Credit Agreement, dated as of June 28, 2019, among Analog Devices, Inc., as Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Administrative Agent, and each lender from time to time party thereto

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EX-10.1 2 d772370dex101.htm EX-10.1 EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of June 28, 2019,

among

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.,

as Borrower,

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent,

and the LENDERS party hereto

 

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

BOFA SECURITIES, INC.,

MUFG BANK, LTD.

and

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC,

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Syndication Agent

MUFG BANK, LTD.

and

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Documentation Agents

 

 

 

[CS&M Ref. No. 6702-219]


Table of Contents

 

         Page  
  ARTICLE I   
  DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS   
1.01.   Defined Terms      1  
1.02.   Other Interpretive Provisions      22  
1.03.   Accounting Terms      23  
1.04.   Rounding      24  
1.05.   Times of Day      24  
1.06.   Interest Rates; LIBOR Notification      24  
  ARTICLE II   
  THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS   
2.01.   Loans      25  
2.02.   Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans      25  
2.03.   Prepayments      27  
2.04.   Termination or Reduction of Commitments      27  
2.05.   Repayment of Loans      27  
2.06.   Interest      27  
2.07.   Fees      28  
2.08.   Computation of Interest and Fees      28  
2.09.   Evidence of Debt      29  
2.10.   Payments Generally      29  
2.11.   Sharing of Payments by Lenders      31  
2.12.   Defaulting Lenders      32  
  ARTICLE III   
  TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY   
3.01.   Taxes      32  
3.02.   Illegality      37  
3.03.   Inability to Determine Rates      37  
3.04.   Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans      39  
3.05.   Compensation for Losses      40  
3.06.   Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders      40  
3.07.   Survival      41  

 

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Table of Contents (continued)

 

         Page  
  ARTICLE IV   
  CONDITIONS PRECEDENT   
  ARTICLE V   
  REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES   
5.01.   Existence, Qualification and Power      43  
5.02.   Authorization; No Contravention      43  
5.03.   Governmental Authorization; Other Consents      43  
5.04.   Binding Effect      44  
5.05.   Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect      44  
5.06.   Litigation      44  
5.07.   No Default      44  
5.08.   Ownership of Property      44  
5.09.   [Reserved]      45  
5.10.   Insurance      45  
5.11.   Taxes      45  
5.12.   ERISA Compliance      45  
5.13.   [Reserved]      46  
5.14.   Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act      46  
5.15.   Disclosure      46  
5.16.   Compliance with Laws      47  
5.17.   [Reserved]      47  
5.18.   Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc      47  
5.19.   Sanctions      47  
5.20.   Anti-Corruption Laws      48  
  ARTICLE VI   
  AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS   
6.01.   Financial Statements      48  
6.02.   Certificates; Other Information      49  
6.03.   Notices      50  
6.04.   Payment of Obligations      51  

 

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Table of Contents (continued)

 

         Page  
6.05.   Preservation of Existence, Etc      51  
6.06.   [Reserved]      51  
6.07.   [Reserved]      51  
6.08.   Compliance with Laws      51  
6.09.   Books and Records      51  
6.10.   Inspection Rights      52  
6.11.   Use of Proceeds      52  
6.12.   Anti-Corruption Laws      52  
  ARTICLE VII   
  NEGATIVE COVENANTS   
7.01.   Liens      52  
7.02.   Indebtedness      54  
7.03.   Fundamental Changes      55  
7.04.   [Reserved]      55  
7.05.   Use of Proceeds      55  
7.06.   Fiscal Year      55  
7.07.   Financial Covenant      56  
7.08.   Sanctions      56  
7.09.   Anti-Corruption Laws      56  
  ARTICLE VIII   
  EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES   
8.01.   Events of Default      56  
8.02.   Remedies Upon Event of Default      59  
8.03.   Application of Funds      59  
  ARTICLE IX   
  ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT   
9.01.   Appointment and Authority      60  
9.02.   Rights as a Lender      60  
9.03.   Exculpatory Provisions      61  
9.04.   Reliance by Administrative Agent      62  

 

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Table of Contents (continued)

 

         Page  
9.05.   Delegation of Duties      62  
9.06.   Resignation of Administrative Agent      63  
9.07.   Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders      64  
9.08.   No Other Duties, Etc      64  
9.09.   Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim      64  
9.10.   ERISA Matters      65  
  ARTICLE X   
  MISCELLANEOUS   
10.01.   Amendments, Etc      66  
10.02.   Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication      68  
10.03.   No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement      70  
10.04.   Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver      70  
10.05.   Payments Set Aside      72  
10.06.   Successors and Assigns      73  
10.07.   Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality      77  
10.08.   Right of Setoff      78  
10.09.   Interest Rate Limitation      78  
10.10.   Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness      79  
10.11.   Survival of Representations and Warranties      79  
10.12.   Severability      79  
10.13.   Replacement of Lenders      80  
10.14.   Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc      81  
10.15.   Waiver of Jury Trial      82  
10.16.   No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility      82  
10.17.   Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents      83  
10.18.   USA PATRIOT ACT NOTICE      83  
10.19.   Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions      83  
10.20.   Subsidiary Guarantors; Release of Subsidiary Guarantors      84  
10.21.   Certain Agreement with respect to the Existing Term Credit Agreement      85  

 

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Table of Contents (continued)

 

SCHEDULES

 

1.01

   Consolidated EBITDA Addbacks

2.01

   Commitments

5.12(d)

   Pension Plans

7.01

   Liens

7.02

   Indebtedness

10.02

   Certain Addresses for Notices

EXHIBITS

 

   Form of

1.01

   Subsidiary Guaranty

2.02

   Loan Notice

2.09

   Note

3.01(a)

   U.S. Tax Certificate (Foreign Lenders that are not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

3.01(b)

   U.S. Tax Certificate (Foreign Participants that are not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

3.01(c)

   U.S. Tax Certificate (Foreign Participants that are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

3.01(d)

   U.S. Tax Certificate (Foreign Lenders that are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

6.02

   Compliance Certificate

10.06

   Assignment and Assumption

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of June 28, 2019, among ANALOG DEVICES, INC., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), each Lender from time to time party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

1.01. Defined Terms.

As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:

Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.

Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan in its capacity as administrative agent under the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.

Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.

Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c).

Agreement” means this Credit Agreement, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

Anti-Corruption Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 5.20(a).

Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of (a) prior to the funding of Loans on the Closing Date, the aggregate Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment at such time and (b) after the funding of Loans on the Closing Date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Loans at such time represented by such Lender’s outstanding Loans at such time. If the Commitments have terminated and the Loans have been repaid in full, then the Applicable Percentage of each Lender will be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Lender most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments.


Applicable Rate” means, at any time, with respect to any Loan, the percentages per annum specified below for the applicable Type of Loans, based upon the Debt Ratings in effect at such time:

 

Pricing
Level

  

Debt Ratings
S&P/
Moody’s

   Eurodollar
Rate
Loans
    Base
Rate
Loans
 

I

   ³ A+/A1      0.625     0.000

II

   A/A2      0.750     0.000

III

   A-/A3      0.875     0.000

IV

   BBB+/Baa1      1.000     0.000

V

   BBB/Baa2      1.125     0.125

VI

   BBB-/Baa3      1.250     0.250

VII

   £ BB+/Ba1 or unrated      1.500     0.500

Each change in the Applicable Rate resulting from a publicly announced change in the Debt Rating shall be effective, in the case of an upgrade, during the period commencing on the date of delivery by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent of notice thereof pursuant to Section 6.03(b) and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change and, in the case of a downgrade, during the period commencing on the date of the public announcement thereof and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. If the Debt Ratings differ by one Pricing Level, then the Pricing Level for the higher of such Debt Ratings shall apply (with the Debt Rating for Pricing Level I being the highest and the Debt Rating for Pricing Level VII being the lowest). If there is a split in Debt Ratings of more than one Pricing Level, then the Pricing Level that is one level lower than the Pricing Level of the higher Debt Rating shall apply. If the Borrower has only one Debt Rating, the Pricing Level that is one level lower than that of such Debt Rating shall apply. If the Borrower does not have any Debt Rating, Pricing Level VII shall apply.

Approved Fund” means any Fund 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.

Arrangers” means JPMorgan, BofA Securities, Inc., MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, in their capacities as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners for the term loan facility provided for herein.

Assignment and Assumption” means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit 10.06 or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by any electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent and reasonably acceptable to the Borrower.

Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, (a) in respect of any capital lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under the relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease were accounted for as a capital lease.

 

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Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended November 3, 2018, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.

Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the NYFRB Rate in effect on such day plus 12 of 1% per annum and (c) the Adjusted LIBO Rate on such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day) for a deposit in Dollars with a maturity of one month plus 1% per annum. For purposes of clause (c) above, the Adjusted LIBO Rate on any day shall be based on the Screen Rate at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day for deposits in Dollars with a maturity of one month (or, if the Screen Rate is not available for a maturity of one month with respect to Dollars but is available for periods both longer and shorter than such period, the Interpolated Screen Rate as of such time). Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the NYFRB Rate or the Adjusted LIBO Rate, respectively. If the Base Rate is being used as an alternate rate of interest pursuant to Section 3.03, then for purposes of clause (c) above, the Adjusted LIBO Rate shall be deemed to be zero.

Base Rate Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Base Rate Loans.

Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.

Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership or control as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

Benefit Plan” means (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.

Borrower” means has the meaning specified in the preamble hereto.

Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

 

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Borrowing” means Loans of the same Type made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period.

Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, New York City, and if such day relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day.

Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) 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 Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted, promulgated or issued.

Change of Control” means an event or series of events by which:

(a) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, but excluding any employee benefit plan of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and any Person acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), except that a person or group shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an “option right”), directly or indirectly, of 40% or more of the Equity Interests of the Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right); or

(b) during any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Borrower cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board or equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above (or individuals previously approved under this clause (iii)) constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body (in each case, with such approval either by a specific vote or by approval of the Borrower’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

 

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Closing Date” means the date on which all the conditions precedent in Article IV are satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 10.01).

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Commitment” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make a Loan pursuant to Section 2.01, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Loan to be made by such Lender, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.04 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 10.06. The initial amount of each Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable. As of the date hereof, the aggregate amount of the Commitments is $1,250,000,000.

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 6.02.

Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income and without duplication: (i) Consolidated Interest Charges for such period, (ii) the provision for federal, state, local and foreign income taxes payable by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense for such period, (iv) non-cash stock-based compensation expense for such period, (v) certain non-recurring expenses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries incurred prior to the date hereof, as more fully set forth on Schedule 1.01, for such period, and non-recurring cash expenses relating to pension liabilities incurred after the date hereof, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $300,000,000, (vi) non-recurring expenses (whether or not separately identified on the profit and loss statement) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries which do not represent a cash item in such period or any future period, (vii) non-recurring cash expenses (whether or not separately identified on the profit and loss statement) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the extent such cash expenses are not paid in such period but will be paid in a future period (it being understood that such non-recurring cash expenses will reduce Consolidated EBITDA for the period in which paid), (viii) fees and expenses incurred in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the related transactions and (ix) fees and expenses incurred in connection with any Qualified Acquisition, minus (b) to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income, all non-recurring non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period, all as determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated EBITDA Adjustments” means, (a) in connection with any Person acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other assets acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the applicable four fiscal quarter measurement period for purposes of Section 7.07, in each case where there exist historical financial statements with respect thereto or the Borrower provides internally prepared separate financial statements to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Person or assets (such statements

 

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to be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent), Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated, without duplication, on a pro forma basis as if such Person or assets had been acquired on the first day of such four fiscal quarter period, (b) in connection with any Person disposed of by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any other assets disposed of by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during the applicable four fiscal quarter measurement period for purposes of Section 7.07, in each case to the extent there exist historical financial statements with respect to such Person or assets or the Borrower provides (or, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, can reasonably provide) internally prepared separate financial statements to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Person or assets (such statements to be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent), Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated, without duplication, on a pro forma basis as if such Person or assets had been disposed of on the first day of such four fiscal quarter period and (c) any pro forma calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to the preceding clause (a) or (b) may include, without duplication, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements, synergies or operational changes or restructurings reasonably expected to result from the applicable acquisition or disposition, in each case in the 12-month period following the consummation of such acquisition or disposition, as determined in the reasonable good faith determination of the Borrower and set forth in the Compliance Certificate delivered with respect to each applicable period; provided that any addbacks related to any applicable pro forma events shall not in the aggregate exceed 15% of Consolidated EBITDA (calculated before giving effect to such addbacks) in any 12-month period.

Consolidated Funded Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, without duplication, the sum of: (a) all obligations for borrowed money, whether current or long-term (including the Loans) and all obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments; (b) all purchase money Indebtedness; (c) all obligations (direct or contingent) arising in respect of letters of credit, whether standby or commercial (other than commercial letters of credit issued in the ordinary course of business to the extent there is no overdue reimbursement obligation in respect thereof), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments; (d) all obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) earnouts or other earned deferred payment obligations measured in whole or in part by events or performance occurring after the purchase, to the extent such obligations are contingent); (e) all Attributable Indebtedness; (f) all Guarantees with respect to Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses (a) through (e) above of another Person; and (g) all Indebtedness of the types referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer, except to the extent that Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person; provided, that if the Borrower or any Subsidiary delivers or causes to be delivered an irrevocable repayment or redemption notice that results in Indebtedness in the form of debt securities being due and payable in full not later than 30 days after such repayment or redemption notice has been delivered and deposits cash with or for the benefit of the trustee or holders of such Indebtedness to fund such repayment or redemption in full, then such Indebtedness shall be considered repaid or redeemed (it being understood that if any applicable deposit is returned and the corresponding Indebtedness is not repaid or redeemed, but remains outstanding, such Indebtedness shall no longer be considered repaid or redeemed).

 

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Consolidated Interest Charges” means, for any period, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, and (b) the portion of rent expense of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with respect to such period under capital leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Leverage Ratio” means, as of the last day of any fiscal quarter, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the four fiscal quarters ended on such date, subject to Consolidated EBITDA Adjustments.

Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the net income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (excluding extraordinary gains and extraordinary losses) for that period, in each case as determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Tangible Assets” means, at any time, the consolidated tangible assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, as determined in accordance with GAAP.

Contractual Obligation” means, 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.

Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

Debt Ratings” means, as of any date of determination, the rating as determined by each of S&P and Moody’s of the Borrower’s non-credit-enhanced, senior unsecured long-term debt.

Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.

Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

 

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Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (a) the Base Rate plus (b) the Applicable Rate applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (c) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to any principal of a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.12(b) any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable Default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent or any Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable Default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any Bail-In Action or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interests in such Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender 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 Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower and each other Lender promptly following such determination.

Designated Jurisdiction” means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory is the subject of any Sanction.

Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of property of any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith.

 

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Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.

Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any state of the United States or the District of Columbia.

EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clause (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 10.06(b)(iii) and (v) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 10.06(b)(iii)).

Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable federal, state, local, foreign and other applicable statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, governmental licenses, governmental agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution or the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.

Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries 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.

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests

 

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therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination; provided that Indebtedness convertible or exchangeable into Equity Interests shall not be deemed to be Equity Interests unless and until such Indebtedness is so converted or exchanged.

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).

ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Pension Plan; (e) any event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (f) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate; or (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.

EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

Eurodollar Rate Borrowing” means a Borrowing comprised of Eurodollar Rate Loans.

