AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERCOMPANY LIQUIDITYAGREEMENT

EX-10.2 2 a08-11210_1ex10d2.htm EX-10.2

 

EXHIBIT 10.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

INTERCOMPANY LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT

 

This Amended and Restated Intercompany Liquidity Agreement (“Agreement”) amends and restates the Intercompany Liquidity Agreement between Allstate Insurance Company (“AIC”), an Illinois domiciled property and casualty insurance company and Allstate Life Insurance Company (“ALIC”), an Illinois domiciled life insurance company, dated January 1, 2008, to add The Allstate Corporation (“Allcorp”) as a party and make certain other minor changes.

 

This Agreement among Allcorp, AIC and ALIC shall be effective as of May 8, 2008.  To the extent and only to the extent, a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Allcorp (an “Allstate Affiliate”) is added to this agreement pursuant to the terms of Sections 1 and 5 below and a signed Addendum substantially in the form of Exhibit B, such Allstate Affiliate shall become a party to this Agreement (each such properly added Allstate Affiliate, together with Allcorp, AIC and ALIC, shall each be a “Party”).

 

The purpose of this Agreement is to provide a mechanism under which short-term advances of funds may be made between the Parties for liquidity and other general corporate purposes.  This Agreement does not establish a commitment to advance funds on the part of any Party.  In consideration of the following agreements and covenants and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:

 

1.               Roles of the Parties and Limits on Outstanding Advances:

 

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, from time to time during the term of this Agreement one or more Parties may make and have outstanding advances to one or more of the other Parties to this Agreement.  The term “Lender” shall refer to a Party that is making or has made a currently outstanding advance.  The term “Borrower” shall refer to a Party that is receiving or has received a currently outstanding advance.  From time to time in its capacity as a Lender or a Borrower or both, a Party may have multiple advances outstanding with one or more other Parties.  However, at no time shall a Party, in its role as a Lender, have advances outstanding to one or more Parties in an aggregate amount in excess of its “Lender Maximum.”  In addition, at no time shall a Party, in its role as a Borrower, have advances outstanding from one or more Parties in an aggregate amount in excess of its “Borrower Maximum.”  In determining the amount of outstanding advances with respect to a Party, the gross amount of outstanding advances will be used, with no netting or offsetting permitted.  For Allcorp, AIC and ALIC these maximums shall be equal to the following amounts:

 

 

 

Lender Maximum

 

Borrower Maximum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allcorp

 

$

1,000,000,000

 

$

0

 

AIC

 

$

1,000,000,000

 

$

1,000,000,000

 

ALIC

 

$

1,000,000,000

 

$

1,000,000,000

 

 

Allcorp shall serve only as a Lender.  The Lender Maximum and Borrower Maximum for any Allstate Affiliate added as a Party shall be specified in the Addendum that adds such Allstate Affiliate as a Party, subject to receipt of any required regulatory approvals.

 

2.               Terms for Advances:

 

The terms of each advance shall be as agreed upon between the Parties to such advance pursuant to an accepted borrowing request as defined below, provided that the following shall apply to all advances:

 

 



 

a)              Each advance shall have a specified maturity date that is less than or equal to 364 days from the date of the advance.

 

b)             Advances shall be payable upon demand prior to their maturity date if a written request is made by the Lender and delivered to the Borrower at least ten business days prior to the date payment is demanded.

 

c)              At any time and from time to time, the Borrower shall have the right to make one or more prepayments of the outstanding principal balance of an advance without penalty and may designate which advance is being prepaid if more than one advance is outstanding, provided that any such repayment includes all accrued interest on the amount prepaid as of the repayment date.

 

3.               Interest:

 

Each advance shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof, for each day from and including the date such advance is made to but not including the date repaid at a rate equal to the rate established in the accepted borrowing request as defined below applicable to such advance, provided that such rate shall be equal to or greater than the interest rate on 30-day commercial paper issued by Allcorp on the date the advance is made.   The rate on each advance shall be adjusted on the first day of each month thereafter, for so long as the advance remains outstanding, to Allcorp’s then 30-day commercial paper rate plus the spread agreed upon in the accepted borrowing request.  Unless otherwise agreed to in the accepted borrowing request, such accrued interest shall be payable at the maturity of each such advance.  In the event that a 30-day commercial paper rate for Allcorp is not available, the Parties to a borrowing request shall agree on a comparable substitute.  If an advance is outstanding and such Parties cannot agree, the advance shall be promptly repaid.

