) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 3 without the written consent of the Issuing Lender; (x) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.4(b), 2.5(b), 2.8(c), 2.10, 2.11(f), 2.14(c) or 2.17(e) without the written consent of the Fronting Lender, or (xi) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.23 without the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Swingline Lender and the Issuing Bank. Any such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the Loans. If an amendment, waiver or modification requires the written consent of all Lenders, a Defaulting Lenders vote shall not be included except (i) such Defaulting Lenders Commitment may not be increased or extended without its consent and (ii) the principal amount of, or interest or fees payable on, Loans or L/C Obligations may not be reduced or excused (except as otherwise provided herein) or the scheduled date of payment may not be postponed as to such Defaulting Lender without such Defaulting Lenders consent. In the case of any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right consequent thereon.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (a) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share
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ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and Revolving Extensions of Credit and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (b) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders and Majority Facility Lenders.
In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended with (a) the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Term Loans (as defined below) to permit the refinancing, replacement or modification of all outstanding Term Loans (Replaced Term Loans) with a replacement term loan tranche hereunder (Replacement Term Loans), provided that (a) the aggregate principal amount of such Replacement Term Loans shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Replaced Term Loans, (b) the Applicable Margin for such Replacement Term Loans shall not be higher than the Applicable Margin for such Replaced Term Loans and (c) the weighted average life to maturity of such Replacement Term Loans shall not be shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of such Replaced Term Loans at the time of such refinancing and (b) the written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, the Co-Borrower and the Lenders providing the relevant Replacement Revolving Commitments (as defined below) to permit the refinancing, replacement or modification of all outstanding Revolving Commitments (Replaced Revolving Commitments) with a replacement revolving facility hereunder (Replacement Revolving Commitments), provided that (a) the aggregate amount of such Replacement Revolving Commitments shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the Replaced Revolving Commitments, (b) the Applicable Margin for the loans with respect to such Replacement Revolving Commitments shall not be higher than the Applicable Margin for the loans with respect to such Replaced Revolving Commitments and (c) the termination date of such Replacement Revolving Commitments shall be no earlier than the termination date of the Replaced Revolving Commitments.
10.2 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered, or three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when received, addressed as follows in the case of the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Fronting Lender, and as set forth in an administrative questionnaire delivered to the Administrative Agent in the case of the Lenders, or to such other address as may be hereafter notified by the respective parties hereto:
Borrower and Co-Borrower: | 222 Merchandise Mart, Suite 2024 Chicago, Illinois 60654 Attention: Richard J. Poulton Telecopy: (312)  ###-###-#### Telephone: (312)  ###-###-#### | |
Administrative Agent: | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. 10 S. Dearborn Chicago, IL 60603 Attention: Krys J. Szremski Telecopy: (312)  ###-###-#### Telephone: (312)  ###-###-#### |
provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent, the Fronting Lender or the Lenders shall not be effective until received.
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Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Section 2 unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender. The Administrative Agent, the Fronting Lender, the Borrower or the Co-Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
10.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
10.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder, in the other Loan Documents and in any document, certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder.
10.5 Payment of Expenses. The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arrangers for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arrangers incurred in connection with the syndication of the Facilities and the development, preparation and execution of, and any amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith, and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arrangers and, if necessary, one local counsel in any applicable jurisdiction (and, in the case of a conflict of interest, one additional counsel per affected party and any specialist counsel, if reasonably necessary), and filing and recording fees and expenses, with statements with respect to the foregoing to be submitted to the Borrower prior to the Closing Date (in the case of amounts to be paid on the Closing Date) and from time to time thereafter on a quarterly basis or such other periodic basis as the Administrative Agent shall deem appropriate, (b) to pay or reimburse each Lender and the Administrative Agent for all its costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including the fees and disbursements of counsel (including the allocated fees and expenses of in-house counsel) to each Lender and of counsel to the Administrative Agent, (c) to pay or reimburse each Foreign Currency Lender for all its reasonable out-of-pocket losses, costs or expenses sustained in connection with any conversion of Obligations, fees, payments or any other amounts payable to such Foreign Currency Lender from any Foreign Currency to its Dollar Equivalent; provided that such conversion shall have resulted from the failure of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower to comply with its obligations hereunder and (d) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender, each Lead Arranger, each Agent and their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents, advisors and controlling persons (each, an Indemnitee) harmless from and against any and all other liabilities, obligations, losses, claims, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by the Borrower or any other Loan Party with respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including any of the foregoing relating to the use of proceeds of the Loans or the violation of, noncompliance with or liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to the operations of any Group Member or any of the Properties and the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel in connection with claims, actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against any Loan Party under any Loan Document (all the foregoing in
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this clause (d), collectively, the Indemnified Liabilities), provided, that the Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect to Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from (i) the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (ii) from a material breach by the relevant Indemnitee of the express contractual obligations under the Loan Documents pursuant to a claim made by the Borrower. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees not to assert and to cause its Subsidiaries not to assert, and hereby waives and agrees to cause its Subsidiaries to waive, all rights for contribution or any other rights of recovery with respect to all claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities, settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or related to Environmental Laws, that any of them might have by statute or otherwise against any Indemnitee. All amounts due under this Section 10.5 shall be payable not later than 10 days after written demand therefor. Statements payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 10.5 shall be submitted to Richard J. Poulton (Telephone No. (312)  ###-###-####) (Telecopy No. (312)  ###-###-####), at the address of the Borrower set forth in Section 10.2, or to such other Person or address as may be hereafter designated by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. The agreements in this Section 10.5 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
10.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) neither the Borrower nor the Co-Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section.