Eurodollar Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Excluded Taxes” means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. Federal withholding Taxes imposed on

 

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amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 3.06 or 10.13) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that pursuant to Section 3.01, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender acquired the applicable interest in such Loan or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 3.01(e) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

Existing Term Credit Agreement” means the Credit Agreement dated as of September 23, 2016, among the Borrower, the lenders from time to time party thereto and JPMorgan, as administrative agent.

Existing Term Credit Agreement Refinancing” means the repayment of all principal, interest, fees and other amounts (other than contingent obligations that are not yet due) outstanding under the Existing Term Credit Agreement and the termination of all commitments under the Existing Term Credit Agreement and the release and termination of all Guarantees, if any, in respect of the Existing Term Credit Agreement.

FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471 (b) (1) of the Code.

Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate calculated by the NYFRB based on such day’s federal funds transactions by depository institutions (as determined in such manner as the NYFRB shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as the federal funds effective rate; provided that if such rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for all purposes of this Agreement.

Finance Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is a special purpose entity established solely in connection with any issuance or incurrence of Indebtedness by such Subsidiary, provided that (a) such Subsidiary does not own any (i) Equity Interests in any Person, (ii) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary or other Affiliate of the Borrower or (iii) other assets, other than, in the case of this clause (iii), assets relating to its existence or arising under the documents creating such Indebtedness and assets arising from the investment of the proceeds of such Indebtedness in cash equivalents; (b) such Subsidiary conducts no business or operations other than activities incidental to its existence and incurrence by it of such Indebtedness and on-lending or other distribution of the proceeds of such Indebtedness to the Borrower; and (c) such Subsidiary does not Guarantee any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary.

Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is not a U.S. Person.

Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.

 

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FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.

GAAP” means, subject to Section 1.03, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.

Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

Guarantee” means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

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.

 

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Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:

(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;

(b) all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising in respect of letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;

(c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;

(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) earnouts or other earned deferred payment obligations measured in whole or in part by events or performance occurring after the purchase, to the extent such obligations are contingent);

(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;

(f) capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations;

(g) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person, valued, in the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and

(h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company or similar limited liability entity organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or a state thereof) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of any capital lease or Synthetic Lease Obligation as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date.

Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a) above, Other Taxes.

 

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Indemnitee” has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).

Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.

Interest Payment Date” means (a) as to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date.

Interest Period” means, as to each Eurodollar Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter (or, if consented to by all Lenders, such other period that is twelve months or less), as selected by the Borrower in the applicable Loan Notice; provided that:

(a) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;

(b) 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 the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period; and

(c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.

Interpolated Screen Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan for any Interest Period or for purposes of clause (c) of the definition of Base Rate, a rate per annum that results from interpolating on a linear basis between (a) the Screen Rate for the longest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is shorter than the applicable period and (b) the Screen Rate for the shortest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is longer than the applicable period, in each case as of the time the Interpolated Screen Rate is otherwise required to be determined in accordance with the Loan Documents; provided that the Interpolated Screen Rate shall in no event be less than zero.

IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

JPMorgan” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and its successors.

Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority (other than agreements consisting of contracts with Governmental Authorities entered into by a Person in the ordinary course of business), in each case whether or not having the force of law.

 

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Lender” means each of the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that shall have ceased to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.

Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan for any Interest Period, the Screen Rate as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the day two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

Loan” means a loan made by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01.

Loan Documents” means this Agreement, each Note and the Subsidiary Guaranty.

Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a borrowing of Loans, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 2.02.

Loan Parties” means the Borrower and the Subsidiary Guarantors.

London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank market.

Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, assets, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under this Agreement or the Loan Documents, taken as a whole, or the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Loan Documents, taken as a whole; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against the Borrower of this Agreement or the Loan Documents, taken as a whole.

Material Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary now existing or hereafter acquired or formed, and each successor thereto, together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, with respect to which any of the following criteria has been met: (a) the aggregate revenue generated by such Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the twelve month period

 

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ending as of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Borrower equals or exceeds 5% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period, (b) the Consolidated EBITDA attributable to such Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the twelve month period ending as of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Borrower equals or exceeds 5% of Consolidated EBITDA for such period or (c) the aggregate book value of the assets of such Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the last day of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Borrower equals or exceeds 5% of the book value of all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of such period.

Maturity Date” means March 10, 2022.

Maximum Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 10.09.

MNPI” means material information concerning the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or the respective securities of any of the foregoing that has not been disseminated in a manner making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of Regulation FD under the Exchange Act. For purposes of this definition, “material information” means information concerning the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or the respective securities of any of the foregoing that could reasonably be expected to be material for purposes of the United States federal or state securities laws.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

Multiple Employer Plan” means a Pension Plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4064 of ERISA.

Non-Consenting Lender” means any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (a) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (b) has been approved by the Required Lenders.

Note” means a promissory note made by the Borrower in favor of a Lender evidencing Loans made by such Lender to the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit 2.09.

NYFRB” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

NYFRB Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate in effect on such day (or for any day that is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day); provided that if none of such rates are published for any day that is a Business Day, the “NYFRB Rate” shall mean the rate for a federal funds transaction quoted at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day received by the Administrative Agent from a Federal funds broker of recognized standing selected by it; provided, further, that if any of the aforesaid rates shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

 

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Obligations” means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising with respect to any Loan or otherwise under any Loan Document, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding.

OFAC” means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.

Organization Documents” means the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents).

Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising solely from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).

Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.06 or 10.13).

Overnight Bank Funding Rate” means, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurodollar borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB as set forth on its public website from time to time, and published on the next succeeding Business Day by the NYFRB as an overnight bank funding rate.

Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).

Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).

PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.

Pension Act” means the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Pension Funding Rules” means the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Pension Plans and set forth in, with respect to plan years ending prior to the effective date of the Pension Act, Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA, each as in effect prior to the Pension Act and, thereafter, Sections 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.

 

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Pension Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (including a Multiple Employer Plan or a Multiemployer Plan) that is maintained or is contributed to by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate and is either covered by Title IV of ERISA or is subject to minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code.

Person” means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.

Plan” means any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA (including a Pension Plan), maintained for employees of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate or any such Plan to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is required to contribute on behalf of any of its employees.

Plan Asset Regulations” means 29 CFR § 2510.3-101 et seq., as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA, as amended from time to time.

Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Prime Rate” means the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as the “Prime Rate” in the United States or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as determined by the Administrative Agent). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced or quoted as being effective.

PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.

Public Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Qualified Acquisition” means any acquisition by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of Equity Interests of any Person that becomes a Subsidiary (or that is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into the Borrower or any Subsidiary), any acquisition of an ongoing business or any acquisition of all or substantially all the assets of (or all or substantially all the assets constituting a business unit, division, product line or line of business of), any Person, provided that the aggregate consideration therefor (including as consideration, without duplication, the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness assumed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, and the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of such Person repaid, prepaid or redeemed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case, in connection therewith) is at least $500,000,000; provided, further, that, for any such acquisition to qualify as a “Qualified Acquisition”, the Administrative Agent shall have received prior to, or concurrently with, the consummation of such acquisition, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower describing such acquisition, certifying that such acquisition meets the criteria set forth in this definition and notifying the Administrative Agent that the Borrower has elected to treat such acquisition as a “Qualified Acquisition”.

 

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Recipient” means the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document.

Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).

Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

Removal Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.06(b).

Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30-day notice period has been waived.

Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having Commitments or Loans representing more than 50% of the aggregate amount of the Commitments or the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans, as the case may be, at such time; provided that the Commitments or Loans of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time.

Resignation Effective Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.06(a).

Responsible Officer” means, with respect to any Loan Party, the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer, chief accounting officer or controller of such Loan Party and any other officer of such Loan Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. Without limiting the representations and warranties of the Loan Parties set forth in the Loan Documents, any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of any Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.

Reuters” means Thomson Reuters Corporation, a corporation incorporated under and governed by the Business Corporations Act (Ontario), Canada, Refinitiv and, in each case, any successor thereto.

Revolving Credit Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019, among the Borrower, certain of its Subsidiaries party thereto, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, swing line lender and L/C issuer, and the lenders part thereto, and any amendment, modification, refinancing or replacement thereof.

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc., and any successor thereto.

 

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Sanctions” means any international economic sanction administered or enforced by the United States government (including, without limitation, OFAC and the USA PATRIOT Act), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority.

Screen Rate” means, in respect of the LIBO Rate for any Interest Period, or in respect of any determination of the Base Rate pursuant to clause (c) of the definition thereof, a rate per annum equal to the London interbank offered rate as administered by the ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such rate) for deposits in Dollars (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to the relevant period as displayed on the Reuters screen page that displays such rate (currently LIBOR01 or LIBOR02) (or, in the event such rate does not appear on a page of the Reuters screen, on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion); provided that (a) if no Screen Rate shall be available for a particular period at such time but Screen Rates shall be available for maturities both longer and shorter than such period at such time, then the Screen Rate for such period shall be the Interpolated Screen Rate as of such time and (b) if the Screen Rate, determined as provided above, would be less than zero, the Screen Rate shall be deemed to be zero.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

Statutory Reserve Rate” means a fraction (expressed as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves), expressed as a decimal, established by the FRB to which the Administrative Agent is subject for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the FRB). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be deemed to constitute eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.

Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means any Subsidiary that is a party to the Subsidiary Guaranty.

 

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Subsidiary Guaranty” means the Subsidiary Guaranty among the Borrower, the Subsidiaries of the Borrower party thereto and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit 1.01 or such other form as the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall deem appropriate, together with all supplements thereto in the form specified therein.

Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.

Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).

Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).

Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Threshold Amount” means $300,000,000.

Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Borrower and of each other Loan Document by each Loan Party that is a party thereto, (b) the making of the Loans hereunder and use of proceeds thereof and (c) the payment of fees and expenses incurred in connection with the foregoing.

 

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Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.

Unaudited Financial Statements” means the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal quarters and the portions of the fiscal year ended January 30, 2019 and April 30, 2019, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal quarters and such portions of the fiscal year of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.

United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.

U.S. Person” means a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(e).

USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.

wholly-owned” means, when used in reference to any Subsidiary, that 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests (other than qualifying shares required in connection with a Subsidiary organized and domiciled outside of the United States) of such Subsidiary are at the time owned, directly or indirectly, by the Borrower.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

1.02. Other Interpretive Provisions.

With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:

(a) The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein), (iii) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import when used in any

 

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Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) 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, securities, accounts and contract rights.

(b) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word “from” means “from and including”; the words “to” and “until” each mean “to but excluding”; and the word “through” means “to and including”.

(c) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

(d) For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (i) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (ii) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized and acquired on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

1.03. Accounting Terms.

(a) Generally. All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

(b) Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP (including the early adoption by the Borrower of any provision of GAAP) would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation

 

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between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for the purposes of this Agreement leases shall continue to be classified and accounted for on a basis consistent with GAAP as in effect as of December 31, 2017, notwithstanding any change in GAAP related thereto (including pursuant to Accounting Standard Codification Topic 842), and the Borrower shall not be required to provide any reconciliation thereof to GAAP. For the avoidance of doubt, the impact of FASB ASC 606 on revenue recognition shall be given effect.

(c) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Borrower is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB Interpretation No. 46 – Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities: an interpretation of ARB No. 51 (January 2003) as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.

1.04. Rounding.

Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest number).

1.05. Times of Day.

Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).

1.06. Interest Rates; LIBOR Notification.

The interest rate on Eurodollar Rate Loans is determined by reference to the LIBO Rate, which is derived from the London interbank offered rate. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission or any other matter related to the London interbank offered rate or other rates in the definition of “LIBO Rate” or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate thereof, including without limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate, as it may or may not be adjusted pursuant to Section 3.03, will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, the LIBO Rate or have the same volume or liquidity as did the London interbank offered rate prior to its discontinuance or unavailability.

 

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ARTICLE II

THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

2.01. Loans.

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make a term loan to the Borrower in Dollars on the Closing Date in a principal amount not to exceed the amount of its Commitment in effect on such date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

2.02. Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.

(a) Each borrowing of Loans, each conversion of any Borrowing from one Type to the other, and each continuation of any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing will be made upon delivery to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower of a Loan Notice. Each Loan Notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans, and (ii) one Business Day prior to the requested date of any borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Each such Loan Notice shall be irrevocable and shall be signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower.

(b) Each Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Loan Notice and, in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Loan Notice. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a Borrowing of a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in Section 2.02(a). The Borrower may elect different conversion or continuation options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing (and all references herein to conversion or continuation of a Borrowing shall be understood to include any such election of different options with respect thereto), in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.

(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided that a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing that results from a continuation of an outstanding Eurodollar Rate Borrowing may be in a principal amount that is equal to such outstanding Borrowing. On the Closing Date, each Base Rate Borrowing shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.

(d) Each Loan Notice will specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a borrowing of Loans, a conversion of any Borrowing from one Type to the other, or a continuation of any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, (ii) the requested date of such borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the aggregate principal amount of Loans to be borrowed or the existing Borrowing that is to be converted or continued (and, if different conversion or continuation options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing), (iv) the Type of each requested resulting Borrowing and (v) the duration of the Interest Period with respect to each requested resulting Eurodollar Rate Borrowing. If the

 

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Borrower fails to specify the Type of the Loans requested in a Loan Notice, then the applicable Loans will be made as Base Rate Loans. If the Borrower fails to give timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation of any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, such Eurodollar Rate Borrowing will, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, be continued with an Interest Period of one month. If the Borrower requests a borrowing of, or conversion to or continuation of, Eurodollar Rate Loans in any Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.

(e) Following receipt of a Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the details thereof and, in the case of a Loan Notice requesting a borrowing of Loans, of the amount of its Applicable Percentage of such Loans. If no timely notice of a conversion or continuation of any Eurodollar Rate Borrowing is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion or continuation described in the preceding paragraph. In the case of a borrowing of Loans, each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders, not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Article IV, the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.

(f) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Borrowing. During the existence of a Default, if the Required Lenders shall so stipulate in a notice delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, no Borrowing may be requested as, converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing.

(g) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate.

(h) After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Borrowings from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Eurodollar Rate Borrowings as the same Type, there shall not be more than six Interest Periods in effect with respect to Loans.

(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, the initial Interest Period applicable to the Eurodollar Rate Loans may be as set forth in the initial Loan Notice delivered by the Borrower hereunder (it being understood that interest shall accrue on such Loans during the entirety of such Interest Period by reference to the LIBO Rate that would have been applicable had the requested Interest Period had the duration of one month).

 

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2.03. Prepayments.

The Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans in whole or in part, without premium or penalty; provided that (a) such notice must be in a form acceptable to the Administrative Agent and must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (ii) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; and (b) any prepayment of Loans shall be in a principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the entire principal amount of the Loans of the applicable Type then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Type of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurodollar Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period of such Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. Any notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.03 may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of one or more events specified therein, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Subject to the foregoing sentence, if such notice is given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, in the case of any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, shall be subject to Section 3.05. Each such prepayment shall be applied to the Loans of the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages.

2.04. Termination or Reduction of Commitments.

(a) The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate or permanently reduce the Commitments; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. five Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction (and may be conditioned upon the occurrence or non-occurrence of one or more events or circumstances) and (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify Lenders of the details of any such notice. Any partial reduction of the Commitments will be applied to the Commitments of the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent.

(b) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate automatically on the earlier of (i) 11:59 p.m. on the Closing Date and (ii) the making of Loans on the Closing Date.

2.05. Repayment of Loans.

The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Lender, the then outstanding principal amount of the Loans on the Maturity Date.

2.06. Interest.

(a) Subject to the provisions of clause (b) below, (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; and (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate.

