$50,000,000 SENIOR SECURED CREDIT FACILITY AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT AMONG ENERNOC, INC., AND ENOC SECURITIES CORPORATION AS BORROWER, THE SEVERAL LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO, AND SILICON VALLEY BANK, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND ISSUING LENDER DATED AS OF MARCH 14, 2012 Table of Contents
Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION VERSION
$50,000,000 SENIOR SECURED CREDIT FACILITY
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
AMONG
ENERNOC, INC.,
AND
ENOC SECURITIES CORPORATION
AS BORROWER,
THE SEVERAL LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO,
AND
SILICON VALLEY BANK,
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND ISSUING LENDER
DATED AS OF MARCH 14, 2012
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SECTION 1 DEFINITIONS | 2 | |||
1.1 Defined Terms | 2 | |||
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions | 24 | |||
SECTION 2 AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS | 24 | |||
2.1 Revolving Commitments | 24 | |||
2.2 Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing | 25 | |||
2.3 [Reserved] | 26 | |||
2.4 [Reserved] | 26 | |||
2.5 Commitment Fees, etc. | 26 | |||
2.6 Termination or Reduction of Commitments | 26 | |||
2.7 Optional Prepayments | 27 | |||
2.8 Conversion and Continuation Options | 27 | |||
2.9 Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches | 28 | |||
2.10 Interest Rates and Payment Dates | 28 | |||
2.11 Computation of Interest and Fees | 28 | |||
2.12 Inability to Determine Interest Rate | 29 | |||
2.13 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments | 29 | |||
2.14 Requirements of Law | 31 | |||
2.15 Taxes | 32 | |||
2.16 Indemnity | 34 | |||
2.17 Change of Lending Office | 35 | |||
2.18 Notes | 35 | |||
2.19 Defaulting Lenders | 35 | |||
2.20 Replacement of Lenders | 37 | |||
SECTION 3 LETTERS OF CREDIT | 38 | |||
3.1 L/C Commitment | 38 | |||
3.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letters of Credit | 40 | |||
3.3 Fees and Other Charges | 41 | |||
3.4 L/C Participations | 41 | |||
3.5 Reimbursement | 42 |
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3.6 Obligations Absolute | 42 | |||
3.7 Letter of Credit Payments | 43 | |||
3.8 Applications | 43 | |||
3.9 Interim Interest | 43 | |||
3.10 Additional Issuing Lenders | 44 | |||
3.11 Resignation of the Issuing Lender | 44 | |||
SECTION 4 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES | 44 | |||
4.1 Financial Condition | 45 | |||
4.2 No Change | 45 | |||
4.3 Existence; Compliance with Law | 45 | |||
4.4 Power, Authorization; Enforceable Obligations | 45 | |||
4.5 No Legal Bar | 46 | |||
4.6 Litigation | 46 | |||
4.7 No Default | 46 | |||
4.8 Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments | 46 | |||
4.9 Intellectual Property | 47 | |||
4.10 Taxes | 47 | |||
4.11 Federal Regulations | 47 | |||
4.12 Labor Matters | 47 | |||
4.13 ERISA | 48 | |||
4.14 Investment Company Act; Other Regulations | 48 | |||
4.15 Subsidiaries | 48 | |||
4.16 Use of Proceeds | 49 | |||
4.17 Environmental Matters | 49 | |||
4.18 Accuracy of Information, etc. | 50 | |||
4.19 Security Documents | 50 | |||
4.20 Solvency | 51 | |||
4.21 Regulation H | 51 | |||
4.22 Designated Senior Indebtedness | 51 | |||
4.23 Insurance | 51 |
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4.24 No Casualty | 51 | |||
SECTION 5 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT | 51 | |||
5.1 Conditions to Effectiveness | 51 | |||
5.2 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit | 54 | |||
SECTION 6 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS | 54 | |||
6.1 Financial Statements | 55 | |||
6.2 Certificates; Other Information | 55 | |||
6.3 Payment of Obligations | 57 | |||
6.4 Maintenance of Existence; Compliance | 57 | |||
6.5 Maintenance of Property; Insurance | 57 | |||
6.6 Books and Records | 57 | |||
6.7 Notices | 57 | |||
6.8 Environmental Laws | 58 | |||
6.9 Accounts; Collections | 58 | |||
6.10 Audits | 59 | |||
6.11 Additional Collateral, etc. | 60 | |||
6.12 Use of Proceeds | 62 | |||
6.13 Designated Senior Indebtedness | 62 | |||
6.14 Further Assurances | 62 | |||
SECTION 7 NEGATIVE COVENANTS | 62 | |||
7.1 Financial Condition Covenants | 62 | |||
7.2 Indebtedness | 63 | |||
7.3 Liens | 64 | |||
7.4 Fundamental Changes | 65 | |||
7.5 Disposition of Property | 65 | |||
7.6 Restricted Payments | 66 | |||
7.7 Investments | 66 | |||
7.8 Modifications of Certain Preferred Stock and Debt Instrument | 67 | |||
7.9 Transactions with Affiliates | 67 | |||
7.10 Sale Leaseback Transactions | 67 |
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7.11 Swap Agreements | 68 | |||
7.12 Changes in Fiscal Periods | 68 | |||
7.13 Negative Pledge Clauses | 68 | |||
7.14 Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions | 68 | |||
7.15 Lines of Business | 68 | |||
7.16 Amendments to Organizational Agreements and Material Contracts | 69 | |||
SECTION 8 EVENTS OF DEFAULT | 69 | |||
8.1 Events of Default | 69 | |||
8.2 Application of Funds | 72 | |||
SECTION 9 THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT | 73 | |||
9.1 Appointment and Authority | 73 | |||
9.2 Delegation of Duties | 73 | |||
9.3 Exculpatory Provisions | 74 | |||
9.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent | 74 | |||
9.5 Notice of Default | 75 | |||
9.6 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders | 75 | |||
9.7 Indemnification | 76 | |||
9.8 Agent in Its Individual Capacity | 76 | |||
9.9 Successor Administrative Agent | 77 | |||
SECTION 10 MISCELLANEOUS | 77 | |||
10.1 Amendments and Waivers | 77 | |||
10.2 Notices | 79 | |||
10.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | 80 | |||
10.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties | 80 | |||
10.5 Payment of Expenses and Taxes | 80 | |||
10.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments. | 81 | |||
10.7 Adjustments; Set-off | 84 | |||
10.8 Counterparts | 85 | |||
10.9 Severability | 85 |
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10.10 Integration | 85 | |||
10.11 GOVERNING LAW | 86 | |||
10.12 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers | 86 | |||
10.13 Acknowledgements | 86 | |||
10.14 Releases of Guarantees and Liens | 87 | |||
10.15 Confidentiality | 87 | |||
10.16 Additional Waivers | 88 | |||
10.17 Patriot Act | 89 | |||
10.18 Existing Credit Agreement Amended and Restated | 90 |
Exhibits
Exhibit A: | Guarantee and Collateral Agreement | |
Exhibit B: | Form of Compliance Certificate | |
Exhibit C: | Form of Closing Certificate | |
Exhibit D: | Form of Solvency Certificate | |
Exhibit E: | Form of Assignment and Assumption | |
Exhibit F: | Form of Exemption Certificate | |
Exhibit G: | [Reserved] | |
Exhibit H: | Form of Revolving Loan Note | |
Exhibit I: | Form of Collateral Information Certificate | |
Exhibit J: | Form of Notice of Borrowing | |
Exhibit K: | Form of Notice of Conversion/Continuation |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this Agreement), dated as of March 14, 2012, among (a) ENERNOC, INC., a Delaware corporation (EnerNOC), (b) ENOC SECURITIES CORPORATION, a Massachusetts corporation (the ENOC Securities) (hereinafter, EnerNOC and ENOC Securities are, jointly and severally, individually and collectively, referred to as the Borrower), (c) the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the Lenders), (d) SILICON VALLEY BANK (SVB), as Administrative Agent; and (e) SVB, as an Issuing Lender.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Borrower has previously entered into a certain Credit Agreement dated as of April 15, 2011 with the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swingline Lender (as defined therein) and the Lenders (as defined therein), as amended by a First Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of June 30, 2011, as further amended by a Second Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of November 8, 2011, and as further amended by a Third Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of December 30, 2011 (as so amended and in effect, the Existing Credit Agreement);
WHEREAS, the Borrower desires to obtain working capital financing and letter of credit facilities;
WHEREAS, the Lenders have agreed to extend certain credit facilities to the Borrower in an aggregate amount not to exceed $50,000,000.00, consisting of $50,000,000.00 in aggregate principal amount of Revolving Commitments, including $50,000,000.00 in aggregate principal amount of availability for Letters of Credit (as a sublimit of the Revolving Commitments);
WHEREAS, the Borrower has agreed to secure all of its Obligations by granting to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority lien on substantially all of its assets;
WHEREAS, each of the Guarantors has agreed to guarantee the Obligations of the Borrower and to secure their respective Obligations by granting to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority lien on substantially all of their assets;
WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders desire to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement as provided herein; and
WHEREAS, in consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth in this Agreement, and for good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree that the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows (it being agreed that this Agreement shall not be deemed to evidence or result in a novation or repayment and reborrowing of the Obligations under, and as defined in, the Existing Credit Agreement).
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1
DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement (including the recitals hereof), the terms listed in this Section 1.1 shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section 1.1.
ABR: for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the highest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day; (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate as determined on such day plus one-half of one percent (0.50%); or (c) the Eurodollar Rate for a one (1) month Interest Period as determined on such day plus one percent (1.00%). Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate, or the Eurodollar Rate, as applicable, shall be effective as of the opening of business on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate, or the Eurodollar Rate, as applicable.
ABR Loans: Loans, the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the ABR.
Accommodation Payment: as defined in Section 10.16(d).
Account Debtor: any Person who may become obligated to any Person under, with respect to, or on account of, an Account, chattel paper or general intangibles (including a payment intangible).
Accounts: all accounts (as defined in the UCC) of a Person, including, without limitation, accounts, accounts receivable, monies due or to become due and obligations in any form (whether arising in connection with contracts, contract rights, instruments, general intangibles, or chattel paper), in each case whether arising out of goods sold or services rendered or from any other transaction and whether or not earned by performance, now or hereafter in existence, and all documents of title or other documents representing any of the foregoing, and all collateral security and guaranties of any kind, now or hereafter in existence, given by any Person with respect to any of the foregoing.
Administrative Agent: SVB, as the administrative agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with any of its successors in such capacity.
Affiliate: as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, either to (a) vote ten percent (10%) or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such Person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.
Aggregate Exposure: with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the amount of such Lenders Revolving Commitment (including, without duplication, such Lenders L/C Commitment) then in effect or, if the Revolving Commitment has been terminated, the amount of such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
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Aggregate Exposure Percentage: with respect to any Lender at any time, the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lenders Aggregate Exposure at such time to the Aggregate Exposure of all Lenders at such time.
Agreement: as defined in the preamble hereto.
Allocable Amount: as defined in Section 10.16(d).
Applicable Margin: 2.00% per annum in the case of Eurodollar Loans, and 1.00% per annum in the case of ABR Loans.
Application: an application, in such form as the Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting the Issuing Lender to issue a Letter of Credit.
Approved Fund: as defined in Section 10.6(b).
Assignment and Assumption: an Assignment and Assumption, substantially in the form of Exhibit E.
Auto-Extension Letter of Credit: as defined in Section 3.1(a).
Available Revolving Commitment: an amount equal to (a) the Total Revolving Commitments, minus (b) the aggregate undrawn Dollar Equivalent amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time and the aggregate Dollar Equivalent amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed or converted into Revolving Loans at such time, minus (c) the outstanding principal balance of any Revolving Loans,.
Bankruptcy Code: Title 11 of the United States Code entitled Bankruptcy, as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto.
Bank Services: are any products and/or credit services facilities provided to any Loan Party by Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any of their Affiliates, including, without limitation, all letters of credit, guidance facilities, bank services (including, without limitation, merchant services, direct deposit of payroll, business credit cards, and check cashing services) and foreign exchange services as any such products or services may be identified in the various agreements related thereto (each, a Bank Services Agreement).
Benefitted Lender: as defined in Section 10.7(a).
Board: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (or any successor).
Borrower: as defined in the preamble hereto.
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Borrowing Date: any Business Day specified by the Borrower as a date on which the Borrower requests the relevant Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
Business: as defined in Section 4.17(b).
Business Day: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in the State of New York are authorized or required by law to close; provided that with respect to notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, Eurodollar Loans, such day is also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the interbank eurodollar market.
Capital Expenditures: for any period, with respect to any Person, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or other consideration or accrued as a liability and including that portion of Capital Lease Obligations which is capitalized on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries) by such Person and its Subsidiaries during such period for the acquisition or leasing (pursuant to a capital lease) of fixed or capital assets or additions to equipment (including replacements, capitalized repairs and improvements during such period) that, in conformity with GAAP, are included in additions to property, plant or equipment or comparable items reflected in the consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
Capital Lease Obligations: as to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes of this Agreement, the amount of such obligations at any time shall be the capitalized amount thereof at such time determined in accordance with GAAP.
Capital Stock: any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the foregoing.
Cash Equivalents: (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition; (b) certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits or overnight bank deposits having maturities of six months or less from the date of acquisition issued by any Lender or by any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States or any state thereof having combined capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000; (c) commercial paper of an issuer rated at least A-1 by S&P or P-1 by Moodys, or carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized rating agency, if both of the two named rating agencies cease publishing ratings of commercial paper issuers generally, and maturing within six months from the date of acquisition; (d) repurchase obligations of any Lender or of any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition, having a term of not more than thirty (30) days, with respect to securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government; (e) securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition issued or fully
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guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States, by any political subdivision or taxing authority of any such state, commonwealth or territory or by any foreign government, the securities of which state, commonwealth, territory, political subdivision, taxing authority or foreign government (as the case may be) are rated at least A by S&P or A by Moodys; (f) securities with maturities of six (6) months or less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by any Lender or any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of this definition; (g) money market mutual or similar funds that invest exclusively in assets satisfying the requirements of clauses (a) through (f) of this definition; or (h) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (ii) are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by Moodys and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least $5,000,000,000.
Certificated Securities: as defined in Section 4.19(a).
Change of Control:
(a) EnerNOC shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Capital Stock of ENOC Securities and each of the Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantors except as expressly permitted hereunder.
(b) at any time, any person or group (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)), shall become, or obtain rights (whether by means or warrants, options or otherwise) to become, the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of forty percent (40%) or more of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors of the Borrower (determined on a fully diluted basis); or
(c) during any period of twelve (12) 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 constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body (excluding, in the case of both clause (ii) and clause (iii), any individual whose initial nomination for, or assumption of office as, a member of that board or equivalent governing body occurs as a result of an actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents for the election or removal of one or more directors by any person or group other than a solicitation for the election of one or more directors by or on behalf of the board of directors).
Code: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
Collateral: all property of the Loan Parties, now owned or hereafter acquired, upon which a Lien is purported to be created by any Security Document, excluding (i) cash collateral of the Loan Parties in an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 that is pledged by the Loan Parties to
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TD Bank, N.A. to secure the TD Letters of Credit, provided that upon the termination or non-renewal of the TD Letters of Credit such cash collateral shall automatically constitute Collateral hereunder and shall be promptly deposited by the Loan Parties in an account subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent and (ii) cash collateral of the Loan Parties that is pledged by the Loan Parties to secure letters of credit for the benefit of the Borrower issued by an institution other than the Issuing Bank, provided that the terms of any such letter of credit, the institution issuing such letter of credit, and the amount and the terms relating to the cash collateral securing such letter of credit are approved in writing by the Administrative Agent and provided further that upon the termination or non-renewal of any such letter of credit such cash collateral shall automatically constitute Collateral hereunder and shall be promptly deposited by the Loan Parties in an account subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent.
Collateral Information Certificate: the Collateral Information Certificate to be executed and delivered by the Borrower and each other Loan Party, substantially in the form of Exhibit I.
Commitment: as to any Lender, the Revolving Commitment (including, without duplication, such Lenders L/C Commitment) of such Lender.
Commitment Fee: as defined in Section 2.5(b).
Commitment Fee Rate: a per annum rate of one-quarter of one percent (0.25%).
Commonly Controlled Entity: an entity, whether or not incorporated, that is under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group that includes the Borrower and that is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
Compliance Certificate: a certificate duly executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
Contractual Obligation: as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
Control Agreement: as defined in Section 6.9.
Copyright Security Agreement: as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
Credit Extension or extension of credit: is any Revolving Loan, Letter of Credit, amount utilized for Bank Services, or any other extension of credit by Lenders for Borrowers benefit.
Default: any of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
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Defaulting Lender: subject to Section 2.19(b), any Lender that, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans or participations in respect of Letters of Credit, within one (1) Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) has notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Lender that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations, or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of an Insolvency Proceeding, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, or (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority.
Disposition: with respect to any property (including, without limitation, Capital Stock of any Subsidiary of the Borrower), any sale, lease, Sale Leaseback Transaction, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof and any issuance of Capital Stock of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. The terms Dispose and Disposed of shall have correlative meanings.