 

4.               Procedure for Requesting an Advance and Repayment of Advances:

 

Any Party may request an advance from any other Party.  In no circumstance shall a Party be obligated to make an advance under the terms of this Agreement.  The decision to make an advance shall be at the sole discretion of the Party being asked to make the advance.

 

Upon the mutual agreement of any two Parties to the terms of an advance, the proposed Borrower shall submit a written borrowing request, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, to the proposed Lender.  The borrowing request shall contain the terms agreed to, be signed by two Authorized Officers, as defined below, of the Borrower and signed as accepted by two Authorized Officers of the Lender, provided, however, that, if after making such an advance, a Party will have more than $500,000,000 in outstanding advances either as a Lender or a Borrower, then one of the two authorized officers signing the borrowing request for such Party must be that Party’s Chief Financial Officer, President or Chief Executive Officer (or officers holding substantially equivalent titles if that Party does not have a Chief Financial Officer, President or Chief Executive Officer).  For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Authorized Officer”, with respect to a Party, shall mean an officer of that Party holding one or more of the following titles, or a substantially equivalent title if such Party does not have an officer holding such title:  Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Controller, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer.

 

No separate promissory note shall be required.  The date of the advance, amount, interest rate and maturity date shall be recorded in the books and records of the Lender and shall be prima facie evidence of the existence, amount and terms of the advance, absent manifest error, provided the failure to so record or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of a Borrower to repay an advance in accordance with its terms as stated on the accepted borrowing request and the terms of this Agreement.

 

Each Party, to the extent it receives an advance as a Borrower, hereby unconditionally promises to pay to its Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each such advance together with all accrued interest on such advance in the amounts, at the times and in the manner set forth in this Agreement and the accepted

 

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borrowing request, and, in any event, by no later than its maturity date as specified in the accepted borrowing request.

 

If the proposed Lender or Borrower is an Illinois domiciled insurance company, such entity shall provide the Illinois Division of Insurance with notice of the proposed advance five business days prior to the date of the advance.  Such notice may be made by e-mail and shall include the amount of the advance, the parties to the advance, the proposed date of the advance and the purpose of or reason for the advance.

 

5.               Procedure for Adding Additional Parties:

 

The Parties agree that additional Allstate Affiliates may be added to this Agreement from time to time provided:

 

a)              an Addendum, substantially in the form of Exhibit B, is signed by the Allstate Affiliate and AIC on behalf of itself and the other Parties to this agreement after all required corporate authorizations and regulatory approvals for such Allstate Affiliate and AIC have been obtained;

 

b)             the Addendum specifies the effective date of the Agreement for such Allstate Affiliate; and

 

c)              the Addendum specifies the Lender Maximum and Borrower Maximum, in accordance with Section 1 above, for such Allstate Affiliate.

 

For informational purposes, each newly added Allstate Affiliate will be added to the Cumulative List of All Parties on Schedule 5.

 

6.               Term and Termination:

 

This Agreement shall remain in effect for one year from the date first specified above and shall be automatically renewed for subsequent one-year terms unless sooner terminated by the Parties.  Any one Party may cancel its participation in this Agreement provided it is not a Party to any outstanding advances, either as a Lender or a Borrower, by giving written notice to AIC.  This Agreement shall terminate automatically as to any Party immediately upon such Party ceasing to be a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Allcorp, in which case any outstanding advances involving such Party, shall immediately become due and payable.

 

7.               Miscellaneous Provisions:

 

a)              This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Illinois.

 

b)             This Agreement may be amended or modified only by written agreement executed by the Parties to be bound by such amendment.  An amendment to increase or decrease a Party’s Lender Maximum or Borrower Maximum need only be signed by such Party provided all required corporate authorizations and regulatory approvals have been received.  In the event that a Party, in its role as a Lender, amends this Agreement to reduce its Lender Maximum and the aggregate amount of its advances outstanding to all other Parties exceeds such reduced Lender Maximum, Lender shall promptly demand payment of such excess from such Borrowers as it selects and such excess shall be payable within ten business days of the delivery of such written demand. In the event that a Party, in its role as a Borrower, amends this Agreement to reduce its Borrower Maximum and the aggregate amount of its advances outstanding from all other Parties exceeds such reduced Borrower Maximum, Borrower shall repay an amount of advances equal to such excess within ten business days of such reduction.  In determining the amount of outstanding advances with respect to a Party, the gross amount of outstanding advances will be used, with no netting or offsetting permitted.

 

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c)              No Party hereto shall assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the other Parties affected and any such attempted assignment without such prior written consent shall be void.

 

d)             If any part of this Agreement shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the remaining parts of the Agreement shall not be affected and shall continue with full force and effect.