 

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(b) (i) If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(ii) If any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by the Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Required Lenders, such amount shall thereafter bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(iii) Upon the request of the Required Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, the Borrower shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.

(iv) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.

(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable by the Borrower in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

2.07. Fees.

The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for its own account and for the accounts of the Arrangers (or their Affiliates) and the Lenders, as applicable, fees in the amounts and at the times as separately agreed in writing by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers.

2.08. Computation of Interest and Fees.

All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans when Base Rate Loans determined by reference to the Prime Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year). Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.10(a), bear interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

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2.09. Evidence of Debt.

The Loans made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amounts of the Loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest accrued and payments received thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender to the Borrower made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note evidencing such Lender’s Loans to the Borrower. Each Lender may attach schedules to a Note and endorse thereon the date, Type, amount and maturity of its Loans and payments received with respect thereto.

2.10. Payments Generally.

(a) General. Except as otherwise specifically provided in Section 3.01, all payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders to which such payment is owed (except that payments pursuant to Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto), in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. All such payments to the Administrative Agent shall be made to such account as may be specified by the Administrative Agent from time to time by notice to the Borrower. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. Subject to the definition of “Interest Period”, if any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.

(b) (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.02 and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event,

 

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if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Loans of the applicable Type. If the Borrower and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrower the amount of such interest paid by the Borrower for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrower may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.

(ii) Payments by Borrower; Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender, in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the NYFRB Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing.

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this clause (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender to the Borrower as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Borrowing set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest. Without limiting the provisions of Section 10.04, each Lender expressly acknowledges and agrees that in releasing to the Borrower any funds made available to the Administrative Agent by any Lender, (i) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall not incur any liability for relying, upon any certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered pursuant to Article IV and (ii) any good faith determination by the Administrative Agent that any condition set forth in Article IV has been satisfied shall be binding on each Lender.

 

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(d) Obligations of Lenders Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(c) or 10.05 are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan or to make any payment under Section 10.04(c) or 10.05 on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender so to make its Loan or to make its payment under Section 10.04(c) or 10.05.

(e) Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(f) Lender Payments. If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.10(b)(i), 2.10(b)(ii), 10.04(c) or 10.05, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion and notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.

2.11. Sharing of Payments by Lenders.

If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of the Loans made by it resulting in such Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of such Loans and accrued interest thereon greater than its pro rata share thereof as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans; provided that:

(i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and

(ii) the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (y) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (as to which the provisions of this Section 2.11 shall apply).

 

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The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.

2.12. Defaulting Lenders.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, Such Defaulting Lender’s right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of “Required Lenders” and Section 10.01.

(b) If the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that (i) all amendments, waivers or consents effected without its consent in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.01 during such period shall be binding on it and (ii) except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

ARTICLE III

TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

3.01. Taxes.

(a) Payments Free of Taxes; Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes. (i) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Laws. If any applicable Laws (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Administrative Agent or the applicable Loan Party, as applicable) require the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by the Administrative Agent or the applicable Loan Party, then the Administrative Agent or the applicable Loan Party shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding, upon the basis of the information and documentation to be delivered pursuant to clause (e) below.

(ii) If any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by applicable Law to withhold or deduct any Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions (in the case of the Administrative Agent, in the amount determined by it to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to clause (e) below), (B) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of

 

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Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction of Indemnified Taxes been made.

(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. Without limiting the provisions of clause (a) above, the Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c) Tax Indemnifications. (i) The Loan Parties shall, and do hereby, jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment by such Loan Party to such Recipient, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, other than penalties, interest or reasonable expenses arising from the gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Recipient as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Loan Parties shall, and do hereby, jointly and severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within ten days after demand therefor, for any amount which a Lender for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly to the Administrative Agent as required pursuant to Section 3.01(c)(ii) below.

(ii) Each Lender shall, and does hereby, severally indemnify, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 days after demand therefor, (x) the Administrative Agent against any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Loan Parties to do so), (y) the Administrative Agent against any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.06(d) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Loan Parties, as applicable, against any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or the Loan Parties in connection with any Loan Document, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (ii).

 

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(d) Evidence of Payments. Upon request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, as the case may be, after any payment of Taxes by any Loan Party or by the Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Borrower, as the case may be, the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, as the case may be.

(e) Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation. (i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation or information reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be, or evidence that such payments may be, made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 3.01(e)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding Tax;

(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(I) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable,

 

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establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

(II) executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;

(III) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 3.01(a) to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or

(IV) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 3.01(b) or Exhibit 3.01(c), IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 3.01(d) on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

 

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(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 3.01 expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender. If any Recipient determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by a Loan Party or with respect to which a Loan Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall pay to the applicable Loan Party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by such Loan Party under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) incurred by such Recipient, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that such Loan Party, upon the request of such Recipient, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Loan Party (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority, other than any penalties, interest, or other charges attributable to the gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Recipient as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment) to such Recipient in the event such Recipient is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the applicable Recipient be required to pay any amount to any Loan Party pursuant to this clause the payment of which would place such Recipient in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Recipient would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This clause shall not be construed to require any Recipient to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to any Loan Party or any other Person.

 

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(g) Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.

(h) Defined Terms. For purposes of this Section 3.01, the term “applicable Law” or “applicable Laws” includes FATCA.

3.02. Illegality.

If any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans the interest on which is determined by reference to the LIBO Rate, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the LIBO Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits of, Dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (a) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended and (b) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the LIBO Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on the Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the LIBO Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (1) the Borrower shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), convert all such Eurodollar Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the LIBO Rate component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans and (2) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the LIBO Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the LIBO Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the LIBO Rate. Upon any such conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so converted.

3.03. Inability to Determine Rates.

(a) If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing:

(i) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate (including because the Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis) for such Interest Period; or

 

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(ii) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period;

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof (which may be by telephone) to the Borrower and the Lenders as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (A) any Loan Notice that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing shall be ineffective and (B) if any Loan Notice requests a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as a Base Rate Borrowing.

(b) If at any time the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that (i) the circumstances set forth in Section 3.03(a)(i) have arisen and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary or (ii) the circumstances set forth in Section 3.03(a)(i) have not arisen but (A) the supervisor for the administrator of the Screen Rate has made a public statement that the administrator of the Screen Rate is insolvent (and there is no successor administrator that will continue publication of the Screen Rate), (B) the administrator of the Screen Rate has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the Screen Rate will permanently or indefinitely cease to be published by it (and there is no successor administrator that will continue publication of the Screen Rate), (C) the supervisor for the administrator of the Screen Rate has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the Screen Rate will permanently or indefinitely cease to be published or (D) the supervisor for the administrator of the Screen Rate or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which the Screen Rate may no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans, then the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall endeavor to establish an alternate rate of interest to the LIBO Rate that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for syndicated loans denominated in Dollars in the United States at such time, and shall enter into an amendment to this Agreement to reflect such alternate rate of interest and such other related changes to this Agreement as may be applicable; provided that, if such alternate rate of interest as so determined would be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 10.01, such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement so long as the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date a copy of such amendment is provided to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that such Required Lenders object to such amendment. Until an alternate rate of interest shall be determined in accordance with this clause (b), (x) any Loan Notice that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing shall be ineffective and (y) if any Loan Notice requests a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as a Base Rate Borrowing; provided that, in the case of the circumstances described in clause (ii) of the first sentence of this clause (b), subclause (x) and (y) shall apply only to the extent the Screen Rate for such Interest Period is not available or published as such time on a current basis; provided further that, in the case of clause (ii)(D) of the first sentence of this clause (b), subclause (x) and (y) shall apply after such specific date referred to therein.

 

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3.04. Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans.

(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate);

(ii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes and (B) the imposition of, or any change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or

(iii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Rate Loans made by such Lender;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount), then, upon request of such Lender, the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

(b) Capital and Liquidity Requirements. If any Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has had or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitment of such Lender or the Loans made by such Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company would have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in clause (a) or (b) of this Section 3.04 and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

 

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(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04 for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than six months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

3.05. Compensation for Losses.

Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense (but not loss of anticipated profits or margin) incurred by it as a result of:

(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);

(b) any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Eurodollar Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower (whether or not such notice may be withdrawn in accordance herewith); or

(c) any assignment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 10.13;

including any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained. The Borrower shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.

For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurodollar Rate Loan was in fact so funded. A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender as specified in this Section 3.05 and delivered to the Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

3.06. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.

(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or the Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then

 

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at the request of the Borrower, 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 judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 or if any Lender shall have delivered a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, and, in each case, such Lender has declined or is unable to designate a different Lending Office or to assign its rights and obligations to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, in each case, in accordance with Section 3.06(a), then the Borrower may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.

3.07. Survival.

All of the Loan Parties’ obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder and resignation of the Administrative Agent.

ARTICLE IV

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions shall be satisfied:

(a) Loan Documents. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of either (i) executed counterparts of this Agreement properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and by each Lender or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include facsimile transmission or electronic transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that the Borrower and each Lender have executed a counterpart of this Agreement.

(b) Opinions of Counsel. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of favorable opinions of legal counsel to the Borrower, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, dated the Closing Date and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(c) Organization Documents, Resolutions, Etc. Receipt by the Administrative Agent of such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request relating to the organization, existence and good standing of the Borrower, the authorization of the Transactions, the incumbency of the Responsible Officers of the Borrower executing documents and any other legal matters relating to the Borrower, the Loan Documents or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

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(d) Existing Term Credit Agreement Refinancing. The Existing Term Credit Agreement Refinancing shall have been, or substantially concurrently shall be, consummated.

(e) Know Your Customer Documentation and Related Information. The Administrative Agent and Lenders shall have received (i) at least five days prior to the Closing Date, all documentation and other information reasonably requested in writing at least ten Business Days prior to the Closing Date that is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, and (ii) to the extent that the Borrower qualifies as a “legal entity customer” under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation and to the extent requested at least two Business Days prior to the Closing Date, a Beneficial Ownership Certification.

(f) Representations. The representations and warranties of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct (i) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (ii) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case, on and as of the date of the Closing Date and after giving effect to the making of the Loans to occur on the Closing Date.

(g) Absence of Defaults. On the Closing Date and after giving effect to the making of the Loans to occur on the Closing Date, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

(h) Fees and Expenses. The Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable by the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date (including, to the extent such amounts are invoiced at least two Business Days prior to the Closing Date, payment or reimbursement of all fees and expenses required to be paid or reimbursed by the Borrower) under this Agreement or as have been separately agreed upon in writing.

(i) Officers Closing Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of the Borrower signed by its Responsible Officer certifying that the conditions specified in clauses (f) and (g) above have been satisfied.

(j) Loan Notice. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Loan Notice in accordance with the requirements hereof.

 

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ARTICLE V

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as of the Closing Date as follows:

5.01. Existence, Qualification and Power.

The Borrower (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business in which it is currently engaged and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i) or (c), to the extent that failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.02. Authorization; No Contravention.

The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of each Loan Document to which it is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of the Organization Documents of the Borrower; (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any material Contractual Obligation to which the Borrower is a party or affecting the Borrower or the properties of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or their properties are subject; or (c) violate any Law, except, in each case referred to in clause (b) or (c), to the extent that such matters, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.03. Governmental Authorization; Other Consents.

No approval, consent, exemption, authorization or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, the Borrower of this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party.

 

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5.04. Binding Effect.

This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document to which it is a party, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by the Borrower. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which it is a party when so delivered will constitute, a valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).

5.05. Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.

(a) The Audited Financial Statements and the Unaudited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein and (ii) fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of certain footnotes in the case of the Unaudited Financial Statements.

(b) Since November 3, 2018, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.06. Litigation.

There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (a) could reasonably be expected to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) either individually or in the aggregate would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.07. No Default.

No Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

5.08. Ownership of Property.

The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries has good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, except for such defects in title as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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5.09. [Reserved].

5.10. Insurance.

The properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are insured with insurance companies not Affiliates of the Borrower (and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, such insurance companies are financially sound and reputable), in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the Borrower or the applicable Subsidiary operates.

5.11. Taxes.

The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have (a) filed all federal, state and other material Tax returns and reports required to be filed, and (b) paid all federal, state and other material Taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are (i) being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP or (ii) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.12. ERISA Compliance.

Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) Each Plan is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state laws. Each Pension Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination or opinion letter from the IRS to the effect that the form of such Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and the trust related thereto has been determined by the IRS to be exempt from federal income Tax under Section 501(a) of the Code or an application for such a letter is currently being processed by the IRS. To the knowledge of the Borrower, nothing has occurred that would prevent, or cause the loss of, such Tax-qualified status.

(b) There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan. There has been no prohibited transaction or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan.

(c) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred and neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate is aware of any fact, event or circumstance that could reasonably be expected to constitute or result in an ERISA Event with respect to any Pension Plan; (ii) the Borrower and each ERISA Affiliate has met all applicable requirements under the Pension Funding Rules in respect of each Pension Plan, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards under the Pension Funding Rules has been applied for or obtained; (iii) as of the most recent valuation date for any Pension Plan, the funding target attainment percentage (as defined in Section 430(d)(2) of the Code) is sixty percent (60%) or higher and neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate knows of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause the funding

 

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target attainment percentage for any such plan to drop below sixty percent (60%) as of the most recent valuation date; (iv) neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability to the PBGC other than for the payment of premiums, and there are no premium payments which have become due that are unpaid; (v) neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that is reasonably likely to be subject to Section 4069 or Section 4212(c) of ERISA; and (vi) no Pension Plan has been terminated by the plan administrator thereof nor by the PBGC, and no event or circumstance has occurred or exists that could reasonably be expected to cause the PBGC to institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate any Pension Plan.

(d) Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate maintains or contributes to, or has any unsatisfied obligation to contribute to, or liability under, any active or terminated Pension Plan other than (i) on the Closing Date, those listed on Schedule 5.12(d) hereto and (ii) thereafter, Pension Plans note otherwise prohibited by this Agreement.

5.13. [Reserved].

5.14. Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.

(a) The Borrower is not engaged and does not intend to engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB) in violation of Regulation U, or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. The making of the Loans hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not result in a violation of Regulation U.

(b) The Borrower is not required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

5.15. Disclosure.

(a) No report, financial statement, certificate or other information furnished (whether in writing or orally) by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in each case, as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished), when taken together with the information contained in the annual, quarterly and current reports theretofore publicly filed by the Borrower with the SEC, contains, as of the date of such report, financial statement, certificate or other information, any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time, it being recognized by the Lenders that such projections and other forward-looking statements are as to future events and are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections or other forward-looking statements may differ significantly from the projected results and such differences may be material.

 

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(b) As of the Closing Date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification provided on or prior to the Closing Date to any Lender in connection with this Agreement, if applicable, is true and correct in all respects.

5.16. Compliance with Laws.

The Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.17. [Reserved].

5.18. Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.

Unless failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (a) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, franchises, licenses and other intellectual property rights that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses as currently engaged, without conflict with the rights of any other Person and (b) no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by the Borrower or any Subsidiary infringes upon any rights held by any other Person. No claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened which either individually, or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

5.19. Sanctions.

(a) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, any director, officer or employee thereof, is an individual or entity that is, or is owned or controlled by any individuals or entities that are, (i) currently the subject of any Sanctions, (ii) included on OFAC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals or Her Majesty’s Treasury’s Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets and the Investment Ban List or (iii) located, organized or resident in a Designated Jurisdiction.

(b) No Loan, or the proceeds of any Loan, will be used by the Borrower, directly or indirectly, to fund any activity or business in any Designated Jurisdiction or, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, to fund any activity or business of any Person located, organized or residing in any Designated Jurisdiction or that is the subject of any Sanctions, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, in any other manner that, in each case, will result in any violation by any Person (including any Lender, any Arranger or the Administrative Agent) of Sanctions.