Dollars and $: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
Dollar Equivalent: at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in a Foreign Currency, the equivalent amount therefor in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent at such time based upon the then applicable exchange rate reported by Bloomberg Financial Services Reporting for sales of the Foreign Currency for transfer to the country issuing such Foreign Currency.
Domestic Subsidiary: any Subsidiary of the Borrower organized under the laws of any jurisdiction within the United States.
EBITDAR: for any period, (a) the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period of (i) Net Income, plus (ii) Interest Expense, plus (iii) provisions for income taxes, plus (iv) total depreciation expense, plus (v) total amortization expense, plus (vi) total rent expense, plus (vii) non-cash stock compensation expense, plus (viii) non-cash impairment of fixed assets, plus (ix) non-cash impairment of intangible assets, including goodwill, in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000 in any twelve (12) month period, plus (x) other income or expenses in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any twelve (12) month period, plus (xi) for any period including the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011, the termination fees paid by EnerNOC to J.P. Morgan Ventures Energy Corporation (JPM) pursuant to that certain Mutual Termination Agreement dated as of December 29, 2011 by and between EnerNOC and JPM, provided that the aggregate amount of such termination fees added back pursuant to this clause (xi) shall not exceed $4,186,000 (of which approximately $3,186,000 was paid by the Borrower in cash in December, 2011 and $1,000,000 was prepaid by the Borrower in 2009).
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Effective Date: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1 shall have been satisfied, which date is March 14, 2012.
Eligible Assignee: (a) a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or any Approved Fund; or (b) any commercial bank, insurance company, investment or mutual fund or other entity that is an accredited investor (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act) and which extends credit or buys loans as one of its substantial businesses; provided that neither the Borrower nor any Affiliate of the Borrower shall be an Eligible Assignee.
EnerNOC: as defined in the preamble hereto.
EnerNOC Canada: means EnerNOC Ltd., a company organized under the laws of Ontario, Canada.
ENOC Securities: as defined in the preamble hereto.
Environmental Laws: any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or municipal laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law (including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment, as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect.
ERISA: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements: for any day as applied to a Eurodollar Loan, the aggregate (without duplication) of the maximum rates (expressed as a decimal fraction) of reserve requirements in effect on such day (including basic, supplemental, marginal and emergency reserves) under any regulations of the Board or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto dealing with reserve requirements prescribed for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as Eurocurrency Liabilities in Regulation D of the Board) maintained by a member bank of the Federal Reserve System.
Eurodollar Base Rate: with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum determined by reference to the British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rates for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period (as set forth by Bloomberg Information Service or any successor thereto or any other service selected by the Administrative Agent which has been nominated by the British Bankers Association as an authorized information vendor for the purpose of displaying such rates). In the event that the rate referenced in the preceding sentence is not available, the Eurodollar Base Rate shall be determined by reference to the rate per annum equal to the offered quotation rate to first class banks in the London interbank market by SVB for deposits (for delivery on the first day of the relevant Interest Period) in Dollars of amounts in same day funds comparable to the principal amount of the applicable Loan of the Administrative Agent, in
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its capacity as a Lender, for which the Eurodollar Base Rate is then being determined with maturities comparable to such period as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period.
Eurodollar Loans: Loans, the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Eurodollar Rate.
Eurodollar Rate: with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day in accordance with the following formula:
Eurodollar Base Rate | ||||
1.00Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements |
Eurodollar Tranche: the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans under a particular Facility, the then current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same day).
Event of Default: any of the events specified in Section 8; provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been satisfied.
Excluded Foreign Subsidiary: any Foreign Subsidiary in respect of which either (a) the pledge of more than 65% (or such greater percentage as would not, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, result in material adverse tax consequences to the Borrower) of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary as Collateral or (b) the guaranteeing by such Subsidiary of the Obligations, would, in the good faith judgment of the Borrower, result in material adverse tax consequences to the Borrower.
Excluded Taxes: with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document any of the following taxes imposed on or with respect to any Person: (a) taxes measured by net income (including branch profit taxes) and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income taxes, in each case imposed on any Person as a result of a present or former connection between such Person and the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein; (b) withholding taxes to the extent that the obligation to withhold amounts existed on the date that such Person became a party to this Agreement in the capacity under which such Person makes a claim under Section 2.15(a) or designates a new lending office (except to the extent the transferor to such Person (if any) was entitled, at the time the transfer to such Person became effective, to receive additional amounts under Section 2.15(a)); (c) taxes that are attributable to a failure to deliver the documentation required to be delivered pursuant to Section 2.15(e); and (d) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party, any United States federal withholding taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Non-U.S. Lender Party as a result of such Non-U.S. Lender Partys failure to comply with FATCA to establish a complete exemption from withholding thereunder.
Existing Credit Agreement: as defined in the recitals hereto.
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Existing Letters of Credit: each of the Letters of Credit described by date of issuance, amount, beneficiary and the date of expiry on Schedule 1.1B hereto. The Existing Letters of Credit shall not include the TD Letters of Credit.
Facility: each of (a) the L/C Facility (which is a sub-facility of the Revolving Facility), and (b) the Revolving Facility.
FATCA: sections 1471, 1472, 1473, and 1474 of the Code, the United States Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder and published guidance with respect thereto.
Federal Funds Effective Rate: for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such transactions received by SVB from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
Fee Letter: the letter agreement dated April 15, 2011 between Borrower and Administrative Agent.
Foreign Currency: lawful money of a country other than the United States.
Foreign Currency L/C: as defined in Section 3.1(a)(i).
Foreign Subsidiary: any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
GAAP: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time to time, except that for purposes of Section 7.1, GAAP shall be determined on the basis of such principles in effect on the date hereof and consistent with those used in the preparation of the most recent audited financial statements referred to in Section 4.1(b). In the event that any Accounting Change (as defined below) shall occur and such change results in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or terms in this Agreement, then the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into negotiations to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to reflect equitably such Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating the Borrowers financial condition shall be the same after such Accounting Changes as if such Accounting Changes had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment shall have been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Accounting Changes had not occurred. Accounting Changes refers to changes in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or, if applicable, the SEC.
Governmental Approval: any consent, authorization, approval, order, license, franchise, permit, certificate, accreditation, registration, filing or notice, of, issued by, from or to, or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority.
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Governmental Authority: any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any self-regulatory organization (including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners).
Group Members: the collective reference to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, excluding any Immaterial Subsidiary.
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement: the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement dated as of April 15, 2011 by the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of the Administrative Agent, attached as Exhibit A.
Guarantee Obligation: as to any Person (the guaranteeing person), any obligation, including a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, of the guaranteeing person that guarantees or in effect guarantees, or which is given to induce the creation of a separate obligation by another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit) that guarantees or in effect guarantees, any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the primary obligations) of any other third Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing persons maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.
Guarantors: the collective reference to the Subsidiary Guarantors.
Holdover Letter of Credit: as defined in Section 3.1(a)(i).
Hostile Acquisition: means the acquisition of the capital stock or other equity interests of a Person through a tender offer or similar solicitation of the owners of such capital stock or other equity interests which has not been approved (prior to such acquisition) by resolutions of the Board of Directors of such Person or by similar action if such Person is not a corporation, or as to which such approval has been withdrawn.
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Immaterial Subsidiary: means each of Borrowers Subsidiaries listed on Schedule 1.1C hereto as such Schedule may be revised or supplemented from time with the consent of the Required Lenders, provided that such Subsidiaries do not, individually or in the aggregate (a) at any time have total assets (excluding goodwill) with a book value equal to or in excess of $15,000,000, (b) have revenues equal to or greater than $15,000,000 tested as of the last day of the fiscal quarter then most recently ended for the trailing 12 months ended on such date, in each case as determined in accordance with GAAP or (c) have a month-end cash balance in excess of $3,000,000.
Indebtedness: of any Person at any date, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than current trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of such Persons business) solely to the extent that such obligations are not contingent; (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments; (d) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property); (e) all Capital Lease Obligations and all Synthetic Lease Obligations of such Person; (f) all obligations of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as an account party or applicant under or in respect of acceptances, letters of credit, surety bonds or similar arrangements; (g) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above; (h) all obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, whether or not such Person has assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation; and (i) all obligations of such Person in respect of Swap Agreements. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Persons ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide that such Person is not liable therefor.
Indemnified Liabilities: as defined in Section 10.5.
Indemnitee: as defined in Section 10.5.
Insolvency: with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
Insolvent: pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.
Intellectual Property: the collective reference to all rights, priorities and privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including copyrights, copyright licenses, patents, patent licenses, trademarks, trademark licenses, technology, know-how and processes, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.
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Intellectual Property Security Agreements: the collective reference to each Copyright Security Agreement, Patent Security Agreement and Trademark Security Agreement executed and delivered by the Loan Parties, or any of them, and the Administrative Agent.
Intercompany Subordination Agreement: a Subordination Agreement among the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and the Loan Parties in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
Interest Expense: for any period, total cash interest expense (including that attributable to Capital Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (including all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and bankers acceptance financing and net costs under Swap Agreements in respect of interest rates to the extent such net costs are allocable to such period in accordance with GAAP).
Interest Payment Date: (a) as to any ABR Loan, the first day of each month to occur while such Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of three months or less, the last Business Day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period longer than three months, each day that is three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period, and (d) as to any Loan (other than any Revolving Loan that is an ABR Loan), the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect thereof.
Interest Period: as to any Eurodollar Loan: (a) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one (1), two (2), three (3) or six (6) months thereafter, subject to availability, as selected by the Borrower in its Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion/Continuation, as the case may be, given with respect thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one (1), two (2), three (3) or six (6) months thereafter, subject to availability, as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation not later than 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, on the date that is three (3) Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
(i) if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii) the Borrower may not select an Interest Period under a particular Facility that would extend beyond the Revolving Termination Date;
(iii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and
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(iv) the Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not to require a payment or prepayment of any Eurodollar Loan during an Interest Period for such Loan.
Interest Rate Agreement: any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is (i) for the purpose of hedging the interest rate exposure associated with Borrowers and its Subsidiaries operations, (ii) approved by Administrative Agent, and (iii) not for speculative purposes.
Inventory: all inventory, as such term is defined in the New York UCC, now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party, wherever located, and in any event including inventory, merchandise, goods and other personal property that are held by or on behalf of any Loan Party for sale or lease or are furnished or are to be furnished under a contract of service, or that constitute raw materials, work in process, finished goods, returned goods, or materials or supplies of any kind used or consumed or to be used or consumed in such Loan Partys business or in the processing, production, packaging, promotion, delivery or shipping of the same, including all supplies and embedded software.
Investments: as defined in Section 7.7.
ISP: with respect to any Letter of Credit, the International Standby Practices 1998 published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
Issuer Documents: with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer and the Borrower or in favor the L/C Issuer and relating to any such Letter of Credit.
Issuing Lender: as the context may require, (a) SVB or any Affiliate thereof, in its capacity as issuer of any Letter of Credit (including, without limitation, each Existing Letter of Credit), and (b) any other Lender that may become an Issuing Lender after the Effective Date pursuant to Section 3.10 or 3.11, with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Lender. SVB is the sole Issuing Lender as of the Effective Date. The Issuing Lender may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Lender or other financial institutions, in which case the term Issuing Lender shall include any such Affiliate or other financial institution with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate or other financial institution.
Issuing Lender Fees: as defined in Section 3.3(a).
L/C Commitment: as to any L/C Lender, the obligation of such L/C Lender, if any, to purchase an undivided interest in the Issuing Lenders obligations and rights under and in respect of each Letter of Credit (including to make payments with respect to draws made under any Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 3.5(b)) in an aggregate Dollar Equivalent principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading L/C Commitment opposite such L/C Lenders name on Schedule 1.1A or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such L/C Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The L/C Commitment is a sublimit of the Revolving Commitment and the L/C Commitments shall not exceed the Available Revolving Commitment at any time.
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L/C Disbursements: a payment or disbursement made by the Issuing Lender pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
L/C Exposure: at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn Dollar Equivalent amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate Dollar Equivalent amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed or converted into Revolving Loans at such time. The L/C Exposure of any L/C Lender at any time shall equal its L/C Percentage of the aggregate L/C Exposure at such time.
L/C Facility: the L/C Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder.
L/C Fee Payment Date: as defined in Section 3.3(a).
L/C Lender: a Lender with an L/C Commitment.
L/C Percentage: as to any L/C Lender at any time, the percentage of the Total L/C Commitments represented by such L/C Lenders L/C Commitment.
Lenders: as defined in the preamble hereto. The Lenders as of the Effective Date are identified on Schedule 1.1A.
Letter of Credit: as defined in Section 3.1(a); provided that such term shall include each Existing Letter of Credit. The TD Letters of Credit shall not constitute Letters of Credit.
Letter of Credit Availability Period: the period from and including the Original Closing Date to but excluding the Letter of Credit Maturity Date.
Letter of Credit Maturity Date: the Revolving Termination Date.
Lien: any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any capital lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
Loan: any loan made or maintained by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
Loan Documents: this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Notes, the Fee Letter, any Intercompany Subordination Agreement, the Collateral Information Certificate, each Compliance Certificate, the Bank Services Agreements, any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification to any of the foregoing and any other documents or instruments executed and delivered in connection with the foregoing. For purposes of Section 10.5 hereof, Loan Documents shall include the Commitment Termination Letter and Payoff letter dated as of March 14, 2012 among the Borrower, the administrative Agent and TD Bank, N.A. (the TD Termination Agreement).
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Loan Parties: each Group Member that is a party to a Loan Document.
Material Adverse Effect: (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect on, the operations, business, assets, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent), or condition (financial or otherwise) 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 any loan documentation, or of the ability of the Borrower or any Guarantor to perform its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against the Borrower or any Guarantor of any Loan Documents to which it is a party.
Materials of Environmental Concern: any substance, material or waste that is defined, regulated, governed or otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as hazardous or toxic or as a pollutant or contaminant (or by words of similar meaning and regulatory effect), any petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, urea-formaldehyde insulation, molds or fungus, and radioactivity, radiofrequency radiation at levels known to be hazardous to human health and safety.
Maximum Lawful Rate: as defined in Section 2.11(c).
Moodys: Moodys Investors Service, Inc.
Mortgaged Properties: the real properties as to which, pursuant to Section 6.11(b) or otherwise, the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall be granted a Lien pursuant to the Mortgages.
Mortgages: each of the mortgages, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debt or such equivalent documents hereafter entered into and executed and delivered by one or more of the Loan Parties to the Administrative Agent, in each case, as such documents may be amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, renewed or replaced from time to time and in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
Multiemployer Plan: a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
Net Income: for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the Borrower or its Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the extent that any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary in the form of dividends or similar distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is not at the time permitted by the terms of any Contractual Obligation (other than under any Loan Document) or Requirement of Law applicable to such Subsidiary.
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New York UCC: the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York.
Non-Excluded Taxes: as defined in Section 2.15(a).
Non-Extension Notice Date: as defined in Section 3.1(a).
Non-U.S. Lender Party: each Lender and each Participant, in each case that is not a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
Note: a Revolving Loan Note.
Notice of Borrowing: means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit J.
Notice of Conversion/Continuation: means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit K.
Obligations: the unpaid principal of and interest on (including interest accruing after the maturity of the Loans and interest, fees, costs, expenses and indemnities accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower or any Guarantor, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest, fees, costs, expenses or indemnities is allowed in such proceeding) the Loans and all other obligations and liabilities of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender or any other Secured Party, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Bank Services Agreements, the Letters of Credit, any Specified Swap Agreement or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses (including all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrower or any Guarantor pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
Original Closing Date: April 15, 2011.
Other Taxes: any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Participant: as defined in Section 10.6(c).
Patent Security Agreement: as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
Patriot Act: the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law October 26, 2001.
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PBGC: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).
Permitted Acquisition means the purchase or other acquisition by any Group Member of the Capital Stock in a Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be a Subsidiary (including as a result of a merger or consolidation) or all or substantially all of the assets of, or assets constituting one or more business units of, any Person; provided that, with respect to each such purchase or other acquisition:
(a) each such purchase or acquisition is of a Person or ongoing business engaged in business activities in which the Borrower is permitted to engage pursuant to Section 7.15;
(b) (i) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such purchase or other acquisition, on a pro forma basis, the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be in compliance with each of the covenants set forth in this Agreement (including Section 7.1);
(c) any Person so acquired becomes a guarantor under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and the other requirements of Section 6.11 (subject to the limitations therein with respect to Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries) and the Security Documents are satisfied within the applicable time periods set forth therein;
(d) the total consideration for such purchases or other acquisitions shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate for all purchases or acquisitions during the term of this Agreement;
(e) no Indebtedness is assumed or incurred in connection with any such purchase or acquisition other than Indebtedness permitted by the terms of Section 7.2 hereof;
(f) after giving effect to such purchase or acquisition, the net effect of such purchase or acquisition shall be accretive to the Borrowers EBITDAR on a pro forma basis for the 12 month period ended one year after the proposed date of consummation of such proposed purchase or acquisition;
(g) the acquisition shall not be a Hostile Acquisition; and
(h) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which any such purchase or other acquisition is to be consummated (or such later date as is agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), a certificate of a Responsible Officer, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, certifying that all of the requirements set forth in this definition have been satisfied or will be satisfied on or prior to the consummation of such purchase or other acquisition.