(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees (each, an Assignee) all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent of:
(A) the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund (as defined below) or, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any other Person; provided further that the Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any assignment if it shall not have responded to a consent request with respect thereto within 10 Business Days of written receipt thereof;
(B) the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and
(C) the Issuing Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), provided that no consent of the Issuing Lender shall be required for an assignment of all or any portion of a Term Loan.
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(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lenders Commitments or Loans under any Facility, the amount of the Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 in the case of the Revolving Facility or $1,000,000 in the case of the Term Facility unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that (1) no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;
(B) (1) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 and (2) the assigning Lender shall have paid in full any amounts owing by it to the Administrative Agent;
(C) the Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire in which the Assignee designates one or more credit contacts to whom all syndicate-level information (which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities) will be made available and who may receive such information in accordance with the assignees compliance procedures and applicable laws, including Federal and state securities laws;
(D) none of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates may be an Assignee; and
(E) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, no assignment shall be made to a prospective Assignee that bears a relationship to the Borrower described in Section 108(e)(4) of the Code.
For the purposes of this Section 10.6, Approved Fund means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) below, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.18, 2.19, 2.20 and 10.5). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 10.6 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.
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(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Register). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.
(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an Assignee, the Assignees completed administrative questionnaire (unless the Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(c) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a Participant) in all or a portion of such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations (C) none of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates may be a Participant, and (D) the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver that (1) requires the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby pursuant to the proviso to the second sentence of Section 10.1 and (2) directly affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits, and subject to the burdens, of Sections 2.18, 2.19 and 2.20 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.7(b) as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant shall be subject to Section 10.7(a) as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participants interest in the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the Participant Register). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary.
(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.18 or 2.19 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive (under such Sections and taking into account the portion of the Loan represented by such participation) with respect to the participation sold to such Participant except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a change in law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable
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participation. In no event shall any Participant that is a Non-U.S. Lender be entitled to any benefits of Section 2.19 unless such Participant complies with Section 2.19(e). Any Participant that makes a claim under Section 2.18 or Section 2.19 shall also be subject to Section 2.21 and Section 2.22 as fully as if it were a Lender hereunder.
(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or Assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(e) The Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the type described in paragraph (d) above.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Conduit Lender may assign any or all of the Loans it may have funded hereunder to its designating Lender without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent and without regard to the limitations set forth in Section 10.6(b). Each of the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby confirms that it will not institute against a Conduit Lender or join any other Person in instituting against a Conduit Lender any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding under any state bankruptcy or similar law, for one year and one day after the payment in full of the latest maturing commercial paper note issued by such Conduit Lender; provided, however, that each Lender designating any Conduit Lender hereby agrees to indemnify, save and hold harmless each other party hereto for any loss, cost, damage or expense arising out of its inability to institute such a proceeding against such Conduit Lender during such period of forbearance.
10.7 Adjustments; Set-off. (a) Except to the extent that this Agreement or a court order expressly provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender or to the Lenders under a particular Facility, if any Lender (a Benefitted Lender) shall receive any payment of all or part of the Obligations owing to it (other than in connection with an assignment made pursuant to Section 10.6), or receive any collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events or proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 8(f), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment to or collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such other Lender, such Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participating interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender, or shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of the Lenders; provided, however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
(b) In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall have the right during the existence of an Event of Default, without notice to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any Obligations becoming due and payable by the Borrower or the Co-Borrower (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), to apply to the payment of such Obligations, by setoff or otherwise, any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any
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time held or owing by such Lender, any affiliate thereof or any of their respective branches or agencies to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or the Co-Borrower. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such application.
10.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by email or facsimile transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
10.9 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
10.10 Integration. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of the Borrower, the Co-Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or any Lender relative to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents.