 

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5.20. Anti-Corruption Laws.

(a) The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in all material respects in compliance with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010 and other applicable anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions (“Anti-Corruption Laws”). The Borrower has instituted and maintains policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and achieve compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws.

(b) No Loan, or the proceeds of any Loan, will be used by the Borrower, directly or indirectly, in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of Anti-Corruption Laws.

ARTICLE VI

AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation hereunder (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, the Borrower shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, and 6.03) cause each Subsidiary to:

6.01. Financial Statements.

Deliver to the Administrative Agent (for delivery to each Lender):

(a) as soon as made publicly available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit; and

(b) as soon as made publicly available, but in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, the related consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the Borrower’s fiscal year then ended, and the related consolidated statement of cash flows for the portion of the Borrower’s fiscal year then ended, in each case setting forth in comparative form, as applicable, the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, certified by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

 

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As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant to Section 6.02(b), the Borrower shall not be separately required to furnish such information under clause (a) or (b) above.

6.02. Certificates; Other Information.

Deliver to the Administrative Agent (for delivery to each Lender):

(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower;

(b) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the stockholders of the Borrower, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which the Borrower may file or be required to file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender pursuant to Section 6.01 or any other clause of this Section 6.02;

(c) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any statement or report furnished to any holder of debt securities or loans of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any indenture, loan or credit or similar agreement and not otherwise required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent and each Lender pursuant to Section 6.01 or any other clause of this Section 6.02;

(d) promptly, and in any event within five Business Days after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, copies of each notice or other correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable agency in any applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction) concerning any investigation or possible investigation or other inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;

(e) promptly following any request therefor, such information and documentation as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation; and

(f) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, financial or corporate affairs of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.

 

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Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), 6.01(b) or 6.02(b) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise publicly filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto, on the Borrower’s website on the Internet at https://www.analog.com; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Borrower’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that: (i) the Borrower shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent or any Lender that requests the Borrower to deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or such Lender and (ii) the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (by facsimile or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Borrower with any such request for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.

The Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arrangers may, but shall not be obligated to, make available to the Lenders information provided by or on behalf of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks, Debt Domain, Syndtrak or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive MNPI, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to securities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. The Borrower hereby agrees that (w) all Borrower Materials that are to be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC”, which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arrangers and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any MNPI (although information therein may be sensitive and proprietary) (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information;” and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Side Information”. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall not be under any obligation to mark any Borrower Materials “PUBLIC.”

6.03. Notices.

Promptly notify the Administrative Agent (for delivery to each Lender):

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(b) of any announcement by Moody’s or S&P of any change in a Debt Rating.

Each notice pursuant to clause (a) of this Section 6.03 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein, describing with particularity any and all provisions of this Agreement and any other Loan Document that have been breached or on account of which a Default otherwise arises, and stating what action the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto.

6.04. Payment of Obligations.

Pay and discharge, as the same shall become due and payable (subject to any grace periods and tax extensions), all Tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, except (a) to the extent that the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by the Borrower or such Subsidiary or (b) where any failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

6.05. Preservation of Existence, Etc.

(a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.03 and except in the case of Subsidiaries where the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew all of its registered copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation of which would have or be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.06. [Reserved].

6.07. [Reserved].

6.08. Compliance with Laws.

Comply in all respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

6.09. Books and Records.

(a) Maintain proper books of record and account, in which full, true and correct entries in conformity in all material respects with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and (b) maintain such books of record and account in material conformity with all applicable requirements of any Governmental Authority having regulatory jurisdiction over the Borrower or any Subsidiary, as the case may be.

 

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6.10. Inspection Rights.

If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public accountants, at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to the Borrower and all at the expense of the Borrower.

6.11. Use of Proceeds.

Use the proceeds of the Loans solely to finance the Existing Term Credit Agreement Refinancing.

6.12. Anti-Corruption Laws.

Conduct its businesses in all material respects in compliance with the Anti-Corruption Laws and maintain policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and achieve compliance by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with such Laws.

ARTICLE VII

NEGATIVE COVENANTS

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, or any Loan or other Obligation hereunder (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied:

7.01. Liens.

The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:

(a) (i) Liens created pursuant to any Loan Document and (ii) (A) Liens existing on the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 7.01 and (B) Liens that are renewals or extensions of the Liens referred to in clause (A) above; provided that, with respect to Liens referred to in this clause (ii), (1) the property covered thereby is not changed, (2) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased and (3) the direct or any contingent obligor with respect thereto is not changed;

(b) Liens for Taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;

 

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(c) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person;

(d) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;

(e) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (other than Indebtedness) incurred in the ordinary course of business, including deposits securing reimbursement obligations under commercial letters of credit that do not constitute Indebtedness;

(f) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances affecting real property which, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and which 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 applicable Person;

(g) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h) or securing appeal or other surety bonds related to such judgments;

(h) precautionary UCC filings in respect of operating leases;

(i) leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses granted to others in the ordinary course of business which do not (i) interfere in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (ii) secure any Indebtedness;

(j) Liens securing Swap Contracts permitted under Section 7.02(e);

(k) Liens in favor of a lessor under any lease (other than a capital lease) entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business, provided that such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the assets so leased;

(l) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.02(f); provided that (i) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost or fair market value, whichever is lower, of the property being acquired on the date of acquisition;

 

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(m) (i) Liens on assets of any Person acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date in a transaction permitted under this Agreement, provided that such Liens are in existence on the date of such acquisition and not created in anticipation thereof, and (ii) Liens that are any renewals or extensions of Liens referred to in clause (i) above; provided, in each case under this clause (m), that (A) the property covered thereby is not changed and (B) the amount secured or benefitted thereby is not increased; and

(n) other Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any one time outstanding, the greater of (i) $500,000,000 and (ii) 5% of Consolidated Tangible Assets.

7.02. Indebtedness.

The Borrower will not permit its Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary Guarantors, directly or indirectly, to create, assume or incur any Indebtedness except for the following:

(a) Indebtedness (other than in the form of a Guarantee) of any Subsidiary under the Revolving Credit Agreement; provided that the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount of the commitments (as such commitments may be increased pursuant to Section 2.15 thereof) under the Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the Closing Date;

(b) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 7.02 and extensions, renewals and replacements of any such Indebtedness in a principal amount not in excess of that outstanding as of the date hereof plus amounts equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amounts paid and fees and expenses reasonably incurred in connection with such financing;

(c) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary;

(d) Guarantees by any Subsidiary of Indebtedness of any other Subsidiary permitted hereunder;

(e) obligations (contingent or otherwise) of any Subsidiary existing or arising under any Swap Contract; provided that such obligations are (or were) entered into by such Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Subsidiary, or changes in the value of securities issued by such Subsidiary, and not for purposes of speculation or taking a “market view”;

(f) Indebtedness in respect of capital leases, Synthetic Lease Obligations and purchase money obligations for fixed or capital assets in an aggregate amount not to exceed, at any one time, $400,000,000;

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(h) other Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any one time outstanding, the greater of (i) $1,500,000,000 and (ii) 15% of Consolidated Tangible Assets.

7.03. Fundamental Changes.

(a) The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate or amalgamate with or into another Person, except that:

(i) the Borrower may merge with another Person; provided that the Borrower is the continuing or surviving Person; and

(ii) any Subsidiary may merge, consolidate, amalgamate, liquidate or dissolve if such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, liquidation or dissolution does not cause or is not reasonably expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect and, for the avoidance of doubt, to the extent not involving a merger, consolidation, amalgamation, liquidation or dissolution not otherwise permitted by this clause, may change its jurisdiction of organization and/or tax residence.

(b) The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

7.04. [Reserved].

7.05. Use of Proceeds.

The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of any Loan, whether directly or indirectly, except in accordance with Section 6.11, and in no event shall any Loan, whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, be used to purchase or carry margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the FRB) or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock or to refund indebtedness originally incurred for such purpose, in each case, to the extent such action would violate Regulation U.

7.06. Fiscal Year.

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7.07. Financial Covenant.

The Borrower shall not permit the Consolidated Leverage Ratio, as at the end of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower, commencing with the first fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, to be greater than (a) 4.00 to 1.00 for any fiscal quarter through and including the fiscal quarter ending on or about November 2, 2019 and (b) 3.50 to 1.00 for any fiscal quarter ending thereafter; provided that if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries consummates a Qualified Acquisition, the Borrower may elect, up to two (2) times during the term of this Agreement, by written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent, to increase the maximum Consolidated Leverage Ratio permitted at the end of the fiscal quarter in which such Qualified Acquisition shall have been consummated and at the end of each of the three consecutive fiscal quarters thereafter to 4.00 to 1.00 (the period during which any such increase in the maximum permitted Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall be in effect, a “Leverage Increase Period”); provided, further, that, following any such election, prior to giving effect to the second Leverage Increase Period pursuant to the immediately preceding proviso, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall have been 3.50 to 1.00 for at least two consecutive fiscal quarters subsequent to the Borrower’s first election to increase the maximum Consolidated Leverage Ratio pursuant to this Section 7.07.

7.08. Sanctions.

The Borrower shall not, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly, use the proceeds of any Loan, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person, to fund any activities of or business with any Person, or in any Designated Jurisdiction, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, in each case, in any manner that will result in a violation by any Person (including any Person participating in the transaction, whether as Lender, Arranger, Administrative Agent or otherwise) of Sanctions.

7.09. Anti-Corruption Laws.

The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, indirectly use the proceeds of any Loan for any purpose which would breach the Anti-Corruption Laws.

ARTICLE VIII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

8.01. Events of Default.

Any of the following shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a) Non-Payment. Any Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein any amount of principal of any Loan, (ii) within five days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or any fee due hereunder or (iii) within five days after the same becomes due, any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document; or

 

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(b) Specific Covenants. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 6.03(a), 6.05 or 6.11 or Article VII; or

(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in clause (a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for 30 days after written notice of default is provided by the Administrative Agent; or

(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty or certification made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made; or

(e) Cross-Default. Any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary (i) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate principal amount (including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than the Threshold Amount or (ii) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee having an aggregate principal amount (including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than the Threshold Amount or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; provided that this clause (ii) shall not apply to (A) any repurchase, prepayment, defeasance or redemption, or any offer therefor, of any Indebtedness of any Person acquired by the Borrower or any Subsidiary required to be made solely as a result of a “change of control” of such Person as a result of the consummation of such acquisition, (B) any mandatory prepayment of any bridge financing required to be made with the proceeds of any other Indebtedness incurred by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or the proceeds of any Dispositions of assets or issuance of Equity Interests consummated by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (C) any repurchase, prepayment, defeasance or redemption, or any offer therefor, of any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred to finance, in whole or in part, an acquisition and any related transactions required to be made pursuant to a “special mandatory redemption” provision (or other similar provision) as a result of such acquisition not having been consummated, (D) any secured Indebtedness becoming due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the assets securing such Indebtedness, (E) any

 

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Indebtedness becoming due as a result of a voluntary refinancing thereof permitted hereunder, (F) in the event that a lender under any revolving loan facility becomes a “defaulting lender” (as defined therein), a prepayment or cash collateralization by such Loan Party or such Material Subsidiary of any unreallocated portion of such defaulting lender’s outstanding swing line loans under any such revolving loan facility, and (G) for the avoidance of any doubt, any right of a holder or holders of any Indebtedness that is convertible into Equity Interests (1) to require the repurchase, repayment or redemption of such Indebtedness on a predetermined date provided in the definitive documentation governing such Indebtedness, (2) to require an offer to repurchase, repay or redeem such Indebtedness on such date or the delivery of a notice with respect thereto or (3) to convert such Indebtedness into Equity Interests, together with any cash settlement thereof, in each case under this clause (G), so long as such right (other than the right to convert such Indebtedness into Equity Interests of the Borrower, settled solely in such Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares thereof) does not result from any “change of control”, “fundamental change” or a similar event (however defined) under the definitive documentation governing such Indebtedness; or

(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for 60 calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or

(g) Attachment. Any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process to secure a claim exceeding the Threshold Amount is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 30 days after its issue or levy; or

(h) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary one or more final judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount (as to all such judgments or orders) exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer does not dispute coverage) and there is a period of 30 consecutive days during which such judgment is not satisfied or discharged or a stay of enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect; or

(i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan which has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan, which non-payment would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or

 

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(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents. Any material provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or the Borrower or any Subsidiary contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any Loan Document; or

(k) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control.

8.02. Remedies Upon Event of Default.

If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders, take any or all of the following actions:

(a) terminate the obligation of the Lenders to make Loans and declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Loan Parties; and

(b) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents;

provided, however, that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the Borrower under Debtor Relief Laws, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans shall immediately and automatically terminate and the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall immediately and automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Loan Parties, and without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

8.03. Application of Funds.

After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;

 

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Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Lenders and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;

Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and other Obligations, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;

Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them; and

Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations for which no claim or demand has been made) have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law.

ARTICLE IX

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

9.01. Appointment and Authority.

Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints JPMorgan and its successors and assigns to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article IX are, other than with respect to the Borrower’s consent rights in Section 9.06, solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and, except for such consent rights, the Loan Parties shall not have rights as third party beneficiaries of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties.

9.02. Rights as a Lender.

The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person

 

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serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.

9.03. Exculpatory Provisions.

The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, and its duties hereunder shall be administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:

(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;

(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Law, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any Debtor Relief Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Debtor Relief Law; and

(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.

The Administrative Agent shall not be liable to any Lender for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and non-appealable judgment. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice (stating that it is a “notice of default”) describing such Default is given in writing to the Administrative Agent by a Loan Party or a Lender.

 

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The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the sufficiency, validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent or satisfaction of any condition that expressly refers to the matters described therein being acceptable or satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

9.04. Reliance by Administrative Agent.

The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof). The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person (whether or not such Person in fact meets the requirements set forth in the Loan Documents for being the signatory, sender or authenticator thereof), and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender reasonably prior to the making of such Loan. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Loan Parties), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

9.05. Delegation of Duties.

The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document or the other documents executed or delivered in connection therewith by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article IX shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and non-appealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.

 

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9.06. Resignation of Administrative Agent.

(a) The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right (with the consent of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld), to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders and the Borrower) (the “Resignation Effective Date”), then the retiring Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above (with the consent of the Borrower, not to be unreasonably withheld); provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then, whether or not a successor has been appointed, such resignation shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the Resignation Effective Date.

(b) If the Person serving as Administrative Agent is a Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (d) of the definition thereof, the Required Lenders may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, by notice in writing to the Borrower and such Person, remove such Person as the Administrative Agent and, in consultation with the Borrower, appoint a successor. If no such successor shall have been appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders and the Borrower) (the “Removal Effective Date”), then such removal shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice on the Removal Effective Date.

(c) With effect from the Resignation Effective Date or the Removal Effective Date, as applicable, (i) the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (ii) except for any indemnity payments or other amounts then owed to the retiring or removed Administrative Agent, all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided above. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent (other than as provided in Section 3.01(g) and other than any rights to indemnity payments or other amounts owed to the retiring or removed Administrative Agent as of the Resignation Effective Date or the Removal Effective Date, as applicable), and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section 9.06). The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article IX and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

 

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9.07. Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders.

Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

9.08. No Other Duties, Etc.

Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the arrangers, bookrunners, syndication agents or documentation agents named on the cover page of this Agreement shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent or a Lender hereunder and its rights in respect of indemnities provided for hereunder.

9.09. Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim.

In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relating to a Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on a Loan Party) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.07 and 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.07 and 10.04.

 

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Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender, or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.

9.10. ERISA Matters.

(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, each Arranger and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

(i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of the Plan Asset Regulations) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans or the Commitments,

(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement,

(iii) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of subsections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, or

(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.

 

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(b) In addition, unless sub-clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or such Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant as provided in sub-clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, each Arranger and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, that none of the Administrative Agent, any Arranger or any of their respective Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to or the assets of such Lender (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).

(c) The Administrative Agent and each Arranger hereby informs the Lenders that each such Person is not undertaking to provide investment advice or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and that such Person has a financial interest in the transactions contemplated hereby in that such Person or an Affiliate thereof (i) may receive interest or other payments with respect to the Loans, the Commitments, this Agreement and any other Loan Documents, (ii) may recognize a gain if it extended the Loans or the Commitments for an amount less than the amount being paid for an interest in the Loans or the Commitments by such Lender or (iii) may receive fees or other payments in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the Loan Documents or otherwise, including structuring fees, commitment fees, arrangement fees, facility fees, upfront fees, underwriting fees, ticking fees, agency fees, administrative agent or collateral agent fees, utilization fees, minimum usage fees, letter of credit fees, fronting fees, deal-away or alternate transaction fees, amendment fees, processing fees, term out premiums, banker’s acceptance fees, breakage or other early termination fees or fees similar to the foregoing.

ARTICLE X

MISCELLANEOUS

10.01. Amendments, Etc.

Except as provided in Section 3.03(b), no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders and the Borrower or, in the case of any Loan Document other than this Agreement, the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

(a) (i) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.02) without the written consent of such Lender;

(ii) postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment (excluding mandatory prepayments) of principal, interest or fees due to any Lender without the written consent of such Lender;

 

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(iii) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or any fees payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender entitled to receive such payment of principal, interest or fees; provided, however, that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate;

(iv) change Section 2.11 or Section 8.03 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender; or

(v) change any provision of this Section 10.01 or the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder without the written consent of each Lender; and

(b) unless also signed by the Administrative Agent, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document;

provided, however, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, (i) no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment, waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that each Defaulting Lender shall have the right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder referred to in clause (a)(i), (a)(ii) or (a)(iii) above if such Defaulting Lender shall be affected by such amendment, waiver or consent, (ii) each Lender is entitled to vote as such Lender sees fit on any bankruptcy reorganization plan that affects the Loans, and each Lender acknowledges that the provisions of Section 1126(c) of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States supersedes the unanimous consent provisions set forth herein and (iii) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency so long as, in each case, the Lenders shall have received at least five Business Days’ prior written notice thereof (together with a copy thereof) and the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five Business Days of the date of such notice to the Lenders, a written notice from the Required Lenders stating that the Required Lenders object to such amendment. The Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, with the concurrence of any Lender, sign amendments, waivers or other modifications on behalf of such Lender. Any amendment, waiver or other modification effected in accordance with this Section 10.01 shall be binding upon each Person that is at the time thereof a Lender and each Person that subsequently becomes a Lender.

 

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10.02. Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication.

(a) Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in clause (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:

(i) if to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and

(ii) if to any Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire.

Notices and other communications sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices and other communications sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, such notices shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient). Notices and other communications delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in clause (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such clause (b).

(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender pursuant to Article II if such Lender, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may each, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor; provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next business day for the recipient.

(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,

 

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NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to any Loan Party, any Lender or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of a Loan Party’s or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials or any other information through the Internet or any other telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Loan Party, any Lender or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).

(d) Change of Address, Etc. The Borrower and the Administrative Agent may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time as required to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law, including United States federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain MNPI.

(e) Reliance by Administrative Agent and Lenders. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic or electronic Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of the Loan Parties even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of any Loan Party. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

 

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10.03. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement.

No failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided hereunder and under each other Loan Document are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law. No waiver of any provision of any Loan Document or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by Section 3.03(b) or 10.01, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the making of any Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Related Party of any of the foregoing may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Loan Parties shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 8.02 for the benefit of all the Lenders; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (b) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 10.08 (subject to the terms of Section 2.11), or (c) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relating to any Loan Party under any Debtor Relief Law; and provided further that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.02 and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b) and (c) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 2.11, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.

10.04. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

(a) Costs and Expenses. The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent) in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), and (ii) after and during the continuation of an Event of Default, all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section 10.04, or (B) in connection with the Loans made hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans (including, with respect to clause (ii), the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent or any Lender).

 

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(b) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any Person (including the Borrower or any other Loan Party) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Loan or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability relating in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee, (y) result from a claim brought by the Borrower or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for material breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Borrower or such other Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (z) arise out of, or in connection with, any investigation, litigation, proceeding or claim that does not involve an act or omission by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates and that is brought by an Indemnitee against any other Indemnitee (other than claims against any Indemnitee in its capacity, or in fulfilling its role, as an agent, arranger, bookrunner or other title holder in respect of this Agreement). Without limiting the provisions of Section 3.01(c), this Section 10.04(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages or liabilities arising from any non-Tax claim.

(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Borrower for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under clause (a) or (b) of this Section 10.04 to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s pro rata share of such unpaid amount (including any such unpaid amount in respect of a claim asserted by such Lender), such payment to be made by the Lenders ratably based on their Applicable Percentages (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought); provided that such unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim,

 

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damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this clause (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(d).

(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Loan Party shall assert, and each hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby other than for direct or actual damages resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.

(f) Survival. The agreements in this Section 10.04 and the indemnity provisions of Section 10.02(e) shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.

10.05. Payments Set Aside.

To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other Person, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, and to the extent permitted by applicable Law, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the NYFRB Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Lenders under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

 

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10.06. Successors and Assigns.

(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with Section 10.06(b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with Section 10.06(d), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.06(f) (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 10.06(d), the Indemnitees and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the sub-agents of the Administrative Agent and the Related Parties of any of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b) Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i) Minimum Amounts.

(A) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or the Loans or contemporaneous assignments to related Approved Funds that equal at least the amount specified in clause (b)(i)(B) of this Section in the aggregate or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned; and

(B) in any case not described in clause (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the Commitments or the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption (or an agreement incorporating by reference a form of Assignment and Assumption posted on the Platform) with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if “Trade Date” is specified in the Assignment and Assumption (or such an agreement), as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $10,000,000 unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Borrower otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and, in the case of the Borrower, to be deemed to have been given unless the Borrower shall object to the proposed other amount within 10 Business Days of having received notice thereof).

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(iii) Required Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by clause (b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:

(A) the consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed, and to be deemed to have been given unless the Borrower shall object to a proposed assignment by written notice to the Administrative Agent within 10 Business Days after having received notice thereof) shall be required unless (1) an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and

(B) the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such Lender.

(iv) Assignment and Assumption. The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption (or an agreement incorporating by reference a form of Assignment and Assumption posted on the Platform), together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $3,500; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment. The assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.

(v) No Assignment to Certain Persons. No such assignment shall be made (A) to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries, (B) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries or any Person that, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (B) or (C) to a natural person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of a natural person).

(vi) Certain Additional Payments. In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon) and (y) fund its full pro rata share of all Loans. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under applicable Law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.

 

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Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.06(c), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption (or an agreement incorporating by reference a form of Assignment and Assumption posted on the Platform), the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05 and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided that, except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from such Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender. Upon request, the Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 10.07(b) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.06(d).

(c) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower (and such agency being solely for Tax purposes), shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it (or the equivalent thereof in electronic form) and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption (or an agreement incorporating by reference a form of Assignment and Assumption posted on the Platform) executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, an Administrative Questionnaire completed in respect of the assignee (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in clause (b) above (if applicable), the written consent of the Administrative Agent and, if required, the Borrower to such assignment, and any applicable Tax forms, the Administrative Agent shall (i) accept such Assignment and Assumption and (ii) promptly record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this clause (c). Each assignee, by its execution and delivery of an Assignment and Assumption, shall be deemed to have represented to the assigning Lender and the Administrative Agent that such assignee is not a Person made ineligible under Section 10.06(b)(v).

 

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(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person, a Defaulting Lender or the Borrower or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under Section 10.04(c) without regard to the existence of any participation.

Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification, waiver or consent of any provision of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver, modification or consent described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 10.01(a) that affects such Participant. Subject to Section 10.06(e), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05, provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 3.06 and 10.13 as if it were an assignee under Section 10.06(b). Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrower’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrower to effectuate the provisions of Section 3.06 with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender, provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.11 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any Commitment, Loan or other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. 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. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.

 

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(e) Limitations upon Participant Rights. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01 or 3.04 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.01 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 3.01(e) as though it were a Lender.

(f) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note(s), if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any other central bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

10.07. Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality.

Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and to its Related Parties (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent required or requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable Laws or by any subpoena or similar legal process (in which case, the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall use its reasonable efforts, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, to notify the Borrower prior to such disclosure so that the Borrower may seek, at the Borrower’s sole expense, a protective order or other appropriate remedy), (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section 10.07, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its Related Parties) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (g) with the consent of the Borrower, (h) any rating agency in connection with rating the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and, in the case of information regarding the closing date, size, type, purpose of and parties to the credit facilities established hereunder, to market data collectors, such as league tables, and other service providers to the lending industry, including the CUSIP Service Bureau, or (i) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.07 or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.07, on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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For purposes of this Section 10.07, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower or any Subsidiary relating to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their respective businesses, other than (a) any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (b) information pertaining to this Agreement of the type routinely provided by arrangers to data service providers, including league table providers, that serve the lending industry. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders acknowledges that (a) the Information may include MNPI, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle MNPI in accordance with applicable Law, including United States federal and state securities Laws.

10.08. Right of Setoff.

If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower or any other Loan Party against any and all of the obligations of the Borrower or such Loan Party now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of the Borrower may be contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness. The rights of each Lender and its Affiliates under this Section 10.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender may have. Each Lender agrees to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.

10.09. Interest Rate Limitation.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the “Maximum Rate”). If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Borrower. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.

 

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10.10. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness.

This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof (but do not supersede any provisions of the commitment letter executed in connection with the credit facility established hereunder that by the terms of such commitment letter survive the effectiveness of this Agreement, all of which provisions shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with the terms of such commitment letter). Except as provided in Article IV, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (e.g., “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

10.11. Survival of Representations and Warranties.

All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Borrowing, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied.

10.12. Severability.

If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.12, if and to the extent that the enforceability of any provisions in this Agreement relating to Defaulting Lenders shall be limited by Debtor Relief Laws, as determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent, then such provisions shall be deemed to be in effect only to the extent not so limited.

 

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10.13. Replacement of Lenders.

If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, (ii) the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, (iii) any Lender delivers a notice of illegality pursuant to Section 3.02 or (iv) any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, 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, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant to Sections 3.01 and 3.04) and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that:

(a) the Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 10.06(b);

(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts);

(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter;

(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws; and

(e) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Non-Consenting Lender’s failure to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver or consent with respect to any Loan Document, the applicable assignee consents to the proposed amendment, waiver or consent.

The failure of a Lender to execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption shall not impair the validity of the removal of such Lender and the mandatory assignment of such Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans pursuant to this Section 10.13 shall nevertheless be effective without the execution by such Lender of an Assignment and Assumption.

A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or 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.

 

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10.14. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.

(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT (EXCEPT, AS TO ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH THEREIN) AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. THE BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT COMMENCE ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN LAW OR EQUITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR IN TORT OR OTHERWISE, AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY RELATED PARTY OF THE FOREGOING IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO, IN ANY FORUM OTHER THAN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS AND AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST THE BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. THE BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO, IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE (B) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.

(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

 

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10.15. Waiver of Jury Trial.

EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

10.16. No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility.

In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Subsidiaries’ understanding, that: (i) (A) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Arrangers are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrower and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Arrangers, on the other hand, and the parties hereto have a business relationship that does not and will not create, by implication or otherwise, any fiduciary duty to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Arrangers or their Affiliates, and no such duty will be deemed to have arisen in connection with the transactions or communications provided for herein or contemplated hereby, (B) each Loan Party has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) each Loan Party is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Arrangers are and have been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, have not been, are not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Arrangers has any obligation to the Borrower or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Arrangers and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Borrower and its Affiliates, and none of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Arrangers has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrower or its Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law,

 

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the Borrower agrees that it will not assert any claim against the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, any Lender or their respective Affiliates based on an alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty by the Administrative Agent, any Arranger, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

10.17. Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents.

The words “execute,” “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (including, without limitation, Assignment and Assumptions, amendments or other modifications, waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable Law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent is under no obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent pursuant to procedures approved by it.

10.18. USA PATRIOT ACT NOTICE.

Each Lender that is subject to the USA PATRIOT Act and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies each Loan Party that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Loan Party, which information includes the name and address of such Loan Party and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Loan Party in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act. Each Loan Party shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulations.

10.19. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among the parties hereto, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising under this Agreement, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and

 

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(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent entity or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement; or

(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.

10.20. Subsidiary Guarantors; Release of Subsidiary Guarantors.

(a) The Borrower may, at any time after the Closing Date, upon prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, cause any of its wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiaries or any wholly-owned Foreign Subsidiary that is organized in a jurisdiction that is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (it being acknowledged that (i) Ireland and (ii) Bermuda are acceptable jurisdictions), to become a Subsidiary Guarantor by causing such Subsidiary to execute and deliver (and, in the case of the initial execution and delivery of the Subsidiary Guaranty, by the Borrower executing and delivering) to the Administrative Agent the Subsidiary Guaranty (or in the case of any Subsidiary that becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor after the initial execution and delivery of the Subsidiary Guaranty, causing such Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a joinder thereto in the form specified therein), together with documents and opinions of the type referred to in clauses (b), (c) and (e) of Article IV with respect to such Subsidiary, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(b) Promptly following the Borrower’s written request to release a Subsidiary Guarantor, the Administrative Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by each Lender to) execute and deliver to the Borrower, at the Borrower’s expense, a release of such Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty, so long as (i) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result after giving effect to such release and (ii) the Indebtedness of the Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary Guarantors shall be permitted under Section 7.02 immediately after giving effect to such release (and assuming that all of the Indebtedness of such former Subsidiary Guarantor outstanding on the date of the effectiveness of such release has been incurred by such former Subsidiary Guarantor on such date). In connection with any release pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may request that the Borrower deliver to it a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to the effect that the requirements for such release set forth in this paragraph have been satisfied, and the Administrative Agent may rely on, and shall incur no liability for relying upon, any statements made in any such certificate. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this paragraph shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent. Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the authority of the Administrative Agent to release any Subsidiary Guarantor form its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty pursuant to this paragraph.

 

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10.21. Certain Agreement with respect to the Existing Term Credit Agreement.

Each Lender that is a “Lender” under (and as defined in) the Existing Term Credit Agreement (all of which Lenders constitute the “Required Lenders” under (and as defined in) the Existing Term Credit Agreement) hereby (a) waives any requirement under the Existing Term Credit Agreement that advance notice be given prior to the prepayment of loans thereunder, provided that such notice be given to the administrative agent under the Existing Term Credit Agreement on or prior to the Closing Date, and (b) consents to the interest period requested by the Borrower under the Existing Term Credit Agreement in its loan notice dated June 24, 2019 (it being understood that interest during such period shall accrue on the loans outstanding under the Existing Term Credit Agreement by reference to the Eurodollar Screen Rate (as defined in the Existing Term Credit Agreement) that would have been applicable had the requested interest period had the duration of one month).