Person: an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
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Plan: at a particular time, any employee benefit plan that is covered by ERISA and in respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if such plan were terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an employer as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Preferred Stock: the preferred Capital Stock of the Borrower.
Prime Rate: is with respect at any day, the rate of interest per annum reported as the Prime Rate as quoted in the Wall Street Journal print edition on such day (or, if such day is not a day on which the Wall Street Journal is published, the immediately preceding day on which the Wall Street Journal was published).
Projections: as defined in Section 6.2(b).
Properties: as defined in Section 4.17(a).
Qualified Counterparty: with respect to any Specified Swap Agreement, any counterparty thereto that, at the time such Specified Swap Agreement was entered into or as of the Original Closing Date, was the Administrative Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent or a Lender.
Quick Assets: on any date, the sum of Borrowers (i) unrestricted cash, (ii) marketable securities that are immediately available for sale, and (iii) billed accounts receivable; provided that for purposes of the foregoing clause (iii), the amount of billed accounts receivable on any date shall not exceed 60% of the sum of the items specified in foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) on such date.
Quick Ratio: the ratio of (a) Quick Assets, to (b) the sum of (i) all of Borrowers liabilities and Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including Obligations in respect of issued Letters of Credit) and (ii) Borrowers obligations for Bank Services that are not secured by cash.
Regulation U: Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time.
Related Parties: with respect to any Person, such Persons Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Persons Affiliates.
Reorganization: with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such plan is in reorganization within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA.
Replaced Lender: as defined in Section 2.20.
Reportable Event: any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than those events as to which the thirty day notice period is waived under subsections .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34 or .35 of PBGC Reg. § 4043.
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Required Lenders: at any time, any two or more Lenders holding more than sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66.67%) of the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit (including, without duplication, any L/C Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed or converted into Revolving Loans at such time) or, prior to any termination of the Revolving Commitments, the holders of more than sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66.67%) of the Total Revolving Commitments (including, without duplication, the L/C Commitments), but in any event excluding Defaulting Lenders and their Revolving Commitments and Revolving Extensions of Credit.
Requirement of Law: as to any Person, the Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is subject.
Responsible Officer: the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, treasurer, controller or comptroller of the Borrower, but in any event, with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, treasurer, controller or comptroller of the Borrower.
Restricted Payments: as defined in Section 7.6.
Revolving Commitment: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make Revolving Loans and participate in Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading Revolving Commitment opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 1.1A or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof (including in connection with assignments permitted hereunder). The Revolving Commitment of each Lender shall include, in any event, its L/C Commitment.
Revolving Commitment Period: the period from and including the Original Closing Date to the Revolving Termination Date.
Revolving Extensions of Credit: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans held by such Lender then outstanding, and (b) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time and the aggregate Dollar Equivalent amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed or converted into Revolving Loans at such time.
Revolving Facility: the Revolving Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder.
Revolving Lender: each Lender that has a Revolving Commitment or that holds Revolving Loans.
Revolving Loan Conversion: as defined in Section 3.5(b).
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Revolving Loan Funding Office: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section 10.2 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower and the Lenders.
Revolving Loan Note: a promissory note in the form of Exhibit H-1, as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Revolving Loan Register: as defined in Section 10.6(b).
Revolving Loans: as defined in Section 2.1(a).
Revolving Percentage: as to any Revolving Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lenders Revolving Commitment then constitutes of the Total Revolving Commitments or, at any time after the Revolving Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal amount of such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
Revolving Termination Date: April 15, 2013.
S&P: Standard & Poors Ratings Services.
Sale Leaseback Transaction: any arrangement with any Person or Persons, whereby in contemporaneous or substantially contemporaneous transactions a Loan Party sells substantially all of its right, title and interest in any property and, in connection therewith, acquires, leases or licenses back the right to use all or a material portion of such property.
SEC: the Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any analogous Governmental Authority.
Secured Parties: the collective reference to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders (including any Issuing Lender in its capacity as Issuing Lender), any Qualified Counterparties, and the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any of their Affiliates that is a provider of Bank Services.
Securities Act: the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time and any successor statute.
Security Documents: the collective reference to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, the Mortgages and all other security documents hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent granting a Lien on any property of any Person to secure the obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party under any Loan Document.
Single Employer Plan: any Plan that is covered by Title IV of ERISA, but that is not a Multiemployer Plan.
Solvent: when used with respect to any Person, means that, as of any date of determination, (a) the amount of the fair value of the assets of such Person will, as of such
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date, exceed the amount of all liabilities of such Person, contingent or otherwise, as of such date, as such quoted terms are determined in accordance with applicable federal and state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors, (b) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person will, as of such date, be greater than the amount that will be required to pay the liability of such Person on its debts as such debts become absolute and matured, as such quoted terms are determined in accordance with applicable federal and state laws governing determinations of the insolvency of debtors, (c) such Person will not have, as of such date, an unreasonably small amount of capital with which to conduct its business, and (d) such Person will be able to pay its debts as they mature. For purposes of this definition, (i) debt means liability on a claim, and (ii) claim means any (x) right to payment, whether or not such a right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured or (y) right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a right to payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured or unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured or unsecured.
Specified Swap Agreement: any Swap Agreement entered into by the Borrower, any Subsidiary of Borrower or any other Loan Party and any Qualified Counterparty (or any Person who was a Qualified Counterparty as of the Original Closing Date or as of the date such Swap Agreement was entered into) in respect of interest rates to the extent permitted under Section 7.12.
Stated Rate: as defined in Section 2.11(c).
Subordinated Indebtedness: any Indebtedness which is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment in full of the Obligations (the subordination terms of which are satisfactory to the Required Lenders) and which Indebtedness is in form and on terms approved in writing by the Required Lenders.
Subsidiary: as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
Subsidiary Guarantor: each Subsidiary of the Borrower other than any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or any Immaterial Subsidiary.
Surety Indebtedness: as of any date of determination, indebtedness (contingent or otherwise) owing to sureties arising from surety bonds issued on behalf the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as support for, among other things, their contracts with customers, whether such indebtedness is owing directly or indirectly by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
SVB: as defined in the preamble hereto.
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Swap Agreement: any agreement with respect to any swap, hedge, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement (including, without limitation, any Interest Rate Agreement) involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.
Synthetic Lease Obligation: 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 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).
TD Letters of Credit: the letters of credit identified on Schedule 7.2(d) hereof.
TD Termination Agreement is defined in the definition of Loan Documents.
Total L/C Commitment: at any time, the sum of all L/C Commitments at such time, as the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.6 or 3.5(b). The initial Dollar Equivalent amount of the Total L/C Commitments on the Effective Date is $50,000,000. The Total L/C Commitment is a sublimit of the Total Revolving Commitment.
Total Revolving Commitment: at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments then in effect. The original amount of the Total Revolving Commitment is $50,000,000.
Total Revolving Extensions of Credit: at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Revolving Lenders outstanding at such time.
Trademark Security Agreement: as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement.
Transferee: any Eligible Assignee or Participant.
Type: as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.
UCP 600: the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce and dated as of July 1, 2007 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
UFCA: as defined in Section 10.16(d).
UFTA: as defined in Section 10.16(d).
Uniform Commercial Code or UCC: the Uniform Commercial Code (or any similar or equivalent legislation) as in effect from time to time in any applicable jurisdiction.
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United States: the United States of America.
U.S. Lender Party: the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each Participant, in each case that is a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary: as to any Person, any other Person all of the Capital Stock of which (other than directors qualifying shares required by law) is owned by such Person directly and/or through other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor: any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.
1.2 Other Definitional Provisions.
(a) Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b) As used herein and in the other Loan Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms relating to any Group Member not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP, (ii) the words include, includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation, (iii) the word incur shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words incurred and incurrence shall have correlative meanings), (iv) the words asset and property shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Capital Stock, securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, and (v) references to agreements (including this Agreement) or other Contractual Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended, supplemented, restated, amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
(c) The words hereof, herein and hereunder and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.
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SECTION 2
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
2.1 Revolving Commitments.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Revolving Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit loans (Revolving Loans) to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding which, when added to the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit and the aggregate amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed or converted into Revolving Loans, incurred on behalf of the Borrower and owing to such Lender, does not exceed the amount of such Lenders Revolving Commitment; provided that the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit shall in no event exceed the Total Revolving Commitment. During the Revolving Commitment Period, the Borrower may use the Revolving Commitments by borrowing, prepaying the Revolving Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The Revolving Loans may from time to time be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.8.
(b) The Borrower shall repay all outstanding Revolving Loans on the Revolving Termination Date.
2.2 Procedure for Revolving Loan Borrowing. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under the Revolving Commitment during the Revolving Commitment Period on any Business Day; provided that the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent an irrevocable Notice of Borrowing (which must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, (a) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, or (b) one (1) Business Day prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans (in each case, with originals to follow within three (3) Business Days)) (provided that any such Notice of Borrowing of ABR Loans under the Revolving Facility to finance payments under Section 3.5(a) may be given not later than 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, on the date of the proposed borrowing), specifying (i) the amount and Type of Revolving Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the requested Borrowing Date, (iii) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the respective amounts of each such Type of Loan and the respective lengths of the initial Interest Period therefor, and (iv) instructions for remittance of the applicable Loans to be borrowed. Unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, no Revolving Loan may be made as, converted into or continued as a Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period in excess of one (1) month prior to the date that is thirty (30) days after the Effective Date. Each borrowing under the Revolving Commitment shall be in an amount equal to, in the case of ABR Loans, $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof (or, if the then aggregate Available Revolving Commitments are less than $100,000, such lesser amount). Upon receipt of any such Notice of Borrowing from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Lender thereof. Each Revolving Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the Revolving Loan Funding Office prior to 12:00 P.M., Eastern time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 5.2, such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting such account as is designated in writing to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Revolving Lenders and in like funds
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as received by the Administrative Agent. The Borrower promises to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Revolving Lenders, in accordance with their respective Revolving Percentages, all amounts due under the Revolving Loans on the Revolving Termination Date or such earlier date as required hereunder.
2.3 [Reserved].
2.4 [Reserved].
2.5 Commitment Fees, etc.
(a) [Reserved].
(b) As additional compensation for the Revolving Commitment, the Borrower shall pay the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Revolving Lenders, in arrears, on the first day of each calendar quarter prior to the Revolving Termination Date and on the Revolving Termination Date, a fee (the Commitment Fee) for the Borrowers non-use of available funds in an amount equal to the Commitment Fee Rate (calculated on the basis of a 360 day year for actual days elapsed) multiplied by the difference between (x) the Total Revolving Commitment (as it may be reduced from time to time) and (y) the average daily Total Revolving Extensions of Credit during the period for which such Commitment Fee is due.
(c) [Reserved].
(d) On the Effective Date, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, a modification fee in the amount of $75,000.
2.6 Termination or Reduction of Commitments.
(a) The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three (3) Business Days notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Total Revolving Commitment or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Total Revolving Commitment; provided that no such termination or reduction of the Total Revolving Commitment shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any prepayments of the Revolving Loans made on the effective date thereof, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total Revolving Commitments. Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the Total Revolving Commitment then in effect. The Total L/C Commitment shall automatically reduce by an amount equal to any reduction in the Total Revolving Commitment pursuant to this Section 2.6(a). In addition to the foregoing, the Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three (3) Business Days notice to the Administrative Agent, to terminate the Total L/C Commitment or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Total L/C Commitment; provided that no such termination or reduction of the Total L/C Commitment shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto, the Total L/C Commitments shall be reduced to an amount that would result in the aggregate L/C Exposure exceeding the Total L/C Commitments (as so reduced). Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the Total L/C Commitment then in effect.
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2.7 Optional Prepayments. The Borrower may at any time and from time to time prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, upon irrevocable notice delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, three (3) Business Days prior thereto, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, and no later than 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, one (1) Business Day prior thereto, in the case of ABR Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment; provided that, if a Eurodollar Loan is prepaid on any day other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.16; provided further that, if such notice of prepayment indicates that such prepayment is to be funded with the proceeds of a refinancing or the sale of the Loan Parties, such notice of prepayment may be revoked if the financing or such sale is not consummated. Upon receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein, together with (except in the case of Revolving Loans that are ABR Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount prepaid. Partial prepayments of Revolving Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount of at least $500,000 or, if greater, in whole multiples of $250,000.
2.8 Conversion and Continuation Options.
(a) The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation of such election no later than 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, on the Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date; provided that any such conversion of Eurodollar Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation of such election no later than 10:00 A.M., Eastern time, on the third Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date (which notice shall specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor); provided that no ABR Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Upon receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Lender thereof.
(b) Any Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower giving irrevocable notice in a Notice of Conversion/Continuation to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term Interest Period set forth in Section 1.1, of the length of the next Interest Period to be applicable to such Loans; provided that no Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and; provided further that, if the Borrower shall fail to give any required notice as described above in this paragraph or if such continuation is not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso, such Loans shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period. Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
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2.9 Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Eurodollar Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each Eurodollar Tranche shall be equal to $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and (b) no more than five (5) Eurodollar Tranches shall be outstanding at any one time.
2.10 Interest Rates and Payment Dates.
(a) Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin.
(b) Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR plus the Applicable Margin.
(c) After the occurrence and during the continuance of (x) an Event of Default under Section 8.1(a) or (f), or (y) any other Event of Default if requested by the Required Lenders in their discretion, all outstanding Loans shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.10 plus two percent (2.00%).
(d) Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date; provided that interest accruing pursuant to Section 2.10(c) shall be payable from time to time on demand.
2.11 Computation of Interest and Fees.
(a) Interest and fees payable pursuant hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed, except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate of interest on which is calculated on the basis of the Prime Rate, the interest thereon shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall, as soon as practicable, notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each determination of a Eurodollar Rate. Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR or the Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change becomes effective. The Administrative Agent shall, as soon as practicable, notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of the effective date and the amount of each such change in interest rate.
(b) Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower or any Lender, deliver to the Borrower or the applicable Lender a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate pursuant to Section 2.11(a).
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(c) In no event shall the interest charged hereunder, with respect to the notes (if any) or any other obligations of Loan Parties under any Loan Documents exceed the maximum amount permitted under applicable law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or elsewhere, if at any time the rate of interest payable hereunder or under any note or other Loan Document (the Stated Rate) would exceed the highest rate of interest permitted under any applicable law to be charged (the Maximum Lawful Rate), then for so long as the Maximum Lawful Rate would be so exceeded, the rate of interest payable shall be equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate; provided, however, that if at any time thereafter the Stated Rate is less than the Maximum Lawful Rate, Borrower shall, to the extent permitted by law, continue to pay interest at the Maximum Lawful Rate until such time as the total interest received is equal to the total interest which would have been received had the Stated Rate been (but for the operation of this provision) the interest rate payable. Thereafter, the interest rate payable shall be the Stated Rate unless and until the Stated Rate again would exceed the Maximum Lawful Rate, in which event this provision shall again apply. In no event shall the total interest received by any Lender exceed the amount which it could lawfully have received, had the interest been calculated for the full term hereof at the Maximum Lawful Rate. If, notwithstanding the prior sentence, any Lender has received interest hereunder in excess of the Maximum Lawful Rate, such excess amount shall be applied to the reduction of the principal balance of such Lenders Loan or to other amounts (other than interest) payable hereunder, and if no such principal or other amounts are then outstanding, such excess or part thereof remaining shall be paid to Borrower. In computing interest payable with reference to the Maximum Lawful Rate applicable to any Lender, such interest shall be calculated at a daily rate equal to the Maximum Lawful Rate divided by the number of days in the year in which such calculation is made.
2.12 Inability to Determine Interest Rate. If, prior to the first day of any Interest Period, (a) the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period, or (b) the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required Lenders that the Eurodollar Rate determined or to be determined for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their affected Loans during such Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter. If such notice is given (x) any Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made as ABR Loans, (y) any Loans under the relevant Facility that were to have been converted on the first day of such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall be continued as ABR Loans and (z) any outstanding Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility shall be converted, on the last day of the then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans. Until such notice has been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans under the relevant Facility shall be made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower have the right to convert Loans under the relevant Facility to Eurodollar Loans.
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2.13 Pro Rata Treatment and Payments.
(a) Each borrowing by the Borrower from the Lenders hereunder, each payment by the Borrower on account of the Commitment Fee and any reduction of the Commitments shall be made pro rata according to the respective L/C Percentages or Revolving Percentages, as the case may be, of the relevant Lenders.
(b) Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and interest on the Revolving Loans shall be made pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Revolving Loans then held by the Revolving Lenders.