10.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
10.12 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a) submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non-exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof;
(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the Borrower at its address set forth in Section 10.2 or at such other address of which the Administrative Agent shall have been notified pursuant thereto;
(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction; and
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(e) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, indirect, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.
10.13 Acknowledgements. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; and
(b) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among the Borrower and the Co-Borrower, on the one hand, and the Lenders, on the other hand.
10.14 No Fiduciary Duty. The Credit Parties and their Affiliates may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Group Members and their Affiliates. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees that nothing in the Loan Documents will be deemed to create an advisory, agency or fiduciary relationship or other implied duty between any Credit Party, on the one hand, and any Group Member on the other. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower acknowledges and agrees that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (including the exercise of rights and remedies hereunder and thereunder) are arms-length commercial transactions between the Credit Parties, on the one hand, and the Group Members, on the other, and (ii) no Credit Party has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of any Group Member with respect to the Loan Documents (or the exercise of rights or remedies with respect thereto) or any other obligation to the Group Members with respect thereto except the obligations expressly set forth in the Loan Documents. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower acknowledges and agrees that the Borrower and the Co-Borrower has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate in connection with the Loan Documents and that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to the Loan Documents or the credit transactions contemplated hereby. Each of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower agrees that it will not claim any Credit Party has rendered advisory services or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Borrower or the Co-Borrower, in connection with the Loan Documents. The provisions of this Section 10.14 shall not apply to the financial advisory and underwriting services provided by the Lead Arrangers or any of their respective affiliates to one or more of the Group Members pursuant to other agreements.
10.15 Additional Borrowers. The Borrower may designate any wholly owned Subsidiary as a co-borrower under the Revolving Commitments or any Incremental Facility (an Additional Borrower); provided that the Administrative Agent shall be reasonably satisfied that, with respect to any such Subsidiary which is not a Domestic Subsidiary, the Lenders and Foreign Currency Lenders may make loans and other extensions of credit to such Subsidiary in Dollars and Foreign Currencies in such persons jurisdiction in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, without being required or qualified to do business in such jurisdiction and without being subject to any unreimbursed or unindemnified Tax or other expense. Such wholly owned Subsidiary shall become an Additional Borrower and a party to this Agreement, and all references to the Co-Borrower shall be to such Additional Borrower, as applicable, upon (i) the receipt by the Administrative Agent of (A) a joinder agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, executed by such Subsidiary and the Borrower, (B) an acknowledgement and confirmation by the Guarantors of their guarantee in respect of the Obligations of such Subsidiary, (C) an amendment and/or supplement to the Security Documents executed by the applicable Loan Parties and such Subsidiary, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, (D) corporate or other applicable resolutions, other corporate or other applicable documents, certificates and legal opinions in respect of such Subsidiary substantially
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equivalent to comparable documents delivered on the Closing Date and (E) such other documents or information with respect thereto (including all documentation and other information required under the Patriot Act) as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request and (ii) the Revolving Lenders and Foreign Currency Lenders being provided with (A) five Business Days prior notice of any Additional Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary being added under the Revolving Facility pursuant to this Section 10.15 and (B) 10 Business Days prior notice of any Additional Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary being added under the Revolving Facility pursuant to this Section 10.15.
10.16 Releases of Guarantees and Liens. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender except as expressly required by Section 10.1) to take any action requested by the Borrower having the effect of releasing any Collateral or guarantee obligations (i) to the extent necessary to permit consummation of any transaction not prohibited by any Loan Document or that has been consented to in accordance with Section 10.1 or (ii) under the circumstances described in paragraph (b) below.
(b) At such time as the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and the other Obligations under the Loan Documents (other than contingent indemnity and reimbursement obligations not then due and payable and Obligations under or in respect of Specified Swap Agreements or Specified Cash Management Agreements) shall have been paid in full, the Commitments have been terminated and no Letters of Credit shall be outstanding (or all Letters of Credit shall have been fully cash collateralized in accordance with the terms of this Agreement), the Collateral shall be released from the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Security Documents and all obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party under the Security Documents shall terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any Person.
Each of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep confidential all non-public information provided to it by any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement; provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such information (a) to the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or any affiliate thereof (who shall be informed of the provisions of this Section), (b) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section, to any actual or prospective Transferee or any direct or indirect counterparty to any Swap Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates (who shall be informed of the provisions of this Section), (d) upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority, (e) to the extent required by any order of any court or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any Requirement of Law, (f) to the extent required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (g) that has been publicly disclosed other than due to breach of the provisions of this Section, (h) that becomes available to the Agents on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries, officers, directors, employees or advisors, (i) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about a Lenders investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or (j) if agreed by the Borrower in its sole discretion, to any other Person.