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.,
by   

/s/ Stephanie Sidelko

  Name: Stephanie Sidelko
  Title:   Senior Director, Finance and Treasurer

 

[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., individually and as Administrative Agent,
by   

/s/ Maria Riaz

  Name: MARIA RIAZ
  Title:   VICE PRESIDENT

 

[Signature Page to Credit Agreement]


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
by   

/s/ Amanuel Assefa

  Name: Amanuel Assefa
  Title:   Vice President


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

MUFG Bank, Ltd.:
by   

/s/ Lillian Kim

  Name: Lillian Kim
  Title:   Director


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
by   

/s/ Dhiren Desai

  Name: Dhiren Desai
  Title:   Director


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
by   

/s/ Robert Novak

  Name: Robert Novak
  Title:   Vice President


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
by   

/s/ Michael Maguire

  Name: Michael Maguire
  Title:   Executive Director


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: TD Bank, N.A.
by   

/s/ Matt Waszmer

  Name: Matt Waszmer
  Title:   Senior Vice President


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: BARCLAYS BANK PLC
by   

/s/ Martin Corrigan

  Name: Martin Corrigan
  Title:   Vice President


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: BMO Harris Bank, N.A.
by   

/s/ Michael Kus

  Name: Michael Kus
  Title:   Managing Director


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: BNP Paribas
by   

/s/ Maria Mulic

  Name: Maria Mulic
  Title:   Managing Director

 

For any Lender requiring a second signature line:
by   

/s/ Andrew W. Strait

  Name: Andrew W. Strait
  Title:   Managing Director


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

CITIBANK, N.A.,
by   

/s/ Robert F. Parr

  Name: Robert F. Parr
  Title:   Managing Director


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN

ISLANDS BRANCH

by   

/s/ Judith E. Smith

  Name: Judith E. Smith
  Title:   Authorized Signatory
by   

/s/ Brady Bingham

  Name: Brady Bingham
  Title:   Authorized Signatory


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
by   

/s/ Joanna London

  Name: Joanna London
  Title:   Vice President


SIGNATURE PAGE TO THE

CREDIT AGREEMENT OF

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

 

Name of Lender: MORGAN STANLEY BANK, N.A.
by   

/s/ Michael King

  Name: Michael King
  Title:   Authorized Signatory


SCHEDULE 1.01

CONSOLIDATED EBITDA ADDBACKS

None.


SCHEDULE 2.01

COMMITMENTS

 

Lender

   Commitment  

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

   $ 159,000,000  

Bank of America, N.A.

   $ 159,000,000  

MUFG Bank, Ltd.

   $ 159,000,000  

Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

   $ 159,000,000  

PNC Bank, National Association

   $ 135,000,000  

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

   $ 87,000,000  

TD Bank, N.A.

   $ 87,000,000  

Barclays Bank PLC

   $ 47,000,000  

BMO Harris Bank, N.A.

   $ 47,000,000  

BNP Paribas

   $ 47,000,000  

Citibank, N.A.

   $ 47,000,000  

Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch

   $ 47,000,000  

HSBC Bank USA, National Association

   $ 47,000,000  

Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A.

   $ 23,000,000  
  

 

 

 

TOTAL

   $ 1,250,000,000.00  
  

 

 

 


SCHEDULE 5.12(d)

PENSION PLANS

None.


SCHEDULE 7.01

LIENS

None.


SCHEDULE 7.02

INDEBTEDNESS

None.


SCHEDULE 10.02

CERTAIN ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES

1. Address for the Borrower:

Analog Devices, Inc.

Three Technology Way

Norwood, MA 02062

Attention: Stephanie Sidelko, Senior Director, Finance Treasurer

2. Address for the Administrative Agent:

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent

10 South Dearborn L2

Chicago, IL 60603

Attention: Stephon Chambers

Telephone: 312 ###-###-####

Facsimile: 844 ###-###-####

E-mail: ***@***


EXHIBIT 1.01

[FORM OF]

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY dated as of [______ __], 20[__] (this “Guaranty”), among ANALOG DEVICES, INC., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), certain of its SUBSIDIARIES party hereto (collectively, the “Subsidiary Guarantors”) and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).

The Lenders have agreed to extend credit to the Borrower subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement. Pursuant to Section 10.20 of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower may elect that its wholly-owned Subsidiaries become Subsidiary Guarantors by execution and delivery of this Agreement. Each Subsidiary Guarantor is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower and desires to become a Subsidiary Guarantor under this Guaranty in order to obtain the benefit of the exceptions from certain covenants set forth in the Credit Agreement that, under the terms of the Credit Agreement, are available to the Subsidiary Guarantors and as consideration for extensions of credit previously made under the Credit Agreement remaining outstanding.

Accordingly, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

SECTION 1. Definitions; Interpretation.

(a) Terms Defined in Credit Agreement. All capitalized terms used in this Guaranty (including in the recitals hereof) and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement.

(b) Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Guaranty (including in the recitals hereof), the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Guaranty.

Agreement Currency” has the meaning set forth in Section 22.

Bankruptcy Code” means the Federal Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (11 U.S.C. § 101, et seq.), as amended.

Claiming Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).

Contributing Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).

Credit Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Guaranty.


Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.

Guaranteed Parties” means (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) each Lender, (c) the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (d) their respective successors, endorsees, transferees and assigns.

Insolvency Proceeding” means, with respect to any Person, (a) any case, action or proceeding with respect to such Person before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, dissolution, winding-up or relief of debtors, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshalling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement in respect of its creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors, in either case undertaken under Debtor Relief Laws.

Judgment Currency” has the meaning set forth in Section 22.

Material Adverse Effect” means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, assets, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents, taken as a whole, or the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under the Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents, taken as a whole; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party of the Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents, taken as a whole.

(c) Interpretation. The rules of interpretation set forth in Sections 1.02 and 1.03 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Guaranty and are incorporated herein by this reference.

SECTION 2. Guaranty. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby, severally and jointly with the other Subsidiary Guarantors, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees for the benefit of the Guaranteed Parties the full and prompt payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise) of (a) the due and punctual payment by the Borrower of the principal of and interest (including interest accruing, at the rate specified in the Credit Agreement, during the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) on all Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or otherwise, and (b) the due and punctual payment or performance by the Borrower and the other Loan Parties of all other obligations of the Loan Parties under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary, secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including monetary obligations accruing, at the rate specified in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, incurred during the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding) (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”).

 

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SECTION 3. Liability of Subsidiary Guarantors. The liability of each Subsidiary Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be irrevocable, absolute, independent and unconditional, and shall not be affected by any circumstance which might constitute a discharge of a surety or guarantor, other than the indefeasible payment and performance in full of all Guaranteed Obligations and except as set forth in Section 24. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees as follows:

(a) such Subsidiary Guarantor’s liability hereunder shall be the immediate, direct and primary obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor and shall not be contingent upon any Guaranteed Party’s exercise or enforcement of any remedy it may have against the Borrower or any other Person;

(b) this Guaranty is a guarantee of payment when due and not merely of collectibility;

(c) [Reserved];

(d) such Subsidiary Guarantor’s payment of a portion, but not all, of the Guaranteed Obligations shall in no way limit, affect, modify or abridge such Subsidiary Guarantor’s liability for any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations remaining unsatisfied; and

(e) such Subsidiary Guarantor’s liability with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations shall remain in full force and effect without regard to, and shall not be impaired or affected by, nor shall such Subsidiary Guarantor be exonerated or discharged by, any of the following events:

(i) any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to the Borrower, such Subsidiary Guarantor, any other Loan Party or any other Person;

(ii) any limitation, discharge or cessation of the liability of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person for any Guaranteed Obligations due to any statute, regulation or rule of law, or any invalidity or unenforceability in whole or in part of any of the Guaranteed Obligations or the Loan Documents;

(iii) any merger, acquisition, consolidation or change in structure of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or Person, or any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition of any or all of the assets or shares of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or other Person (in each case, except as otherwise provided in Section 24);

(iv) any assignment or other transfer, in whole or in part, of any Guaranteed Party’s interests in and rights under this Guaranty or the other Loan Documents, including any Guaranteed Party’s right to receive payment of the Guaranteed Obligations;

(v) any claim, defense, counterclaim or setoff, other than that of prior performance, that the Borrower, any other Loan Party or other Person may have or assert, including any defense of incapacity or lack of corporate or other authority to execute any of the Loan Documents;

(vi) any Guaranteed Party’s amendment, modification, renewal, extension, cancellation or surrender of any Loan Document or any Guaranteed Obligations;

 

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(vii) any Guaranteed Party’s compromise, release, settlement or waiver with or of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person;

(viii) any Guaranteed Party’s vote, claim, distribution, election, acceptance, action or inaction in any Insolvency Proceeding related to the Guaranteed Obligations; and

(ix) any other guaranty, whether by such Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Subsidiary Guarantor or other Person, of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of the Borrower to any Guaranteed Party.

SECTION 4. Consents of Subsidiary Guarantors. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby unconditionally consents and agrees that, without notice to or further assent from such Subsidiary Guarantor:

(a) the principal amount of the Guaranteed Obligations may be increased or decreased and additional Guaranteed Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents may be incurred, by one or more amendments, modifications, renewals or extensions of any Loan Document or otherwise;

(b) the time, manner, place or terms of any payment under any Loan Document may be extended or changed, including by an increase or decrease in the interest rate on any Guaranteed Obligation or any fee or other amount payable under such Loan Document, by an amendment, modification or renewal of any Loan Document or otherwise;

(c) the time for the Borrower’s (or any other Person’s) performance of or compliance with any term, covenant or agreement on its part to be performed or observed under any Loan Document may be extended, or such performance or compliance waived, or failure in or departure from such performance or compliance consented to, all in such manner and upon such terms as the Guaranteed Parties may deem proper;

(d) any Guaranteed Party may discharge or release, in whole or in part, any other Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Person liable for the payment and performance of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, and may permit or consent to any such action or any result of such action, and no Guaranteed Party be liable to such Subsidiary Guarantor for any failure to collect or enforce payment or performance of the Guaranteed Obligations from any Person;

(e) the Guaranteed Parties may request and accept other guaranties of the Guaranteed Obligations and any other indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of the Borrower to any Guaranteed Party and may, from time to time, in whole or in part, surrender, release, subordinate, modify, waive, rescind, compromise or extend any such guaranty and may permit or consent to any such action or the result of any such action; and

(f) the Guaranteed Parties may exercise, or waive or otherwise refrain from exercising, any other right, remedy, power or privilege (including the right to accelerate the maturity of any Loan and any power of sale) granted by any Loan Document or other security document or agreement, or otherwise available to any Guaranteed Party, with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations, even if the exercise of such right, remedy, power or privilege affects or eliminates any right of subrogation or any other right of such Subsidiary Guarantor against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person;

 

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all as the Guaranteed Parties may deem advisable, and all without impairing, abridging, releasing or affecting this Guaranty.

SECTION 5. Subsidiary Guarantor Waivers.

(a) Certain Waivers. Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives and agrees not to assert:

(i) any right to require any Guaranteed Party to marshal assets in favor of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person, or comply with any other provisions of § 9-611 of the New York Uniform Commercial Code (or any equivalent provision of any other applicable law) or to pursue any other right, remedy, power or privilege of any Guaranteed Party whatsoever;

(ii) the defense of the statute of limitations in any action hereunder or for the collection or performance of the Guaranteed Obligations;

(iii) any defense arising by reason of any lack of corporate or other authority or any other defense of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person;

(iv) any defense based upon any Guaranteed Party’s errors or omissions in the administration of the Guaranteed Obligations;

(v) any rights to setoffs and counterclaims;

(vi) any defense based upon an election of remedies (including, if available, an election to proceed by nonjudicial foreclosure) which destroys or impairs the subrogation rights of such Subsidiary Guarantor or the right of such Subsidiary Guarantor to proceed against the Borrower or any other obligor of the Guaranteed Obligations for reimbursement; and

(vii) without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by applicable law limiting the liability of or exonerating guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms of this Guaranty, other than the defense of payment and performance in full.

(b) Additional Waivers.

(i) Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives any and all notice of the acceptance of this Guaranty, and any and all notice of the creation, renewal, modification, extension or accrual of the Guaranteed Obligations, or the reliance by the Guaranteed Parties upon this Guaranty, or the exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder. The Guaranteed Obligations shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted, incurred and permitted to exist in reliance upon this Guaranty. Each Subsidiary Guarantor waives promptness, diligence, presentment, protest, demand for payment, notice of default, dishonor or nonpayment and all other notices to or upon the Borrower, any other Loan Party or other Person with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations.

 

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(ii) Until the Guaranteed Obligations (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) have been paid and performed in full and the Commitments have terminated, each Subsidiary Guarantor waives (A) any defenses such Subsidiary Guarantor may have to this Guaranty by reason of an election of remedies by the Guaranteed Parties, (B) any rights or defenses such Subsidiary Guarantor may have by reason of protection afforded to the Borrower or any other Loan Party pursuant to the anti-deficiency or other laws of the State of New York or other applicable law (to the extent waivable under such applicable law) limiting or discharging the Borrower’s or such other Loan Party’s indebtedness, (C) any defenses arising by reason of any disability or other defense of the Borrower or any other Loan Party, or the cessation from any cause whatsoever (including any act or omission of any Guaranteed Party) of the liability of the Borrower, (D) any defenses based on any claim that such Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations exceed or are more burdensome than those of the Borrower, (E) any right to compel any Guaranteed Party to proceed against or exhaust any security for the Guaranteed Obligations (or to proceed against such security in a particular order) or to pursue any other remedy in such Guaranteed Party’s power whatsoever, and (F) any benefit of and any right to participate in any security now or hereafter held by the Guaranteed Parties.

(iii) Each Subsidiary Guarantor warrants and agrees that each of the waivers set forth herein is made with full knowledge of its significance and consequences and that if any such waivers are determined to be contrary to any applicable law or public policy, such waivers shall be effective only to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

(c) Independent Obligations. The obligations of each Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder are those of primary obligor, and not merely as surety, and are independent of and separate from the obligations of any other Subsidiary Guarantor, the Borrower and any other Person and upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, a separate action or actions may be brought against each Subsidiary Guarantor, whether or not the Borrower, any other Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Person is joined therein or a separate action or actions are brought against the Borrower, any other Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Person.

(d) Financial Condition of Borrower. No Subsidiary Guarantor shall have any right to require any Guaranteed Party to obtain or disclose any information with respect to (i) the financial condition or character of the Borrower or the ability of the Borrower to pay and perform the Guaranteed Obligations, (ii) the Guaranteed Obligations, (iii) the existence or nonexistence of any other guarantees of all or any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, (iv) any action or inaction on the part of any Guaranteed Party or any other Person or (v) any other matter, fact or occurrence whatsoever.

 

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SECTION 6. Indemnity, Subrogation, Contribution and Subordination.

(a) Indemnity. In addition to all such rights of indemnity and subrogation as the Subsidiary Guarantors may have under applicable law in respect of any payment hereunder, the Borrower agrees that, subject to Section 6(c), in the event a payment in respect of any Guaranteed Obligation shall be made by any Subsidiary Guarantor under this Guaranty, the Borrower shall indemnify such Subsidiary Guarantor for the full amount of such payment and such Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Person to whom such payment shall have been made to the extent of such payment.