(c) All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and shall be made prior to 10:00 A.M., Pacific time, on the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, at the Revolving Loan Funding Office, in Dollars and in immediately available funds. The Administrative Agent shall distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly upon receipt in like funds as received. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the Eurodollar Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day. If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day. In the case of any extension of any payment of principal pursuant to the preceding two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender prior to the date of any borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its share of such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender is making such amount available to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If such amount is not made available to the Administrative Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon, at a rate equal to the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, for the period until such Lender makes such amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent. If such Lenders share of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such Lender within three (3) Business Days after such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans under the relevant Facility, on demand, from the Borrower.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower prior to the date of any payment due to be made by the Borrower hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower is making such payment, and the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Lenders their
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respective pro rata shares of a corresponding amount. If such payment is not made to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower within three (3) Business Days after such due date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover, on demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant to the preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion at any time or from time to time, without the Borrowers request and even if the conditions set forth in Section 5.2 would not be satisfied, make a Revolving Loan in an amount equal to the portion of the Obligations constituting interest and fees from time to time due and payable to itself, any Revolving Lender or the Issuing Lender, and apply the proceeds of any such Revolving Loan to those Obligations; provided that, after giving effect to any such Revolving Loan, the aggregate outstanding Revolving Loans will not exceed the Total Revolving Commitments; provided that, to the extent that the Administrative Agent chooses to exercise this right on behalf of itself or SVB in any capacity, the Administrative Agent shall also exercise this right on behalf of each other Lender.
2.14 Requirements of Law.
(a) If the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date on which a Lender becomes a party to this Agreement shall:
(i) impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender that is not otherwise included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate; or
(ii) impose on such Lender any other condition;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, by an amount that such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender, upon its demand, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount receivable; provided, however, that no such additional amounts shall be payable to such Lender for taxes pursuant to this Section 2.14 to the extent that (x) such Lender received additional amounts with respect to such taxes pursuant to Section 2.15 or (y) such amounts constitute Excluded Taxes. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled.
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(b) If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of, or any change in, any Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date hereof shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lenders or such corporations capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lenders or such corporations policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then from time to time, after submission by such Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such corporation for such reduction.
(c) A certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section 2.14 submitted by any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.14, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 2.14 for any amounts incurred more than six (6) months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lenders intention to claim compensation therefor; provided that if the circumstances giving rise to such claim have a retroactive effect, then such six-month period shall be extended to include the period of such retroactive effect. The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
(d) For purposes of this Agreement, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, guidelines, or directives in connection therewith are deemed to have gone into effect and been adopted after the date of this Agreement.
2.15 Taxes.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.15, all payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority (collectively, but excluding Excluded Taxes, the Non-Excluded Taxes). If any such Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable to the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Excluded Taxes.
(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
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(c) Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by the Borrower, pursuant to this Section 2.15, as promptly as practicable thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official receipt received by the Borrower showing payment thereof.
(d) The Borrower shall reimburse and indemnify, within thirty (30) days after receipt of demand therefor, each Lender, the Issuing Lender, and the Administrative Agent for all Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section 2.15) paid by such Lender or the Administrative Agent and any liabilities arising therefrom or with respect thereto, including any amendment, supplement, or modification of, or any waiver or consent under or in respect of, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or any such other documents. A certificate of the Lender or the Administrative Agent claiming any compensation under this Section 2.15, setting forth the amounts to be paid thereunder and delivered to the Borrower with copy to the Administrative Agent, shall be conclusive, binding and final for all purposes, absent manifest error. If the Borrower fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure.
(e) (i) Each U.S. Lender Party shall (A) on or prior to the date such U.S. Lender Party becomes a U.S. Lender Party hereunder, (B) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (C) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to this Section 2.15(e) and (D) from time to time if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, the relevant Lender), provide the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (or, in the case of a Participant, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of Form W-9 (certifying that such U.S. Lender Party is entitled to an exemption from U.S. backup withholding tax) or any successor form.
(ii) Each Non-U.S. Lender Party that, at any of the following times, is entitled to an exemption from United States withholding tax or, after a change in any Requirement of Law, is subject to such withholding tax at a reduced rate under an applicable tax treaty, shall (w) on or prior to the date such Non-U.S. Lender Party becomes a Non-U.S. Lender Party hereunder, (x) on or prior to the date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (y) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it pursuant to this Section 2.15(e)(ii) and (z) from time to time if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, the relevant Lender), provide the Administrative Agent and the Borrower (or, in the case of a Participant, the relevant Lender) with two completed originals of each of the following, as applicable: (A) Forms W-8ECI (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding tax because the income is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business), W-8BEN (claiming exemption from, or a reduction of, U.S. withholding tax under an income tax treaty) and/or W-8IMY or any successor forms, (B) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender Party claiming exemption under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code, Form W-8BEN (claiming exemption from U.S. withholding tax
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under the portfolio interest exemption) or any successor form and a certificate in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and Administrative Agent that such Non-U.S. Lender Party is not (1) a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a 10 percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code or (3) a controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code or (C) any other applicable document prescribed by the IRS certifying as to the entitlement of such Non-U.S. Lender Party to such exemption from United States withholding tax or reduced rate with respect to all payments to be made to such Non-U.S. Lender Party under the Loan Documents. Unless the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have received forms or other documents described above indicating that payments under any Loan Document to or for a Non-U.S. Lender Party are not subject to United States withholding tax or are subject to such tax at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty, the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent shall withhold amounts required to be withheld by applicable Requirements of Law from such payments at the applicable statutory rate.
(iii) If a payment made to a Non-U.S. Lender Party would be subject to United States federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Non-U.S. Lender Party fails to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA, such Non-U.S. Lender Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and Borrower any documentation under any Requirement of Law sufficient for the Administrative Agent or Borrower to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Non-U.S. Lender has complied with such applicable reporting requirements.
(f) If the Administrative Agent or any Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.15, it shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 2.15 with respect to the Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.
(g) The agreements in this Section 2.15 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.16 Indemnity. The Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless from, any loss or expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower in making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of Eurodollar Loans
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after the Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower in making any prepayment of or conversion from Eurodollar Loans after the Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or (c) the making of a prepayment of Eurodollar Loans on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. Such indemnification may include an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on the amount so prepaid, or not so borrowed, reduced, converted or continued, for the period from the date of such prepayment or of such failure to borrow, reduce, convert or continue to the last day of such Interest Period (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, reduce, convert or continue, the Interest Period that would have commenced on the date of such failure) in each case at the applicable rate of interest or other return for such Loans provided for herein (excluding, however, the Applicable Margin included therein, if any) over (ii) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined by such Lender) that would have accrued to such Lender on such amount by placing such amount on deposit for a comparable period with leading banks in the interbank eurodollar market. A certificate as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by any Lender shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.17 Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Sections 2.18 or 2.19(a) with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans affected by such event with the object of avoiding the consequences of such event; provided that such designation is made on terms that, in the sole judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage; provided further that nothing in this Section 2.17 shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of the Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Sections 2.14 or 2.15(a).
2.18 Notes. If so requested by any Lender by written notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (and/or, if applicable and if so specified in such notice, to any Person who is an assignee of such Lender pursuant to Section 10.6) (promptly after the Borrowers receipt of such notice) a Note or Notes to evidence such Lenders Loans.
2.19 Defaulting Lenders.
(a) Adjustments. 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:
(i) Waivers and Amendments. Such Defaulting Lenders 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.
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(ii) Reallocation of Payments. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Section 8 or otherwise, and including any amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.7), shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Issuing Lender hereunder; third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by the Issuing Lender, to be held as cash collateral for future funding obligations of such Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Letter of Credit; fourth, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit account and released in order to satisfy obligations of such Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Lenders, or the Issuing Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, any L/C Lender, or Issuing Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (A) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Advances in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (B) such Loans or L/C Advances were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 5.2 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Advances owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Advances owed to, such Defaulting Lender. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.19(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) Certain Fees. A Defaulting Lender (A) shall not be entitled to receive any fee pursuant to Section 2.5 for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to such Defaulting Lender) and (B) shall be limited in its right to receive letter of credit fees as provided in Section 3.3.
(iv) Reallocation of Pro Rata Share to Reduce Fronting Exposure. During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 3.4 the pro rata share of each non-Defaulting Lender of any such Letter of Credit shall be computed without giving effect to the Revolving Commitment of such Defaulting Lender; provided, that, (A) each such reallocation shall be given effect only if, at the date the applicable Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, no Event of Default has occurred
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and is continuing; and (B) the aggregate obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Revolving Commitment of that non-Defaulting Lender minus (2) the aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Loans of that Lender plus the aggregate amount of that Lenders Revolving Percentage of then outstanding Letters of Credit.
(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender 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 (which may include arrangements with respect to any cash collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Revolving Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.19(a)(iv)), whereupon that Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that 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 having been a Defaulting Lender.
2.20 Replacement of Lenders (i) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, (ii) if Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.15, (iii) if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, or (iv) if a Lender refuses to consent to an amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement that, pursuant to Section 10.1 requires consent of 100% of the Lenders or 100% of the Lenders with Obligations affected thereby (and the Required Lenders have consented thereto or, as applicable, 66 2/3% of affected Lenders), then Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender (the Replaced Lender) to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 10.6), all of its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to a willing assignee selected by Borrower that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (a) Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (except where the Administrative Agent is the Replaced Lender) and the Issuing Bank, which consents, so long as no Default has occurred and is continuing, shall not unreasonably be withheld; provided, however, that for purposes of clauses (iii) and (iv) with respect to a Defaulting Lender, such consent will not be unreasonably withheld, regardless of the occurrence and continuance of a Default, (b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in any Bank Services and Specified Swap Agreements, and accrued interest thereon, fees, and all other amounts from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest) or Borrower (in the case of all other amounts), (c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.15, such assignment will result in a material reduction in such
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compensation or payments, and (d) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender refusing to consent to an amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement, then such assignee shall consent, at the time of such assignment, to each matter in respect of which such Lender did not consent. For the avoidance of doubt, if a Lender refused to consent to an amendment, modification or waiver that required the consent of 100% of Lenders (and the Required Lenders having consented thereto) with Obligations directly affected thereby (which amendment, modification or waiver did not accordingly require the consent of 100% of all Lenders), the Loans and Commitments of such Lender that are subject to the assignments required by this Section shall include only those Loans and Commitments that constitute the Obligations directly affected by the amendment, modification or waiver to which such Lender refused to provide its consent. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. In connection with the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall have the authority to execute the Assignment and Assumption on behalf of any Lender making an assignment hereunder.
SECTION 3
LETTERS OF CREDIT
3.1 L/C Commitment.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Issuing Lender agrees to issue letters of credit (Letters of Credit) for the account of the Borrower on any Business Day during the Letter of Credit Availability Period in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Issuing Lender; provided that the Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, the L/C Exposure would exceed either the Total L/C Commitment or the Available Revolving Commitment at such time. Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars, or in the discretion of the Issuing Lender, a Foreign Currency; provided that (A) the Dollar Equivalent of each Letter of Credit denominated in Foreign Currency (each, a Foreign Currency L/C) shall be reported by the Issuing Bank to the Administrative Agent (unless the Administrative Agent is the Issuing Lender) promptly upon the issuance of such Foreign Currency L/C and monthly within seven (7) Business Days prior to the end of each month (including the month of issuance) or more frequently upon the request of the Administrative Agent and (B) the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate face amount of all Foreign Currency L/Cs shall not exceed $20,000,000 at any time; and (ii) expire no later than the earlier of (x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Letter of Credit Maturity Date; except that (A) any Letter of Credit with a one-year term may provide for the renewal thereof for additional one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause (y) above) subject to the Borrowers satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 5.2 at the time of any such renewal and (B) a Letter of Credit may expire on a date that is up to 365 days after the Letter of Credit Maturity Date (each such Letter of Credit, a Holdover Letter of Credit) if, on or before the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Letter of Credit Maturity Date, the Borrower provides to the Issuing Lender cash collateral in an amount equal to 105% of the Dollar Equivalent of the face amount of such Letter of Credit plus all interest, fees, and costs due or to become due in connection therewith (as estimated by the Issuing Lender in its sole discretion), to secure all of
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the Obligations relating to such Letter of Credit; provided that the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate face amount of all Holdover Letters of Credit shall not exceed $50,000,000 at any time; and provided, further, that following the Letter of Credit Maturity Date, the Issuing Bank may recalculate the Dollar Equivalent of the face amount of any Foreign Currency L/C at any time and, to the extent that the cash collateral previously provided by the Borrower is equal to less than 105% of the Dollar Equivalent of the face amount of such Foreign Currency L/C plus all interest, fees, and costs due or to become due in connection therewith (as estimated by the Issuing Lender in its sole discretion), the Borrower shall immediately provide sufficient additional cash collateral to the Issuing Bank to make up for this shortfall. In addition, if the Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the Non-Extension Notice Date) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the date that is five (5) Business Days prior to the Letter of Credit Maturity Date; provided, however, that the L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of Section 3.1(b) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven (7) Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date from the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 5.2 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.
(b) The Issuing Lender shall not at any time be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit if:
(i) such issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Lender to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law, including, without limitation, any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the Issuing Lender from issuing the Letter of Credit, or any law applicable to the Issuing Lender or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the Issuing Lender shall prohibit, or request that the Issuing Lender refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or the Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the Issuing Lender with respect to the Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the Issuing Lender is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Effective Date, or shall impose upon the Issuing Lender any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Effective Date and which the Issuing Lender in good faith deems material to it;
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(ii) the issuance of the Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the Issuing Lender applicable to letters of credit generally;
(iii) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender, the Letter of Credit is in an initial Dollar Equivalent stated amount less than $100,000, in the case of a commercial Letter of Credit, or $500,000, in the case of a standby Letter of Credit;
(iv) any Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless the Issuing Lender has entered into arrangements, including the delivery of cash collateral, satisfactory to the Issuing Lender (in its sole discretion) with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate the Issuing Lenders actual or potential fronting exposure with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other Obligations under Letters of Credit as to which the Issuing Lender has actual or potential fronting exposure, as it may elect in its sole discretion;
(v) such Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount thereof after any drawing thereunder; or
(vi) subject to Section 3.1(a), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve (12) months after the date of issuance thereof.
(c) Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the L/C Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of UCP 600 at the time of issuance shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.
(d) Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum Dollar Equivalent of the stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.
3.2 Procedure for Issuance of Letters of Credit. The Borrower may from time to time request that the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the satisfaction of the Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing Lender may request. Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 5.2, promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall the Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three (3) Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates,
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documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by the Issuing Lender and the Borrower. The Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof. The Issuing Lender shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit (including the amount thereof).
3.3 Fees and Other Charges.
(a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the L/C Lenders, with respect to each outstanding Letter of Credit issued for the account of (or at the request of) the Borrower letter of credit fees in Dollars at the Applicable Margin applicable to Eurodollar Loans on the Dollar Equivalent of the drawable amount of such Letter of Credit, payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the Letter of Credit Maturity Date (each, an L/C Fee Payment Date) after the issuance date of such Letter of Credit, as well as the Issuing Lenders standard and reasonable fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit issued for the account of (or at the request of) the Borrower or processing of drawings thereunder (the Issuing Lender Fees). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to Existing Letters of Credit, Issuing Lender Fees shall not be charged for the remaining term of such Existing Letters of Credit; provided that upon renewal of an Existing Letter of Credit, such Existing Letter of Credit shall accrue Issuing Lender Fees as set forth above. All Issuing Lender Fees shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days.
(b) In addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse the Issuing Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by the Issuing Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit.
3.4 L/C Participations. The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Lender, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit, each L/C Lender irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions set forth below, for such L/C Lenders own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Lenders L/C Percentage in the Issuing Lenders obligations and rights under and in respect of each Letter of Credit and the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Lender agrees with the Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower pursuant to Section 3.5(a), such L/C Lender shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lenders address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Lenders L/C Percentage of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that is not so reimbursed. Each L/C Lenders obligation to pay such amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C Lender may have against the Issuing Lender, the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions
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specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other L/C Lender or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
3.5 Reimbursement.
(a) If the Issuing Lender shall make any L/C Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall pay or cause to be paid to the Issuing Lender an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the entire amount of such L/C Disbursement not later than the immediately following Business Day. Each such payment shall be made to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices referred to herein in Dollars and in immediately available funds.
(b) If the Issuing Lender shall not have received from the Borrower the payment that it is required to make pursuant to Section 3.5(a) with respect to a Letter of Credit within the time specified in such Section, the Issuing Lender will promptly notify the Administrative Agent of the Dollar Equivalent of the L/C Disbursement and the Administrative Agent will promptly notify each L/C Lender of such L/C Disbursement and its L/C Percentage thereof, and each L/C Lender shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand at the Issuing Lenders address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Lenders L/C Percentage of the Dollar Equivalent of such L/C Disbursement; upon such payment pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Lender for any L/C Disbursement, the Borrower shall be required to reimburse the L/C Lenders for such payments in Dollars (including interest accrued thereon from the date of such payment until the date of such reimbursement at the rate applicable to Revolving Loans that are ABR Loans plus (two percent (2.00%) per annum) on demand; provided that if at the time of and after giving effect to such payment by the L/C Lenders, the conditions to borrowings and Revolving Loan Conversions set forth in Section 5.2 are satisfied, the Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent certifying that such conditions are satisfied and that all interest owing under this paragraph has been paid, request that such payments by the L/C Lenders be converted into Revolving Loans (a Revolving Loan Conversion), in which case, if such conditions are in fact satisfied, the L/C Lenders shall be deemed to have extended, and the Borrower shall be deemed to have accepted, a Revolving Loan in the aggregate principal amount of such payment without further action on the part of any party, and the Total L/C Commitments shall be permanently reduced by such amount; any amount so paid pursuant to this paragraph shall, on and after the payment date thereof, be deemed to be Revolving Loans for all purposes hereunder; provided that the Issuing Lender, at its option, may effectuate a Revolving Loan Conversion regardless of whether the conditions to borrowings and Revolving Loan Conversions set forth in Section 5.2 are satisfied.