 

e)              The descriptive headings of the various sections or parts of this Agreement are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or construction of any of the provision hereof.

 

f)                This Agreement as amended or supplemented from time to time constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.  There are no understandings between the Parties other than as expressed in this Agreement.

 

g)             This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts and by different signatories on different counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original and all of which when taken together shall be deemed to constitute a single document.

 

h)             This Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Parties hereto.

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have executed this Agreement.

 

 

THE ALLSTATE CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Samuel H. Pilch

 

By:

/s/ Steven C. Verney

Name:

Samuel H. Pilch

 

Name:

Steven C. Verney

Title:

Controller and Acting Vice President

 

Title:

Treasurer

 

and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Samuel H. Pilch

 

By:

/s/ Steven C. Verney

Name:

Samuel H. Pilch

 

Name:

Steven C. Verney

Title:

Group Vice President and Controller

 

Title:

Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

 

 

ALLSTATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ James E. Hohmann

 

By:

/s/ John C. Pintozzi

Name:

James E. Hohmann

 

Name:

John C. Pintozzi

Title:

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

Title:

Senior Vice President and

 

 

 

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

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Exhibit A

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

INTERCOMPANY LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT

 

BORROWING REQUEST

 

[Request Date]

 

[Lender]

Attention:  Treasurer

 

Re:  Request for Advance

 

Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Intercompany Liquidity Agreement, dated                                 , 2008, among The Allstate Corporation, Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Life Insurance Company and each such Allstate Affiliate as may have entered into the Agreement pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.

 

Pursuant to the Agreement and subject to the additional terms contained therein, [Borrower] requests an advance of funds from [Lender] with the following terms:

 

Date of advance:

Principal amount:

Maturity date:

Initial interest rate (including spread, if any, of       basis points above the current interest rate on 30-day commercial paper issued by The Allstate Corporation):

Interest rate payment schedule if other than as specified in the Agreement:

Additional terms if other than as specified in the Agreement:

 

The advance of funds will be governed by the terms and conditions of the Agreement and this accepted borrowing request in all respects.

 

If the proposed Lender or Borrower is an Illinois domiciled insurance company, such entity shall provide the Illinois Division of Insurance with notice of the proposed advance five business days prior to the date of the advance.  Such notice may be made by e-mail and shall include the amount of the advance, the parties to the advance, the proposed date of the advance and the purpose of or reason for the advance.

 

[BORROWER]

 

By:

 

 

By:

 

Name:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Title:

 

 

Agreed and Accepted:

 

[LENDER]

 

By:

 

 

By:

 

Name:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

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Exhibit B

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

INTERCOMPANY LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT

 

ADDENDUM TO ADD ALLSTATE AFFILIATES

 

Reference is made to the Amended and Restated Intercompany Liquidity Agreement, dated                               , 2008, among The Allstate Corporation, Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Life Insurance Company and each such Allstate Affiliate as may have entered into the Agreement pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.

 

Pursuant to its status as an Allstate Affiliate,                                                                          (the “New Party”) has requested that it be added as a Party to the Agreement.  By executing this Addendum, the New Party agrees to be bound by all the terms and conditions of the Agreement.  Its status thereunder shall not be inconsistent with the status of the other Parties to the Agreement.

 

The New Party shall become a Party to the Agreement effective as of      [Date]       with the following Lender Maximum and Borrower Maximum, as such term are defined in the Agreement:

 

Lender Maximum

 

$

 

 

Borrower Maximum

 

$

 

 

 

 

[NEW PARTY]

 

By:

 

 

By:

 

Name:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agreed and Accepted:

 

Allstate Insurance Company agrees that the New Party shall become a Party to the Agreement on the effective date listed above, subject to all of the terms and conditions of the Agreement as if an original Party thereto, and, pursuant to Section 5 of the Agreement, Allstate Insurance Company executes this Addendum on its behalf and on behalf of all of the other Parties to the Agreement.

 

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY

 

By:

 

 

By:

 

Name:

 

 

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

 

 

 

 

 

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Schedule 5

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

INTERCOMPANY LIQUIDITY AGREEMENT

 

CUMULATIVE LIST OF ALL PARTIES

 

 

 

 


Party

 

Date of
Regulatory Approval

 

 

 

 

 

1.

 

The Allstate Corporation

 

IL — 5.07.08

2.

 

Allstate Insurance Company

 

IL — 12.28.07 and Amendment 5.07.08

3.

 

Allstate Life Insurance Company

 

IL — 12.28.07 and Amendment 5.07.08

 

 

 

 

 

 

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