(b) Contribution. Each Subsidiary Guarantor (a “Contributing Party”) agrees that, subject to Section 6(c), in the event a payment shall be made by any other Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder in respect of any Guaranteed Obligations and such other Subsidiary Guarantor (the “Claiming Party”) shall not have been fully indemnified by the Borrower as provided in Section 6(a), each Contributing Party shall indemnify such Claiming Party in an amount equal to the amount of such payment, in each case multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the net worth of the Contributing Party on the date hereof and the denominator shall be the aggregate net worth of all the Subsidiary Guarantors on the date hereof (or, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor becoming a party hereto pursuant to Section 23, the date of the Joinder hereto executed and delivered by such Subsidiary Guarantor). Any Contributing Party making any payment to a Claiming Party pursuant to this Section 6(b) shall (subject to Section 6(c)) be subrogated to the rights of such Claiming Party under Section 6(a) to the extent of such payment.

(c) Subordination. Until the Guaranteed Obligations (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) shall have been paid and performed in full and the Commitments shall have terminated, no Subsidiary Guarantor shall directly or indirectly exercise (i) any rights that it may acquire by way of subrogation under this Guaranty, by any payment hereunder or otherwise, (ii) any rights of contribution, indemnification, reimbursement or similar suretyship claims arising out of this Guaranty, or (iii) any other right which it might otherwise have or acquire (in any way whatsoever) which could entitle it at any time to share or participate in any right, remedy or security of any Guaranteed Party as against the Borrower or any other Loan Party, whether in connection with this Guaranty, any of the other Loan Documents or otherwise. If any amount shall be paid to any Subsidiary Guarantor on account of the foregoing rights at any time prior to all the Guaranteed Obligations (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) having been paid in full and the Commitments terminating, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Guaranteed Parties and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative Agent to be credited and applied to the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents. Upon the indefeasible payment and performance in full of the Guaranteed Obligations (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) and the termination of all Commitments, each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the Guaranteed Parties against the Borrower to the extent otherwise permitted by law; provided that such subrogation shall not (A) constitute a representation or warranty, express or implied, by any Guaranteed Party as to the enforceability or collectibility of any obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents or as to the perfection, priority or enforceability of any lien or security interest contained in or relating to any Loan Document, (B) grant to such Subsidiary Guarantor any right of recourse against any Guaranteed Party in

 

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respect thereof, (C) give rise to any duty on the part of any Guaranteed Party to cooperate with such Subsidiary Guarantor in the protection, preservation or enforcement of any rights such Subsidiary Guarantor may have against the Borrower or any other Loan Party, (D) impair any Guaranteed Party’s unfettered discretion to settle or otherwise compromise any claims such Guaranteed Party may have against the Borrower or otherwise impair or affect any of the waivers or consents contained herein or (E) restrict any Guaranteed Party from enforcing or forbearing from enforcing any of its rights or remedies against the Borrower; provided further that each Subsidiary Guarantor shall, upon demand, indemnify each Guaranteed Party against any and all costs and expenses arising directly or indirectly in connection with such right of subrogation.

SECTION 7. Continuing Guaranty; Survival; Reinstatement.

(a) This Guaranty is a continuing guarantee relating to the Guaranteed Obligations, including any Guaranteed Obligations which may exist continuously or which may arise from time to time in connection with successive transactions consummated under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each Subsidiary Guarantor expressly acknowledges that this Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding that there may be periods during which no Guaranteed Obligations exist. This Guaranty shall, subject to Section 24, continue in effect and be binding upon each Subsidiary Guarantor until termination of the Commitments and payment and performance in full of the Guaranteed Obligations (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made). The provisions of Sections 7(b), 8, 12 and 22 shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the termination of this Guaranty or any provision hereof or the payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations or the termination of the Commitments, except as to any Subsidiary Guarantor that has been released from its Guaranty pursuant to Section 10.20(b) of the Credit Agreement.

(b) This Guaranty shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated and revived, as the case may be, if, for any reason, any payment of the Guaranteed Obligations by or on behalf of the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall be rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, voided or otherwise required to be repaid to the Borrower or any other Loan Party, its estate, trustee, receiver or any other Person (including under the Bankruptcy Code or other state or federal law), or must otherwise be restored by the Administrative Agent or any other Guaranteed Party, whether as a result of Insolvency Proceedings or otherwise. To the extent any payment is so rescinded, set aside, voided or otherwise repaid or restored, the Guaranteed Obligations shall be revived in full force and effect without reduction or discharge for such payment, except as to any Subsidiary Guarantor that has been released from its Guaranty pursuant to Section 10.20(b) of the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 8. Payments.

(a) Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby agrees, in furtherance of the foregoing provisions of this Guaranty and not in limitation of any other right which any Guaranteed Party or any other Person may have against such Subsidiary Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrower to pay any of the Guaranteed Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under

 

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§ 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code or comparable provision of other applicable Debtor Relief Law), such Subsidiary Guarantor shall forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the amount of the Guaranteed Obligations then due as aforesaid (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in any Insolvency Proceeding with respect to the Borrower, would have accrued, at the rate of interest provided in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, on such Guaranteed Obligations, whether or not a claim is allowed against the Borrower for such interest in any such Insolvency Proceeding). Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall make each payment hereunder, unconditionally in full without setoff, counterclaim or other defense, on the day when due in the currency in which such Guaranteed Obligations are denominated in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent at such office of the Administrative Agent and to such account as is specified in the Credit Agreement.

(b) Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby acknowledges the provisions of Section 3.01 of the Credit Agreement and agrees to be bound by such provisions (as the same may be in effect from time to time) applicable to such Subsidiary Guarantor or all Subsidiary Guarantors with the same force and effect, and to the same extent, as if such Subsidiary Guarantor were a party to the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 9. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:

(a) Existence, Qualification and Power. Such Loan Party (i) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, (ii) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (A) own or lease its assets and carry on its business in which it is currently engaged and (B) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (iii) is duly qualified and is licensed and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except (other than in the case of clause (ii)(B)), to the extent that failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b) Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by such Loan Party of this Guaranty and each other Loan Document to which it is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of the Organization Documents of such Loan Party; (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, or require any payment to be made under (i) any material Contractual Obligation to which such Loan Party is a party or affecting such Loan Party or the properties of such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or their properties are subject; or (c) violate any Law, except, in each case referred to in clause (b) or (c), to the extent that such matters, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(c) Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, such Loan Party of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document to which it is a party.

(d) Binding Effect. This Guaranty has been, and each other Loan Document to which it is a party, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party. This Guaranty constitutes, and each other Loan Document to which it is a party when so delivered will constitute, a valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).

(e) Investment Company Act. Such Loan Party is not required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

(f) Consideration. In the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor, such Subsidiary Guarantor has received at least “reasonably equivalent value” (as such phrase is used in § 548 of the Bankruptcy Code), and at least “fair consideration” (as such term is used in § 272 of the New York Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act) and more than sufficient consideration to support its obligations hereunder in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations.

SECTION 10. Notices. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications with a Subsidiary Guarantor provided for hereunder shall be delivered to such Subsidiary Guarantor’s attention at the address of the Borrower as set forth in Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement and the terms of Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement with respect to notices are incorporated herein by reference, mutatis mutandis, with each reference to the “Borrower” therein (whether express or by reference to a “party” thereto) being a reference to each Subsidiary Guarantor, and the parties hereto agree to such terms.

SECTION 11. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Guaranteed Party to exercise, and no delay by any Guaranteed Party in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.

SECTION 12. Costs and Expenses; Damages Waiver.

(a) Costs and Expenses. Each Subsidiary Guarantor, severally and jointly with the other Subsidiary Guarantors, shall: (i) pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the development, preparation, negotiation and execution of this Guaranty and the other Loan Documents and any amendment, waiver, consent or other modification of the provisions hereof or

 

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thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby are consummated), and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including all reasonable costs and expenses of counsel for the Administrative Agent; and (ii) pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and each other Guaranteed Party for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement, attempted enforcement, or preservation of any rights or remedies under this Guaranty or the other Loan Documents (including all such costs and expenses incurred during any “workout” or restructuring in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations and during any legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law), including all costs and expenses of counsel for the Administrative Agent. The foregoing costs and expenses shall include all search, filing, recording, title insurance and appraisal charges and fees and taxes related thereto, and other out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and the cost of independent public accountants and other outside experts retained by any Guaranteed Party.

(b) Interest. Any amounts payable by any Subsidiary Guarantor under this Section 12 or otherwise under this Guaranty if not paid when due shall bear interest from such due date until paid in full, at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate applicable to Base Rate Loans to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Any such interest shall be due and payable upon demand in accordance with the Credit Agreement and shall be calculated on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and the actual number of days elapsed.

(c) Payment. All amounts due under this Section 12 shall be payable after demand therefor in accordance with Section 10.04(e) of the Credit Agreement, mutatis mutandis.

(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby acknowledges the provisions of Section 10.04(d) of the Credit Agreement and agrees to be bound by such provisions (as the same may be in effect from time to time) with the same force and effect, and to the same extent, as if such Subsidiary Guarantor were a party to the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 13. Right of Setoff. In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, any such notice being waived by such Subsidiary Guarantor to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held by, and other indebtedness at any time owing by, such Lender or such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of such Subsidiary Guarantor against any and all Guaranteed Obligations owing to such Lender, now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have made demand under this Guaranty or any other Loan Document and although such Guaranteed Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable deposit or indebtedness. Each of the Lenders agrees (by its acceptance hereof) promptly to notify such Subsidiary Guarantor and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender; provided, however, that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights of each Lender and its Affiliates under this Section 13 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender or its Affiliates may have.

 

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SECTION 14. Marshalling; Payments Set Aside. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Guaranteed Party shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Subsidiary Guarantor or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Guaranteed Obligations. To the extent that any Subsidiary Guarantor makes a payment to any Guaranteed Party, or any Guaranteed Party exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by any Guaranteed Party in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, then to the extent of such recovery the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred.

SECTION 15. Benefits of Guaranty. This Guaranty is entered into for the sole protection and benefit of the Administrative Agent and each other Guaranteed Party, and no other Person shall be a direct or indirect beneficiary of, or shall have any direct or indirect cause of action or claim in connection with, this Guaranty. The Guaranteed Parties, by their acceptance of this Guaranty, shall not have any obligations under this Guaranty to any Person other than the Subsidiary Guarantors, and such obligations shall be limited to those expressly stated herein.

SECTION 16. Binding Effect; Assignment.

(a) Binding Effect. This Guaranty shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Administrative Agent and, subject to the second paragraph of Section 10.03 of the Credit Agreement, each other Guaranteed Party.

(b) Assignment. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary Guarantor shall have the right to assign or transfer its rights and obligations hereunder (and any such attempted assignment or transfer shall be null and void), except, in the case of any Subsidiary Guarantor, any assignment or transfer arising as a matter of law as a result of any merger, consolidation or amalgamation involving such Subsidiary Guarantor that is permitted under the Credit Agreement. Each Lender may, without notice to or consent by any Subsidiary Guarantor, sell, assign, transfer or grant participations in all or any portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents in connection with any sale, assignment, transfer or grant of a participation by such Lender in accordance with Section 10.06 of the Credit Agreement of or in its rights and obligations thereunder and under the other Loan Documents. In the event of any grant of a participation, the participant (i) shall be deemed to have a right of setoff under Section 13 hereof in respect of its participation to the same extent as if it were such “Guaranteed Party” and (B) shall also be entitled to the benefits of Section 12 hereof.

SECTION 17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.

(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS GUARANTY AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

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(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT COMMENCE ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN LAW OR EQUITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR IN TORT OR OTHERWISE, AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER, ANY OTHER GUARANTEED PARTY OR ANY RELATED PARTY OF THE FOREGOING IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO, IN ANY FORUM OTHER THAN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS AND AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS GUARANTY OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY OTHER GUARANTEED PARTY MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN SECTION 17(b). EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.

(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10. NOTHING IN THIS GUARANTY WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

 

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(a) Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby irrevocably designates, appoints and empowers the Borrower, and the Borrower hereby accepts such appointment, as its designee, appointee and agent to receive, accept and acknowledge for and on its behalf, and in respect of its property, service of any and all legal process, summons, notices and documents that may be served in any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Guaranty or any other Loan Document. Such service may be made by mailing or delivering a copy of such process to any Subsidiary Guarantor in care of the Borrower at the Borrower’s address used for purposes of giving notices under Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement, and each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs the Borrower to accept such service on its behalf.

(e) In the event any Subsidiary Guarantor or any of its assets has or hereafter acquires, in any jurisdiction in which judicial proceedings may at any time be commenced with respect to this Guaranty or any other Loan Document, any immunity from jurisdiction, legal proceedings, attachment (whether before or after judgment), execution, judgment or setoff, such Subsidiary Guarantor hereby irrevocably agrees not to claim and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives such immunity.

SECTION 18. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (a) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (b) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS GUARANTY AND THE OTHER GUARANTOR DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 18.

SECTION 19. Entire Agreement; Amendments and Waivers.

(a) This Guaranty, together with the other Loan Documents, embodies the entire, final agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the matters set forth herein and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements and understandings of the parties hereto, verbal or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. This Guaranty and the other Loan Documents may not be contradicted by evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent oral agreements of the parties. There are no unwritten oral agreements among the parties. No waiver of any rights of the Guaranteed Parties under any provision of this Guaranty or consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom shall be effective unless the same shall be permitted by Section 19(b), and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given.

 

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(b) Except as provided in Sections 23 and 24, neither this Guaranty nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Loan Party with respect to which such waiver, amendment or modification is to apply, subject to any consent required in accordance with Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement. This Guaranty shall be construed as a separate agreement with respect to each Loan Party and may be amended, modified, supplemented, waived or released with respect to any Loan Party without the approval of any other Loan Party and without affecting the obligations of any other Loan Party hereunder.

SECTION 20. Severability. If any provision of this Guaranty is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable as to any or all of the Loan Parties, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Guaranty as to such affected Loan Parties shall not be affected or impaired thereby, (b) the legality, validity and enforceability of such provisions and any other provisions as to any other Loan Parties shall not be affected or impaired thereby, and (c) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

SECTION 21. Counterparts; Effectiveness. This Guaranty may be executed in one or more counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which together shall constitute a single contract. Subject to Section 24, this Guaranty shall become effective as to any Loan Party when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received a counterpart hereof that bears the signature of such Loan Party hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Guaranty by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (e.g., “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Guaranty.

SECTION 22. Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of each Loan Party in respect of any such sum due from it to any Guaranteed Party hereunder shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Credit Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day immediately following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent from any Loan Party in the Agreement Currency, such Loan Party agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or Person to whom such obligation was owing in such currency, the Administrative Agent or the Person to whom such obligation was owing (by its acceptance hereof) agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Loan Party (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).

 

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SECTION 23. Additional Subsidiary Guarantors. Pursuant to the Credit Agreement, certain Subsidiaries not a party hereto on the date hereof may become party to this Guaranty. Upon the execution and delivery by the Administrative Agent and any such Subsidiary of a Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder substantially in the form of Annex I hereto, such Subsidiary shall become a Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as such herein. The execution and delivery of any Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder shall not require the consent of any other Loan Party hereunder. The rights and obligations of each Loan Party hereunder shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any additional Subsidiary as a party to this Guaranty.

SECTION 24. Release and Termination.