3.6 Obligations Absolute. The Borrowers obligations under this Section 3 shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that the Borrower may have or have had against the Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other Person. The Borrower also agrees with the Issuing Lender that the Issuing Lender shall not be responsible for, and the Borrowers obligations hereunder shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any
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endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among the Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee. The Issuing Lender shall not be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender. The Borrower agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower.
In addition to amounts payable as elsewhere provided in the Agreement, Borrower hereby agrees to pay and to protect, indemnify, and save the Issuing Lender harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, charges and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees and allocated costs of internal counsel) that the Issuing Lender may incur or be subject to as a consequence, direct or indirect, of (A) the issuance of any Letter of Credit, or (B) the failure of the Issuing Lender or of any L/C Lender to honor a demand for payment under any Letter of Credit thereof as a result of any act or omission, whether rightful or wrongful, of any present or future de jure or de facto government or Governmental Authority, in each case other than to the extent solely as a result of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender or such L/C Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction).
3.7 Letter of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of the date and amount thereof. The responsibility of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are substantially in conformity with such Letter of Credit.
3.8 Applications. To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply.
3.9 Interim Interest. If the Issuing Lender shall make any L/C Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, then, unless either the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement in full within the time period specified in Section 3.5(a) or the L/C Lenders shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement in full on such date as provided in Section 3.5(b), in each case the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest for the account of the Issuing Lender, for each day from and including the date of such
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L/C Disbursement to but excluding the date of payment by the Borrower, at the rate per annum that would apply to such amount if such amount were a Revolving Loan that is an ABR Loan; provided that the provisions of Section 2.10(c) shall be applicable to any such amounts not paid when due.
3.10 Additional Issuing Lenders. The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld) and such Lender, designate one or more additional Lenders to act as an issuing bank under the terms of this Agreement. Any Lender designated as an issuing bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed to be an Issuing Lender (in addition to being a Lender) in respect of Letters of Credit issued or to be issued by such Lender, and, with respect to such Letters of Credit, such term shall thereafter apply to the other Issuing Lender and such Lender.
3.11 Resignation of the Issuing Lender. The Issuing Lender may resign at any time by giving at least thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower. Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, upon the acceptance of any appointment as the Issuing Lender hereunder by a Lender that shall agree to serve as successor Issuing Lender, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the interests, rights and obligations of the retiring Issuing Lender and the retiring Issuing Lender shall be discharged from its obligations to issue additional Letters of Credit hereunder without affecting its rights and obligations with respect to Letters of Credit previously issued by it. At the time such resignation shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all accrued and unpaid fees pursuant to Section 3.3. The acceptance of any appointment as the Issuing Lender hereunder by a successor Lender shall be evidenced by an agreement entered into by such successor, in a form satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and, from and after the effective date of such agreement, (i) such successor Lender shall have all the rights and obligations of the previous Issuing Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (ii) references herein and in the other Loan Documents to the term Issuing Lender shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Lender, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Lenders, as the context shall require. After the resignation of the Issuing Lender hereunder, the retiring Issuing Lender shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such resignation, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.
SECTION 4
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loans and issue the Letters of Credit, the Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:
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4.1 Financial Condition.
(a) The audited consolidated balance sheets of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2008, December 31, 2009, and December 31, 2010, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders (deficit) equity and comprehensive loss and cash flows each of the years then ended on such dates, reported on by and accompanied by an unqualified report from Ernst & Young LLP, present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial condition of Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at such date, and the consolidated results of its operations and its consolidated cash flows for the respective fiscal years then ended. All such financial statements, including the related schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the aforementioned firm of accountants and disclosed therein). Except as set forth on Schedule 4.1, no Group Member has, as of the Effective Date, any material (i) Guarantee Obligations, (ii) contingent liabilities and (iii) liabilities for taxes, or any material long-term leases or unusual forward or long-term commitments, including any interest rate or foreign currency swap or exchange transaction or other obligation in respect of derivatives, that are not reflected in the most recent financial statements referred to in this paragraph. During the period from December 31, 2010 to and including the date hereof there has been no Disposition by any Group Member of any material part of its business or property.
4.2 No Change. Since December 31, 2011, there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.3 Existence; Compliance with Law. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.3, each Group Member (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has the power and authority, and the legal right, to own and operate its property, to lease the property it operates as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other organization and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where the failure to be so qualified could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (d) is in material compliance with all Requirements of Law.
4.4 Power, Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. Each Loan Party has the power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and perform the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to obtain extensions of credit hereunder. Each Loan Party has taken all necessary organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and, in the case of the Borrower, to authorize the extensions of credit on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No Governmental Approval or consent or authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any other Person is required in connection the extensions of credit hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance, validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents by or in respect of any Group Member, except (i)
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Governmental Approvals, consents, authorizations, filings and notices described in Schedule 4.4, which Governmental Approvals, consents, authorizations, filings and notices have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (ii) the filings referred to in Section 4.19 and (iii) Governmental Approvals described in Schedule 4.5. Each Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of each Loan Party party thereto. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against each 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).
4.5 No Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the issuance of Letters of Credit, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof by each Group Member will not violate any Requirement of Law (except as set forth in Schedule 4.5) or any material Contractual Obligation of any Group Member and will not result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of their respective properties or revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation (other than the Liens created by the Security Documents). No Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation applicable to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The absence of obtaining the Governmental Approvals described in Schedule 4.5 and the violations of Requirements of Law referenced in Schedule 4.5 shall not have, or reasonably be expected to have, an adverse effect on any rights of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents or an adverse effect on the Group Members with regard to their continuing operations or operations.
4.6 Litigation. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.6, no litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened by or against any Group Member or against any of their respective properties or revenues (a) with respect to any of the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or (b) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.7 No Default. No Group Member is in default under or with respect to any of its Contractual Obligations in any respect that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred (except as set forth in Schedule 4.7), nor shall any Default or Event of Default result from the making of a Credit Extension.
4.8 Ownership of Property; Liens; Investments. Each Group Member has title in fee simple to, or a valid leasehold interest in, all its real property, and good title to, or a valid leasehold interest in, all its other property, and none of such
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property is subject to any Lien except as permitted by Section 7.3. No Loan Party owns any Investment except as permitted by Section 7.8. Section 8 of the Collateral Information Certificate sets forth a complete and accurate list of all real property owned by each Loan Party as of the date hereof, if any. Section 9 of the Collateral Information Certificate sets forth a complete and accurate list of all leases of real property under which any Loan Party is the lessee as of the date hereof.
4.9 Intellectual Property. Each Group Member owns, or is licensed to use, all Intellectual Property necessary for the conduct of its business as currently conducted. No claim has been asserted and is pending by any Person challenging or questioning any Group Members use of any Intellectual Property or the validity or effectiveness of any Group Members Intellectual Property, nor does the Borrower know of any valid basis for any such claim, unless such claim could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The use of Intellectual Property by each Group Member, and the conduct of such Group Members business, as currently conducted, does not infringe on or otherwise violate the rights of any Person, unless such infringement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and there are no claims pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened to such effect.
4.10 Taxes. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.10, each Group Member has filed or caused to be filed all Federal and state income tax returns and other material tax returns that are required to be filed and has paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns or on any assessments made against it or any of its property and all other material taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of its property by any Governmental Authority (other than any taxes, the amount or validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the relevant Group Member and tax obligations which do not individually or in the aggregate exceed $500,000); no tax Lien has been filed, and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such tax already due and payable and not being contested in good faith.
4.11 Federal Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loans, and no other extensions of credit hereunder, will be used (a) for buying or carrying any margin stock within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under Regulation U as now and from time to time hereafter in effect for any purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board or (b) for any purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the Board. If requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a statement to the foregoing effect in conformity with the requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR Form U-1, as applicable, referred to in Regulation U.
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4.12 Labor Matters. Except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect: (a) there are no strikes or other labor disputes against any Group Member pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened; (b) hours worked by and payment made to employees of each Group Member have not been in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable Requirement of Law dealing with such matters; and (c) all payments due from any Group Member on account of employee health and welfare insurance have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the relevant Group Member.
4.13 ERISA. Neither a Reportable Event nor an accumulated funding deficiency (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) has occurred during the five-year period prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made with respect to any Plan, and each Plan has complied in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code. No termination of a Single Employer Plan has occurred, and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen, during such five-year period. The present value of all accrued benefits under each Single Employer Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plans) did not, as of the last annual valuation date prior to the date on which this representation is made or deemed made, exceed the value of the assets of such Plan allocable to such accrued benefits by a material amount. Neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has had a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability under ERISA, and neither the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity would become subject to any material liability under ERISA if the Borrower or any such Commonly Controlled Entity were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans as of the valuation date most closely preceding the date on which this representation is made or deemed made. No such Multiemployer Plan is in Reorganization or Insolvent.
4.14 Investment Company Act; Other Regulations. No Loan Party is an investment company, or a company controlled by an investment company, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Except as set forth in Schedule 4.4 and Schedule 4.5, no Loan Party is subject to regulation under any Requirement of Law (other than Regulation X of the Board) that limits its ability to incur Indebtedness. No Loan Party is subject to or is not exempt from regulation as a holding company under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 or as a public utility under the Federal Power Act or under any other federal or state statute or regulation which may limit its ability to incur Indebtedness or which may otherwise render all or any portion of the Obligations unenforceable.
4.15 Subsidiaries. Except as disclosed to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower in writing from time to time after the Effective Date, (a) Schedule 4.15 sets forth the name and jurisdiction of organization of each Subsidiary and, as to each such Subsidiary, the percentage of each class of Capital Stock owned by any Loan Party, and (b) there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, calls, rights or other agreements or commitments (other than stock options granted to employees or directors and directors qualifying shares) of any nature relating to any Capital Stock of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, except as created by the Loan Documents.
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4.16 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans, and the Letters of Credit, shall be used for general corporate and working capital purposes.
4.17 Environmental Matters. Except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a) the facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by any Group Member (the Properties) do not contain, and have not previously contained, any Materials of Environmental Concern in amounts or concentrations or under circumstances that constitute or constituted a violation of, or could give rise to liability under, any Environmental Law;
(b) no Group Member has received or is aware of any notice of violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or potential liability regarding environmental matters or compliance with Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Properties or the business operated by any Group Member (the Business), nor does the Borrower have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice will be received or is being threatened;
(c) Materials of Environmental Concern have not been transported or disposed of from the Properties in violation of, or in a manner or to a location that could give rise to liability under, any Environmental Law, nor have any Materials of Environmental Concern been generated, treated, stored or disposed of at, on or under any of the Properties in violation of, or in a manner that could give rise to liability under, any applicable Environmental Law;
(d) no judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, under any Environmental Law to which any Group Member is or will be named as a party with respect to the Properties or the Business, nor are there any consent decrees or other decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders, or other administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any Environmental Law with respect to the Properties or the Business;
(e) there has been no release or threat of release of Materials of Environmental Concern at or from the Properties, or arising from or related to the operations of any Group Member in connection with the Properties or otherwise in connection with the Business, in violation of or in amounts or in a manner that could give rise to liability under Environmental Laws;
(f) the Properties and all operations at the Properties are in compliance, and have in the last five years been in compliance, with all applicable Environmental Laws, and there is no contamination at, under or about the Properties or violation of any Environmental Law with respect to the Properties or the Business; and
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(g) no Group Member has assumed any liability of any other Person under Environmental Laws.
4.18 Accuracy of Information, etc. (a) No statement or information contained in this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other document, certificate or statement furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or any of them, for use in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, contained as of the date such statement, information, document or certificate was so furnished, any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading. The projections and pro forma financial information contained in the materials referenced above are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered by such financial information may differ from the projected results set forth therein by a material amount.
(b) There is no fact known to any Loan Party that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect that has not been expressly disclosed herein, or in the other Loan Documents or otherwise disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.
4.19 Security Documents.
(a) The Guarantee and Collateral Agreement is effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable security interest in the Collateral described therein and proceeds thereof. In the case of the Pledged Stock (as defined in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement) that are securities represented by stock certificates or otherwise constituting certificated securities within the meaning of Section 8-102(a)(4) of the New York UCC or the corresponding code or statute of any other applicable jurisdiction (Certificated Securities), when certificates representing such Pledged Stock are (or were) delivered to the Administrative Agent, and in the case of the other Collateral constituting personal property described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, when UCC-1 financing statements in appropriate form are (or were) filed in the offices specified on Schedule 4.19(a), the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall have (or, as of the date of such delivery or filing, has had) a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in such Collateral and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations, in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person (except, in the case of Collateral other than Pledged Stock, Liens expressly permitted to have priority by Section 7.3). As of the Effective Date, none of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a limited liability company or partnership has any Capital Stock that is a Certificated Security.
(b) Each of the Mortgages delivered after the Effective Date will be, upon execution, effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on the Mortgaged Properties described therein and proceeds thereof, and when the Mortgages are filed in the offices for the applicable jurisdictions
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in which the Mortgaged Properties are located, each such Mortgage shall constitute a fully perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in the Mortgaged Properties and the proceeds thereof, as security for the Obligations (as defined in the relevant Mortgage), in each case prior and superior in right to any other Person.
4.20 Solvency. Each Loan Party is, and after giving effect to the incurrence of all Indebtedness and obligations being incurred in connection herewith and the other Loan Documents will be and will continue to be, Solvent.
4.21 Regulation H. No Mortgage encumbers improved real property that is located in an area that has been identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as an area having special flood hazards and in which flood insurance has not been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.
4.22 Designated Senior Indebtedness . The Loan Documents and all of the Obligations shall be deemed Designated Senior Indebtedness or a similar concept thereof for purposes of any Indebtedness of the Loan Parties.
4.23 Insurance. All insurance maintained by the Loan Parties is in full force and effect, all premiums have been duly paid, no Loan Party has received notice of violation or cancellation thereof, and there exists no default under any requirement of such insurance. Each Loan Party maintains insurance with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance on all its property (and also with respect to its foreign receivables) in at least such amounts and against at least such risks (but including in any event public liability, product liability and business interruption) as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies engaged in the same or a similar business
4.24 No Casualty. No Loan Party has received any notice of, nor does any Loan Party have any knowledge of, the occurrence or pendency or contemplation of any casualty event or condemnation proceeding affecting all or any portion of the Collateral.
SECTION 5
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
5.1 Conditions to Effectiveness. The effectiveness of this Agreement on the Effective Date is subject to the following conditions precedent:
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(a) Loan Documents. (i) Each Lender shall have received (A) this Agreement executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and each Lender listed on Schedule 1.1A, (B) the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, executed and delivered by the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, and (C) an Acknowledgement and Consent in the form attached to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, executed and delivered by each Issuer (as defined therein), if any, that is not a Loan Party, and (D) its Note to the extent requested pursuant to Section 2.18, and (ii) the Administrative Agent shall have received each other Loan Document, executed and delivered by the parties thereto.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Approvals. Except for the Governmental Approvals described in Schedule 4.5, all Governmental Approvals and consents and approvals of, or notices to, any other Person required in connection with the execution and performance of the Loan Documents, the continuing operations of the Group Members, and the other transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained and be in full force and effect, and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any competent authority that could reasonably be expected to restrain, prevent or otherwise impose burdensome conditions on the financing contemplated hereby. The absence of obtaining the Governmental Approvals described in Schedule 4.5 shall not have an adverse effect on any rights of the Lenders, or the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents or an adverse effect on the Group Members with regard to their continuing operations or operations.
(d) Lien Searches. The Administrative Agent shall have received the results of a recent lien search in all appropriate jurisdictions (including the jurisdiction of formation or organization of each Group Member), and such search shall reveal no liens on any of the assets of the Loan Parties except for liens permitted by Section 7.3 or discharged on or prior to the Effective Date pursuant to documentation satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Fees. The Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all expenses for which invoices have been presented (including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), on or before the Effective Date.
(f) Secretarys Certificate; Certified Certificate of Organization; Good Standing Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Effective Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit C, with appropriate insertions and attachments, including the certificate of incorporation or other similar organizational document of each Loan Party certified by the relevant authority of the jurisdiction of organization of such Loan Party, the bylaws or other similar organizational document of each Loan Party and the relevant board resolutions or written consents of each Loan Party authorizing the transactions contemplated hereunder, and (ii) a long form good standing certificate for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization.
(g) Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have received the executed legal opinions of Goodwin Procter LLP, counsel to Borrower and its Subsidiaries, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Such legal opinions shall cover such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
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(h) Pledged Stock; Stock Powers; Pledged Notes. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) the original certificates representing the shares of Capital Stock pledged pursuant to the Security Documents, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate executed and dated in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof, and (ii) each original promissory note (if any) pledged to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Security Documents, endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an executed transfer form in blank) by the pledgor thereof.