Each Lender acknowledges that information furnished to it pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents may include material non-public information concerning the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities, and confirms that it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and that it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with those procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
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All information, including requests for waivers and amendments, furnished by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to, or in the course of administering, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents will be syndicate-level information, which may contain material non-public information about the Borrower and its Affiliates and their related parties or their respective securities. Accordingly, each Lender represents to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that it has identified in its administrative questionnaire a credit contact who may receive information that may contain material non-public information in accordance with its compliance procedures and applicable law, including Federal and state securities laws.
10.17 Judgment Currency. (a) The Loan Parties obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to make payments in Dollars shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender or recovery pursuant to any judgment expressed in or converted into any currency other than Dollars, except to the extent that such tender or recovery results in the effective receipt by the Administrative Agent or the respective Lender or Issuing Bank of the full amount of Dollars expressed to be payable to the Administrative Agent or such Lender or Issuing Bank under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. If, for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against any Loan Party in any court or in any jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to convert into or from any currency other than Dollars (such other currency being hereinafter referred to as the Judgment Currency) an amount due in Dollars, the conversion shall be made at the Dollar Equivalent determined as of the Business Day immediately preceding the day on which the judgment is given (such Business Day being hereinafter referred to as the Judgment Currency Conversion Date).
(b) If there is a change in the rate of exchange prevailing between the Judgment Currency Conversion Date and the date of actual payment of the amount due, the Loan Parties shall pay, or cause to be paid, such additional amounts, if any (but in any event not a lesser amount) as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the rate of exchange prevailing on the date of payment, will produce the amount of Dollars which could have been purchased with the amount of Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial award at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Judgment Currency Conversion Date.
(c) For purposes of determining the Dollar Equivalent or any other rate of exchange for this Section 10.17, such amounts shall include any premium and costs payable in connection with the purchase of Dollars.
10.18 WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL. THE BORROWER, THE CO-BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.
10.19 USA Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower and the Co-Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the Patriot Act), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower and the Co-Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and the Co-Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower and the Co-Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, INC., as Borrower | ||
By: | /s/ Richard J. Poulton | |
Richard J. Poulton | ||
Chief Financial Officer |
ALLSCRIPTS HEALTHCARE, LLC, as Co-Borrower | ||
By: | /s/ Richard J. Poulton | |
Richard J. Poulton | ||
Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Issuing Lender, Swingline Lender and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Krys Szremski | |
Name: Krys Szremski | ||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
CITIBANK, N.A., as Syndication Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Laura Fogarty | |
Name: Laura Fogarty | ||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Co- Documentation Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ David A. Wild | |
Name: David A. Wild | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
SUNTRUST BANK, as Co-Documentation Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ John Cappellari | |
Name: John Cappellari | ||
Title: Director |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as Co- Documentation Agent | ||
By: | /s/ William W. Stitt | |
Name: William W. Stitt | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
By: | /s/ Andrew S. Callaway | |
Name: Andrew S. Callaway | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, New York Branch, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Mary Kay Coyle | |
Name: Mary Kay Coyle | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
By: | /s/ Michael Getz | |
Name: Michael Getz | ||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD., as Co-Documentation Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Jaime Sussman | |
Name: Jaime Sussman | ||
Title: VP |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
FIFTH THIRD BANK, an Ohio Banking Corporation, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Nathaniel E. Sher | |
Nathaniel E. (Ned) Sher Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Ryan T. Smith | |
Name: Ryan T. Smith | ||
Title: Assistant Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
RBS CITIZENS, N.A., as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Kristin L. Lenda | |
Name: Kristin L. Lenda | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Shuji Yabe | |
Name: Shuji Yabe | ||
Title: Managing Director |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Michael West | |
Michael West | ||
Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ David J. Sanchez | |
Name: David J. Sanchez | ||
Title: Its Authorized Signatory |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
COMPASS BANK, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Charles Randolph | |
Name: Charles Randolph | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
BMO Harris Bank, N.A., as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Andre Bonakdar | |
Name: Andre Bonakdar | ||
Title: Director |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
Bank of America, N.A., as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Suzanne B. Smith | |
Name: Suzanne B. Smith | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
First Tennessee Bank, National Association, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ James H. Moore, Jr. | |
Name: James H. Moore, Jr. | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Kim Puszczewicz | |
Name: Kim Puszczewicz | ||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
The PrivateBank and Trust Company, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Christopher OHara | |
Name: Christopher OHara | ||
Title: Managing Director |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]
FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK, as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Dawn Hofmann | |
Name: Dawn Hofmann | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]