(a) Subject to Section 7(b), this Guaranty and the Guarantees made herein shall automatically terminate and be released when all the Guaranteed Obligations (other than unasserted indemnification, tax gross up, expense reimbursement or yield protection obligations, in each case, for which no claim has been made) have been paid and performed in full and the Commitments have terminated. In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this paragraph, promptly following the Borrower’s written request, the Administrative Agent shall execute and deliver to the Borrower, at the Borrower’s expense, all documents that the Borrower shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this paragraph shall be without recourse to or warranty by the Administrative Agent.

(b) Section 10.20(b) of the Credit Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference herein as if set forth in full force herein, mutatis mutandis. The Guarantees made herein by the Subsidiary Guarantors shall be released at the time or times and in the manner set forth in Section 10.20(b) of the Credit Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have duly executed this Guaranty, as of the date first above written.

 

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.,
By    
  Name:
  Title:
[SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR],
By    
  Name:
  Title:
[SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR],
By    
  Name:
  Title:

[Signature Page to Subsidiary Guaranty]


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as the Administrative Agent,
By    
  Name:
  Title:

[Signature Page to Subsidiary Guaranty]


ANNEX I

[FORM OF]

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY JOINDER

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY JOINDER dated as of __________, 20__ (this “Joinder”), between _____________________, a _________ [corporation/limited liability Borrower/partnership] (the “Joining Party”), and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as administrative agent.

Reference is made to (a) the Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), and (b) the Subsidiary Guaranty dated as of __________, 20 __ (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Subsidiary Guaranty”), among the Borrower, certain of its Subsidiaries party thereto and the Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Subsidiary Guaranty.

Section 23 of the Subsidiary Guaranty provides that additional Subsidiaries of the Borrower may become Subsidiary Guarantors under the Subsidiary Guaranty by execution and delivery of an instrument in the form of this Joinder. The Joining Party is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Borrower and desires to become a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Subsidiary Guaranty in order to obtain the benefit of the exceptions from certain covenants set forth in the Credit Agreement that, under the terms of the Credit Agreement, are available to the Subsidiary Guarantors and as consideration for extensions of credit previously made under the Credit Agreement remaining outstanding.

Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:

SECTION 1. By this Joinder, the Joining Party becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor for all purposes under the Subsidiary Guaranty, pursuant to Section 23 thereof.

SECTION 2. The Joining Party agrees that, upon its execution hereof, it will become a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Subsidiary Guaranty with respect to all Guaranteed Obligations, and will be bound by all terms, conditions and obligations applicable to a Subsidiary Guarantor under the Subsidiary Guaranty. Without limitation of the foregoing, and in furtherance thereof, the Joining Party hereby, severally and jointly with the other Subsidiary Guarantors, absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees for the benefit of the Guaranteed Parties the full and prompt payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise) of all (and not merely a lesser or proportional part of the) Guaranteed Obligations (on the same basis as the other Subsidiary Guarantors under the Subsidiary Guaranty).


SECTION 3. The Joining Party represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that (a) the execution and delivery by the Joining Party of this Joinder, and the performance by the Joining Party of this Joinder and the Subsidiary Guaranty, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, (b) this Joinder has been duly executed and delivered by the Joining Party, (c) each of this Joinder and the Subsidiary Guaranty constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Joining Party, enforceable against the Joining Party in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law) and (d) all representations and warranties set forth in the Subsidiary Guaranty as to the Joining Party are true and correct (i) in the case of the representations and warranties qualified as to materiality, in all respects and (ii) otherwise, in all material respects, in each case, on and as of the date of this Joinder.

SECTION 4. This Joinder shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Administrative Agent and, subject to the second paragraph of Section 10.03 of the Credit Agreement, each other Guaranteed Party. The Joining Party shall not have any right to assign or transfer its rights and obligations hereunder (and any such attempted assignment or transfer shall be null and void), except any assignment or transfer arising as a matter of law as a result of any merger, consolidation or amalgamation involving the Joining Party that is permitted under the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 5. THIS JOINDER AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS JOINDER AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

SECTION 6. This Joinder may be executed in one or more counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Joinder by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (e.g., “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Joinder. Neither this Joinder nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Administrative Agent and the Joining Party, subject to any consent required in accordance with Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement. This Joinder shall constitute a “Loan Document” for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

SECTION 7. All communications and notices hereunder shall be in writing and given as provided in Section 10 of the Subsidiary Guaranty.

SECTION 8. The provisions of Sections 7, 8, 17, 18, 20 and 21 of the Subsidiary Guaranty are hereby incorporated by reference herein as if set forth in full force herein, mutatis mutandis.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Joining Party has caused this Joinder to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

[NEW SUBSIDIARY GUARANTOR],
By    
  Name:
  Title:

Accepted and Acknowledged by:

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as the Administrative Agent,
By    
  Name:
  Title:

 

[Signature Page to Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder]


EXHIBIT 2.02

[FORM OF]

LOAN NOTICE

_________, 20__

To: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders from time to time party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement.

1. The undersigned hereby requests (select one):

A borrowing of Loans

A conversion of any Borrowing

A continuation of Eurodollar Rate Borrowing

2. On ____________, 20__ (a Business Day).

3. In the amount of $_______.1

4. Type of Loans requested or to which the existing Borrowing is to be continued or converted:

Base Rate Loan             Eurodollar Rate Loan

5. For Eurodollar Rate Loans: with an Interest Period of __ month[s]2.

 

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
By:    
Name:
Title:

 

1 

Must comply with Sections 2.01 and 2.02 of the Credit Agreement.

2 

One, two, three or six months (or, if consented to by all Lenders, such other period that is twelve months or less).


EXHIBIT 2.09

[FORM OF]

NOTE

_______, 20__

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation the “Borrower”), hereby promises to pay to ________________ or its registered assigns (the “Lender”), in accordance with the provisions of the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the principal amount of each Loan from time to time made by the Lender under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement.

The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Loan from the date of such Loan until such principal amount is paid in full, at the interest rates and at the times provided in the Credit Agreement. All payments of principal and interest shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender in Dollars in immediately available funds in the manner set forth in the Credit Agreement. If any amount is not paid in full when due hereunder, such unpaid amount shall bear interest, to be paid upon demand, from the due date thereof until the date of actual payment (and before as well as after judgment) computed at the per annum rate set forth in the Credit Agreement.

This Note is one of the Notes referred to in the Credit Agreement, is entitled to the benefits thereof and may be prepaid in whole or in part subject to the terms and conditions provided therein. Upon the occurrence and continuation of one or more of the Events of Default specified in the Credit Agreement, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Note shall become, or may be declared to be, immediately due and payable all as provided in the Credit Agreement. Loans made by the Lender shall be evidenced by one or more loan accounts or records maintained by the Lender in the ordinary course of business. The Lender may also attach schedules to this Note and endorse thereon the date, amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

The Borrower, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby waives diligence, presentment, protest and demand and notice of protest, demand, dishonor and non-payment of this Note.

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THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
By:     
Name:  
Title:  


EXHIBIT 3.01(A)

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

[NAME OF LENDER]

By: 

   
Name:     

Title: 

   

Date: ________, 20__


EXHIBIT 3.01(B)

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender in writing, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

[NAME OF PARTICIPANT]
By:     
Name:     
Title:     

Date: ________, 20__


EXHIBIT 3.01(C)

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such participation, (iii) with respect to such participation, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a “bank” extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, from each of such partner’s/member’s beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

[NAME OF PARTICIPANT]
By:     
Name:     
Title:     

Date: ________, 20__


EXHIBIT 3.01(D)

[FORM OF]

U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

(For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)

Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)), (iii) with respect to the extension of credit pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a “bank” extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable, from each of such partner’s/member’s beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

 

[NAME OF LENDER]
By:     
Name:     
Title:     

Date: ________, 20__


EXHIBIT 6.02

[FORM OF]

COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

Financial Statement Date: ________, 20__

To: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders from time to time party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement.

The undersigned, a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, hereby certifies as of the date hereof that he/she is the ___________ of the Borrower and that, as such, he/she is authorized to execute and deliver this Compliance Certificate to the Administrative Agent (for delivery to the Lenders) on the behalf of the Borrower, and that:

[Use following paragraph I for fiscal year-end financial statements]

1. Attached hereto as Schedule 1 are the year-end audited financial statements required by Section 6.01(a) of the Credit Agreement for the fiscal year of the Borrower ended as of the above date, together with the report and opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm required by such Section.

[Use following paragraph I for fiscal quarter-end financial statements]

1. Attached hereto as Schedule 1 are the unaudited financial statements required by Section 6.01(b) of the Credit Agreement for the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended as of the above date. Such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP as at such date and for the period covered thereby, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.

2. The undersigned has reviewed and is familiar with the terms of the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and has made, or has caused to be made under his/her supervision, a detailed review of the transactions and condition (financial or otherwise) of the Loan Parties during the accounting period covered by the attached financial statements.

3. A review of the activities of the Loan Parties during such fiscal period has been made under the supervision of the undersigned with a view to determining whether during such fiscal period each Loan Party performed and observed all its Obligations under the Loan Documents, and

[select one:]


[to the best knowledge of the undersigned during such fiscal period, each Loan Party performed and observed each covenant and condition of the Loan Documents applicable to it, and no Default has occurred and is continuing.]

—or—

[the following covenants or conditions have not been performed or observed and the following is a list of each such Default and its nature and status:]

4. The calculations demonstrating compliance with the financial covenant set forth in Section 7.07 of the Credit Agreement set forth in Schedule 2 attached hereto are true and accurate on and as of the date of this Compliance Certificate.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Compliance Certificate as of __________, _____.

 

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
By:     
Name:  
Title:  


Schedule 1 to

Compliance Certificate

Financial Statements

[To be attached by the Borrower]


Schedule 2 to

Compliance Certificate

For the Quarter / Year ended ___________ (the “Financial Statement Date”)

Consolidated Leverage Ratio

 

I.

   Consolidated Funded Indebtedness    $_____

II.

   Consolidated EBITDA (For the period of the four prior fiscal quarters ending on the Financial Statement Date (see Schedule A))    $_____

III.

   Consolidated EBITDA Adjustments (For the period of the four prior fiscal quarters ending on the Financial Statement Date (see Schedule A))    $_____

IV.

   Consolidated Leverage Ratio (I ÷ (II +/- III))    ___________ to 1.0
   Maximum Permitted:    [    ] to 1.0


Schedule A

to Compliance Certificate

Consolidated EBITDA

(in accordance with the definition of Consolidated EBITDA as set forth in the Credit Agreement)

($ in 000’s)

 

Consolidated EBITDA

   Quarter
Ended
     Quarter
Ended
     Quarter
Ended
     Quarter
Ended
     Twelve
Months
Ended
 

(i) Consolidated Net Income

              
+
(ii) Consolidated Interest Charges
              
+
(iii) provision for Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes
              
+
(iv) depreciation expense
              
+
(v) amortization expense
              
+
(vi) non-cash stock-based compensation expense
              
+
(vii) certain non-recurring expenses incurred prior to the date of the Credit Agreement (as set forth on Schedule 1.01 to the Credit Agreement) and nonrecurring cash expenses relating to pension liabilities incurred after the Closing Date, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $300,000,000
              
+
(viii) non-recurring expenses which do not represent a cash item in such period or any future period
              
+
(ix) non-recurring cash expenses to the extent such cash expenses are not paid in such period but will be paid in a future period
              
+
(x) fees and expenses incurred in connection with the execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement and the related transactions
              
+
(xi) fees and expenses incurred in connection with any Qualified Acquisition
              

(xii) non-recurring cash expenses that were previously added back to Consolidated EBITDA in a prior period pursuant to the entry in item (ix) above to the extent such cash expenses are paid in such period
              

(xiii) non-recurring non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income
              
= Consolidated EBITDA               

[+][-]

[Describe all Consolidated EBITDA Adjustments, if any]

              
= Consolidated EBITDA, after giving effect to Consolidated EBITDA Adjustments               


EXHIBIT 10.06

[FORM OF]

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

This Assignment and Assumption (this “Assignment and Assumption”) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [the][each]1 Assignor identified in item 1 below ([the][each, an] “Assignor”) and [the][each]2 Assignee identified in item 2 below ([the][each, an] “Assignee”). [It is understood and agreed that the rights and obligations of [the Assignors][the Assignees]3 hereunder are several and not joint.]4 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (the “Credit Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by [the][each] Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.

For an agreed consideration, [the][each] Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to [the Assignee][the respective Assignees], and [the][each] Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from [the Assignor] [the respective Assignors], subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below, (i) all of [the Assignor’s][the respective Assignors’] rights and obligations in [its capacity as a Lender][their respective capacities as Lenders] under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of [the Assignor][the respective Assignors] under the credit facility identified below and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable Law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of [the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender)][the respective Assignors (in their respective capacities as Lenders)] against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned by [the][any] Assignor to [the][any] Assignee pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as [the][an] “Assigned Interest”). Each such sale and assignment is without recourse to [the][any] Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by [the][any] Assignor.

 

1 

For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignor(s), if the assignment is from a single Assignor, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is from multiple Assignors, choose the second bracketed language.

2 

For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignee(s), if the assignment is to a single Assignee, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is to multiple Assignees, choose the second bracketed language.

3 

Select as appropriate.

4 

Include bracketed language if there are either multiple Assignors or multiple Assignees.


1. Assignor[s]:  

 

2. Assignee[s]:  

 

 

 

  [for each Assignee, indicate [Lender][Affiliate][Approved Fund] of [identify Lender]]
3. Borrower:   Analog Devices, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation
4. Administrative Agent:       JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent under the Credit Agreement
5. Credit Agreement:   Credit Agreement dated as of June 28, 2019, among the Borrower, the Lenders party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time
6. Assigned Interest:  

 

Assignor[s]1

   Assignee[s]2      Aggregate
Amount of
Commitment/
Loans for all
Lenders3
     Amount of
Commitment/
Loans Assigned
     Percentage
Assigned of the
Commitment/
Loans4
 
      $                    $                          
     

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

[7.Trade Date:

   _________________]5   

Effective Date: ________, 20__ [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]

 

1 

List each Assignor, as appropriate.

2 

List each Assignee, as appropriate.

3 

Amounts in this column and in the column immediately to the right to be adjusted by the counterparties to take into account any payments or prepayments made between the Trade Date and the Effective Date.

4 

Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder.

5 

To be completed if the Assignor and the Assignee intend that the minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade Date.


The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:

 

ASSIGNOR

[NAME OF ASSIGNOR]

By: 

   
  Title:

 

ASSIGNEE

[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]

By: 

   
  Title:

[Consented to and]1 Accepted:

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent

By: 

   
  Title:

[Consented to:]2

 

[ANALOG DEVICES, INC.]

By: 

   
  Title:

 

1 

To be added only if the consent of the Administrative Agent is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.

2 

To be added only if the consent of the Borrower is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement.


ANNEX I TO ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR

ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION

1. Representations and Warranties.

1.1. Assignor. [The][Each] Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, (ii) [the][such] Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim, (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and (iv) it is [not] a Defaulting Lender; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, other than its representations and warranties set forth herein, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of the Loan Parties, any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document or (iv) the performance or observance by the Loan Parties, any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan Document.

1.2. Assignee. [The][Each] Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all the requirements to be an Eligible Assignee under the Credit Agreement (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under the Credit Agreement), (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by [the][such] Assigned Interest and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire [the][such] Assigned Interest, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, and has received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 thereof and such other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, (vi) it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, and (vii) if it is a Foreign Lender, attached hereto is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by [the][such] Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, [the][any] Assignor 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 decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.


2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of [the][each] Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to [the][the relevant] Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to [the][the relevant] Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective Date.

3. General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (e.g., “pdf” or “tif”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.