(i) Filings, Registrations and Recordings. Each document (including any Uniform Commercial Code financing statement) required by the Security Documents or under law or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to be filed, registered or recorded to create in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected Lien on the Collateral described therein, prior and superior in right to any other Person (other than with respect to Liens expressly permitted by Section 7.3), shall be in proper form for filing, registration or recordation.
(j) Solvency Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a solvency certificate from the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit D, certifying that each Loan Party is, and after giving effect to the incurrence of all Indebtedness and Obligations being incurred in connection herewith and the other Loan Documents will be, and will continue to be, Solvent.
(k) Patriot Act. The Administrative Agent shall have received, prior to the Effective Date, all documentation and other information required by Governmental Authorities under applicable know your customer and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act.
(l) Insurance. The Administrative Agent shall have received insurance certificates (and underlying endorsements) satisfying the requirements of Section 5.2 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and Section 6.5 hereunder.
(m) No Material Adverse Effect. There shall not have occurred since December 31, 2011 any event or condition that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(n) No Litigation. No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of any Group Member, threatened, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
(o) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all respects except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all respects as of such earlier date.
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(p) No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(q) Cancellation/Assignment of Obligations to TD Bank, NA. The Revolving Loan Note in the original principal amount of $35,000,000 payable by the Borrower to TD Bank, N.A. pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been cancelled and returned to Borrower and all participations in the Existing Letters of Credit held by TD Bank, N.A. pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been terminated and re-assigned to SVB as Issuing Lender. The Administrative Agent, the Borrower and TD Bank, N.A. shall have executed and delivered the TD Termination Agreement.
5.2 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to make any extension of credit requested to be made by it on any date including, but not limited to, any Loan to be advanced and such Lenders participation in any Letter of Credit to be issued hereunder (including its initial extension of credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on the date of such extension of credit including, but not limited to, the date of the advance of any such Loan and the date of the issuance of any such Letter of Credit:
(a) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date and except that for purposes of this Section 5.2, the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.1 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.1;
(b) No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred as of or on such date or after giving effect to the extensions of credit requested to be made on such date; and
(c) No Material Adverse Effect. There shall not have occurred any event or condition that has had or could be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Each borrowing by and issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of the Borrower hereunder and each Revolving Loan Conversion shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as of the date of such extension of credit and each Revolving Loan Conversion that the conditions contained in this Section 5.2 have been satisfied.
SECTION 6
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower hereby agrees that, until all Commitments have been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan, all fees and all other expenses or amounts payable under
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any Loan Document (other than inchoate indemnity obligations) shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and all amounts drawn thereunder have been reimbursed in full, the Borrower shall, as to itself and each Borrowers Subsidiaries, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to:
6.1 Financial Statements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent, for distribution to each Lender:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders (deficit) equity and comprehensive loss and cash flows each of the years then ended on such dates, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, reported on by and accompanied by an unqualified report from Ernst & Young LLP or other independent certified public accountant reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; and
(b) as soon as available, but in any event not later than forty five (45) days after the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower, the unaudited consolidated and consolidating balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited consolidated and consolidating statements of income and of cash flows for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified by a Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments).
All such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material respects and shall be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP applied (except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and disclosed in reasonable detail therein) consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods. Documents required to be delivered pursuant to the terms of the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto, on Borrowers website on the Internet at Borrowers website address.
6.2 Certificates; Other Information. Furnish to the Administrative Agent, for distribution to each Lender (or, in the case of clause (g), to the relevant Lender):
(a) (i) within forty five (45) days after the end of each month and concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.1(a), (A) a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that, to the best of each such Responsible Officers knowledge, each Loan Party during such period has observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party to be observed, performed or satisfied by it, and that such
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Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except as specified in such certificate, (B) to the extent not previously disclosed to the Administrative Agent, a description of any change in the jurisdiction of organization of any Loan Party and a list of any Intellectual Property acquired by any Loan Party since the date of the most recent report delivered pursuant to this clause (B) (or, in the case of the first such report so delivered, since the Effective Date) and (C) a Compliance Certificate containing all information and calculations necessary for determining compliance by each Group Member with the provisions of this Agreement referred to therein as of the last day of the month (it being understood and agreed that such Compliance Certificate shall not be required to contain information and calculations with respect to those financial covenants that are not required to be tested on the last day of such month); provided that a ten (10) day grace period shall apply to the delivery requirement relating to the monthly Compliance Certificate set forth in this clause (C);
(b) as soon as available, and in any event no later than sixty (60) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a detailed consolidated budget for the following fiscal year approved by the board of directors of the Borrower (including a projected consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of each fiscal quarter of such fiscal year, the related consolidated statements of projected cash flow, projected changes in financial position and projected income and a description of the underlying assumptions applicable thereto), and, as soon as available, significant revisions, if any, of such budget and projections with respect to such fiscal year (collectively, the Projections), which Projections shall in each case be accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that such Projections are based on reasonable estimates, information and assumptions and that such Responsible Officer has no reason to believe that such Projections are incorrect or misleading in any material respect;
(c) within five (5) days after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and reports that the Borrower sends to the holders of any class of its debt securities or public equity securities and, within five (5) days after the same are filed, copies of all financial statements and reports that the Borrower may make to, or file with, the SEC; Documents required to be delivered pursuant to the terms of this clause (d) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which Borrower posts such documents, or provides a link thereto, on Borrowers website on the Internet at Borrowers website address;
(d) upon request by the Administrative Agent, within five (5) days after the same are sent or received, copies of all correspondence, reports, documents and other filings with any Governmental Authority regarding compliance with or maintenance of Governmental Approvals or Requirements of Law or that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on any of the Governmental Approvals or otherwise on the operations of the Group Members;
(e) upon request by the Administrative Agent no more frequently than monthly, (i) an aged listing of accounts receivable (by invoice date), (ii) an aged listing of accounts payable (by invoice date), and (iii) statements detailing the balances of cash and Cash Equivalents of Borrower and its Subsidiaries; and
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(f) promptly, such additional financial and other information as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
6.3 Payment of Obligations. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its material obligations of whatever nature, except where the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the relevant Group Member.
6.4 Maintenance of Existence; Compliance. (a) (i) Preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its organizational existence and (ii) take all reasonable action to maintain or obtain all Governmental Approvals and all other rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except, in each case, as otherwise permitted by Section 7.4 and except, in the case of clause (ii) above, to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b) comply with all Contractual Obligations and Requirements of Law except to the extent that failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) comply with all Governmental Approvals, and any term, condition, rule, filing or fee obligation, or other requirement related thereto, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.5 Maintenance of Property; Insurance. (a) Keep all property useful and necessary in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and (b) maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies insurance policies on all its property (and also with respect to its foreign receivables) in at least such amounts and against at least such risks (but including in any event public liability, product liability and business interruption) as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies engaged in the same or a similar business which insurance policies shall identify the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as loss payee or additional insured, as the case may be, and shall provide the Administrative Agent with at least thirty (30) days prior notice of termination.
6.6 Books and Records. Keep proper books of records and account in which full, true and correct entries in conformity with GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities.
6.7 Notices. Promptly give notice to the Administrative Agent and each Lender of:
(a) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
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(b) any (i) default or event of default under any Contractual Obligation of any Group Member or (ii) litigation, investigation or proceeding that may exist at any time between any Group Member and any Governmental Authority, that in either case, if not cured or if adversely determined, as the case may be, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) any litigation or proceeding affecting any Group Member (i) in which the amount involved is $500,000 or more and not covered by insurance, (ii) in which injunctive or similar relief is sought or (iii) which relates to any Loan Document;
(d) the following events, as soon as possible and in any event within thirty (30) days after the Borrower knows or has reason to know thereof: (i) the occurrence of any Reportable Event with respect to any Plan, a failure to make any required contribution to a Plan, the creation of any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan or any withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Multiemployer Plan or (ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking of any other action by the PBGC or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity or any Multiemployer Plan with respect to the withdrawal from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Plan; and
(e) any development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the relevant Group Member proposes to take with respect thereto.
6.8 Environmental Laws.
(a) Comply in all material respects with, and ensure compliance in all material respects by all tenants and subtenants, if any, with, all applicable Environmental Laws, and obtain and comply in all material respects with and maintain, and ensure that all tenants and subtenants obtain and comply in all material respects with and maintain, any and all licenses, approvals, notifications, registrations or permits required by applicable Environmental Laws.
(b) Conduct and complete all investigations, studies, sampling and testing, and all remedial, removal and other actions required under Environmental Laws and promptly comply in all material respects with all lawful orders and directives of all Governmental Authorities regarding Environmental Laws.
6.9 Accounts; Collections.
Maintain the Borrowers and its Domestic Subsidiaries primary depository and operating accounts and securities accounts with SVB or one or more of SVBs Affiliates, which accounts shall represent at least 75% of the dollar value of the Borrowers and such Domestic Subsidiaries accounts at all financial institutions; provided, however, cash collateral provided by the Borrower to secure any letter of credit issued by an institution other than the Issuing Bank shall not be included when calculating the dollar value of the Borrowers and its Domestic Subsidiaries accounts at all financial institutions for purposes of calculating the foregoing
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requirement, provided that such cash collateral provided to an institution other than the Issuing Bank is deposited with SVB or one or more of SVBs Affiliates immediately upon the release of such cash collateral upon the reduction or termination of the letter of credit secured by such cash collateral. All of the Loan Parties depository, operating and securities accounts shall be and remain subject to an account control agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (each, a Control Agreement) duly executed on behalf of the applicable financial institution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may maintain (i) two accounts at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., that are not subject to a Control Agreement provided that the aggregate amount on deposit in such accounts does exceed $1,000,000 at any time, (ii) account # 8247942548 maintained by the Borrower at TD Bank, N.A., securing the TD Letters of Credit provided that the amount on deposit in such account shall not exceed $15,000,000 and provided further that upon the termination or non-renewal of the TD Letters of Credit the Borrower shall close such account and all amounts on deposit therein shall be promptly deposited by the Loan Parties in an account subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent and (iii) accounts containing cash collateral of the Loan Parties that is pledged by the Loan Parties to secure letters of credit for the benefit of the Borrower issued by an institution other than the Issuing Bank, provided that the terms of any such letter of credit, the institution issuing such letter of credit, and the amount and the terms relating to the cash collateral securing such letter of credit are approved in writing by the Administrative Agent and provided further that upon the termination or non-renewal of any such letter of credit the Borrower shall close such account and all such cash collateral shall automatically constitute Collateral hereunder and shall be promptly deposited by the Loan Parties in an account subject to a Control Agreement in favor of the Administrative Agent.
(a) Deposit on a daily basis directly into an account with a Lender or one or more of the Lenders Affiliates (which account, if maintained with an Affiliate of a Lender, shall be subject to a Control Agreement) (or cause the ACH or wire transfer of) all of the Borrowers cash receipts and collections, including, without limitation, (i) all collections from Account Debtors of the Borrower, (ii) all of the Borrowers available cash receipts from the sale of Inventory and other assets, and (iii) all cash payments received from any Person or from any source or on account of any sale or other transaction or event.
(b) No Group Member or Immaterial Subsidiary shall maintain any depository account, operating account, securities account or other bank or investment account outside of the United States; provided, that the Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries may maintain depository accounts, operating accounts, securities accounts or other bank or investment accounts outside the United States provided that the aggregate value of all assets in all such accounts shall at no time exceed $10,000,000.
6.10 Audits. At reasonable times and as often as may be reasonably desired, on one (1) Business Days notice (provided that no notice is required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), the Administrative Agent, any Lender, or any of their agents, shall have the right to inspect the Collateral and the right to audit, copy, and make abstracts from any and all of any Group Members books and records including ledgers, federal and state tax returns, records regarding assets or liabilities, the Collateral, business operations or financial condition, and all
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computer programs or storage or any equipment containing such information, to visit and inspect any of the Group Members properties, and to discuss the business, operations, properties and financial and other condition of the Group Members with officers and employees of the Group Members and with their independent certified public accountants. The foregoing inspections and audits shall be at Borrowers expense, and the charge therefor shall be $850 per person per day (or such higher amount as shall represent the Administrative Agents then-current standard charge for the same), plus reasonable out-of-pocket expenses; provided, prior to the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default, that such expenses shall not exceed $15,000 in any year, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower shall be not obligated to reimburse the Administrative Agent or such Lender for more than one (1) audit per year.
6.11 Additional Collateral, etc.
(a) With respect to any property (to the extent included in the definition of Collateral) acquired after the Original Closing Date by any Loan Party (other than (x) any property described in paragraph (b), (c) or (d) below, and (y) any property subject to a Lien expressly permitted by Section 7.3(g)) as to which the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, does not have a perfected Lien, promptly (and in any event within three (3) Business Days) (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or such other documents as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to evidence that they are a Guarantor and to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a security interest in such property and (ii) take all actions necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected first priority (except as expressly permitted by Section 7.3) security interest in such property, including the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the Administrative Agent.
(b) With respect to any fee interest in any real property having a value (together with improvements thereof) of at least $500,000 acquired after the Original Closing Date by any Loan Party (other than any such real property subject to a Lien expressly permitted by Section 7.3(g)), promptly (i) execute and deliver a first priority Mortgage, in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, covering such real property, (ii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, provide the Lenders with (x) title and extended coverage insurance covering such real property in an amount at least equal to the purchase price of such real property (or such other amount as shall be reasonably specified by the Administrative Agent) as well as a current ALTA survey thereof, together with a surveyors certificate, and (y) any consents or estoppels reasonably deemed necessary or advisable by the Administrative Agent in connection with such Mortgage, each of the foregoing in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (iii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) With respect to any new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Immaterial Subsidiary) created or acquired after the Original Closing Date by
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any Group Member (which, for the purposes of this Section 6.11(c), shall include any existing Subsidiary that ceases to be an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or Immaterial Subsidiary), promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected first priority security interest in the Capital Stock of such new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Immaterial Subsidiary) that is owned by any Loan Party, (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent such documents and instruments as may be required to grant, perfect, protect and ensure the priority of such security interest, including but not limited to, the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the relevant Group Member, (iii) cause such new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Immaterial Subsidiary) (x) to become a Borrower or a Subsidiary Guarantor party to this Agreement and/or the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, (y) to take such actions necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral described in the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, with respect to such new Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Immaterial Subsidiary), including the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement or by law or as may be requested by the Administrative Agent and (z) to deliver to the Administrative Agent a certificate of such Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or an Immaterial Subsidiary), in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, with appropriate insertions and attachments, (iv) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (v) in the case of a new Borrower hereunder, deliver an allonge executed by such new Borrower to each Lender amending its Note.
(d) With respect to any new Excluded Foreign Subsidiary created or acquired after the Original Closing Date by any Loan Party, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent such amendments to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable to grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a perfected first priority security interest in the Capital Stock of such new Excluded Foreign Subsidiary that is owned by any such Group Member (provided that in no event shall more than 65% of the total outstanding voting Capital Stock of any such new Excluded Foreign Subsidiary be required to be so pledged), (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent the certificates representing such Capital Stock, together with undated stock powers, in blank, executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the relevant Group Member, and take such other action as may be necessary or, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, desirable to perfect the Administrative Agents security interest therein, and (iii) if reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Each Loan Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain a landlords agreement or bailee letter, as applicable, from the lessor of each leased property or bailee with respect to any warehouse, processor or converter facility or other location where Collateral is stored or located, which agreement or letter shall contain a waiver or subordination
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of all Liens or claims that the landlord or bailee may assert against the Collateral at that location, and shall otherwise be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Administrative Agent. After the Original Closing Date, no real property or warehouse space shall be leased by any Loan Party and no Inventory shall be shipped to a processor or converter under arrangements established after the Original Closing Date, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent or unless and until a reasonably satisfactory landlord agreement or bailee letter, as appropriate, shall first have been obtained with respect to such location. Each Loan Party shall timely and fully pay and perform its obligations under all leases and other agreements with respect to each leased location or public warehouse where any Collateral is or may be located.
6.12 Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of each Credit Extension only for the purposes set forth in Section 4.16 and not prohibited under Section 4.11.
6.13 Designated Senior Indebtedness. Cause the Loan Documents and all of the Obligations to be deemed Designated Senior Indebtedness or a similar concept thereof for purposes of any Indebtedness of the Loan Parties.
6.14 Further Assurances. Execute any further instruments and take such further action as the Administrative Agent reasonably deems necessary to perfect, protect, ensure the priority of or continue the Administrative Agents Lien on the Collateral or to effect the purposes of this Agreement.
SECTION 7
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
Borrower hereby agrees that, until all Commitments have been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan, all fees and all other expenses or amounts payable under any Loan Document (other than inchoate indemnity obligations) shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and all amounts drawn thereunder have been reimbursed in full, the Borrower shall not, as to itself, nor shall the Borrower permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
7.1 Financial Condition Covenants.
(a) Modified Quick Ratio. (i) For the months ending on April 30, 2012 and May 31, 2012, permit the Quick Ratio to be tested as of the last day of each such month, to be less than 1.00 to 1.00 or (ii) for the month ending on August 31, 2012, permit the Quick Ratio to be tested as of the last day of such month, to be less than 1.50 to 1.00, or (iii) for each month other than the months ending on April 30, 2012, May 31, 2012, and August 31, 2012, permit the Quick Ratio to be tested as of the last day of each such month, to be less than 2.00 to 1.00. Borrower shall have unrestricted cash of not less than $30,000,000 on deposit with SVB at all times during the period commencing on April 1, 2012 through and including June 29, 2012.
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(b) Minimum EBITDAR. Permit EBITDAR to be less than (i) $25,000,000 for the twelve months ending on March 31, 2011 and June 30, 2011, (ii) $35,000,000 for the twelve months ending on September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2011, (iii) $25,000,000 for the twelve months ending on March 31, 2012, (iv) $15,000,000 for the twelve months ending on June 30, 2012, (v) $1.00 for the twelve months ending on September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2012, and (vi) $10,000,000 for the twelve months ending on March 31, 2013 and on the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter.
7.2 Indebtedness. Create, issue, incur, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness of any Loan Party pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b) so long as an Intercompany Subordination Agreement is in full force and effect, Indebtedness of (i) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor to any other Loan Party or (ii) any Subsidiary (which is not a Subsidiary Guarantor) to any other Subsidiary (which is not a Subsidiary Guarantor);
(c) Guarantee Obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries of obligations of any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor;
(d) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 7.2(d) and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof (without shortening the maturity thereof, increasing the principal amount thereof or increasing the rate of interest thereon); provided that the TD Letters of Credit may not remain outstanding after, or be renewed or extended to a date later than, June 29, 2012;
(e) Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Capital Lease Obligations) secured by Liens permitted by Section 7.3(g) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $500,000 at any one time outstanding and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof (without shortening the maturity thereof, increasing the principal amount thereof or increasing the rate of interest thereon);
(f) Surety Indebtedness;
(g) Indebtedness of the type described in clause (b) of the definition of Indebtedness consisting of earn-out or other acquisition-related obligations incurred in connection with acquisitions by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that are otherwise permitted by the terms of this Agreement; provided, that, the total amount of such Indebtedness consisting of earn-out or other acquisition-related obligations shall not exceed (i) $1,000,000 for any single acquisition or (ii) $3,000,000 in the aggregate for all acquisitions during the term of this Agreement; and
(h) additional Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount (for the Borrower and all Subsidiaries) not to exceed $500,000 at any one time outstanding.
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7.3 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except:
(a) Liens for taxes not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in conformity with GAAP;
(b) carriers, warehousemens, landlords, mechanics, materialmens, repairmens or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(c) pledges or deposits in connection with workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation;
(d) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than for borrowed money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business that, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount and that do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries;
(f) Liens in existence on the date hereof listed on Schedule 7.3(f), securing Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.2(d); provided that no such Lien is spread to cover any additional property after the Effective Date and that the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased; and provided, further that the Liens securing the TD Letters of Credit shall be terminated on or before June 29, 2012;
(g) Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary incurred pursuant to Section 7.2(e) to finance the acquisition of fixed or capital assets; provided that (i) such Liens shall be created substantially simultaneously with the acquisition of such fixed or capital assets, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and (iii) the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not increased;
(h) Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;
(i) any interest or title of a lessor under any lease entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business and covering only the assets so leased;
(j) judgment Liens that do not constitute a Default or Event of Default under Section 8.1(h) of this Agreement; and
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(k) Liens not otherwise permitted by this Section 7.3 securing obligations permitted hereunder so long as neither (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the obligations secured thereby nor (ii) the aggregate fair market value (determined as of the date such Lien is incurred) of the assets subject thereto exceeds (as to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) $500,000 at any one time.
7.4 Fundamental Changes. Enter into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business, except that:
(a) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may be merged or consolidated with or into the Borrower (provided that the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person) or with or into any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor (provided that the Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving Person);
(b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may Dispose of any or all of its assets (i) to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) or (ii) pursuant to a Disposition permitted by Section 7.5; and
(c) any Investment expressly permitted by Section 7.8 may be structured as a merger, consolidation or amalgamation.
7.5 Disposition of Property. Dispose of any of its property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell any shares of such Subsidiarys Capital Stock to any Person, except:
(a) the Disposition of obsolete, worn out, or surplus property in the ordinary course of business;
(b) the sale of Inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(c) Dispositions permitted by clause (i) of Section 7.4(b);
(d) the sale or issuance of any Subsidiarys Capital Stock to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor so long as such Capital Stock is pledged to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties;
(e) subject in all respects to Section 8.1(k), the sale or issuance of the Borrowers Capital Stock;
(f) the use or transfer of money or Cash Equivalents in a manner that is not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents;
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(g) the licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights on a non exclusive basis in the ordinary course of business; and
(h) the Disposition of other property having a fair market value not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate for any fiscal year of the Borrower.
7.6 Restricted Payments. Make any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including in-substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any Subordinated Indebtedness, or declare or pay any dividend (other than dividends payable solely in common stock of the Person making such dividend) on, or make any payment on account of, or set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of, any Capital Stock of any Group Member, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of any Group Member (collectively, Restricted Payments), except that:
(a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to its parent (provided such parent is a Loan Party or, if such parent is not a Loan Party, such Restricted Payment is promptly distributed to a Loan Party), to the Borrower, or to any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor; and
(b) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may: (i) purchase common stock or common stock options from present or former officers, directors or employees of any Group Member upon the death, disability or termination of employment of such officer, director, or employee; provided that the aggregate amount of payments under this clause (i) shall not exceed $250,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower; and (ii) repurchase or redeem common stock of EnerNOC held by its public stockholders, provided that both immediately before and after making such repurchase or redemption pursuant to this clause (ii), the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance with all of the covenants set forth in Section 7.1 and no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and provided further that the aggregate amount of repurchases under this clause (ii) shall not exceed $1,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower.
7.7 Investments. Make any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of guarantee or otherwise) or capital contribution to, or purchase any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities of, or any assets constituting a business unit of, or make any other investment in, any Person (all of the foregoing, Investments), except:
(a) extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business;
(b) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;
(c) Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 7.2;
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(d) loans and advances to employees of any Group Member in the ordinary course of business (including for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses) in an aggregate amount for all Group Members not to exceed $250,000 at any one time outstanding;
(e) intercompany Investments by any Group Member in the Borrower or any Person that, prior to such investment, is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor;
(f) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements of negotiable instruments for collection or deposit;
(g) Investments received in settlement of amounts due to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries effected in the ordinary course of business or owing to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of Insolvency proceedings involving an Account Debtor or upon the foreclosure or enforcement of any Lien in favor of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries;
(h) Permitted Acquisitions; and
(i) (i) Investments of a Subsidiary that is not a Borrower hereunder in or to other Subsidiaries or a Borrower, (ii) Investments of a Borrower in another Borrower, and (iii) Investments by Borrower in Subsidiaries that are not Borrowers hereunder for the ordinary and necessary current operating expenses of such Subsidiaries so long as the aggregate amount of such Investments does not exceed Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000.00) per fiscal year.
7.8 Modifications of Certain Preferred Stock and Debt Instrument. (a) Amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Preferred Stock (i) that would move to an earlier date the scheduled redemption date or increase the amount of any scheduled redemption payment or increase the rate or move to an earlier date any date for payment of dividends thereon or (ii) that would be otherwise materially adverse to any Lender or any other Secured Party; or (b) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.2 (other than Indebtedness pursuant to any Loan Document) that would shorten the maturity or increase the amount of any payment of principal thereof or the rate of interest thereon or shorten any date for payment of interest thereon or that would be otherwise materially adverse to any Lender or any other Secured Party.
7.9 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction, including any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property, the rendering of any service or the payment of any management, advisory or similar fees, with any Affiliate (other than the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor) unless such transaction is (a) otherwise permitted under this Agreement, (b) in the ordinary course of business of the relevant Group Member, and (c) upon fair and reasonable terms no less favorable to the relevant Group Member than it would obtain in a comparable arms length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate.
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7.10 Sale Leaseback Transactions. Enter into any Sale Leaseback Transaction.
7.11 Swap Agreements. Enter into any Swap Agreement, except (a) Swap Agreements entered into to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary has actual exposure (other than those in respect of Capital Stock) and (b) Swap Agreements entered into to effectively cap, collar or exchange interest rates (from fixed to floating rates, from one floating rate to another floating rate or otherwise) with respect to any interest-bearing liability or investment of the Borrower or any Subsidiary.
7.12 Changes in Fiscal Periods. Permit the fiscal year of the Borrower to end on a day other than December 31 or change the Borrowers method of determining fiscal quarters.
7.13 Negative Pledge Clauses. Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any agreement that prohibits or limits the ability of any Group Member to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party other than (a) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (b) any agreements governing any purchase money Liens or Capital Lease Obligations otherwise permitted hereby (in which case, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the assets financed thereby) and (c) customary restrictions on the assignment of leases, licenses and other agreements.
7.14 Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions. Enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Subsidiary of the Borrower to (a) make Restricted Payments in respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by, or pay any Indebtedness owed to, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, (b) make loans or advances to, or other Investments in, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or (c) transfer any of its assets to the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any restrictions existing under the Loan Documents, (ii) any restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement that has been entered into in connection with the Disposition of all or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary, (iii) customary restrictions on the assignment of leases, licenses and other agreements, and (iv) restrictions of the nature referred to in clause (c) above under agreements governing purchase money liens or Capital Lease Obligations otherwise permitted hereby which restrictions are only effective against the assets financed thereby.
7.15 Lines of Business. In the case of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, enter into any business, either directly or through any Subsidiary, except for those businesses in which the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are engaged on the date of this Agreement or that are reasonably related thereto.
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7.16 Amendments to Organizational Agreements and Material Contracts. No Loan Party shall (a) amend or permit any amendments to any Loan Partys organizational documents, if such amendment would be adverse to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders or (b) amend or permit any amendments to, or terminate or waive any provision of, any material Contractual Obligation if such amendment, termination, or waiver would be adverse to Administrative Agent or the Lenders.
SECTION 8
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
8.1 Events of Default. If any of the following events shall occur:
(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan, or any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within three (3) Business Days after any such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof; or
(b) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Loan Party herein or in any other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or financial or other statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection with this Agreement or any such other Loan Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made (or if any representation or warranty is expressly stated to have been made as of a specific date, inaccurate in any material respect as of such specific date); or
(c) (1) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 6.4(a) (with respect to the Borrower only), Sections 6.5(b), 6.7(a), 6.9, 6.10, 6.12, 6.13, or Section 7 of this Agreement or (2) an Event of Default under and as defined in any Mortgage shall have occurred or (3) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement contained in Sections 6.1 or 6.2 of this Agreement, and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of three (3) days thereafter, or
(d) any Loan Party shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as provided in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this Section 8), and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days thereafter; or
(e) any Group Member shall (i) default in making any payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the scheduled or original due date with respect thereto, or (ii) default in making any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such Indebtedness was created, or (iii) default in the
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observance or performance of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which default or other event or condition is to (x) cause, or to permit the holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or, in the case of any such Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation, to become payable or (y) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, any Group Member to purchase or redeem or make an offer to purchase or redeem such Indebtedness prior to its stated maturity; provided that a default, event or condition described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall not at any time constitute an Event of Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of the type described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Indebtedness the outstanding principal amount of which exceeds in the aggregate $500,000; or
(f) (i) any Group Member shall commence any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or any Group Member shall make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced against any Group Member any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i) above that (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed, undischarged or unbonded for a period of sixty (60) days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against any Group Member any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall not have been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within sixty (60) days from the entry thereof; or (iv) any Group Member shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clauses (i), (ii), or (iii) above; or (v) any Group Member shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due; or
(g) (i) any Person shall engage in any prohibited transaction (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving any Plan; (ii) any accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to any Plan or any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan shall arise on the assets of any Group Member or any Commonly Controlled Entity; (iii) a Reportable Event shall occur with respect to, or proceedings shall commence to have a trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be appointed, to administer or to terminate, any Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event or commencement of proceedings or appointment of a trustee is, in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders, likely to result in the termination of such Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA; (iv) any Single Employer Plan shall terminate for purposes of Title IV of ERISA; (v) any Group Member or any Commonly Controlled Entity shall, or in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders is likely to, incur any liability in connection with a withdrawal from, or the
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Insolvency or Reorganization of, a Multiemployer Plan; or (vi) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to a Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through (vi) above, such event or condition, together with all other such events or conditions, if any, could, in the sole judgment of the Required Lenders, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or
(h) one or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against any Group Member involving in the aggregate a liability (not paid or fully covered by insurance as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage) of $500,000 or more, and all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within thirty (30) days from the entry thereof; or
(i) any of the Security Documents shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect, or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert, or any Lien created by any of the Security Documents shall cease to be enforceable and of the same effect and priority purported to be created thereby; or
(j) the guarantee contained in Section 2 of the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and effect or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party shall so assert; or
(k) a Change of Control shall occur; or
(l) any of the Governmental Approvals shall have been (i) revoked, rescinded, suspended, modified in an adverse manner or not renewed in the ordinary course for a full term or (ii) subject to any decision by a Governmental Authority that designates a hearing with respect to any applications for renewal of any of the Governmental Approvals or that could result in the Governmental Authority taking any of the actions described in clause (i) above, and such decision or such revocation, rescission, suspension, modification or nonrenewal (A) has, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect, or (B) adversely affects the legal qualifications of any Group Member to hold any of the Governmental Approvals in any applicable jurisdiction and such revocation, rescission, suspension, modification or nonrenewal could reasonably be expected to affect the status of or legal qualifications of any Group Member to hold any of the Governmental Approvals in any other jurisdiction;
then, during the continuance of any such event, (a) if such event is an Event of Default specified in clauses (i) or (ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to the Borrower, the Commitments shall immediately terminate automatically and the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall automatically immediately become due and payable, and (b) if such event is any other Event of Default, either or both of the following actions may be taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower declare the Revolving Commitments to be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Revolving Commitments shall immediately terminate; and (ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall immediately
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become due and payable. With respect to all Letters of Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time of an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall at such time deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount equal to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of such Letters of Credit. Amounts held in such cash collateral account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment of drafts drawn under such Letters of Credit, and the unused portion thereof after all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, if any, shall be applied to repay other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. After all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon and all amounts drawn thereunder have been reimbursed in full and all other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, the balance, if any, in such cash collateral account shall be returned to the Borrower (or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled thereto). Except as expressly provided above in this Section, presentment, demand, protest and all other notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
8.2 Application of Funds. After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.1 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.1), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
(a) first, to pay any costs and expenses (including cost or expense reimbursements) or indemnities then due to the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents, until paid in full;
(b) second, to pay any fees or premiums then due to the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents until paid in full;
(c) third, ratably, to pay any costs and expenses (including cost or expense reimbursements) or indemnities then due to any of the Lenders under the Loan Documents, until paid in full;
(d) fourth, ratably, to pay any fees or premiums then due to any of the Lenders under the Loan Documents until paid in full;
(e) fifth ratably, to pay interest accrued in respect of the Revolving Loans until paid in full;
(f) sixth, ratably, (i) to pay the principal of all Revolving Loans until paid in full, and (ii) to the Administrative Agent, to be held by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Issuing Lender (and for the ratable benefit of each of the Revolving Lenders that have an obligation to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Lender, a share of each L/C Disbursement), as cash collateral in an amount up to 105% of the L/C Exposure (to the extent permitted by applicable law, such cash collateral shall be applied to the reimbursement of any L/C Disbursement as and when such disbursement occurs and, if a Letter of Credit expires undrawn, the cash collateral held by the Administrative Agent in respect of such Letter of Credit shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be reapplied pursuant to this Section 8.2, beginning with tier (a) hereof);
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(g) seventh, to pay any other Obligations (including being paid, ratably, to the Lenders on account of all amounts then due and payable in respect of Bank Services and Specified Swap Agreements, with any balance to be paid to the Administrative Agent, to be held by the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders, as cash collateral (which cash collateral may be released by the Administrative Agent to the applicable Lender and applied by such Lender to the payment or reimbursement of any amounts due and payable with respect to Bank Services or Specified Swap Agreements owed to the applicable Lender as and when such amounts first become due and payable and, if and at such time as all such Obligations arising from Bank Services and Specified Swap Agreements are paid or otherwise satisfied in full, the cash collateral held by the Administrative Agent in respect of such Bank Services and Specified Swap Agreements shall be reapplied pursuant to this Section 8.2, beginning with tier (a) hereof); and
(h) eighth, to the Borrower or such other Person entitled thereto under applicable law.
SECTION 9
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
9.1 Appointment and Authority.
(a) Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints SVB 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.
(b) The provisions of Section 9 are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Lender, and neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities to any Lender or any other Person, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent.
9.2 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document 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 Section 9 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 the Administrative Agent.
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9.3 Exculpatory Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall have no duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall not:
(a) be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether any Default or any Event of Default has occurred;
(b) 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), as applicable; 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; and
(c) except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and the Administrative Agent 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 any Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
The Administrative Agent shall not be liable 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 10.1) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
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 or Event of Default, (iv) the 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 Section 5 or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
9.4 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
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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. 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, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, 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 prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), 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. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of Lenders as shall be provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of Lenders as shall be provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon the Lenders and all future holders of the Loans.
9.5 Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a notice of default. In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action or refrain from taking such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
9.6 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges that neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys in fact or Affiliates has made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by the Administrative Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of a Group Member or any affiliate of a Group Member, shall
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be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent to any Lender. Each Lender represents to the Administrative Agent that 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 appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Group Members and their Affiliates and made its own decision to make its Loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Group Members and their affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of any Group Member or any Affiliate of a Group Member that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys in fact or Affiliates.
9.7 Indemnification. Each of the Lenders agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower or any other Loan Party and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to do so), according to its Aggregate Exposure Percentage in effect on the date on which indemnification is sought under this Section 9.7 (or, if indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, in accordance with its Aggregate Exposure Percentage immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from the Administrative Agents gross negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
9.8 Agent in Its Individual Capacity. 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
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expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include each such Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, 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.
9.9 Successor Administrative Agent. 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, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the State of New York, or an Affiliate of any such commercial bank with an office in the State of New York. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that, if the retiring Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that, in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed and such collateral security is assigned to such successor Administrative Agent) and (2) 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 as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this paragraph. Upon the acceptance of a successors 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 retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring 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 paragraph). 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 Administrative Agents resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Section 9 and Section 10.5 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring 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 the Administrative Agent.
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SECTION 10
MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Amendments and Waivers.
(a) Neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.1. The Required Lenders and each Loan Party party to the relevant Loan Document may, from time to time, (i) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or of the Loan Parties hereunder or thereunder or (ii) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall (A) forgive the principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any Loan, reduce the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except that any amendment or modification of defined terms used in the financial covenants in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (A)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any Lenders Revolving Commitment, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (B) eliminate or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 10.1 without the written consent of such Lender; (C) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or release all or substantially all of the Subsidiary Guarantors from their obligations under the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; (D) (i) amend, modify or waive the requirements of Section 2.13 in a manner that adversely affects Revolving Lenders without the written consent of each Revolving Lender, (ii) amend, modify or waive the pro rata requirements of Section 2.13 in a manner that adversely affects the L/C Lenders without the written consent of all L/C Lenders, or (iii) amend, modify, or waive the provisions of Section 8.2 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby without the written consent of all Lenders; (E) amend the definition of Obligations to delete any obligation from the definition thereof without the written consent of all Lenders; (F) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 9 without the written consent of the Administrative Agent; (G) [Reserved]; (H) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 3 without the written consent of each Issuing Lender; or (I) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 8.2 without the written consent of all Lenders. Any such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured during the period such waiver is effective; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right consequent thereon.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Borrower, (i) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan
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Documents with the Revolving Extensions of Credit and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (ii) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders.
10.2 Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered, or three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when received, addressed as follows in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and as set forth in an administrative questionnaire delivered to the Administrative Agent in the case of the Lenders, or to such other address as may be hereafter notified by the respective parties hereto:
Borrower: | c/o EnerNOC, Inc. 101 Federal Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Attention: Michael J. Berdik Facsimile No.: (617) 224-9910
with a copy to:
Goodwin Procter LLP 53 State Street Boston, Massachusetts 02109 Attention: Mark Smith, Esq. Facsimile No.: (617) 523-1231 | |||||
Administrative Agent: | Silicon Valley Bank 275 Grove Street, Suite 2-200 Newton, Massachusetts 02466 Attention: Mr. Dave Rodriguez Facsimile No.: (617) 969-5478
with a copy to:
Riemer & Braunstein, LLP 3 Center Plaza Boston, MA 02108 Attention: Charles W. Stavros, Esq. Facsimile No.: (617) 692-3441 |
provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent or the Lenders shall not be effective until received.
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Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Section 2 unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (a) notices and other communications sent to an email address shall be deemed received upon the senders receipt of an acknowledgment from the intended recipient (such as by the return receipt requested function, as available, return email or other written acknowledgment); 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; and (b) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its email address as described in the foregoing clause (a) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.
10.3 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
10.4 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder, in the other Loan Documents and in any document, certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder.
10.5 Payment of Expenses and Taxes. Except with respect to taxes (which shall be governed exclusively by Section 2.15), the Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the development, preparation and execution of, and any amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith, and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and filing and recording fees and expenses, with statements with respect to the foregoing to be submitted to the Borrower from time to time thereafter on a quarterly basis or such other periodic basis as the Administrative
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Agent shall deem appropriate, (b) to pay or reimburse each Lender, Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent for all its reasonable and documented costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of counsel (including the allocated fees and expenses of in-house counsel) to each Lender and of counsel to the Administrative Agent, and (c) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender, Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent and their respective officers, directors, employees, affiliates, agents and controlling persons (each, an Indemnitee) harmless from and against any and all other liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to or arising out of or in connection with the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents (regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party hereto and regardless or whether any such matter is initiated by a third party, the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person), including any of the foregoing relating to the use of proceeds of the Loans or the violation of, noncompliance with or liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to the operations of any Group Member or any of the Properties and the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel in connection with claims, actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against any Loan Party under any Loan Document (all the foregoing in this clause (c), collectively, the Indemnified Liabilities); provided that the Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect to Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are found by a final and non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower agrees not to assert and to cause its Subsidiaries not to assert, and hereby waives and agrees to cause their respective Subsidiaries to waive, all rights for contribution or any other rights of recovery with respect to all claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities, settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or related to Environmental Laws, that any of them might have by statute or otherwise against any Indemnitee. All amounts due under this Section 10.5 shall be payable not later than ten (10) Business Days after written demand therefor. Statements payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 10.5 shall be submitted to Michael J. Berdik (Telecopy No.  ###-###-####), at the address of the Borrower set forth in Section 10.2, or to such other Person or address as may be hereafter designated by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. The agreements in this Section 10.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
10.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments.
(a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of Credit), except that the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void).
(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth below in Section 10.6(b)(ii), any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent of:
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(A) the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); and
(B) with respect to any proposed assignment of all or a portion of the L/C Commitment, the Issuing Lender.
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lenders Commitments or Loans under any Facility, the amount of the Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 (provided that simultaneous assignments to or by two (2) or more Approved Funds shall be aggregated for purposes of determining such amount), unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent; provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred;
(B) the parties to each assignment of all or a portion of any Revolving Commitment shall (1) electronically execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption via an electronic settlement system acceptable to the Administrative Agent or (2) manually execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, payable by the assigning or assignee Lender as they shall mutually agree; and
(C) the Eligible Assignee, if it shall not already be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire.
For the purposes of this Section 10.6, the term Approved Fund means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to Section 10.6(b)(iv) below, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.19, 2.20 and 10.5). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 10.6 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.6(c).
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(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices in the United States a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Revolving Lenders, and the Revolving Commitments of, and principal amount of the Revolving Loans and interest owing to, each Revolving Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time, and the names and addresses of the L/C Lenders, and the L/C Commitments of, and principal amounts and interest owing to, each L/C Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Revolving Loan Register). The entries in the Revolving Loan Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Revolving Loan Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Revolving Loan Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Lender, the Administrative Agent and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Loan Documents, the Loans are registered obligations, the right, title and interest of the Lenders and their assignees in and to such Loans shall be transferable only upon notation of such transfer in the Revolving Loan Register and no assignment thereof shall be effective until recorded therein. This Section 10.6(b)(iv) shall be construed so that the Loans are at all times maintained in registered form within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code.
(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an Eligible Assignee, the Eligible Assignees completed administrative questionnaire (unless the Eligible Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in Section 10.6(b) and any written consent to such assignment required by Section 10.6(b) (in each case, to the extent required), the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Revolving Loan Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Revolving Loan Register as provided in this paragraph.
(c) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a Participant) in all or a portion of such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement. In no case shall a Participant have the right to enforce any of the terms of any Loan Document. Any agreement pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to
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any amendment, modification or waiver that (1) requires the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby pursuant to the proviso to the second sentence of Section 10.1 and (2) directly affects such Participant. Subject to Section 10.6(c)(ii), the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.6(b). To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.7(b) as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant shall be subject to Section 10.7(a) as though it were a Lender.
(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 2.14 or 2.15 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 Borrowers express prior written consent as to the Participants entitlement to such greater payment. No Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.15 unless such Participant complies with Section 2.15(e).
(d) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or Eligible Assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(e) The Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the type described in Section 10.6(d) above.
(f) Each Lender, upon execution and delivery hereof or upon succeeding to an interest in the Commitments or Loans, as the case may be, represents and warrants as of the Effective Date or as of the effective date of the applicable Assignment and Assumption that: (i) it is an Eligible Assignee; (ii) it has experience and expertise in the making of or investing in commitments, loans or investments such as the Commitments and Loans; and (iii) it will make or invest in its Commitments and Loans for its own account in the ordinary course of its business and without a view to distribution of such Commitments and Loans within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or other federal securities laws (it being understood that, subject to the provisions of this Section 10.6, the disposition of such Commitments and Loans or any interests therein shall at all times remain within its exclusive control).
10.7 Adjustments; Set-off.
(a) Except to the extent that this Agreement expressly provides for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender or to the Lenders under a particular Facility, if any Lender (a Benefitted Lender) shall, at any time after the Loans and other amounts payable hereunder shall immediately become due and payable pursuant to Section 8, receive any payment of all or part of the Obligations owing to it, or receive any collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set-off, pursuant to events or proceedings of the nature referred to
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in Section 8.1(f), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment to or collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such other Lender, such Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participating interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender, or shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of the Lenders; provided that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest.
(b) In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender shall have the right, without prior notice to the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount becoming due and payable by the Borrower hereunder (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), to set off and appropriate and apply against such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by such Lender or any branch or agency thereof to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower, as the case may be. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
10.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
10.9 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
10.10 Integration. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or any Lender relative to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents.
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10.11 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
10.12 Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a) submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the State and Federal courts in the Southern District of the State of New York; provided that nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to operate to preclude Administrative Agent or any Lender from bringing suit or taking other legal action in any other jurisdiction to realize on the Collateral or any other security for the Obligations, or to enforce a judgment or other court order in favor of Administrative Agent or such Lender. Borrower expressly submits and consents in advance to such jurisdiction in any action or suit commenced in any such court, and Borrower hereby waives any objection that it may have based upon lack of personal jurisdiction, improper venue, or forum non conveniens and hereby consents to the granting of such legal or equitable relief as is deemed appropriate by such court. Borrower hereby waives personal service of the summons, complaints, and other process issued in such action or suit and agrees that service of such summons, complaints, and other process may be made by registered or certified mail addressed to Borrower at the addresses set forth in Section 10.2 of this Agreement and that service so made shall be deemed completed upon the earlier to occur of Borrowers actual receipt thereof or three (3) days after deposit in the U.S. mails, proper postage prepaid;
(b) TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WAIVES THEIR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR BASED UPON THIS AGREEMENT, THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR ANY CONTEMPLATED TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT, TORT, BREACH OF DUTY AND ALL OTHER CLAIMS. THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT FOR THE PARTIES TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT. EACH PARTY HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS COUNSEL; and
(c) waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages.
10.13 Acknowledgements. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) none of the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or
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any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between the Administrative Agent and Lenders, on one hand, and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and
(c) no joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders or among the Borrower and the Lenders.
10.14 Releases of Guarantees and Liens.
(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or consent of any Lender except as expressly required by Section 10.1) to take any action requested by the Borrower having the effect of releasing any Collateral or guarantee obligations (i) to the extent necessary to permit consummation of any transaction not prohibited by any Loan Document or that has been consented to in accordance with Section 10.1 or (ii) under the circumstances described in Section 10.14(b) below.
(b) At such time as the Loans and all Obligations shall have been paid in full, the Commitments have been terminated and no Letters of Credit shall be outstanding, the Collateral shall be released from the Liens created by the Security Documents, and the Security Documents and all obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of the Administrative Agent and each Loan Party under the Security Documents shall terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any Person.
10.15 Confidentiality. The Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep confidential all non-public information provided to it by any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement that is designated by the provider thereof as confidential; provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such information (a) to the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or any Affiliate thereof, (b) subject to an agreement to comply with the provisions of this Section 10.15, to any actual or prospective Transferee or any direct or indirect counterparty to any Swap Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional advisors or those of any of its Affiliates, (d) upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority, (e) in response to any order of any court or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any Requirement of Law, (f) if requested or required to do so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, (g) that has been publicly disclosed, (h) to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information about a Lenders investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any party to this Agreement (and any employee, representative, or other agent of any party to this Agreement) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and all materials of any
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kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are provided to it relating to such tax treatment and tax structure. However, any such information relating to the tax treatment or tax structure is required to be kept confidential to the extent necessary to comply with any applicable federal or state securities laws.
10.16 Additional Waivers.
(a) The Obligations are the joint and several obligation of each Loan Party. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the obligations of each Loan Party shall not be affected by (i) the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to assert any claim or demand or to enforce or exercise any right or remedy against any other Loan Party under the provisions of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or otherwise, (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or (iii) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the release of, any of the Collateral or other security held by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent or any other Lender.
(b) The obligations of each Loan Party shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Obligations after the termination of the Commitments), including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise of any of the Obligations, and shall not be subject to any defense or setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any of the Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Loan Party hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any provision of any thereof, any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of any of the Obligations, or by any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Loan Party or that would otherwise operate as a discharge of any Loan Party as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Obligations after the termination of the Commitments).
(c) To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Loan Party waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any other Loan Party or the unenforceability of the Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any other Loan Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or non-judicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Obligations, make any other accommodation with any other Loan Party, or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against any other Loan Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Loan Party hereunder except to the extent that all the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full in cash and the Commitments have been terminated. Each Loan Party waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Loan Party against any other Loan Party, as the case may be, or any security.
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(d) Each Borrower is obligated to repay the Obligations as joint and several obligors under this Agreement. Upon payment by any Loan Party of any Obligations, all rights of such Loan Party against any other Loan Party arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior indefeasible payment in full in cash of all the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments. In addition, any indebtedness of any Loan Party now or hereafter held by any other Loan Party is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the prior indefeasible payment in full of the Obligations and no Loan Party will demand, sue for or otherwise attempt to collect any such indebtedness. If any amount shall erroneously be paid to any Loan Party on account of (i) such subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar right or (ii) any such indebtedness of any Loan Party, such amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative Agent to be credited against the payment of the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Subject to the foregoing, to the extent that any Borrower shall, under this Agreement as a joint and several obligor, repay any of the Obligations made to another Borrower hereunder or other Obligations incurred directly and primarily by any other Borrower (an Accommodation Payment), then the Borrower making such Accommodation Payment shall be entitled to contribution and indemnification from, and be reimbursed by, each of the other Borrowers in an amount, for each of such other Borrowers, equal to a fraction of such Accommodation Payment, the numerator of which fraction is such other Borrowers Allocable Amount and the denominator of which is the sum of the Allocable Amounts of all of the Borrowers. As of any date of determination, the Allocable Amount of each Borrower shall be equal to the maximum amount of liability for Accommodation Payments which could be asserted against such Borrower hereunder without (a) rendering such Borrower insolvent within the meaning of Section 101(31) of the Bankruptcy Code, Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act (UFTA) or Section 2 of the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act (UFCA), or (b) leaving such Borrower with unreasonably small capital or assets, within the meaning of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code, Section 4 of the UFTA, or Section 5 of the UFCA, or (c) leaving such Borrower unable to pay its debts as they become due within the meaning of Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or Section 4 of the UFTA, or Section 5 of the UFCA.
10.17 Patriot Act. Each Lender and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any other party) hereby notifies the Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the names and addresses and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Patriot Act. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, provide, to the extent commercially reasonable or required by any Requirement of Law, such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to assist the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in maintaining compliance with the Patriot Act.
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10.18 Existing Credit Agreement Amended and Restated. Upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement, (a) this Agreement shall amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety (except to the extent that definitions from the Existing Credit Agreement are incorporated herein by reference) and (b) the rights and obligations of the parties under the Existing Credit Agreement shall be subsumed within, and be governed by, this Agreement; provided, however, that the Borrower hereby agrees that (i) the Existing Letters of Credit shall be Letters of Credit hereunder, and the L/C Exposure under, and as defined in, the Existing Credit Agreement on the Effective Date shall be L/C Exposure hereunder, and (ii) all Obligations of the Borrower under, and as defined in, the Existing Credit Agreement shall remain outstanding, shall constitute continuing Obligations secured by the Collateral, and this Agreement shall not be deemed to evidence or result in a novation or repayment and reborrowing of such obligations and other liabilities.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
BORROWER | ||
ENERNOC, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy Weller | |
Name: Timothy Weller | ||
Title: Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer |
ENOC SECURITIES CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy Weller | |
Name: Timothy Weller | ||
Title: Treasurer |
[Signature page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]
SILICON VALLEY BANK, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Lender, and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Philip T. Silvia III | |
Name: Philip T. Silvia III | ||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature page to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement]